Midland Mail Centres Review - 90 day consultation!

[dodger162]

When there is a review there is an official announcement and there is usually a statement about what is planned. I was told by someone very senior last year that my MC was going to be closed and amalgamated into a super centre which came as a shock. So I did my own research, looked at he previous reviews and spoke to loads of people and found that what I had been told was nonsense.
Yes there are people that know exactly which centres are going to be closed but there will not be announcements until the reviews in each area are announced, that is part of the agreement. Best person to speak to is a senior processing or MC manager.

[Stampy]

Best person to speak to is a senior processing or MC manager.

As if THEY are going to tell you...... They'll be too busy looking after their "mates" and "favourites" in the office.......

[HelsBels]

Heard from differen Doms all saying the same thing South Midlands Mail center,Poor INEXPIRENCED MANAGEMENT,giving a really poor service to delivery offices thats getting worse,not my comments,but 3 different doms at different times all said the same!

and to top it off moral very low, so much for the coaching managers have when they arrive at south mids talk to staff like crap inexperienced being the important word, its Chaos and a Mess, health and safety rules broken in every corner, dignity and respect? dont think they know what that is. im on the verge of quitting my job after 15 yrs cos or several managers attitudes (victimisation and bullying) its stressed me out so much i arrive home after my shift and 9 times out of 10 in floods of tears with my partner as i really dont want to go there everyday, i dread it. only thing that makes me go is the fact i need to pay a mortgage.

we had our conseltation meeting and to me sounded like they were scaring the staff in to thinking south mids could close cos of the failures and apparently we are likely to get a 2million pound fine (cant remember what for now, prob failures of some sort)

[heathrow86]

I have to agree with you on South Midlands mail centre, if that is the future then I am off!! I go in there every night as a Network driver, i cannot believe that they are still using casuals on the sorting and also agency drivers doing the van runs! Also they seem incapable of bringing the work over on time for the despatch, and then they pushi it over all over in one go when you are about to close the doors. Something needs to be done about it.

[wearewolves]

any further development or is it just rumors flying about?

wolves mc employs more staff than the rest of the other midlands mc's,
we are having new css machines fitted, floors been painted and wcm.

[dodger162]

Wolves Birmingham and Northampton are all safe. Wolves is likely at some stage to pick up the TF postcode area and possibly WR/HR aswell.

[REDLETTER]

WSM are supposed to be going into Leicester MC, but been told have been put back until next year!

[wearewolves]

Wolves Birmingham and Northampton are all safe. Wolves is likely at some stage to pick up the TF postcode area and possibly WR/HR aswell.

is that fact or just a rumour?
when is the final decision being made?

[dodger162]

The 90 day consultation process began on 14 Jan so the plan should be announced around mid-april and then there is a further 90 days for alternatives to be put forward. Wolves/Birmingham/Northampton are large MCs and will not close, if you look at what has happened in other reviews you can see what's likely to happen.

[wearewolves]

rumour has it that we might be closing, moving to a brand new build off the m6 or m54 motorway???

[dodger162]

If it were a new build it would mean the merger of Wolves/Birmingham/Worcester. I think that's unlikely due to the size of the city. If you look at London there will still be 5 MCs after the closures. Jubilee and Greenford are less than 10 miles apart but there are no plans to merge them.
Midlands is likely to have 4 MCs after the review. Seems strange that CV went to South Mids as Birmingham is closer. Nottingham is WCM but doubt the current site could take DE and LE aswell.
New builds are not the 1st choice due to the cost, cheaper to use exising MCs and expand if possible (Swindon, Leeds, Newcastle)

[Stampy]

. Nottingham is WCM but doubt the current site could take DE and LE aswell.

Rumour in our MC is that NG,DE & LE are to go into a NEW MC to be built near East Mids Airport / M1.

[dodger162]

Yes that is a possibility as Derby is small and on a bad site and Leicester is cramped. The other possibility is that DE could go into Nottingham as has been planned for years and LE into South Mids if CV were transferred to Birmingham. Can't imagine the current Nottingham MC site is large enough to take DE and LE.

And what's the rumour about the MC you work in, is it somewhere in Anglia?

[dodger162]

This is an interesting article from earlier in the month, look at the grouping of MCs.

Affected Mail Centres – groupings represent where offices will be clustered together in respect of management of Distribution


Cardiff/Swansea
Chester/Shrewsbury
Southampton/Portsmouth/Dorset
Bristol
Truro/Plymouth/Exeter
Tonbridge/Canterbury/Maidstone/Dartford
Gatwick/Croydon
Jubilee
Chelmsford
Peterborough
Romford
S Midlands
NW Midlands
Birmingham/Worcester
Derby/Nottingham/Leicester
Warrington
Manchester
Preston
Newcastle/Tyneside/Darlington
Leeds Bradford/York
Sheffield/Doncaster/Hull
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Swindon/Gloucester
Greenford
Belfast

Non Affected MC
Aberdeen, Inverness,
Carlisle
Stevenage, Ipswich, Norwich, Cambridge, Southend

Mail Centres which will make the change as part of End State

All London Offices
Hemel
Watford

[wearewolves]

another thing is that the workers at our place who were on rolling contracts have had letters saying that they're employment with the company will end in june.