TNT - 'Post delivery in trouble in big cities

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'Post delivery in trouble in big cities as delivery staff sacked'

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TNT Post is facing serious problems with its household delivery services, particularly in the big cities, the Telegraaf says in a front page splash on Monday.

And the company has basically admitted in a letter to delivery workers that delivery services are worse than they used to be by accusing them of not doing their job properly, the paper says.

'We are hearing the same noises from Amsterdam and towards Alkmaar and Den Bosch,' Inge Bakker of the CNV public workers unions said. 'It is the same all over the Randstad (the central urban area)'.

Mass redundancy

The unions are campaigning against TNT's plans to sack up to 11,000 delivery workers. This weekend, several hundred took part in a demonstration in Rotterdam.

In the letter, to workers in The Hague region, the management said: 'as a company we are not in a position to deliver the post on time, particularly on Saturday and Monday'.

The company plans to reorganise its delivery services following the start of cheap competition from budget delivery firms who focus on mass mailings and pay their workers per item delivered rather than a fixed salary.

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In the letter, to workers in The Hague region, the management said: 'as a company we are not in a position to deliver the post on time, particularly on Saturday and Monday'.

Private sector expertise and discipline The all singing all dancing RM inspired
"Dutch Model"
A fine example of our ultra modern /ultra efficient private competition
FFS if you can't make it work in Holland which is really just four big cities all merging with the most densely populated area in the whole wide world

[POSTMAN]

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Telecom watchdog Opta is investigating claims that TNT Post is failing to deliver mail properly in some parts of the country, news agency ANP reports.

The investigation began last year after reports of problems in some parts of the Randstad, the central urban area of the Netherlands, ANP says.

TNT Post claims 97% of items are delivered correctly and on time.

The company is in the process of slashing its delivery staff by some 11,000 because of competition from bulk contract delivery firms such as Sandd.