Royal Mail has launched its annual campaign to recruit over 19,000 temporary workers to help sort additional Christmas volumes across the UK between mid-November and early January 2015.
As in previous years, the majority of seasonal positions will support Royal Mail’s permanent 123,000 postmen and women who sort and deliver the mail all year round.
Around 14,000 workers will be recruited across Royal Mail’s core network in England, to work in mail, distribution centres and data centres. In addition, 1,340 people are needed in Scotland, 560 in Wales and 550 in Northern Ireland. The recruits will help to sort Christmas cards and parcels before they go to around 1,400 Delivery Offices for postmen and women to take out on their rounds, Royal Mail said.
Royal Mail Group’s express parcels business, Parcelforce Worldwide, is also recruiting around 2,600 extra people throughout the UK, including drivers and indoor workers.
“The recruitment programme is part of Royal Mail’s substantial financial investment in additional resources at Christmas to help ensure we provide the best possible postal service to our customers throughout the UK,” the company explained.
Royal Mail’s chief operations officer, Sue Whalley, commented: “Christmas is our busiest time of year. We plan all year round to help ensure we deliver the best possible service for consumers and businesses in the UK. Every Christmas, we make a substantial commitment in additional resources to handle the festive mailbag, including the recruitment of thousands of temporary workers.”
Royal Mail also has a year-round recruitment drive where it recruits postmen and women into its Delivery Offices around the UK. There are a range of permanent and temporary delivery roles in sites across England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland.
