Royal Mail to recruit 16,000 temporary workers for Christmas season
Royal Mail to recruit 16,000 temporary workers for Christmas season
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BBC News reports that Royal Mail is set to recruit 16,000 temporary workers to help with deliveries and sorting over Christmas. Alistair Cochrane, Royal Mail’s chief operating officer, said the festival period was “our busiest time of year, and we plan all year round.” Royal Mail’s two parcel hubs will hire more than 2,000 additional staff as they expect 1.7 million parcels daily to be processed across both sites.
Extra temporary space, equivalent to 20 football pitches, has been created across the five seasonal centres in Atherstone, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Daventry and Greenford in London. The temporary recruits will help to sort the growing number of online shopping orders expected before they are taken to Royal Mail’s 1,200 delivery offices.
Contracts will run from late October to early January 2025, also covering big shopping events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Parcelforce Worldwide is also recruiting additional drivers and indoor workers. Almost 4,000 new vans, trucks and trailers will be added to Royal Mail’s fleet in time for Christmas.
Royal Mail offers a range of temporary work across its network through its in-house temporary staffing firm, Angard Staffing.