Oh Dear: Royal Mail could lose 40,000 jobs

[milanbenes]

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/ar...016102,00.html

ROYAL MAIL is to begin a fresh round of cost-cutting that unions fear may trigger 40,000 job losses and a huge switch from full-time to part-time work, The Times has learnt.

Milan.

[Mailman]

Well if they manage job retention as well as they do deliverying the mail Im surprised its only 40,000 jobs that will be lost!

Mailman

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Well if they outsourced the mail to India they could save a lot of money by delivering all the letters and packages in India at a cheaper rate. Of course, we wouldn't receive any mail any more. But what does the consumer matter these days anyway?