Dismore slams TNT

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Andrew Dismore, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Hendon and London Assembly member, speaking during the London Assembly plenary debate on the impact on postal services of TNT, criticised TNT and the threat it poses to the universal postal service.

Mr Dismore said:

“TNT have not provided a very good service in Barnet so far. In the early days of their contract, mail was found misdelivered and even a sack of post was dumped in a stream. Misdirected  post included important election poll cards, which TNT should not have been delivering in the first place, as well as bank statements and delayed hospital correspondence.

“TNT workers’ pay and conditions on zero hours contracts are far worse than Royal Mail staff receive, which may explain the desire to cut corners. For example, they are supposed to lock their mail panniers and not ride their bikes on the pavement, but the opposite  seems to me  to be the norm.

“TNT poses a real threat to the universal postal services they cherry pick the profitable areas and ignore the hard to deliver ones. Royal Mail, due to its statutory duty to deliver everywhere, cannot compete with TNT on what is not  a level playing field.

“There needs to be an urgent review by Ofcom of postal competition before it is too late to save the universal service.”

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