01/10/2015

Royal Mail Announces 550 Temporary Jobs

Royal Mail has announced around 550 temporary jobs are to be created to help sort out the post for the Christmas rush.

The firm has launched a drive to recruit around 19,000 temporary workers in the UK.

Temporary positions across a variety of shifts will be available between mid-November through to early January 2015.

The peak of the additional temporary work will be in the busiest month of December. The majority of seasonal positions will support Royal Mail's 123,000 permanent postmen and women, who sort and deliver the mail all year round. Parcelforce Worldwide is also looking for drivers and indoor workers as the whole organisation gears up to deliver at Christmas.

(CD)

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