Mail Jobs
Those of us envisioning a career delivering letters, in post-box red delivery-vans a la Postman Pat, have probably missed the boat somewhat. The volume of mail delivered by the national postal service, the Royal Mail, has dropped alarmingly since it was forced to give up its monopoly in 2004.
Mail jobs are now increasingly under threat as the postal service struggles to cut costs in order to maintain ever decreasing profits. In the past year the Communication Workers’ Union has been in fierce conflict with the Royal Mail claiming that those working in Mail jobs are working harder than ever before and deserve to be rewarded rather than faced with redundancy and pay freezes.
Many Mail jobs are now being offered by Royal Mail rivals who continue to increase their share of the market. An increasing number of large corporations now use companies such as TNT Post for their bulk mail outs.
Direct-mail-info.co.uk is a site which explains the modern workings of such mass mailings. It also explains how the emergence of smart phones, the internet and email have dramatically impacted on the way in which firms deliver their direct mail. Instead of putting monthly statements through the post, many banks will send them over the net. The same goes for utility charges, offers on new credit cards and retail catalogues.
Mail jobs are now much more likely to entail sitting at a computer screen rather than leaning over a garden wall, handing a bunch of letters to a customer and having a chat about the weather.