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Royal Mail and Amazon create 32,000 Christmas jobs

It has been announced by Amazon and Royal Mail that over 30,000 jobs are to be created for the Christmas postal rush, after a massive increase in demand for deliveries.

Online retailer Amazon said they would take on another 13,000 staff.Royal Mail said it would hire an additional 19,000 workers, starting in the middle on November and peaking in December.

The roles will be in support of the 124,000 full-time sorting and delivery personnel.

Royal Mail chief operations officer Sue Whalley said: “Christmas is the busiest time of the year for Royal Mail and we plan all year round to help ensure we deliver the best possible service to our customers.

“Every Christmas, we make a substantial financial commitment in additional resources to handle the festive mailbag, including the recruitment of thousands of temporary workers.”

Amazon said it needed seasonal roles to be filled at eight warehouses around the country and at its customer service centre in Edinburgh, and comes a week after it said it needed 1,000 new permanent positions at its warehouses.

UK operations director John Tagawa said: “Last year, on the busiest day in the run up to Christmas, our customers ordered 4.1 million items - that’s about 47 items ordered per second.”

It said “hundreds” may end up with permanent positions as a result of the temporary work.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .