- Royal Mail is recruiting approximately 22,000 temporary workers across the UK to handle peak demand during the Christmas period.
- The seasonal positions include thousands of mail sorting, delivery and collection roles, alongside 2,100 truck driver posts.
- To support the festive operation, the postal operator will expand its fleet of 6,000 vehicles with an additional 7,500 hire vans.
- The hiring drive comes as regulator Ofcom investigates Royal Mail for persistently failing to meet its required delivery benchmarks.
- Royal Mail missed its annual targets again, delivering only 75.7 per cent of first-class letters the next working day against a 90 per cent requirement.
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