TNT Post is reduce its delivery services for businesses as part of an effort to head off competition from email and budget delivery firms.

‘We have lost some 30% of our volume since 2000. That is one third of the company,’ director Harry Koorstra said at a news conference on Monday evening.
Some two-thirds of this is due to internet, he said. And the growth in online retail had not compensated for the fall-off in traditional mail.

Deliveries cut

The company plans to stop delivering business to business and business to consumer mail six days a week, and replace it by deliveries on three separate days. Consumer to consumer post will still be delivered six days a week because of legal restraints.
Machine sorting will largely replace sorting by hand, and delivery workers will be employed on 10 to 15 hour contracts.
Some 11,000 jobs will go because of the reorganisation. News of the job losses broke on Friday.
Competition
TNT Post has to compete with budget bulk delivery firms such as Sandd and Selekt Mail, which do not comply with official pay and conditions agreements and pay workers per item delivered.
TNT’s workforce has already shrunk from 31,000 to 20,000 over the past 10 years and by 2012 there will be 13,000 jobs left, Koorstra said.
The Dutch postal sector was fully opened up to competition last April.
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