BR gets PO contract
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BRITISH RAIL has secured further five-year contract carry mail for the Post Offic but there is a definite trer away from BR, to rely mo heavily on air services and tl Post Office's own road tran port.
The contract was agreed aft BR cut its charges by E5m a yez meaning the contract is wor between £170m and £200m year, depending on the amou of mail carried.
Penalty clauses in the contra mean that if road or air transpc proves cheaper than the servici provided by BR, then more wo will be transferred to these NI alternative forms of transport.
A Post Office spokesman to CM that BR currently carried per cent of all transport mail, 25m letters a day. The remaind is divided between road and ail The Post Office has a fleet 27,000 road vehicles used f local collections and deliverii and for trunking operations.