ROYAL Mail has announced the recruitment of 445 seasonal staff in Northern Ireland for the busy Christmas period.
As part of a UK-wide recruitment campaign for 23,000 roles, the positions are available for late October through until early January. The peak of the additional temporary work will be in the busiest month of December.
The seasonal workers will support Royal Mail’s over 120,000 permanent postmen and women, who sort and deliver the mail all year round.
Royal Mail Group’s express parcel business, Parcelforce Worldwide, is also looking for around 2,250 extra people across the UK. These roles include driver and parcel sorter positions.
Royal Mail post and parcels CEO, Sue Whalley, said: “We continue to make this substantial commitment in additional resources, including the recruitment of thousands of temporary workers, to ensure we can continue to deal with the huge amount of festive parcels, cards and online shopping orders, which we will be asked to deliver for our customers in every part of the country.”
Royal Mail has set up a dedicated website for people to apply for the Christmas positions, https://christmasrecruitment.royalmailgroup.com/. Alternatively you can email Christmas_helpline@royalmail.com or call the automated helpline on 0345 600 1785 for more information.
Royal Mail also has a year-round recruitment drive where it recruits postmen and women into its Delivery Offices around the UK. There are a range of permanent and temporary delivery roles in sites across England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland. More information is available at www.royalmailgroup.com/careers
