NZ Post jobs to be axed

The processing activities of New Zealand Post in Rotorua are to be transferred to the Waikato Mail Centre, but it is too early to say how many jobs will be lost.

New Zealand Post is undertaking a major restructure of its mail processing network as mail volumes continue to decline by 8 per cent a year.

Mail processing operations will be centralised, which will involve the number of mail processing centres being streamlined in a phased approach from six sites to three.

There will be an increase in the number of people employed at the three mail centres, which will continue in an expanded form in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch, but cuts at the mail centres where processing functions will be discontinued in Waikato, Wellington and Dunedin and in satellite sites including Taupo, Rotorua and Tauranga and the rest of the Bay of Plenty.

Processing activities in Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga and Bay of Plenty were to be transferred to the Waikato Mail Centre by early next year.

About 500 part-time and full-time jobs will be discontinued in the sites where processing is transferred from, while about 380 new roles will be created in the expanded sites taking on the transferred processing roles.

New Zealand Post spokesman John Tulloch said staff had been told of the restructure but he said he did not have details at this stage on how the plan to move the processing activities would affect staff in Rotorua.

"In some instances it will be job losses, reduced hours or natural attrition."

Processing activities in Rotorua would initially be transferred from the Bay of Plenty to the Waikato Mail Centre early next year but then be transferred to Auckland.