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1. 1. www.guardian.co.uk

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   Published on: 7/23/2007   Last Visited: 7/23/2007

   David Bland, a regional chairman of Postwatch, believes the Royal Mail has no alternative to automating its letter systems and slimming down its workforce if it wants to survive private-sector competition. He said no one in the industry would win from industrial action at a time when many users were turning to email and other alternatives to the state postal service.
   
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   "If the Royal Mail is to survive as an end-to-end mail deliverer then it needs massive efficiency gains," Mr Bland said. "I have immense sympathy for those who might lose their jobs but the government should help fund a restructuring in the way it did in the steel and coal industries."
   
   Without a clear look at the Royal Mail books it was impossible to know how much money was needed, added Mr Bland, but he believed it would be hundreds of millions of pounds if not a billion.
   
   The department of trade and industry - now business, enterprise and regulatory reform (BERR) - has already agreed to allow Royal Mail to borrow £1.2bn to help it fund modernisation of its systems. It has also allowed Royal Mail to put some £800m in a special account as part of a programme to bolster its pension scheme as it fights off companies such as TNT and UK Mail that are winning more and more of its business customers.
   
   Mr Bland believes that Royal Mail is giving an over-gloomy picture of its pension requirements, but the company accepts revenues are falling along with an overall 2% annual decline in post volumes and it is not in a position to fund a large wave of redundancies.

2. 2. the postwatch council

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   Published on: 1/8/2007   Last Visited: 1/8/2007

   Dr David Bland Chairman SE England

3. 3. The Future of Personal Injury Litigation

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   Last Visited: 12/1/2007

   Other speakers included Colin Mackay Q.C., Jon Clinch, Managing Director of Beachams & Co and David Bland, Director General, Chartered Insurance Institute.