Stevenage Mail Centre Explained

Stevenage mail centre was a Royal Mail mail centre in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.

In 2010, Royal Mail announced that a number of sorting offices from around the Home counties, including the Stevenage, Hitchin, Berkhamsted and Welwyn Garden City would be closed and merged into a large mail processing centre in Hemel Hempstead.^[1] These closures initiated a protest by the workers at the Stevenage mail centre, and members of the CWU in November 2010^[2]

It underwent partial closure in 2012,^[3] though it remains an active Royal Mail facility as of 2017.^[4]

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Notes and References

1. 'Royal Mail set to close Welwyn Garden City delivery office' - Welwyn-Hatfield Times, 24 September 2010 (accessed 28 Nov 2010)
2. 'Mail centre workers march against closure' - Socialist Worker (Online), 2 Nov 2010 (Accessed 28 Nov 2010)
3. Web site: Mail Centre Closures - a Freedom of Information request to Royal Mail Group Limited. 14 July 2012.
4. Google Earth aerial photography clearly shows an active site as of 26/03/2017