A frustrated Bolton businessman is concerned for his business as Royal Mail remove their PO Box service – which he says will cause delays and impact the company. Aesthetic World based on Spa Road has been in business for more than 20 years with 80 per cent of their work received through the Royal Mail which they collect from the PO BOX every morning at 8.30am.
However, due to changes, the dental company have been told the PO BOX is closing down and Royal Mail will be delivering post instead, so they now expect deliveries which now would be up to 12pm each day or later. Wayne Crump, the lab manager at Aesthetics World said the new delivery system will cause ‘major disruptions’ to the lab, staff and postal clients as well as the impressions taken by the surgeons which will take longer to process. Speaking about the situation and how it will impact businesses across Bolton , Wayne said: “For the last 20 years running this dental lab, we have been getting three to four bags of large post everyday delivered to Royal Mail near Warburtons from the dentist and that includes impressions and all the rest of it.
“We would set off to the PO Box at Royal Mail and collect them bags every morning. “That means my business is set up,when I pick them bags up I am back in the lab at 8.45am, we unbag all the work and then we start the work.
Royal Mail changes (Image: Wayne Crump) “I have got a team of ten guys waiting for all that work to start and process the impressions which the.
