City Link customers in Shropshire and Powys told to collect items
Customers of the collapsed delivery firm City Link have been told to collect their undelivered Christmas parcels as nearly 2,400 axed staff begin the new year looking for a job.
Employees, many of whom learnt of the company's collapse on Christmas Day, were told of their redundancies after a last-ditch bid to save the company failed.
The administrators at EY announced 2,356 redundancies on New Year's Eve saying that an offer made for the company had not been acceptable.
The RMT union said the failure to secure jobs at City Link, which went into administration on Christmas Eve, was "a disgraceful and cynical betrayal".
Meanwhile, the administrators said 371 people have been kept on to deal with remaining parcels and to assist in realising the company's assets and winding down its operations.
There are 30,000 parcels waiting to be collected from City Link depots, which stopped accepting items on Christmas Eve.
Among the depots affected is the one in Sundorne, Shrewsbury, which has 38 workers.
Customers who have sent parcels and their intended recipients have been advised to collect their items between 8am and 8pm, with depots expected to remain open until "approximately" January 6.
About 20 staff at the Shrewsbury depot in Henley Way were handed redundancy notices on Monday and at the time workers claimed there had been no parcels at the site since Christmas Eve.
Coventry, where City Link has its head office, faces the highest number of redundancies, with 350 jobs lost.
