It has been reported that postal company Whistl, formerly known as TNT Post is to suspend its door-to-door service in Manchester, Liverpool and London and is putting 2,000 jobs in consultation.
The move follows the announcement last month that LDC, its potential investment partner would not be funding its expansion plans.

The company will go back to using Royal Mail for the “final mile”, whose shares increased 3.3% on the announcement.

In a statement, Whistl said: "Following the announcement from LDC that it would not proceed with the proposed investment... to fund further rollout of E2E [end-to-end] we have now commenced an extensive review of the viability and potential for the rollout of an e2e postal delivery service in the UK."

Employees are worried for their future as their contracts are on zero-hours and therefore will not be paid during the consultation process.

In a comment by the recognised trade union at Whistl, Community said its members are "extremely worried for their futures", with national officer Les Bayliss adding "We will be doing all we can to identify a viable way forward for the business that safeguards our members' jobs.

"We should be clear that this is a suspension of the business, not a termination of it, so we will be looking for the company to work with us to identify sustainable options to continue operations as soon as practically possible."