POSTAL workers at a closure-threatened sorting office in Worcester are asking Royal Mail bosses to look at alternatives.

About 100 staff employed at the depot in Wainwright Road in Warndon met at the Blackpole Inn to discuss their next move, after postal chiefs announced plans to axe the site and move work elsewhere.

The meeting yesterday was called by the Communication Workers Union.

Staff voted to table a counter-proposal to their bosses which would see another sorting office in the region shut, and the Worcester site take on the extra work.

Brendan Allen, CWU rep for Worcester, said Royal Mail chiefs would have to study the feasibility of the alternative plan and come back to staff with a response.

“We will know in about six weeks what their response will be,” Mr Allen said.

“Almost all of the staff voted to try to keep the work here, and are keen to fight the current proposal as it stands.

“We’re not going to go on strike, we’re going to work within the process and see what is said about our counter-proposal.”

A 90-day consultation process on the plan to shut the site is currently under way as Royal Mail seeks to reduce the number of sorting offices in the region from seven (including Worcester), to four.