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post office to cut 16,000 jobs?

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  • Lorian
    Lorian Posts: 6,362 Forumite
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    They need more people in the lost mail claims department.
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Lorian wrote: »
    They need more people in the lost mail claims department.

    i think they would be better served making it obligatory to have a return address on all mail
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    TBH, I go to the local sorting office to collect parcels and get CoPs for my eBay/Amazon sales. All my bills and CC statements are now 'paperless'. The need for a daily round by the postie isn't so great now.
  • custardy
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    amcluesent wrote: »
    TBH, I go to the local sorting office to collect parcels and get CoPs for my eBay/Amazon sales. All my bills and CC statements are now 'paperless'. The need for a daily round by the postie isn't so great now.

    really?how are your paperless parcels coming? stamped letters are down
    downstream access,flats (a4) and packet traffic is up
    packet traffic rises every year
    have a look over the forum when a few lose their daily deliveries
  • kurjam
    kurjam Posts: 1,342 Forumite
    so are they cutting jobs are not ?
  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    kurjam wrote: »
    so are they cutting jobs are not ?

    without a doubt
    given the cuts they are demanding/expecting its just not viable for there not to be job cuts
    mail centres are going ot be centralised accross the UK,this will lead to job cuts
    delivery offices are once again being ravaged for 'savings'
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Just curious, there are a lot of people on the inside with knowledge of the postal service posting here. We know that the Post Office is losing money, so with your awareness of what is going on, what would you do to turn the postal service round? This isn't a dig, I'm asking because often the best solutions come from the grass roots.
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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Just curious, there are a lot of people on the inside with knowledge of the postal service posting here. We know that the Post Office is losing money, so with your awareness of what is going on, what would you do to turn the postal service round? This isn't a dig, I'm asking because often the best solutions come from the grass roots.

    losing money? were are on course to double our profits this year.
    stamp prices rise in april as well
    every section of RM will be in profit this year,admitadly letters isnt a huge profit but the universal service obligation(USO)
    means letters will always struggle to profit without even keying in downstream access
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    losing money? were are on course to double our profits this year.
    stamp prices rise in april as well
    every section of RM will be in profit this year,admitadly letters isnt a huge profit but the universal service obligation(USO)
    means letters will always struggle to profit without even keying in downstream access

    What does "keying in downstream access" mean please?
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