post office to cut 16,000 jobs?

zakaya

Why is that? It my area the mail used to be delivered by 8am, now I have to wait until 1.30pm. As I work mainly from home and depend on receiving my mail early this is frustrating. We used to have 2 deliveries a day, long before 1pm, so what's changed? Royal mail has become a joke and it's no wonder it's been losing money.

mrposhman

zakaya wrote: »

Why is that? It my area the mail used to be delivered by 8am, now I have to wait until 1.30pm. As I work mainly from home and depend on receiving my mail early this is frustrating. We used to have 2 deliveries a day, long before 1pm, so what's changed? Royal mail has become a joke and it's no wonder it's been losing money.

Actually thats not right. Royal Mail were losing far more money in the days of 2 deliverys (more than anyone else in the world by the way). These were the days of losing £1m a day and that had to change. There were reports that the government was just an hour away from selling the entire company for £1 at that time, so if you think its too commercial now, you'd have been blown away with what it would have become if it had been sold to a foreign company. For example, there would be no more universal service, those in remote areas would need to collect from the local town etc. Royal Mail has consistently said that the Universal service must be preserved and that is far better than letting it go to the dogs.

Unfortunately for you, your walk has probably been recalculated to ensure that deliveries are the most efficient in the total timescale.

You do know that there never has been a set time that you should have had your post delivered right?

zakaya

I know there is no set time for deliveries, but you expected to received your mail in the morning usually before 9am. With the second delivery about 11.30pm. Now deliveries happen whenever they feel like it. I've had mail at 4pm! You can't do business like this!

The company I work for no longer use Royal Mail to deliver urgent items for this reason. How many other companies are doing the same? Surely, in the long run this will lose them even more money (as we have seen), as more and more people seek alternative delivery companies/couries to do the job Royal Mail are suppose to do.

custardy

zakaya wrote: »

I know there is no set time for deliveries, but you expected to received your mail in the morning usually before 9am. With the second delivery about 11.30pm. Now deliveries happen whenever they feel like it. I've had mail at 4pm! You can't do business like this!

The company I work for no longer use Royal Mail to deliver urgent items for this reason. How many other companies are doing the same? Surely, in the long run this will lose them even more money (as we have seen), as more and more people seek alternative delivery companies/couries to do the job Royal Mail are suppose to do.

only going to get later
my own office is looking at over 600 hours a week savings utilising 4.5 delivery spans over the present 3.5
however thats using computer software with many tweakable variables that can have massive effects on how long a duty takes

want2bmortgage3

I work for RM and it seems to me they are losing money because of regulations, such as providing a universal service. doing this makes it impossible to make profit, yet the management are using bullying tactics to try and get more out of staff, and turning a blind eye to health and safety issues.

mrposhman

zakaya wrote: »

I know there is no set time for deliveries, but you expected to received your mail in the morning usually before 9am. With the second delivery about 11.30pm. Now deliveries happen whenever they feel like it. I've had mail at 4pm! You can't do business like this!

The company I work for no longer use Royal Mail to deliver urgent items for this reason. How many other companies are doing the same? Surely, in the long run this will lose them even more money (as we have seen), as more and more people seek alternative delivery companies/couries to do the job Royal Mail are suppose to do.

How many other companies have the regulatory burden of the Royal Mail. Like has been said above, the burden of the universal service is very costly, just like keeping open unprofitable branch offices.

Like I've said, do all you want to see the end of the Royal Mail if thats what you want, but you need to look at the big picture. Just because you want your post an hour earlier, may mean (if Royal Mail disappears) that those in remote areas don't even get a delivery.

If you are talking about urgent delivery, Special Delivery has a very good standard and last I'd seen was beating the targets set by Postcomm so you can hardly say its poor.

Don't forget that Royal Mail would have been more efficient already if the government didn't decide to siphon the profits out of the company to spend heck knows where and then without offering the profits back for modernisation, duly opened the market up to a market that Royal Mail were ill-equipped to compete in. If you don't believe this, read the Turner (or was it Taylor? I can't remember) report which was published last month.

kurjam

zakaya wrote: »

Why is that? It my area the mail used to be delivered by 8am, now I have to wait until 1.30pm. As I work mainly from home and depend on receiving my mail early this is frustrating. We used to have 2 deliveries a day, long before 1pm, so what's changed? Royal mail has become a joke and it's no wonder it's been losing money.

if you want your mail earlier you can collect from your sorting office....
workers dont start till later now so dont go out till later, and has other people have said there is only one delivery......
sometimes if a person is off sick or on holiday someone as to deliver there mail as well as there own (and they dont get paid for working over there time) so that is why your mail is late

motch

zakaya wrote: »

Why is that? It my area the mail used to be delivered by 8am, now I have to wait until 1.30pm. As I work mainly from home and depend on receiving my mail early this is frustrating. We used to have 2 deliveries a day, long before 1pm, so what's changed? Royal mail has become a joke and it's no wonder it's been losing money.

crikey 8am is just not possible now. Still sorting up mail inside before going out to deliver. Not everyone can have their mail delivered at the same time either! if your postie is getting to yours at 1.30pm he/she's probably been sorting / walking and posting non stop since about 6 am

custardy

i love all the people moaning about the post being late
i remember last year when loads of people were saying they didnt understand why the posties had a problem with later starting times....................

kurjam

custardy wrote: »

i love all the people moaning about the post being late
i remember last year when loads of people were saying they didnt understand why the posties had a problem with later starting times....................

it does not bother me what time my post gets here,
they all do a good job my postiesare really good where i live