How much does a Post Office earn on parcels??

manhattan

lol,

i normally try and beat the pensioners into the post office on a monday morning with all my ebay parcels,after i have dropped the kids off at school.

im there 9am with about 10 pensioners behind me tutting away! lol

cafenervosa_2

I'm lucky that I live near 3 post offices near me all within a miles radius. There is one just round the corner and it is very bad, i'd hate to go there all the time. Often only 1 serving with 5 or 6 people waiting, I walked out one day because I just would not be made to feel very welcome with posting like over 10 parcels.

The one I go to is very good, sometimes 4 serving but its usually 2 or 3 and its very busy too. I've been going there for over a year now, i'm in there at least 4 days a week and although it can be ok there are to many times for my liking when I hold the queue up. I am the one made to feel guilty and I don't know why. I spend hundreds on postage a month but I don't feel they put that money into the staff!

Sofa_Sogood

soolin wrote:

My local sub post office says that the only reason she wasn't closed in the local london cuts was that she had the ebayers, the other closest ones did not. They even set up a second 'point' which they open for ebayers if there is more than one or two of us in the queue.

Soo

Mine's shut Soo, but in the next village my OH has been made more than welcome by the women in there. (I'm not sure if I should be worried! )

But they welcome the trade, maybe because other things are bought there?

Hintza? Have you ever tried a village post office? Or would that take up too much time/profit etc?

chrisyc

shame its not like america, put letters/parcel in your post box put the old flag up and when postie drops post off. He picks your stuff up :T

Sofa_Sogood

chrisyc wrote:

shame its not like america, put letters/parcel in your post box put the old flag up and when postie drops post off. He picks your stuff up :T

But complete with C.o.P.?

chrisyc

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

But complete with C.o.P.?

hmmmm good question #

they might leave something behind, i will try and find out

Sofa_Sogood

chrisyc wrote:

hmmmm good question #

they might leave something behind, i will try and find out

Don't look at the dog doo dah thread just in case :eek:

buggu

My local post office always seems to be packed whenever i go and i kind of dislike waiting there with like umpteen parcels and ppl behind me staring at me, which gets even worse when only one memberr of staff is serving. Luckly i have another postoffice near by which is right next to the soughting office and hardly anyone uses it. Guess it would have been shut down had it not been associated with the soughting office.

Hintza

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Hintza? Have you ever tried a village post office? Or would that take up too much time/profit etc?

The town I'm in is virtually a village and the next one will be about 12 miles round trip.

I have contacted the Royal Mail and will see about opening an account. That way you sidestep the PO and go straight to sorting office.

snax

I think Posties in the States have a card they fill in as they go round their round detailing what they have delivered and picked up. Remember seeing one do a pick up and scribbling on a postcard sized notepad when I was over there staying with friends a few years ago.
Read somewhere recently that RM are reviewing the viability of small PO's so would be good if the posties picked up all the small stuff - can't see it happening though ..... local postie's got enough problems delivering a few envelopes and leaflets [which they earn a bonus on] without asking him to take stuff back to the sorting office.
Used to work for RM a few years back [not on the mail though]and did note a heavily entrenched attitude - almost militant - against change, usually with the spectre of union involvment hovering in the background .... might be different nowadays though.
S.