Royal Mail national strike looms for Christmas

custardy

buglawton wrote: »

Fact: Royal Mail sorting offices will not cooperate with Post Offices on just about any level. Privatise the lot of 'em I say.

I would be happy to collect my mail from Tesco or Waitrose so long as a proper spam-in-envelopes opt-out policy is legislated for in the UK.

well what is a sorting office? do you mean a delivery office or mail centre?

2nd i havent a clue what you are gibbering about

FACT

buglawton

Where I have to drive to 5 miles away, to stand in a long queue to collect mail if it did not fit through the letterbox, was 1p under postage or recorded and we were out. Once or twice i have driven there and had to give up due to the length of queue. I guess I mean,, "Delivery Office" that's what they call it.

Fact: Royal Mail Delivery Offices will not cooperate with Post offices.

custardy

buglawton wrote: »

Where I have to drive to 5 miles away, to stand in a long queue to collect mail if it did not fit through the letterbox, was 1p under postage or recorded and we were out. Once or twice i have driven there and had to give up due to the length of queue. I guess I mean,, "Delivery Office" that's what they call it.

so what has that to do with post offices?
you dont have to drive anywhere,thats why the card lists various options
its far easier if you put everything in one post than having to have it teased out

mewbie_2

custardy wrote: »

so what has that to do with post offices?
you dont have to drive anywhere,thats why the card lists various options
its far easier if you put everything in one post than having to have it teased out

What are the options? I thought it was go and collect it. Unless you want the parcel undelivered the next day too.

I caught someone putting an undelivered card through our door, he hadn't even rung the doorbell! Mumbled an implausible excuse and had to look in the van for my parcel.

It wasn't Royal Mail by the way.

custardy

mewbie wrote: »

What are the options? I thought it was go and collect it. Unless you want the parcel undelivered the next day too.

I caught someone putting an undelivered card through our door, he hadn't even rung the doorbell! Mumbled an implausible excuse and had to look in the van for my parcel.

It wasn't Royal Mail by the way.

redelivery or local collect(fee2pay for charge items)
you can also get non SD items redelivered to another address within the delivery offices delivery span


still looking forward to this delivery office post office war yarn

mewbie_2

custardy wrote: »

still looking forward to this delivery office post office war yarn

It's well known that they have rubber band wars.

buglawton

custardy wrote: »

so what has that to do with post offices?
you dont have to drive anywhere,thats why the card lists various options
its far easier if you put everything in one post than having to have it teased out

The current system results in typically 4 days delay before you get the item, if you have to phone in to get it redirected - and pay a fee too.

What people actually want 1:
Mail and parcels that cannot be delivered (due to above example reasons) should automatically go direct to local post office where they are held till collected. If a post office is capable of sending things our, why not capable of receiving and holding them?

What people actually want 2:
That any delivery company that wants to put things through your letterbox has to have a license to do so. A precondition of that license is that no organisation, UK or foreign based, can send items into the delivery system without having an op-out option against future mailings that is as easy to use and as reliable as the 'unsubscribe' link that any decent company offers when mass-emailing people.

Now, the above 2 things are not going to happen in the UK any time this century due to vested interests and an antiquated, and monopolistic system.

In countries with a very undeveloped postal system, you go into the nearest town to collect mail from your secure pigeon hole. Compared ot what we have now in the UK, this sounds attractive. Perhaps supermarket chains could host those mail drops, with the supermarket Customer Services looking after registered mail. Oh, but as I said, not this century.

custardy

so where exactly does the post office keep all these parcels?
have you seen the size of most post offices?
what about those people who find it easier to get to the delivery office? my own office covers an area easily 20+ miles across
how exactly would the post office finance the extra staff required to deal with all these extra people?

as for your second part,sounds like you havent learned how to work tick boxes

and just to get your brain really working royal mail already offer the service to companies sending goods
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content3;jsessionid=3J0JNGOO4ZRQYFB2IGDUPLQUHRAYUQ2K?mediaId=23500849&catId=600011

no fee to you and straight to the post office. welcome to this century

bo_drinker

According to the news tonight they will bring the country to its knees, bo11ox we are on our knees as it is. As many have said they are no longer what they once were, just because they have the word "ROYAL" in the title does not make them the big player any more. T b h I couldn't give a fk if I never see my xmas cards let alone get them by new year, who cares. It has been a lottery for a while now when the post lands on the mat, if some is a bit late tough. The firms who are reliant on post will just go elsewhere and if they get a good deal/service will not go back. Every one and their dog are struggling one way or another so timing is not on their side in the long run.

Pssst

mewbie wrote: »

If a business can't make money and deliver a service when it has a virtual monopoly then it ain't much of a business. Both management and staff seem to be totally out of touch with how to run a proper modern service here.

Perhaps its top heavy? According to a postie union rep this morning on 5 live, and i have to take him at his word, by the POs figs alone,50,000 jobs have already been shed in recent years. The proportion of managers to workers is excessive. The FS pension scheme has been curtailed but not for high ranking managers, and the same managers get annual bonuses,,presumably for vflogging the lower ranks and driving up prod stats etc..

You can only manage if your underlings respects you.

We have useless managers in my company and most of the lads have little or no respect for them.