Don't you just hate Royal Mail?

RFW

kazca wrote: »

The Royal Mail have no viable competition for personal letter delivery and small packet delivery which is essentially what this thread is all about, so please understand that competition means providing a similar service at a competitive price and back off!

This thread's still going?

With the same level of knowledge too.

http://www.tntpost.co.uk/services/letters/premiersortflex.aspx

kazca

RFW wrote: »

This thread's still going?

With the same level of knowledge too.

http://www.tntpost.co.uk/services/letters/premiersortflex.aspx

Knowledge and COMPREHENSION!!

Get some sleep RFW:rotfl:

.......and when you wake up refreshed, remember we are discussing personal deliveries for individuals, not high volume business delivery.......well at least I was anyway.

Goodnight.

Even with the type of service on RFW's link above, who delivers the letters?
AFAIAA only Royal Mail postmen actually deliver letters. Your letter may have DHL, TNT or some other intermediary name on it but the good old postie will hand it to you. Only the Royal Mail has the infrastructure for efficient letter delivery, so unless the price of delivering a letter goes up to say £2.50, who else would want to get involved with an average letter delivery - forget Cornwall to the highlands? If this service goes fully commercial, it will be a disaster!!

RFW

How impressive that you never let facts get in the way of your arguments and you continue to be rude when anyone mentions anything you don't know.

Anyway some information here on a BBC news item including details of TNT starting trials to deliver mail, whether business or not it doesn't take any great intellect to realise they would be connected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17845823

You probably are on some kind of wind up, so I'll leave it there too.

kazca

RFW wrote: »

How impressive that you never let facts get in the way of your arguments and you continue to be rude when anyone mentions anything you don't know.

Anyway some information here on a BBC news item including details of TNT starting trials to deliver mail, whether business or not it doesn't take any great intellect to realise they would be connected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17845823

You probably are on some kind of wind up, so I'll leave it there too.

Cloud cuckoo land RFW
If competition were feasible at current price levels it would exist. Do you seriously think the post office infrastructure can be set up by someone else? Letterboxes, post offices, vans, website, etc.

You and your argument disappoint me. A windup - no just a reasoned reply that you are completely unable to respond to with substance.

porto_bello

I note this quote in RFW's link:

"Royal Mail has warned that allowing competitors to cherry-pick profitable areas of the business will challenge the sustainability of the universal service."

How ironic it would be for the first country in the world to create a National, standardised 'penny post' system to also be the first to destroy it! I bet Sir Rowland Hill is turning in his grave!

kazca

porto_bello wrote: »

I note this quote in RFW's link:

"Royal Mail has warned that allowing competitors to cherry-pick profitable areas of the business will challenge the sustainability of the universal service."

How ironic it would be for the first country in the world to create a National, standardised 'penny post' system to also be the first to destroy it! I bet Sir Rowland Hill is turning in his grave!

Yes, RFW's link answered itself really. As the price of Royal Mail letter delivery rises, so the viability of competition increases. Standalone competition will predictably start with cherry picking, perhaps a London only letter delivery service. A further drop in demand for Royal Mail letter delivery created by the price rises and competition will continue the demand fall, price rise, competition rise, downward spiral.

The infrastructure/investment requirment for deliveries within a significantly limited radius is massively reduced.

Our Royal Mail postal service is far from faultless but has to be one of the best, if not the best in the world. Given the straightforward nature of competition it is not difficult to see where this service will go if it is privatised and regulation is further relaxed.