Nearly Well Done Royal Mail

molerat

Not such a good result with the Christmas parcels this year.  Posted 4 parcels Thursday lunchtime at my local PO here in N Scotland. 2 x 2SP & 1 x 2MP to SE England and 1x T48 to SW England.

First the well done bit, 2 of the SE arrived Saturday lunchtime.  

Now the not so good.  The T48 was at the outgoing MC by 6pm and arrived at the receiving MC by 6pm Friday with delivery scheduled for Saturday.  Well, that didn't happen likely due to the storm and it arrived at the DO 3am Monday scheduled for delivery that day, again didn't happen and eventually was delivered today.  The final SE parcel was also delivered today, according to the recipient that particular DO seems to be on a deliver mail if we can be bothered schedule.

martindow

I don't think that is so bad.  They were all second class and travelling the length of the country - north of Scotland to south of England.  Taking into account the storm and RM quite rightly prioritising first class that seems pretty good to me.  Saturday delivery was really fast for second class over this distance.

RFW

I send a mix of 24s and 48s. The 24s are mostly great, with a little higher percentage than I'd like not arriving next day. 48s are taking 2-10 days at the moment. They're mostly fine but quite a few outliers.

molerat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nkj2k237o

Royal Mail has been fined £10.5m by the regulator Ofcom for failing to meet delivery targets for first and second class mail.

again.

DUBVENDOR

Much cheaper to pay the fine rather than have the right amount of workers to meet the USO .