Royal Mail, die samstags in der zweiten Klasse verabreicht wurde
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36x8k2612ko
Von Alert-One-Two
Royal Mail, die samstags in der zweiten Klasse verabreicht wurde
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36x8k2612ko
Von Alert-One-Two
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Does anyone even receive post on a regular basis? I get 1-2 deliveries a week at best and it’s normally a clump of letters dated 7-15 days ago.
I get roughly 3 deliveries a week with a minimum of 3 letters per time. Often this includes Saturday and the letters are mostly sent by 2nd class post.
Yay, lower standards that they’ll still somehow manage to fall short of.
Must be a major blow for the dozen or so people still regularly sending letters.
Honestly, I don’t really care about whether I get post on Saturdays.
But Royal Mail was sold to private owners on the condition that they would maintain the USO. And since they’re failing to do so, we should be getting some of that money (or those shares) back.
Even the US knew not to privatise their postal system. Back in 2003 we were getting two deliveries a day and a first class stamp was 28p ,which is around 51p today when adjusted. There’s no way to make money off that, and we shouldn’t have too. It’s a service.
Royal Mail does seem to be on borrowed time.
I’m wondering if it’ll still be around in 10 years time.
The age of letters is dead. Cut the service to twice weekly (even then still very generous) and it stands a chance of being viable.
I work for them and I don’t even take 1st class mail out most of the time if I get put on a round that’s backed up with multiple days mail. If you want anything being delivered on time (including letters) send it TRACKED. That’s all they care about as that’s what they base the manager bonus on. Doesn’t even matter if it’s an NHS letter.
Feels like they did this in 2020 based on my lived experience.
Royal Mail are a disgrace. Nationalise and fuck those greedy execs off
Yeah, I mean don’t inconvenience yourselves. If you get a chance to pop my letter through the letterbox at some point that’d be great but don’t stress about it, I appreciate the favour you are doing all of us whilst you are busy trying to run a business, doing…..whatever it is that you do.
We tend to get letters once a week and parcels rarely. The parcel tracking will claim we weren’t in despite the Ring doorbell showing no one even came to the house. I wish they were just honest on the tracking and said they weren’t able to deliver for whatever reason instead of lying and placing the blame on the customer.
All I hear is Vernon Dursley gleefully saying „No post on Sarurdays!“
We get one post delivery a week, if we are lucky. The postperson leaves the post at the bottom of the stairs, unsecured. So all flats have to sort through their mail to find theirs.
Royal Mail is a disgrace. Peckham delivery office.
They’ve been doing alternate day posting on weekdays for years at this point anyway….so that one doesn’t change much in my area. It’s a shit service.
Let’s go Denmark route and abolish universal postal service.
The decline in service since privatization is wild, remember when mail was actually reliable? They’ve broken their USO promises and should absolutely face consequences for it.
I mean whats the point of royal mail at this point ? They cant handle posting less mail than they have ever had to , Amazon can get me my £5 Rimmel London Powder to me by the next day every day even on a sunday , royal mail cant post anything within 24 hours i have never gotten a parcel from royal mail in under 48 hours even for next day 24 hour tracked , just give the post service to amazon or one of the other delivery services that can .
This is nonsense anyway.
I’m a postman, and letters sometimes don’t get delivered for 2-3 days at a time, doesn’t matter if they’re first or second class.
The walks are all too big, we have way too much time pressure, we’re told to prioritise tracked only, some days you don’t take out any mail at all because it’s impossible to do in the alloted time.
Only a matter of time before services were cut further after selling
I don’t really get this.
If the post men is delivering in the area anyway then it’s more efficient and effective for them to deliver all post at the same time.
What are they going to do leave second class post at the depot whilst taking out first class? (That has an extra layers of sorting and cost)