Scaling back Postal Service

[rpsmith79]

Since we have a pretty broad spectrum of folk on here, i thought it would be interesting to have a staw poll on how much use you have with the Royal Mail on, lets say, a monthy basis

Genuinly, i could count on one hand how many letter i get addressed to me in a year (excluding junk mail), specifically mortgage and pension statements, which so far i have not found a way to request online only statements

There seems to be a growing fury amongst polititians and certain groups who would be outraged over a cut in days the Royal Mail would deliver on, and just dredge out the old "it's an institution" or "it's by Royal decree" and "you can't mess with the Royal Mail"

Surely they can see that in this day & age, anyone under the age of 40 does most (if not all) things online

And yes, i get that businesses probably still need some sort of service, but you can't expect the same level of service from its heyday when there was no alternative, to now when there are dozens of alternative parcel delivery compaines, and most folk now do everything online
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[jeremyr62]

[rpsmith79]

[Easy-X]

3 days delivery vs. 6 changes nothing. There's still the same amount of mail to deliver so the postman will be toting twice as much when he's on the walk. All parts of the mail system up to that point will be exactly the same unless you think airports and seaports will only accept mail freight on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

This is a tactic to bate the unions. Wait till they howl about staff redundancies and then sleight-of-hand some other proposal that's seemingly not so bad.
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[Polarbear]

I don't really mind the RM service being reduced officially to every other day. I say officially because I suspect in my area they are on that already considering I only get junk mail every few days.

The stupid thing is comanies don't embrace online completely anyway. eg. my car insurance insist on sending me paper copies of my policies even though I can read them on line.

Reduce it to a couple of times a week if need be but then whole new contracts for posties and other RM workers will have to written and embraced if they are only working a 3 day week and that will be horrendously expensive to implement and cause ruptions within the workforce.
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[Fat Angry Scotsman]

I deliberately avoid Royal Snail and Parcel Farce as much as humanly possible. I can have a 25kg parcel delivered next day on a pre-10AM, with tracking, POD, etc with DPD for £3.85 (exc. VAT), why would I ever use RM or PF who are more expensive and/or take longer?

RM always put their Delivery Offices in shite areas with fuck all parking. Fuck them. DPD, FedEx, UPS, etc all have safe space options whereas RM and PF force you to go to a Post Office or Delivery Office. The Delivery Office in Hamilton is open for only 08:00 AM to 10:00 AM Monday to Friday and is closed any other time outwith those 2 hours per day 5 times per week and has no local parking at all, you need to park almost a 10 min walk away and I am a right lazy cunt so that hacks me off.

Shite hawks. Fuck them and hope they go bust. Good riddance.
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[Polarbear]

[MCN]

[Ste]

Bring back second post.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Easy-X]

[Feasty]

This Christmas (as the last one) we avoided RM as much as possible with parcel sending, they are completely out of touch compared to DPD/Evri and the like.
With Evri it's cheaper, I had an extra couple of days to look for those last minute presents, and I don't have to queue at those ridiculous post office counters for an hour during 'office hours'. I can just drop it off whenever I'm ready at the corner shop at 9pm on a quiet night.

To top it off I was expecting a signed parcel that was sent through RM, they don't tell me when it's due and I missed the 2 attempts made whilst I was at work. Went to the sorting office and missed opening hours because hey, they open 2 hours a day between 10 & 12. So useful for the working person .

So quite frankly, the sooner RM gets the plug pulled the better. If Evri/DPD can get it right, RM can try too.

And for all those 'age' comments, there's always going to be the elderly section of the human race who miss out - does that mean we don't push for progress?
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[doggone]

The reason they are crap and expensive and incompetent is they are still very unionised.

[MCN]

[Tierbirdy]

The only thing I ever seem to get in the post is fast food flyers, the local gazette, and "to the homeowner" broadband letters. All of which the postie ignores the "no unaddressed/junk mail", seems to be all RM delivers these days.

Everything is online, nothing important comes in the post, just the occasional credit card/bank statement because they haven't gone online only yet. Would be fine with a heavily reduced service to say 3 days a week. Not that it would make much difference as it seems they're ignoring letters in favor of parcels anyway so letters only get delivered a few times a week already. We dont need 6 days a week delivery of letters.

The only, very thin, argument against it is for very rare time sensitive things like hospital appointment letters for old codgers who still haven't figured out how a text message reminder works in the past 30 years. Postie on the radio today suggested an easy work around for that would simply make them like the Covid vaccine rollout letters, bright blue NHS envelopes so when they re picking their letters in the morning they know to prioritize those ones.

I think the faux outrage being peddled by the Daily Mail and Tory MPs is purely trying to find something to shout about to distract from how much of a shitshow the rest of the country is. Nobody really cares about getting their junk mail 3 or 4 times a week instead of 6. But its a nice headline for gammons to get angry about. Surprised theyre not trying to blame it on boat people, "Your ROYAL Mail busy delivering post to ILLEGAL MIGRANTS instead of HARD WORKING BRITS!"

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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Gotta wonder what the Royal Mail (a misnomer now) thinks it’s for. Fair enough, their old bread and butter ‘letters’ has declined massively but if they don’t want to compete for parcels by delivering next-day or at weekends they’re shooting themselves in the head. Have they simply been asset-stripped?

[Raffles]

There is no intention, at the moment, to reduce deliveries to three days.
Such horror stories are only being bandied around so that when the service is eventually reduced to five days, the real intention, everyone will say, ''that's not so bad then''.
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[Chuffin Nora]

[Easy-X]

I wonder if someone's done a cost/benefit analysis of setting up a mail service solely for government mail - DVLA, DWP, NHS - 'cos that's about the only serious use for the Royal Mail right now...

Maybe that's all they should do. Bring it back into state ownership but they only delivery state correspondence
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