How often do Royal Mail Delivery?
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Also part of the reason they're going downhill. Imagine the costs of delivering out to the remote areas in Scotland for the same cost as posting across a major city.
I think they may as well do this because after all we are living in a very broken Britain and we will never get the good old days back, things don't have to be more stressful than they already are so Royal Mail may as well just scrap posties and have people pick up there mail instead? better all around I think. No more waiting in, no more parcels going to the wrong address, no more postal workers getting stressed because of the amount of mail they are having to deliver.
There desperately needs to be a new system in place I think, like for example everything gets delivered to a location in peoples local areas where people come to collect there own parcels and the companies/online shops have there own delivery services. Scrap Royal Mail and have letters sent to email instead.
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And what happens with the likes of the elderly and disabled?
RM was working fine, then the government sold it off having cut it's staffing levels to the bone and made sure private companies could leech most of the profit out of it.
Post should not be for profit, it is a service that is required for pretty much everything from your local GP or hospital to contact you in a timely manner, to the police, your insurance, the tax man (and pretty much every other government department).
The elderly and disabled? We live in Tory Britain now its what people voted for?
RM was a vital service just like many but unfortunately times have changed, we'll never get back the good old days. What we have today will be a luxury of tomorrow, we take so much for granted that we don't realize it until its gone. What we are suffering now is just a symptom of broken Britain and its only going to get worse so long as people keep voting for it. I still think its important to make the best of a bad situation.
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Even when you have no letter post addressed to you that day?
You should know by now that if no mail, then there is always the alternative
I think there must be a huge back log of stuff at the moment because I checked with my local sorting office and they said they only had one parcel for me so the issue must be further down somewhere in other areas unless the postman hasn't delivered to the correct address which wouldn't be the first time. The manager said they are very short staff, a lot of posties have left.
I just gotta play the waiting game although I do get onto my sellers because if something was delivered but to the wrong address then I have more of a chance of finding where it has gone and going to that address to collect it but if I wait too long then the parcel is gone for good. Sometimes posties take photos just before delivering which is a big help because then I know where its gone and I have the proof just encase I get told "I ain't got it" most are honest folk where I live anyway. I did have a huge parcel go missing just before Christmas, I have no idea what address that went too but I got refunded.
I just gotta play the waiting game although I do get onto my sellers because if something was delivered but to the wrong address then I have more of a chance of finding where it has gone and going to that address to collect it but if I wait too long then the parcel is gone for good. Sometimes posties take photos just before delivering which is a big help because then I know where its gone and I have the proof just encase I get told "I ain't got it" most are honest folk where I live anyway. I did have a huge parcel go missing just before Christmas, I have no idea what address that went too but I got refunded.
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A couple of times a week I think, I get days of nothing and then a bunch of letters dropped through the letterbox at once that may or may not include a final demand thats already hit its deadline.
It doesn't sound that great a job to be honest, infact it sounds like utter *****...
www.theguardian.com
Meanwhile a former CEO appeared to be constantly obsessed with his pay and how his £1.68m basic salary and "intolerable" £640k bonus was "not enough" and threatening to resign as a result
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It doesn't sound that great a job to be honest, infact it sounds like utter *****...
Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans | Gareth Roberts
My year there was marked by crumbling depots, staff constantly leaving and impossible targets. This once-great institution is on its knees, says former postie Gareth Roberts
www.theguardian.com
Meanwhile a former CEO appeared to be constantly obsessed with his pay and how his £1.68m basic salary and "intolerable" £640k bonus was "not enough" and threatening to resign as a result
Post Office boss ‘obsessed with his pay’, claims former HR director
Nick Read said to have repeatedly demanded pay rises from the government and described bonus as ‘intolerable’
www.theguardian.com
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