Commissario
Don't be silly, they'll double the price (again) because it's a rarity.
Postman no delivery.... in any weather
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Undoubtedly, but this was a complaint from someone who has email.
Soldato
But where do you draw the line of who can have a social housing property?
I mean my local authority told me a few years back now that because I earned (at the time) a shade over £24k that I needed to look at private rents because I earned too much for a council house. When I asked why there were council tenants earning significantly more than that on the street that I lived, some recently moved in, I couldn't get an answer. I'd gone to the council because I was being made to move out of the property I was in due to it being sold and private rents had increased to almost double for the area.
Sub-letting is a separate issue tbh. It's rife in certain areas of my town but the council don't bother investigating it despite it being pretty much public knowledge.
Soldato
Apparently most rounds were increased in size last year, so to finish by contract finishing time, they have to prioritise parcels and rotate which sections of round doesn't get letters. Service has gone downhill massively since pandemic and the workload for posties is often impossible, while t&C's for posties has got so much worse since the strikes that ended last summer. We often get letters delivered that are postmarked 5-7 days ago.
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Soldato
Our postal mail has been reduced by 75%. Bank statements, insurance documents, utility statements (Severn Trent still send mine by post) are done online. Then with friends and family dying, fewer birthday cards and Christmas cards. Then most communication between people is text, WhatsApp, e-mail and phone.
Soldato
Our usual postie is very good. He has delivered parcels to me when I am at work - his round includes my work. Then when my neighbour moved out a few months ago. She didn't bother doing redirection mail. I told him the address and he wrote it, popped the mail in the post box outside the delivery office. I'm not sure he's supposed to do this.
Soldato
I hardly get any paper mail of value, but living in a small village there's only a few chaps that takes turns doing the rounds.
They try hard enough but normally if there's a lack of post, they will say it's one of the DCs further up the chain.
We didn't have mail for two weeks once, the told us that the DC before ours, all the staff had covid and the DC was closed for a week now there's a backlog.
I was thinking hows about telling the DC before them to send delivers straight to you rather than to one that's closed.
They try hard enough but normally if there's a lack of post, they will say it's one of the DCs further up the chain.
We didn't have mail for two weeks once, the told us that the DC before ours, all the staff had covid and the DC was closed for a week now there's a backlog.
I was thinking hows about telling the DC before them to send delivers straight to you rather than to one that's closed.
Does this come with any sauce or is this just another one of your fantasies?
Soldato
£39.510 and £25.000 for the two Peugeot EV models bought and you will be give or take + £0000000+ for livery, paint and fitout = Pretty much spot on.
Post bod = £16,000 to £25,000 with London showing £21,000 to £28,000.
Manager average = £47,975 per year
Ops manager = £35,000 to £50,000
Not sure where you got your figures @jpaul
Post bod = £16,000 to £25,000 with London showing £21,000 to £28,000.
Manager average = £47,975 per year
Ops manager = £35,000 to £50,000
Not sure where you got your figures @jpaul
Associate
It's a pain. I had a speeding notice dated the 12th of Jan telling me I needed to pay the fine or do a course by the 19th or I'd be taken to court. The letter arrived on the 21st...I booked the course anyway and am hoping the police are as ineffective as the royal mail.
Royal Mail and the Post Office are two separate organisations. Both incompetently run so it’s difficult to tell them apart but they are separate!
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Caporegime
Man of Honour
We had a letter yesterday as apparently there was an issue with our council tax payment going out this month (my wife had noticed it but she's not been well so hadn't chased them up and I'd forgotten about it 
) it was dated the 18th and gave us 7 days from that date to pay...so we got it just in time.
I'd take email over that any time.
) it was dated the 18th and gave us 7 days from that date to pay...so we got it just in time.I'd take email over that any time.
Soldato
The same happened recently with hospital appointments that took over a week to travel 20miles and meant I could not visit (it was private, so easy to get another appointment) but not so if it was NHS...We had a letter yesterday as apparently there was an issue with our council tax payment going out this month (my wife had noticed it but she's not been well so hadn't chased them up and I'd forgotten about it
I'd take email over that any time.
After this I informed the hospital to stop all letters and do it only by email.
Times like these and with RM's poor performance, I can see more and more dropping their services tbh.
The idea that the postal service could be worse than it was 50 years ago is fascinating.
50 years ago there were barely any computers in the postal system, everything was sorted by hand, every address read by hand, no bar codes etc. Hugely labour intensive. Even the post vans themselves were far less efficient, used more fuel etc. And yet the postal service was cheap, effective and universal.
WHY hasn't 50 years of technicalogical progress, computerisation, logistics, efficiency resulted in a BETTER postal service?
50 years ago there were barely any computers in the postal system, everything was sorted by hand, every address read by hand, no bar codes etc. Hugely labour intensive. Even the post vans themselves were far less efficient, used more fuel etc. And yet the postal service was cheap, effective and universal.
WHY hasn't 50 years of technicalogical progress, computerisation, logistics, efficiency resulted in a BETTER postal service?
Commissario
The answer to that one is simple.
The government has encouraged the management of the postal service to go from running it as an actual service, with sufficient staff, to running it to make a profit (and syphon off every penny that could be), whilst cutting staffing to below the minimum required to ensure that they can cope with normal workloads, let alone anyone being off ill.
And like the worst workplaces, getting rid of "expensive" experienced staff and covering the gaps with "cheaper" or at least lower paid temps as often as possible (please ignore the agency that arranges them is getting paid more than it would cost to employ experienced staff directly), with the result that they are far less efficient.
And don't forget the number of times they've applied technology to make things worse, IIRC they were planning the likes of the routes based on a postman walking to the edge of the property, little or no allowance for the fact that the postman would have to deal with such things as garden gates, paths, waiting for someone to answer the door, or even that you can't walk at full speed whilst getting the post for the next address in your hand from the bag no matter how "efficiently" you've prepared them at the sorting office, or little things like the days they are having to deliver leaflets to every single door rather than post to say half the doors on their round.
The government has encouraged the management of the postal service to go from running it as an actual service, with sufficient staff, to running it to make a profit (and syphon off every penny that could be), whilst cutting staffing to below the minimum required to ensure that they can cope with normal workloads, let alone anyone being off ill.
And like the worst workplaces, getting rid of "expensive" experienced staff and covering the gaps with "cheaper" or at least lower paid temps as often as possible (please ignore the agency that arranges them is getting paid more than it would cost to employ experienced staff directly), with the result that they are far less efficient.
And don't forget the number of times they've applied technology to make things worse, IIRC they were planning the likes of the routes based on a postman walking to the edge of the property, little or no allowance for the fact that the postman would have to deal with such things as garden gates, paths, waiting for someone to answer the door, or even that you can't walk at full speed whilst getting the post for the next address in your hand from the bag no matter how "efficiently" you've prepared them at the sorting office, or little things like the days they are having to deliver leaflets to every single door rather than post to say half the doors on their round.
And you will find there are too many managers sat around twiddling their thumbs or even worse trying to justify their position by making stupid decisions.