Royal mail, just typical.
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Maybe they "lost it".
turned out to very lucky for me in the end, it was the last one in stock and i twisted their arm to send me a much better model
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The other day, I had a text saying my parcel was delivered x-y. It was attempted to be delivered 1 hour 40 mins before x. When I was out!
Then the sorting office used to be open about 28 hours a week. Now it’s 15.
Then the sorting office used to be open about 28 hours a week. Now it’s 15.
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My friend had something delivered by courier and note ‘left in bin’. It was bin day and bin wasn’t emptied until later.
Nothing to do with your regular postman.
Royal Mail has been prioritising Tracked items as, apart from Special delivery, is the only thing that affects manager’s bonuses.
Forget hospital letters, etc. the only thing managers talk about is Tracked items. Even a failed Special wouldn’t put a postman in trouble as a failed tracked.
And as far as I know, low value items sent using Royal Mail, won’t be even signed for.
My advice, if posting something, use tracked, as it covers up to £100, when signed for only up to £50 and First or Second class only £20. Also tracked will be delivered without major delays.
So, before blaming your postman that have been exceptionally busy since Covid, and now being offered a 2% pay rise, the issue is the company as a whole, who won’t let go the advantages of Universal Service, but wants to choose what to deliver.
Royal Mail has been prioritising Tracked items as, apart from Special delivery, is the only thing that affects manager’s bonuses.
Forget hospital letters, etc. the only thing managers talk about is Tracked items. Even a failed Special wouldn’t put a postman in trouble as a failed tracked.
And as far as I know, low value items sent using Royal Mail, won’t be even signed for.
My advice, if posting something, use tracked, as it covers up to £100, when signed for only up to £50 and First or Second class only £20. Also tracked will be delivered without major delays.
So, before blaming your postman that have been exceptionally busy since Covid, and now being offered a 2% pay rise, the issue is the company as a whole, who won’t let go the advantages of Universal Service, but wants to choose what to deliver.
The same managers who “work” 15 hours of their 37 contracted hours and half of that time walking around talking about football and how much they lost at Coral? Same ones who haven’t been out of the office since Covid, yet harassed people to ignore social distance, failed to hire enough vans and people for Xmas and blamed “the measures they had in place to protect the working force”?
Amazon has been infamous for its working conditions, yet last Xmas Royal Mail couldn’t persuade more than 3 people who work for them instead Amazon in Cambridge.
Surely an item being signed for is down to the service used, not the value. Is anything signed for now anyway?
Isn't the tracked service the one which requires you to send 1,000 items per year?
Tracked is now open to anyone. Can buy and pay online plus get it picked up for free until next year.
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Heh, clearly still the same as when I was a postie.
Have you checked the tracking info?
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That video is a complete joke, literally propaganda.
Royal mail has returned -30% for the last 5 years
They cut their dividend in 2019, or whatever. and loaded up on 1 billion in debt.
Their return on capital and their margins are paper thin, right now its about a 5% operating margin.
And that is an improvement, they will revert to the mean, and then will have debt 15x earnings.
Whining is essentially supporting the strike.
If everyone who doesn't get mail during the strike just says "oh, it's fine, I support the strikes" then the strike doesn't have any effect. They need people to complain about it and put pressure on the places they are buying from to complain also.
If it doesn't effect Royal Mail's business at all then the strike has no impact. If loads of customers complain and start moving their delivery contracts to other companies then the strike (and threat of future strikes) is much more effective.
Should be tomorrow now but technically it’s probably not a Saturday guarantee special so they could leave it till Tuesday.