Soldato
Processing is slow, deliveries are always late, pickups are even worse, they only manage to pickup about 50% of the time. I mean, the performance here is absolutely terrible. Is it just my area, or is the RM a disaster elsewhere?
What's going on with The Royal Mail?
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Soldato
Covid innit. Lots of companies still blaming covid for their uselessness. Royal Mail ain’t any different.
yeah they like dropping their elastic bands don't they.
there's no usual RM postie for our area it seems now, always a different one, have had some deliveries go wrong, maybe they just don't care as much?
Soldato
Judging from work fedex and DPD are as much of a shambles to be fair.
Been absolutely fine where we are, on time and next day is literally next day within 24 hours. Not had any late collections and everything has been on time. Might be region specific? The Sheffield one for me anyway is perfectly fine for now...
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I did 10 years as a postie
Left just before privatisation but was so happy to be out.
Could see even back then where it was headed too.
In the sorting office i worked all the management guys that had worked there way up through the system from postie / telegram boy etc were all given early retirement with a lump sum payoff and moved out.
All that experience and knowledge binned in a few months.
They then brought in all these shiny suit guys with new ''bright'' ideas none of which had a clue what they were doing. or how to manage or talk to people. we were in and out on strike no end of times because of disputes with them and there smart ideas.
The new sorting office manager loved re organising the layout of the building so you would come in one week and your sorting frame etc would be in the oposite side of the building than it was the week before.
The new ''management'' guys also loved to drive round following you on your delivery route watching everything you did, then telling you how you should be doing it. even down the minute detail of saying you should be walking faster on such and such a part of the route as it is flatter.!! No joke i was told that to my face.
So yea morale was tanking back then i can only imagine how bad it is now
Left just before privatisation but was so happy to be out.
Could see even back then where it was headed too.
In the sorting office i worked all the management guys that had worked there way up through the system from postie / telegram boy etc were all given early retirement with a lump sum payoff and moved out.
All that experience and knowledge binned in a few months.
They then brought in all these shiny suit guys with new ''bright'' ideas none of which had a clue what they were doing. or how to manage or talk to people. we were in and out on strike no end of times because of disputes with them and there smart ideas.
The new sorting office manager loved re organising the layout of the building so you would come in one week and your sorting frame etc would be in the oposite side of the building than it was the week before.
The new ''management'' guys also loved to drive round following you on your delivery route watching everything you did, then telling you how you should be doing it. even down the minute detail of saying you should be walking faster on such and such a part of the route as it is flatter.!! No joke i was told that to my face.
So yea morale was tanking back then i can only imagine how bad it is now
Soldato
It's broken, the same as everything else in this ******* country. I can't even get fibre internet despite living in the middle of a city.
Soldato
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Sent 2 cards the other week. One to Kent and one to Brisbane. Brisbane one got there first.
Associate
Weren't in the Bridgwater sorting office were you? Used to hear similar stories from my brother when he was there, biggest reason he left
Soldato
Privatising an organisation and saddling it with a universal delivery requirement was always going to be a terrible idea and so it has proved, worked well for rich people though who are now even richer!
Its not been a success for investors either.
Soldato
Absolutely massive day 1 profits were made as the organisation was sold off well below market value and saw a massive bounce (not deliberate at all)
Commissario
Don't forget most of the "modernisation changes" that have made the service worse were done specifically to improve profits for the short term prior to privatisation, and to allow the money to be taken out as dividends to shareholders regardless of the effect on the service.
Universal mail delivery should never be a "for profit" service, and over the last 25 years pretty much every bit of RM's service that made a profit was opened up/sold off to private companies so that RM was always going to be left with the bits that don't make money but are still required.
Universal mail delivery should never be a "for profit" service, and over the last 25 years pretty much every bit of RM's service that made a profit was opened up/sold off to private companies so that RM was always going to be left with the bits that don't make money but are still required.
Have you seen the share price? Market value is determined by the market.