Exactly the same in my area.
When did Royal Mail become so useless?
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Exactly the same in my area.
Why will it come back to bite us on the ****?
Mail volumes are declining, technology is removing the need for the service you provide.
Instead of moving with the times you let the Union leaders whip you into a frenzy.
Soldato
Its the part-time agency bit that doesn't work. Ive seen what they are like in other businesses. No jobsecurity, low wage, no benefits = very few coituses given.
All of our household bills are electronic, yet I still get post most days.
What is being put through my door?
Man of Honour
I work for Yodel thanks, I know exactly what a courier is
Judging by their woeful performance, I dread to imagine what Yodel's idea of the meaning of the word "courier" is. And you seem to have answered your own question: there's no COMPLETE competition for the RM because no-one wants that job.
Soldato
I have not read the rest of the thread yet but when i read this i had to laugh. Are you serious? How is £1.20 "steep"?
I work for Yodel thanks, I know exactly what a courier is
Thats not competition though, that is, quite literlary, private businesses making a profit by dumping unprofitable work on RM. Downstream access has been forced onto RM, with forced price fixing.
What we have now is a faux free market. RM still deliver allmost all mail, so there is still zero incentive to improve the service. Send your letter by TNT? They dump it on RM anyway. You literlary have no other service to use.
Another fully RM-free service could be possible, after all Yodel/UPS/TNT deliver parcels without RM but it would take billions in investment to set up a network, and who is willing to do that just to take on a total monopoly?
But Yodel aren't a courier company they're a parcel carrier.
Soldato
Yes, 98.5% delivered on-time, without complaint is truly dire
Why would anyone want the job while RM are forced to offer a much cheaper option to their own detriment? Where it a truly free market RM wouldnt have been forced to offer Downstream Acess and so competitors would haveto have their own network since RM would have no obligation to provide access to theirs except on their terms, ie price.
Definition of courier:
noun: a company or employee of a company that transports commercial packages and documents
Guess what Yodel do
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Man of Honour
Yes, 98.5% delivered on-time, without complaint is truly dire
Why would anyone want the job while RM are forced to offer a much cheaper option to their own detriment? Where it a truly free market RM wouldnt have been forced to offer Downstream Acess and so competitors would haveto have their own network since RM would have no obligation to provide access to theirs except on their terms, ie price.
Let me guess: the official internal stats? What is the definition of delivery? Judging by the last thing they "delivered" to me I'm guessing it includes shoving it in the recycling bin? Throwing it over the fence into the back garden? (Also happened to me.) And I'd also want to know how the "complaints" were compiled.
Anyway, your second part seems to give away the fact that you still don't seem to understand the definition of competition. In order to compete properly, you must offer the same service. In the case of competing with the PO, that means end-to-end collection to delivery at the same price anywhere in the UK for the same item, because that's what the PO has to do by law. As you've been repeatedly told, and you almost seem to understand, competition is NOT cherry-picking the profitable bits. Of course any true competitor would have to set up its own deliverers, or pay the PO to use theirs -that's the whole point of true competition. But as I and others have said, no-one wants to offer that competition because they don't want the loss-making bits - particularly the delivery system. But lots of people - including your company - have creamed away certain bits by, guess what, setting themselves up as competitors for part of the work. Yes, Yodel is a competitor. Really. It is. The weird thing is that you seem to agree, but also seem unable to follow the thought through. THERE IS NEVER GOING TO BE A COMPLETE COMPETITOR TO THE POST OFFICE, because no-one wants the job.
Associate
I was meaning that it would come back and bite RM management on the arse.
Union leaders do not whip us into a frenzy. If we where treated with some respect and not as robots then the unions wojldnt have to step in so often
Its slightly taking the pee when cuts are coming left and right but the people at the top are still some of the highest payed management in the country.
The traditional postman role is dying,