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Predicament of Royal Mail

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By *amesherts OP   Man
2 days ago

Hertford

I've been expecting a delivery. It hasn't arrived. Guess I'm one of many in this situation.

Since most of us use email now, fewer letters are sent. Royal Mail then have to increase prices to cover costs. This in turn leads to fewer people using the service, so they have to increase prices again. And so on, and so on.

Difficult to see how they can get out of this hole, especially with unions who still think it's the 1970's!

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By *eedsbearmanMan
2 days ago

Leeds

Dpd here are by far the best. And come to think of it where I used to live before.

But RM is just a lottery these days. I avoid where possible.

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By *os001Man
2 days ago

Oxford

They are pretty reliable around here, but I guess it's like any delivery company, they can all be a bit hit and miss.

They are being screwed by the unions who resist change at every step and by the government who insist on the universal service. I'm sure many of the private companies would have gone bust if they'd been made to to the same thing.

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By *ammy57Man
2 days ago

Stevenage

They do pay a reasonable wage though. And for all the waste they are best service around here. And most reliable when I go to post something.

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By *tmguylookingMan
2 days ago

town

I live no more than 200yards from the main sorting office here, the delivery of mail is unreliable to say the least, maybe once a fortnight or so if we're lucky, then we get half a dozen at the same time, this coupled with the fact they just seem to put all the mail for the street into one letterbox only leads me to believe they are totally incompetent.

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By *awihMan
2 days ago

Aldershot


"Dpd here are by far the best. And come to think of it where I used to live before.

But RM is just a lottery these days. I avoid where possible."

RM have been quite good at delivering packages from various online orders. Evri on the other hand are absolutely rubbish. Sit on your parcel at their depot for a week or more.

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By *tephen_b50Man
2 days ago

Bristol

RM are pretty good where I am, but you do need to be in to receive the goods.

AFAIAC their biggest problem is that they don't offer the facility to do real-time tracking like Amazon, or even to see a 1 hr time slot like DPD, so you're stuck with "your delivery will arrive today". Not much use when you see that at 9am. Whether you can be there is rather a gamble.

i can remember when DPD used to be crap, but they've improved a lot. Unfortunately i can't say the same for Evri.

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By *ammy57Man
2 days ago

Stevenage

Any one worked for royal mail? Is it like bukowskis "the post room"?

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By *tephen_b50Man
2 days ago

Bristol


"Any one worked for royal mail? Is it like bukowskis "the post room"?"

It's a while since i read that book, but from what i remember he used to make "special deliveries" to some of the women on his round.

That was a different age. i very much doubt any of the delivery staff do that now, as they are usually tracked in real time and have targets to meet for drops.

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By *arleyBearMan
2 days ago

chester

Many years ago I worked at a swimming baths, we used to get a postman in every week day morning for a 30 minute swim and then he would go and clock off

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By *ammy57Man
2 days ago

Stevenage


"Any one worked for royal mail? Is it like bukowskis "the post room"?

It's a while since i read that book, but from what i remember he used to make "special deliveries" to some of the women on his round.

That was a different age. i very much doubt any of the delivery staff do that now, as they are usually tracked in real time and have targets to meet for drops."

I was thinking of his description of how crap a job it was , how the management, didn't help, and how the pressure to perform was relentless.

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By *eepeter4Man
2 days ago

Bournemouth

Our local postman many years ago (35 years ago) use to make all those expecting giro (Unemployed) wait until 1pm 2nd post just to piss them off .

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By *enri du lacMan
1 day ago

Coventry

Royal Mail has many problems.

One of them is that each round is designed by a computer program, which generally underestimates how long it should take a postie to complete it.

If a postie tries to explain the discrepancy to management they are typically ignored, because "the computer knows best".

The result is that, more often than not, posties cannot complete their rounds within their contracted hours, meaning they either bring a load of mail back to the office, or don't even take it out with them in the first place.

This explains why you don't get a daily delivery Monday to Saturday, even though Royal Mail is required by an Act of Parliament to provide one.

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By *illitMan
1 day ago

Knaresborough

Just seen royal mail van delivering parcels (Sunday)

I didn't know they delivered on Sundays

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By *amesherts OP   Man
16 hours ago

Hertford


"Royal Mail has many problems.

One of them is that each round is designed by a computer program, which generally underestimates how long it should take a postie to complete it.

If a postie tries to explain the discrepancy to management they are typically ignored, because "the computer knows best".

The result is that, more often than not, posties cannot complete their rounds within their contracted hours, meaning they either bring a load of mail back to the office, or don't even take it out with them in the first place.

This explains why you don't get a daily delivery Monday to Saturday, even though Royal Mail is required by an Act of Parliament to provide one."

Mmm... where have we heard 'computer knows best', not far from Royal Mail in fact...?

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By *owhangingfruitMan
16 hours ago

Slough


"

This explains why you don't get a daily delivery Monday to Saturday, even though Royal Mail is required by an Act of Parliament to provide one."

We do get a daily delivery and generally round the same time every day. I have no complaints about Royal Mail but other courier companies are all hit and miss.

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By *ammy57Man
16 hours ago

Stevenage


"Just seen royal mail van delivering parcels (Sunday)

I didn't know they delivered on Sundays "

They have been forced to subcontract with Evri?

Or sold vans and they haven't been repainted?

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By *i-bottom83Man
15 hours ago

concord

They're all hit and miss. But when you think about the volume of parcels being shipped all over the country...it's a small miracle anything gets where it needs to.

I work for a well known parcel company. We have ten drivers covering roughly 50 postcodes, with around 1500 parcels a day. And we're a small setup.

Multiply that by all the different companies....the numbers soon get mind boggling.

It's totally unavoidable that packages go walkies. No system is perfect.

The drivers though...that's another argument entirely lol...I've seen it all!!

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By *iggreenockMan
15 hours ago

Greenock


"I've been expecting a delivery. It hasn't arrived. Guess I'm one of many in this situation.

Since most of us use email now, fewer letters are sent. Royal Mail then have to increase prices to cover costs. This in turn leads to fewer people using the service, so they have to increase prices again. And so on, and so on.

Difficult to see how they can get out of this hole, especially with unions who still think it's the 1970's!"

Wtf?

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By *appylondonMan
15 hours ago

West London

The Royal Mail, by law, has to deliver letters anywhere in the UK for the same price. When they opened mail delivery up to competition and privatised it a the same time, all the new competitors were not obliged to do that. So Royal Mail is increasingly stuck with having to deliver to mail to the expensive places, such as the outer Hebrides, while all the new comers cherry pick the easier places where RM made up for the cost of the more expensive deliveries. That’s what will bankrupt them. Everything else is minor in comparison.

Thank the Tories and Lib Dems for that one, especially Vince Cable who was business secretary at the time and was saying on the news universal service wouldn’t be a problem.

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By *anmannersMan
7 hours ago

Notts

It's getting worse.

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By *atchmo_Jizz!Man
7 hours ago

Wolverhampton

One of my mates has been a postman for over 30 years so he’s seen a few changes!

They now prioritise the delivery of parcels over letters because there’s more money in that. They also have to deliver leaflets and other junk, again because there’s money in it.

I remember the days that every district had a local sorting office and there were two deliveries a day. That system seemed to work well but with everything being centralised into major distribution centres the service that they provide to their customers has got worse.

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By *optobottomrctMan
7 hours ago

Penygraig

Terrible service now . I paid for redirection when I moved and the local sorting office just sat on letters for weeks then delivered them all together. Almost missed hospital appointment because of it.

Then they claim to have delivered a parcel and so called proof of delivery was a photo of the address label????

But I guess RM must now be rubbish mail

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By *kvanmanMan
6 hours ago

andover

The priced themselves out of business

I run a company and we would send all our invoices quotes statements by royal mail

We even had a franking machine due to sheer numbers of daily postage

But they kept putting up the prices and delivery was no longer reliable

I remember we would get a stern telling off if the post we send had yesterdays date

Then they introduced that large letter system to make more money yes more aggro for us now £1.70 per letter.

we switched to email only everything is done via email their loss

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By *ennthebigMan
6 hours ago

Erdington

They’ve supposedly been trying to deliver my parcel over and over, ignoring my recovery request for a week four Saturday. I question them, they say they delivered it. I said no you didn’t because you told me to reschedule. They ‘retry’ several time, now they say they’ve lost it. Try to offer me compensation over the phone and want me to install a random app I’ve never heard of to accept the payment. I politely told them to fuck off

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By *IPMANMan
5 hours ago

LONDON

My local main post office was closed down years ago and turned into restaurants/wine bars

The PO was moved into W H Smith, utter disaster, rude arrogant staff from day one

Then W H Smith closed their store ( no loss there ) and the PO went too.

Fuck em...who needs it

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