How do you Fix the Post Service?

[London Calling]

How do you fix the postal service.

Since all deliveries by Royal Mail seemed to be within our working hours. Ms LC had to take the morning off this morning to pick up two letters/parcels that the delivers could not fit through our reasonably large letter box.

We waited 72 hours - just in case - and took the two mile walk to our Local Sorting Office.


After queuing for 20 minutes, she was told that one of the parcels had been lost!!

Where? We don't know!

After a pause, they starting to blame the local Post Offices, "They have failed to pass it on etc".

Ms LC stated, what has this got to do with the Post Offices, returns come straight here". "Not if we Closed".

"So which Post Office, will have it?"

"We don't know, that's up to the deliver".

"Can you find out?"

"He is not in yet"

"Shouldn't he be posting letters?"

"errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Yes".

"How do I track my parcel down?"


"Speak to the Manager."

REPETITION APPARENTLY FOLLOWED >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Never ever had a problem with the North Road Sorting Office. It looks scabby as hell, like it's not had a lick of paint in twenty years, which it probably hasn't, but the service is prompt and efficient.

As to how to fix the Post Service? Well closing down the Post Offices is about a rubbish a thing to do as closing down all the local railway lines in the sixties. It's just criminal vandalism by any other name.

Quadrupling the charges for the junk mail senders, most of whom are financial institutions with money to burn, would be a start to fixing it.

 

[John Byrne]

Things will be getting a lot worse guys...more strikes, later deliveries (2 hours at least)

Royal mail need to reduce there work force so they can sell the company. This is why the Posties are striking because they are taking away our morning allowance and trying to get us to do more work for FREE! E.g Covering sickness for free and delivering 3 more leaflets a week for free and cutting out the morning allowance.

The companys a joke....

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Things will be getting a lot worse guys...more strikes, later deliveries (2 hours at least)

Royal mail need to reduce there work force so they can sell the company. This is why the Posties are striking because they are taking away our morning allowance and trying to get us to do more work for FREE! E.g Covering sickness for free and delivering 3 more leaflets a week for free and cutting out the morning allowance.

The companys a joke....

More power to the posties

 

[bhaexpress]

Love it, yet another British institution gets slagged off because it's not perfect. Like it or not the British Post Office is not only the original one but also the best in the world. Anyone who has lived abroad would agree with that. The US Mail is tragic compared to ours and frankly Fedex, UPS and DHL don't justify their costs as far as I'm concerned.

Sure The Post Office are not perfect but how do you motivate people who go out in all weathers and start work at a time many of us are asleep and who get shit wages that most of us wouldn't want to think about let alone accept.

You want to fix it charge a bit more.

 

[Starry]

Things will be getting a lot worse guys...more strikes, later deliveries (2 hours at least)

Royal mail need to reduce there work force so they can sell the company. This is why the Posties are striking because they are taking away our morning allowance and trying to get us to do more work for FREE! E.g Covering sickness for free and delivering 3 more leaflets a week for free and cutting out the morning allowance.

The companys a joke....

good for you. can't find the thumbs up smilie but it would be here if i could find it.

by the way, if we had a two hour later delivery it would tomorrow. i would just about have a heart attack if our postie wandered around here before about 3pm of an afternoon.

tell me about this leaflet thing though - do you get a fee for every leaflet you drop through a door? this grumpy old man who lives in our village has a "no junk" sign, now i don't know if that is legally binding or not or if a postie can chuck the leaflet through the letterbox regardless. but our postman, while being late and as slow as a snail, is a nice enough guy and does as is requested by this grumpy (think walking stick waving on his front door step type) guy and doesn't drop a leaflet. so does postie lose money if we all said no or can he do it anyway.

btw this grumpy guy saved up all his junk mail and put it back in the posties van not so long ago and gave him a gobful of abuse along with it.

paddy

 

[John Byrne]

What you're saying is correct but Royal Mail don't care about its work force or the average customer. All they care about is big business contracts and reducing costs...On the 13th August Royal Mail intend to bring in the 6.30am start rather than the 5am we currently have. I bet not one customer has been notified that their delivery of mail will be 2 hours later than usual.

 

[John Byrne]

We get 3 leaflets a week to deliver and we get paid £20 a week b4 tax....rubbish. They now want us to do 6 leaflets a week and not get any extra cash for the additional 3 leaflets. If you opt out of door to door (leaflets) then the postie will lose money but to be honest i wish we didn't have them at all.

Royal mail also want to get all posties to cover there sick work mate for FREE no overtime (or sick pay if your off) and change our start times which will mean we lose our early morning allowance.

Add on top of this the damage it will do to the average customer who is receiving their mail later.

 

[Starry]

how would someone opt out of door to door? just the sign on the door or something at the actual post office.

sounds bad all round really. but given that my good pal al leighton had his grubby mitts on the post office for a while there i am not at all surprised.

is the august 13th a definite thing? or could they stil change their minds. that is pretty crappy not to let people know what is going on.

paddy

 

[John Byrne]

We were told tuesday about August 13th...so who knows what will happen. The strike is set for the Friday 29th June....see what that does.

All these problems come from the top bods....Al Leighton & Crosier (the old FA bloke)

You can opt out of door to door by writing to the delivery office who delivers your mail.

 

[Robot Chicken]

What the Royal Mail needs is real competition.

Found this from 2005 on the BBC website

So we won't be seeing rival pillar boxes on street corners?
Maybe in the future, but certainly not in January.

Only two countries have so far liberalised their postal markets - New Zealand five years ago and Sweden 12 years ago.

As Ian Senior explains, both still have their original postal services which supply at least 90% of the mail.

And while rival firms could set up entirely new postal networks, such a costly move is highly unlikely in the first few years of deregulation.

What companies could muscle in on the market?
Holland's TPG, owner of TNT Mail, has expressed an interest as has Germany's Deutsche Post - whose courier arm DHL currently operates in the UK.

However, postal union CWU has expressed fears that the most lucrative parts of Royal Mail's market could be cherry-picked.

For example, UK Mail already holds licences to collect from business customers in large conurbations like London, Birmingham and Manchester.

Meanwhile, in opening up the market the UK will become the first European country after Sweden to eliminate its postal monopoly.

However, while that means La Poste from France or Deutsche Post will be able to operate in the UK - Royal Mail will be unable to operate in their markets.

 

[acrossthepond]

Sell it to UPS....

 

[Starry]

We were told tuesday about August 13th...so who knows what will happen. The strike is set for the Friday 29th June....see what that does.

All these problems come from the top bods....Al Leighton & Crosier (the old FA bloke)

You can opt out of door to door by writing to the delivery office who delivers your mail.

well i hope everything works out ok for you.

mr leighton is not held in high regard by those financially involved with leeds. he did some very dodgy deals to keep his name out of the 'blame' stuff with ridsdale etc. he was at the cva meeting a few weeks ago and ended up leaving for his own safety.

 

[John Byrne]

Cheers Paddy...i hope so too mate.