A Q, for UK residents:
My postie informed me yesterday that due to cuts & managerial decisions at the local sorting office, I will now only be getting post every other day.... and I wondered how many more of you have been told something similar?
If its widespread I cannot see how the PO will keep to its assurance to OFCOM about next day delivery of first class mail, or is this something that will just be quietly introduced in rural areas?
Thanks in advance for any information
NZ Post brought this in a few years ago, now they are talking about further reductions, and denying delivery to new housing developments.
They are continually making decisions that increase costs and reduce service.
There is significant remaining British colonial control over NZ Post so I guess they were testing the market here.
@ChrisMayLA6 My wife is a postie; she and her DO (Delivery Office) colleagues try to clear the office every day, which means that all mail is taken out for delivery. The current success rate is between 95% & 100% per "walk"; some mail is taken back undelivered (no one to accept/sign, no proof of age, no safe access, etc); delivery of these items will be reattempted the next working day.
If they go to "every other day", the Royal Mail system /will/ collapse. This is failure by design.
Yes, I wonder about the - 'failure by design', that is... does look like it - but it may be also part (locally) of an attempt to make consolidation of two sorting offices the 'solution' to a problem, caused by management
@ChrisMayLA6 Royal Mail owns a considerable amount of land & property in cities & towns all over the UK; my suspicion is that these assets will be sold off to raise cash for the owner(s), to the further detriment of the service.
If we want to keep our national postal service, it must be taken back into public/state ownership; as must utility companies & mass transit services. The NHS too must be reconsolidated before we go any further down the line to the terrible USA model of "pay up or die".
a simple & elegant solution & hence one that is unlikely to be adopted but managers....
I hesitate to abandon using the mail service because then it just gets even worse. And they can argue no one wants or needs it.
One improvement that keeps me using it is the collect from home service. Originally for parcels they now collect my letters too. And with a booked day to collect, the postie also delivers to my street on those days.
If we could all afford to send a letter a day then we'd get daily deliveries!
My daughter lives in East Oxford and they do not get daily deliveries. Here in rural Herefordshire we do, except Sundays
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