Royal Mail wants to keep first class deliveries on six days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68721814
by Glanza
Royal Mail wants to keep first class deliveries on six days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68721814
by Glanza
22 comments
I’d be happy for it to be five days only.
Just make it reliable and affordable on those five days.
They seem to just save up all our mail for the 5 days and deliver it all on the 6th – is that maybe what they mean? 🙂
Paying shareholder dividends while reducing services, that’s the Post Office that I want to see.
Royal Mail needs to simplify across the board.
I work at a small business and we use Royal Mail and the amount of product codes I have access to has gotta be at least 100. Out of those we use about four. FOUR!
Keep parcels at six days but letters can be cut to five. The type of letters you get these days you probably can’t do a lot with on a weekend anyway, so having it delivered during the working week probably won’t make much difference.
The service is terrible at the moment due to staff shortages. Just stop selling 2nd class stamps and end this ridiculous hangover from the past.
😒 they keep losing my letters, had a letter from the NHS saying I didn’t respond to the letter so I no longer need treatment lol. Didn’t even get the bloody appointment letter 😤
As a Postman, this idea is laughable. They think someone can drive around just doing first class letters, tracked parcels, collections and specials on the day the second class isn’t getting done. That would take nearly as much time as doing the whole thing anyway.
How about they actually deliver Special Delivery by the next day and T24 within 24 hours.
Also, T24 is the only service delivered on Sundays, while the more expensive Special Delivery isn’t. Even if you pay extra for Saturday Guaranteed and it doesn’t come you have to wait til Monday when you will be at work and not in to sign for it.
Makes no sense.
Royal Mail will not reduce their deliveries, they need to keep stuffing letterboxes full of junk mail.
Privatisation is a scam, shittier services for more money, just need to look at Water
The post office loses money on mail and makes on packages, of course, the privately run business wants to drop mail standards, and it should no longer be called the ‘Royal Mail’ it’s not that anymore
Royal mail should change their name now that they are a private company.
Like the many other problems in the UK, this situation can’t be fixed.
People chose it by voting for it or not getting off the sofa and protesting when privatization happened or thinking that they’d benefit at everyone else’s expense. They stood by and did zero as greedy Boomer shareholders, foreign investors, and executives stripped the company bare. They voted for it to keep happening.
Now the service is in such chaos that there’s no way to fix it. The shareholders and executives aren’t going to give up their unearned windfalls. No government (Tory or Labour) is going to upset the apple cart by getting tough. The only thing that can even keep some kind of service running is to force customers to pay more. People will stop using use second class (meaning that more people will abandon Royal Mail).
I have tried to send a parcel to friends in Edinburgh three times now. The first time I sent it second class untracked and it didn’t show up. I bought the item again and sent it tracked and again it didn’t show up. I lodged a claim around a month ago and haven’t heard back. Then last Thursday, I bought the item a third time and tried sending it through DPD via the post office. That has turned into a nightmare.
The post office employee wrote my address as the recipient’s address. When I pointed it out, he hand-wrote a label and stuck it over the incorrect address but didn’t change it in the computer system. The parcel came back to me but was never delivered. The deliveryman saw that the address that was written on the package was different from the one in his system and took the parcel away. I haven’t been able to contact anyone at DPD because they make it impossible and the people at the post office (the main post office in a major city) told me they have never been trained on DPD and have no way to contact a manager or anyone else. So the parcel is at a DPD depot and I can’t get it back. There’s no other option for sending anything unless I want to take a train trip.
The news has been full of Post Office and Royal Mail horror stories. And water company horror stories. And school building/hospital safety horror stories. And on and on. Nothing is being done, no one does anything other than whinge a bit online. Things are completely fucked in the UK.
Always says letters have plummeted but that is 100% a lie.
They’ve never been busier.
Ha ha ha, Britons love privitisation, even when it bites them!
Do it to the NHS, then cry forever, LOL
Royal Mail are using vans for hire in my area because they don’t want buy their own. They are not interested in delivery times or lowering prices, they just want to maximise shareholder dividends.
I’m sure every service in this country is worse than it used to be! Imagine we actually have to pay more for a worse service 🤦♂️
Royal Mail doesn’t want to keep first class deliveries on six days. Royal Mail has been told it needs to keep the Universal Service so want to downgrade the service to only delivering 1st Class letters on a Saturday(no 2nd Class, Mail Sort or Downstream Access items) so they can use the work hours saved to deliver packages.
I don’t understand the logic of having 1st and 2nd class processes. Don’t they all run through the same physical channels? How is it that 1st is prioritised and why can’t the 2nd class go at the same speed?
Royal snail. Be lucky if it turns up within 6 weeks.
RM is a joke- 1st class used to mean next day delivery now I can take anytime. Disgrace
I think they should avoid any reference to a first class delivery and concentrate on just delivering some form of consistent service.