I assume they’ll now bring signed for letters to residential addresses in the evening then?
I mean, having no capability to deliver them while people are at work would just be stupidity.
Ah yes so people in my area if they work 9-5 will only be available to collect their stuff from 8-12 on Saturday or hope they can make it to the sorting office at 8am before they go to work or rush their in traffic to get there before they close again at 6 (some days they’re open 8-10am and then again 4-6pm)
I live in a country where mail hasn’t been delivered on *Mondays* since 2014. There was no uproar about it, because everybody saw the logic: most mail is sent by companies, which do not send mail on Saturdays or Sundays, so there’s hardly any point sending mailpersons around on a *Monday*.
This is why I find the plans in the UK to not deliver mail on Saturdays a bit odd.
Stupid EU postal directive allowing the UK government to privatise it. Never should have been allowed. Let it go bust and buy it back for £1.
Remember when Vince cable said privatisation would actually help the 6-day postal service be sustainable in the long term? Then when people pointed out there’s no commitment to it after 2022 he suddenly went quiet.
Who could have predicted that one year after the private company’s obligation to maintain that level of service, they’re trying to get rid of the Saturday post. Not me, I am entirely blindsided by this. It has shaken me to the very core of my neoliberal values. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that incentivising profit above all else is starting to have an impact on Royal Mail’s utility. Luckily I do know better – clearly the 6-day postal service simply a danger to the market and our economy, and I thank the foresight of those clever boffins in office for unloading this huge liability before it was too late.
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I assume they’ll now bring signed for letters to residential addresses in the evening then?
I mean, having no capability to deliver them while people are at work would just be stupidity.
Ah yes so people in my area if they work 9-5 will only be available to collect their stuff from 8-12 on Saturday or hope they can make it to the sorting office at 8am before they go to work or rush their in traffic to get there before they close again at 6 (some days they’re open 8-10am and then again 4-6pm)
I live in a country where mail hasn’t been delivered on *Mondays* since 2014. There was no uproar about it, because everybody saw the logic: most mail is sent by companies, which do not send mail on Saturdays or Sundays, so there’s hardly any point sending mailpersons around on a *Monday*.
This is why I find the plans in the UK to not deliver mail on Saturdays a bit odd.
Stupid EU postal directive allowing the UK government to privatise it. Never should have been allowed. Let it go bust and buy it back for £1.
Remember when Vince cable said privatisation would actually help the 6-day postal service be sustainable in the long term? Then when people pointed out there’s no commitment to it after 2022 he suddenly went quiet.
Who could have predicted that one year after the private company’s obligation to maintain that level of service, they’re trying to get rid of the Saturday post. Not me, I am entirely blindsided by this. It has shaken me to the very core of my neoliberal values. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that incentivising profit above all else is starting to have an impact on Royal Mail’s utility. Luckily I do know better – clearly the 6-day postal service simply a danger to the market and our economy, and I thank the foresight of those clever boffins in office for unloading this huge liability before it was too late.