Ofcom is to outline options for reforming Royal Mail’s service obligations, potentially paving the way for the abolition of Saturday postal deliveries.
The regulator is set to publish a consultation paper on reforming the Universal Service Obligation – and reducing the six-day delivery commitment to five days, along with increasing stamp prices, could be on the cards.
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The Tories have fucked the Country.
This is a direct hit on the public and now they have been caught lying in the Post sub-Master enquiry they will be paying 100s of millions in compensation and Fujitsu too…,
It just keeps getting shitter
Good just have them delivery during the week no one needs bills and parcels delivered on a Saturday and Sunday anyway
The post office, mailboxes and telephone boxes are a thing of the past. Today, most people probably only use the post office to pick up packages with things bought online.
Special delivery already axes on Saturday
They Don't do it anyway
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Re nationalise
Just shows the post office can get away with everything it's joke and the tories will back it
Just use carrier pigeons or drones
Does ANYTHING actually work in this country after 14 years of tories?
Cannot wait for my local Tory to come knocking on my door, I cannot wait
This would see the decline of national post service and the rise of the private sector
Really says something, when they suggest to increase prices and reduce the service they provide. It seems standards are no longer a thing?
If workers are striking for fair pay, it shouldn't therefore then be passed onto the customers, when they are making huge profits. The service has been dire since it was privatised.
The whole audacity of it being brought up now, after how they have treated their staff speaks a lot. Disgusting.
Privatise the service, cut the service down, raise prices, and get government subsidies to keep it running… It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to see the public have been robbed!
What’s Saturday delivery service?
– 40 year old Canadian
I thought the privatisation of Royal Mail was going to improve everything?
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I remember when we still had two deliveries a day. And now we have just one that turns up late most days with incompetent zombies on the phone, delivering mail to the wrong address. Or maybe we are just incredibly unlucky. And now they want to stop a day altogether, as well as put up the cost of sending mail using their services. Surely it's time we had a new mail service to replace these jokers.
Saturday Post? Canada got rid of it decades ago.
There’s a Saturday post!!?
I understand letters are the choice for Royal Mail, as I don’t know of an alternative but I highly recommend getting a DPD account for anyone who sells via eBay or similar platforms. Surprisingly Evri (formally Hermes) has been a great option too but only for the odd item here and there.
Anyone selling larger volumes of items should really consider a DPD account. They really was fantastic during Christmas period of 2022, when Royal Mail couldn’t handle the volume of parcels they was getting.
Tories have been deliberately destroying and attacking the Post Office, if there is one thing we need and that is the Post Office. Negelect, destroy, sell off and reform. Why do people keep on voting for the Tories for, I don't get it?
Usual braindead government get rid of them
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That’s fine as long as Royal Mail don’t act like idiots banging on doors at 10am Monday to Friday when 90% of household are out during the day.
The reporter should be asking why thousands of staff have left the company ?!!!
My Royal Mail in my area is awful. Parcels lost or late or delivered to the wrong address
"Royal Mail could save up to £650m if it delivered letters just three days a week and £200m by stopping Saturday deliveries, the communications regulator has said." Even better; Royal Mail could take our letters to landfill and save even more.
Lazy lazy people
I thought that Saturday deliveries had been stopped ages ago. We don’t get Saturday deliveries where I live, in fact, we are ‘lucky’ to get a mail delivery once every week, sometimes it’s longer!
There seems to be a tendency to 'resolve' difficulties by reducing services. The post office wants to reduce deliveries. The water companies want not to treat waste water. The train companies axe trains because of a shortage of drivers. Is it a surprise that our economy appears to be stagnating?
Royal Mail are much better than other private delivery services. They should do more of that and focus on customer service
ok they privatised this look how bad things are in the hundreds of years its been here we have never seen it so poorly run nationalise it make it a express delivery service only scrap 2nd class stamps and first class years ago i worked at Securicor omega on parcels we had up to 3 working days delivery and 24 hour delivery use the same systems parcel force use we worked with them took on there deliveries when they went on strike years ago there are too many delivery firms they need a regulator to improve customer service and deliveries
Literally 1984
I get about 2 unsolicited letters a week. Not many people write letters anymore. It's all online. No bank statements, no official letters – all done on line. However I have parcels delivered everyday by various carriers. Times change I'm sorry to say. So dropping Saturday wouldn't affect me at all.
It's always something to grease the wheel of profit over service for the benefit of a handful of the over-resourced few at the expense of EVERYONE else. This bloody country.
It will be a shame to see the last of the posties, however, all the PO does poorly is deliver junk and bills.
Notice that reforms always mean LESS service and upping the payment….