Royal Mail could be allowed to deliver letters just three days per week, under a series of options outlined by the industry regulator to help the company run a sustainable service, as Sky’s Adele Robinson explains.
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So what’s the problem?
Thatchers privatisation legacy
so they got a pay rise to do less
Would that mean we can't use 1st class stamps? Surely that would mean they lose money?
Royal Mail cancelled Christmas cards and Christmas.Is it a Muslim organisation now? 2:01
The only thing royal mail delivers is bad news and junk mail. This is good 👍
I think Royal Mail account should be thoroughly investigated. How did they make a loss!!!
Another British institution destroyed under a tory government I see
They went the same way as BA, too little, too late😂
Just thinking, has this got anything to do with the P.O scandal?
So no need to pay out!
They are one and the same!
Now even the Post Office is in queer street. The only thing that’s increased under 13 years of Tories, is hatred.
This country absolutely deserves better than a shower of rich people, laser focused on spongeing up any remnants of wealth and asserts the public might have left.
I have a leaflet distribution business. Royal mail deliver like 10 leaflets at a time, all competing with each other. If royal mail cut back deliveries it will be good for others & no loss.
Reduce mail to 3 days a week? Thats half the days gone, so i assume thats half the staff gone as well? Thought we were supposed to be "leveling up".
Postage costs have hugely increased over recent years, yet the service hasn't improved. Customers have no choice. Some urgent letters are a lifeline for many on benefits and who do not have access to online services. Post must remain affordable and accessible.
Who posts letters these days
May I ask if storage of the post mail is a problem of space keeping double numbers of letters for delivery?😂
Besides, the postmen need to do double in one day pay, compared with the past if six days change to three days.
I think one possible suggestion to make delivery more focused is to give discount on a special day with optimal workload, so that the postmen can well manage. Evenly distribute too many workload if it is too many. Push workload together if there is too few in some area.
Can we have it with AI calculation?
Every time they privatise public services, they go to sh1t, as big corporations sift off all the profits for themselves, corrupt robbing b4stards!!
They have been delivering less than 3 days anyways..sometimes don't even see postie for whole week.😒
Also noticed since last year. Looks like they have been hoarding letters and then deliver all at once. Many time receive whole lot of them and then no post till for 10 days.
Yank the mail contract and take it back to a public service funded by taxpayers and serving the people!
Royal Mail are ok but their parcel ‘service’ is the worst out there (by the way I don’t know or care what the difference between Royal-Mail and parcel force is – other than parcel force or whatever they brand their parcel delivery as is crap)
What is next? No delivery, just collections at post offices?
This would be a disaster for my business. I make items for funerals and work to Very Fast Last Minute Turnarounds. This would make it impossible for me to deliver on time for many people and would mean a loss of trade I can not afford. Postage costs have risen hugely over recent years and parcels already often arrive late… If they only deliver 3 days a week and fail do that on time as well, then I would be forced to issue refunds for items I've spent a long time making. Brexshit already screwed me over as I am no longer able to ship seeds to the EU due to being in a different 'control zone' and many of my larger suppliers lost that trade too. More Backwards thinking from our not so Great Britain but a good way to shrink our economy even further. How on Earth did they make a loss when people are sending more parcels than ever before and paying more than ever for the privilege?? How much was paid in bonuses to those at the top and was it worth screwing the county for??
We really are turning into a third world country.
Can't believe that the UK has sunk so low that developing countries have better postal delivery services. Come to South East Asia and see how the local postal organisations still can provide a full postal delivery service.
Totally credible, if the end game was always to run it into the ground, just to force the UK to believe the propaganda of privatisation. We Have NOTHING else to sell off now….
This country is absolutely broken after 14yrs of tory rule.
A three day week is better than a zero day week under the unions!
Royal Mail began to deliver parcels even on Sundays in my area. I see only improvement in theirs services compared they did in the past.
We will be a lot better off when the RM has some real competition.
Instead of cutting back the days what about cutting back the hours? Let's say it is 6am -1pm now, why not change to 6am – 11.30am? That'd be about 33 hours a week instead of 48. A saving of 15 hours a week per worker. Someone else will have to translate that into monetary terms
On the Wirral we have a local mail service called Local Postal Solutions who deliver local business mail and parcels the same and next day and it's far cheaper than Royal Mail. Schools, charities and local businesses are all jumping ship to them. If they expand nationally Royal Mail will lose all its local to local business and that's a massive market share.