Ofcom CEO Dame Melanie Dawes has warned Royal Mail could be allowed to deliver letters just three days per week, under a series of options outlined by the regulator.
Speaking to Sky’s Kay Burley, Dame Melanie said Ofcom’s consultation document was designed to spark a “national debate” on the future of the UK’s postal service.
She added that the number of letters being sent has halved since 2012 and the service risks becoming “unsustainable” if changes are not made.
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But privatisation was supposed to fix all this and make it even better!!!
Looks like the private sector isnt that great after all
A three day week delivery service is better than the zero day week supplied by the unions!
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Last SUmmer when the PO staff were on strike, I recall a Union leader claiming on national TV (GB News ?) that there was a concerted effort to kill off the Royal Mail and have Britain's entire post/parcel business left to the mercy of the free market. I reckon he might have been right…
Weren't we promised that part privitising the Post Office would make everything cheaper and more efficient?
Everything privatised turns to crap… but the rich get richer.
What a joke Ofcom are, it seems to me that they need investigating themselves. They publish a comprehensive report she says and then says that they didn't talk to a postal worker. It is 100% not a comprehensive report and thats a lie. I suspect corruption.
We live in devon. Im lucky if i get mail once a week. Normally once a fortnight. Ive missed important appts. This is disgusting. Royal mail is a joke. How dare they do this, its just to cut costs and give more to shareholders. This woman is a joke. Bet she earns a fortune
Another success of the thatcher era 🙄
Would only make sense if they drop Second Class deliveries or maybe that is the part they are not sharing with us all?
Nobody needs daily royal mail deliveries in the modern age.
14 billion reduced to 7 billion post sent out which is about half. We use to have two post drops a day when we now have one which is half. We have already dealt with this. Difference is though, a couple of examples is that postage is a lot more expensive and we now have large letter stamps when we did not before. Any further cuts are purely for profit.
Another failure of privatization. Only winners are the tory oligarchs
🤷♂️ plenty of alternatives now
What a farce no Saturdays three days a week working only that’s an absolute joke there disgraceful they need to be replaced
get in the bin burley
But where did the 758mil profit royal mail made last year go?
It’s simple re nationalise
Not sure how a 3 day a week delivery would work. If send a letter first class which i thought meant should get a letter next working day I thought that meant the working day of customers and businesses and not working day of the royal mail . We would no longer have a first class post if was a 3 day delivery or maybe royal mail could just move the goalposts and say 2 days is first class and 3 or 4 days days is second class.
public services should never be privatised. it only happens so mp's and their cronies can make more money.
I’ve worked for Royal Mail for 17 years. Every year they tell us mail is down by 7-9%!! If that were the case there wouldn’t be a single letter. Why are our staff still booking overtime because the job can’t be complete on time.
How can ROYAL MAIL deliver 14 billion letters without delay and now can’t deliver 7 billion letters?… just shows privatisation doesn’t work profits for shareholders 😂 lack of investment this woman is lying
Good for them, Fed Ex and DHL are superior in comparison to the royal mail, they need to step up the plate and screw the post office
"These are all things which other countries have started to do.."
Isn't that just a perfectly
scriptedrational excuse for cutting mail delivery days, as if making a justification for a privatised service that is obviously failing and is only getting worse?We're just following the lead of other countries then? WHICH countries? WHY are those countries doing this? What are we doing to avoid having to do this?…No answers.
She's supposed to be the CEO of Ofcom? She's more like a deluded spokeswoman, desperately trying to convince us that everything is fine, while we watch the post office burn down.
What she won't explain is how much she's on the take to gloss over it all, because somebody at Royal Mail is ripping it's privatised guts out and profiteering from it.
Why are it's funds disappearing into the ether when it's staff are flat-out but cut to the bone through 'efficiency' drives, yet delivering a worse service each month? Follow the money.
How out of touch is this woman we get about 2 pr 3 deliveries in my area a week if we are lucky, yet constantly see mail vans dropping parcles off,
They are just trying to compete as a parcel delivery service, its obvious but with an out dated viechel stock lack of drivers it will inevitably fail. Its just another example of things not working for everyone.
I am 38 and i remember to mail deliveries a day, square one sure seems better than things now
My hospital appointment letter has just arrived, the day after the appointment! It had taken 2 weeks to arrive.
They need to IMPROVE service – no wonder there are fewer letters. They dont deliver what are sent !
Why not close it all down and save 100%. !!
We went from two deliveries per day to this joke of a service. If they move to a 3-day service other courier services need to step up to replace Royal Mail.
Once a week is enough :0
Lies in the very first sentence, not one postie consulted, great research. 👏🏼
In my RM office mail is still surprisingly heavy. Most homes I deliver to have mail almost daily and typically 2-5 letters daily. I don't really understand why in this day and age people get so much. That said, a lot of these people probably just chuck this mail straight into the recycling bin as it's mostly marketing materials. I would assume only 5% or less of households actually need or care for daily deliveries. 3 days a week would be perfectly fine, with the option of sending something by special delivery (guaranteed next day) if it's important. I would have thought that anyone sending less important stuff would just make sure it's sent earlier.
Short memories, it was universal service obligation delivered those covid test kits do not be deceived its job cutting exercise post people deliver letters and parcels 6 days a week royal mail a legal obligation deliver 6 days a week they cannot do that has go back into public hands end off privatisation has failed .
I had a letter to post and ,after buying the stamp, was asked if i wanted two types of 'special' or 'guaranteed' deliveries.
I was umder the illusion that the cost of a stamp meant that they would take it to the area, put it in a bag, and a cheery chap would locate the street and number and pop it through the 'letter box'.
I have had stuff put through my letter box, wrong street, wrong number.
Folks, letters written on slivers of wood have been found under roman sites in britain…they got there….yet…here we are…and an employee of the 'royal mail' can't decipher a number on an envelope.
The uk is now a huge asylum crossed with a circus and staffed by halfwitts.
More shareholders trying too destroy royal mail bet she's a shareholder. Hospital letters are now being prioritised like special deliveries too con the public into thinking they aren't prioritising parcels more lies and corruption. Purposely conning the public I'm sure the horizon computers are still in use at royal mail as all figures are manufactured. And yes the regulator needs shut down they don't punish corruption.