Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
24 December 2010
17:0986364It is now 4.05pm and there has been no post today yet a lot of post is expected.
No snow, no ice, today is Christmas Eve and is not a bank holiday, so what is Royal Mail's excuse today?
What an appalling service they have been providing lately.
They must be privatised soon because as they are now they are hopeless....
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
24 December 2010
17:2186365i have had nothing for a week now.
my only christmas cards bar 2 have been hand delivered.
seems like there must be quite a backlog.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
24 December 2010
17:4086368No post here and I have not seen a mail van around town either. I have to repost a card that came yesterday for someone in Andover, Hampshire.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
24 December 2010
17:5086370Royal Mail van delivered a parcel opposite us this morning at 09.15. No post the last couple of days for us, not even Student Finance England.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
- Posts: 2,096
24 December 2010
17:5986372Quite the opposite experience here. We missed a couple of days in the worst of the snow when nothing much was moving but the postie delivered them the next day, working till dark, and we have had normal deliveries for the last three days.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
24 December 2010
18:3986378As has been said on here it's not about privatisatiuon it's about poor management.
the staff happy to deliver but if your put in a position by a poor manager telling you if you deliver your not covered as per health and safty if you have a fall gives you a bit of a dilema.
we had one post yesterday
none for past 6 days
but hey ho can save up to pay bills longer lol
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
24 December 2010
18:4686384barryw,had post today at 0830 this morning.
up at aycliffe that is.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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24 December 2010
19:0486391couldn't agree more keith, this dogma about privatisation is not the answer.
besides up in scotland the royal mail have been delivering in the worst weather, the private courier companies failed miserably.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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24 December 2010
19:0986392barryw,happy grinchmass,should have gone to the gravile offices like i said,you might have got all your mail there and then.
24 December 2010
19:4286395Staff happy to deliver? I am afraid we do not inhabit the same planet........
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
24 December 2010
19:4586396We had a delievery at 10.30 this morning but nothing yesterday,said they weren't happy because Barry wants to privatise them!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 331
24 December 2010
19:5386399We had a delievery at 10.30 this morning but nothing yesterday,said they weren't happy because Barry wants to privatise them!
LOL, that is funny!!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
24 December 2010
20:0686400We had a delivery today - Folkestone Road, so they have been delivering - maybe all those who didn't get any mail, didn't have any due ?
Roger
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 660
24 December 2010
20:1786403Barry royal mail has to provide a one price service to all addresses in the UK,Unfortunately politicians have encouraged partial privatisation called direct access which means companies can collect company mail deliver the local mail then pump the rest into royal mail to deal with at a price set by the regulator thus losing 5 pence an item.There is no company that can provide the service nationwide at one price. Managers are now all yes men because they have to be. Other companies mail also has to take priority. The only way forward is to stop trying to privatise it through the back door.
beer the food of the gods
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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24 December 2010
23:1386418aint that the truth!!
rather like the british telecom farce prior to privatisation.
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
25 December 2010
01:2386428Only missed one day here in Whitfield even though the pavements are still a hazard. Still thick with ice.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 December 2010
08:4686434I didn't think they were trying to privatise it through the back door; I understood they were standing at the front door and doing it, not hiding that fact by hiding round the back.
Modernisation is what the Royal Mail needs; many other European countries have already done so and are more efficient, by not modernising here, makes it much more expensive, so service is often impacted.
I have the greatest respect for the postie, but sometimes he is led by donkeys (both management and unions).
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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25 December 2010
09:0886437guzzler
for a conservative your last post made great sense
roger
privatsation is not the answer, getting managers in that know what they are doing, and capable of doing so is way forward
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 December 2010
09:2186438Even the Labour government realised the RM needed to be privatised but chickened out in the face of union opposition.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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25 December 2010
12:1486439barryw
no labour were no better on this one
better management yes
privitisation no
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