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Broch - Great to hear that RM appears to have finally said enough is enough with regards to the anachronistic USO and isn't allowing the regulator or a few Marxist MP's or some workshy militant union members dictate what is the most efficient way to run the business.

Newdealz - So no white collars will ever be felt?... Cos it was them algo's and bots what did it!

I doubt any other stock on the ftse is subject to so much constant manipulation as this one, the interday price movements are just so blatant now and someone is making a hell of a lot of money from it.

I'd love the FCA (or whoever else is responsible) to look into it but I suppose that will never happen.

Oli - "Underutilised" has to be the biggest understatement ever, being a workplace coach is literally money for nothing.

Oh Derek, you really are way out of your depth here aren't you

I thought OFCOM were making encouraging noises regarding a reduction in the USO?... It's just the moronic simpleton that is our Government's latest Business Secretary that's still insisting it must remain in place in its current pointless, inefficient and anachronistic format.

Yes we're used to it now, even a near double digit drop based on no news whatsoever is barely even worth commenting on for us old timers!

It is another worrying example of how badly RM are ran, how on earth can someone commit a £70m fraud against a single company without that company being aware of it?

There can't be many examples of bigger cases of customer fraud against just one company.

Oli - Regarding taking letters with Sunday parcel deliveries... the standalone parcel delivery routes will cover a much bigger area than just one regular letter delivery route, probably 4 or 5 times as big.

It's hardly practical to go checking the letter frames of 4 or 5 rounds to see if each parcel you're taking out has a letter for the same address sat in the frame.

I wouldn't gauge the attitude and opinion of the whole RM workforce based on what you read on RoyalMailChat, the forum is inhabited pretty much exclusively by the most workshy RM employees and most militant CWU members.

Isleworth- I can assure you I am an ex OPG and I left in 2021, I know exactly what siso is as well as PDA actuals.
Are there any other acronyms or abbreviations you'd like to test me out on? PHG? IPS? DOM Support? Schedule Attendance?

I'm just one of the few honest posties who is prepared to admit that the workloads and duty structures are perfectly achievable for anyone with even a modest work ethic.

Isleworth- I only retired 18 months ago not in 1974!
Former colleagues have actually been winding me up about how easy the job has become in the time since I left, mail volumes well down, barely any D2D's, parcels back to pre-pandemic levels, even any strike day backlogs were cleared within a day.

Just the other day I saw my village postie stood leaning on his van chatting to a customer, 30 minutes later when I came past again he was still there, but I suppose you class that as "doing the job properly" and not being a "runner"

Our friend Broch seems to believe the job is going to become even easier still with re-nationalisation, the pointless USO being fervently adhered to and even more staff taken on to comply with it, he has such a heartwarming utopian vision of the future.
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Broch - Awww bless, you really do believe you're going to see a return to the days where you amble around with one or two bags of mail, stopping and chatting to everyone you meet and still be all finished for midmorning sat at home with your feet up whilst getting paid until midafternoon.

Such sweet, child like, wide eyed innocence and naivety is a rare and beautiful thing these days... you cling on to your dream and don't let anyone take it away from you.

Isleworth - I can't tell if you're getting hung up on semantics or are deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying... or you're just a bit thick

Isleworth- Of course I realise that technically the CWU have no official say over the USO just as technically they have no official say what so ever over how any aspect of RM is operated... it doesn't prevent the CWU having a huge influence on how things are done and how successful or not the business operates.

As I've said numerous times the ONLY reason the CWU are so determined to keep the USO in place in its current anachronistic and pointless format is because they want RM to remain a bloated, inefficient, personnel heavy operation so that they don't have a reduction in income from membership subs.

The CWU are not acting in the interests of their members or the business that is their livelihood, if they were they would recognise there is scope for RM to be a leaner, more efficient, more relevant and more profitable operation providing a service that people actually require and demand and ensuring a secure and well paid future for the streamlined workforce.

The recent Voluntary Redundancy preference exercise was MASSIVELY oversubscribed despite reduced payouts on offer, there are tens of thousands of posties would happily take even minimal redundancy payouts if RM were allowed to streamline the operation but the CWU are denying their membership the opportunity to take this, all because of the CWU's greedy self serving stance of wanting RM to remain bloated and inefficient.

Derek - Your estimates are way off there.
As a postie are you really trying to tell us that effectively for every 3 parcels or packets you deliver you also deliver 2 periodical/magazine publications!??
Utter tosh.
My estimate would be I probably delivered ONE periodical/magazine for every 40 or 50 parcels I delivered.
And that's delivering in a rural area that had a high proportion of retirees and OAP's so probably more likely to still have actual printed magazines delivered compared to the general population who more likely opt for online subscriptions

Derek - "The Periodical Publishers Association"... Well they sound decidedly Dickensian, insisting that RM retains a workforce of sufficient size to provide a 6 day delivery service for the outdated, anachronistic and ever more irrelevant and I suspect increasingly unprofitable product that they offer
I wonder what the total revenues for the 'Periodical Publishers Association' are compared to the revenues for the overall parcel delivery market?.. I have a feeling it will be like comparing the revenues generated by the local corner shop with those generated by Tesco.
Perhaps we should have a Select Committee Hearing into why we no longer have Cigarette Girls in the cinemas or Gas Lamp Lighters?

I admit I haven't watched either of these Select Committee hearings but I can only assume these MP's who are so opposed to any reduction in the USO are just left wingers in the pockets of the unions in general, Dave Ward and the CWU in particular.

Anyone with even a vague understanding of the business can clearly see the 6 day letters USO is now an utterly pointless, inefficient and unsustainable anachronism.

****nal- You're spot on about the customers (recipients) getting the wrong impression of their posties... it was always the workshy old timers on cushy rounds that they'd been on for years and who would spend half their duty stood around chatting (and mostly moaning) with customers who were the favourites.
Whilst many of the younger posties, in particular those who didnt have their own set round yet who provided exactly the same level of service including doing little favours where possible but weren't perhaps quite as 'chatty' just seem to get overlooked and unappreciated.