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Brendyboy recently posted that RM had won contracts with "body shop TK maxx jd sports to name a few plus that inpost".
I will take this information as true and I have no idea what volume of parcels/packets that are involved here but I'm willing to bet that they have signed up to the belief that their goods will be delivered within the contract specifications and as the UK operation is currently struggling to deliver to specification then these companies could be clawing back rebates? On the plus side there is the January returns market to take into consideration which could be a bonus.
To get the SP on an upwards trajectory the UK operation needs to be doing the basics correctly. Delivery to specification at a reasonable price? Is that really too much to ask?
Mike, "and no other postal service has such an onerous obligation to deliver 6 days a week to every address for the same price, most others deliver no more than 3 days a week".
Given the above information, would the latest quality of service results have exceeded the targets set out below by OFCOM under a three day USO?
Obviously we will never know but it would be interesting to see if anyone has crunched the numbers on this?
Our rules require Royal Mail to meet specified quality of service performance targets in the provision of universal service products. Among other targets, Royal Mail must:
Complete 99.9% of delivery routes on each day that a delivery is required;
Deliver 93% of First Class mail within one working day of collection;
Deliver 98.5% of Second Class mail within three working days of collection;
and in respect of stamped and metered mail, deliver 91.5% of First Class products within one working day in each postcode area of the UK (apart from three excluded postcode areas).
Christmas Pressure 2023 is going to be a difficult one to call in my opinion. Will the public post early to avoid any potential delays? Will they post as much as last year due to the cost of living crisis and increased postage costs?
I guess that we won't have a decent picture regarding volumes until mid December but what I do know is that my local mail centre hired an outbuilding at the beginning of November but has yet to make use of it. Perhaps the volume will pick up this weekend?
going to be a
Redceo, "I am assuming fines received by Ofcom end up in the treasury coffers, nice little earner?"
I have no idea where the fines go but I would imagine that they work their way back to the Treasury?
Before privatisation, the UK Government used to skim the profits from RM as it was a Government agency so it's probably a win win for them either way?
Cash if you own the company and cash if you regulate the company...... kerchinggggg.....
Given the recent problems with parcel delivery recently I thought that it would be a good idea to get some items ordered and delivered early for the festive season and also a couple of December birtdays. The past four weeks have been busy however what is noticeable is that Evri and Yodel have been very good with all items being delivered on time as per tracking. UPS even managed the impossible by delivering an item at 1pm which was ordered at 8:29pm the previous evening.
Our local postie of several years is very good and has been around six days a week with his sidekick who has also been delivering on Sundays but the issue seems to be that almost all of the T24 and T48 items are already failed and several days late when they arrive at my local delivery office in most instances. As for letters....they arrive whenever they arrive..... except for Moonpig which arrive within 48 hours?
The issue doesn't appear to be local staff absenteeism (as verified by the postie) so I suspect that the issue lies with the large parcel offices and/or super hubs not having suitable capacity and/or staffing problems?
I have been reliably informed that Evri and Yodel only have basic parcel conveyors and I realise that they don't deal with the same volume of parcels as RM but how are they able to provide a better service than a company who has mail centres and super hubs bristling with technology and multi selection parcel machines?
This really needs to improve or the Q3 Quality of Service figures could be worse than the Q2 figures.
Redceo, Rural, I may have the wrong end of the stick here but my understanding was that the AngerSharkz account was deleted and all posts removed except for the last one on the grounds that another forum user was trying to obtain personal details from lse after several particularly nasty posts were made, hence the "all tracks covered" comment from myself?
I have never filtered anyone on here but it might be the best option going forward. I don't mind having a decent disagreement with others on here or even being put straight on a fact or two (as Redceo will attest 😉) but when the vindictive name calling starts it's time to filter.
AngerSharkz, typical of you to turn the conversation around to something else in order to deflect?
I posted "come come TMS, you of all people with YOUR massive interlect will know that every post that we make, whether on here or elsewhere on the internet is stored across various servers?’
What I didn't post was that I knew how to find this information however I'm pretty sure that someone with the right skills could.....
You're quite correct that I won't be wasting my time looking for your old posts tonight as I'm going for a pint with my mates.....the ones that I have known since school.
Do you have any friends? I doubt it.
Cheers.......
TMS, "Redceo - What else have you got saved on your personal devices?"
Come come TMS, you of all people with your massive interlect will know that every post that we make, whether on here or elsewhere on the internet is stored across various servers? Even when you think that you have deleted things they are still lurking somewhere.....
TMS, .....a person in their "thirties" spending all day on this forum and taking the time to message us coffin dodgers while you rake in your millions......lol
Presumably you tell your "significant other" about your charity work?....... lololol
By the way, anyone over fifty will tell you that they spent a couple of decades "in their thirties"..... lololol
TMS, "and no, I won’t be having children, we made that decision a long time ago. Lol".
That's definitely a good thing for the human race.
When you say "we" presumably you mean you and your invisible friend?.....lololol
A contributing factor to increased volumes this week?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-67512859.amp
Ispy, we've been here before? I seem to remember some posters on here virtually cumming in their pants because they thought that Daniel was going to buy them out at £5++ a share but he let them down. The chance is about as fat as the accounts of TMS....... lololol
"Tomorrow morning I’ll get up whenever I want to."
So you're pulling a sickie tomorrow?
"I’m in my 30’s and got some fat accounts that will keep me ticking over nicely for the foreseeable thanks for your concern though grandad".....does the DWP know about these? I'm concerned that they might stop your benefits..... lololol
Oh, I see....you were arguing against Stalin? To be honest, I couldn't be bothered to read all the shyte you were posting about that and got bored after the first couple of posts. So tell me, who was arguing in favour of Hitler as he tried to defeat Stalin but failed miserably?