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Why when Saturday's for residential customers are far busier than Monday's which are usually half Saturday's mail? Why not think outside the box and have Monday to Saturday mail for businesses and Tuesday to Saturday for residential customers?

Peak now starts around Black Friday week and continues right the way up to Christmas, this year it also seems to have carried on into early January, as our DPR guy can't cope with the demand and have had to call in back up. Letters are dying though, not sure how the business deals with that issue as they can't extend walks indefinitely.

Why would this cost posties jobs when presently the vast majority of packets/parcels are delivered to customers each day, I'd imagine just 1 or 2% of customers would choose the locker option and, when they do, a postie still has to deliver to the locker.

It's been totally manic in my DO, easily the busiest for packets, today was a bit quieter, probably like a typical Wednesday!!

So what happened to DK's bid was it rejected or withdrawn or is he still bidding and so it's a load of nonsense to suggest RM have joined the bidding war?

According to this article DK personally is making a bid for Packera and IDS are not involved in the bidding war?

https://www.intellinews.com/three-bidders-shortlisted-for-czech-parcels-delivery-company-packeta-290513/?source=slovakia

The Xmas bonus revolves around 95+% of Tracked items being delivered on time that doesn't sound like a business trying to acclimatised customers to a lower level of service, RM are throwing £m's at getting Xmas right this year with increased parcel deliver drivers and additional vans, I can't imagine they are too far off hitting the target for Tracked items which are the vast majority of parcels, Letters, unfortunately, are a different story but so far Xmas cards appear well down on previous years.

"the COM's are the issue" does anybody but OFCOM seriously consider 100's of COM's have gone maverick and that the senior management have no control over what decisions they are making, when they've even now introduced a Xmas incentive scheme based on delivering 95%+ of Tracked items?

But would RM actually cut costs/return to profits if the USO was cut to 5 days a week, as at present we only seem to have sufficient staff to cover 5 days a week so it's unlikely we would save on staff costs at our DO, assuming we still need around 50% staffing levels to deliver Tracked etc parcels on a Saturday. The savings OFCOM identified £150m+ (?) have probably already been saved by staff not being replaced in recent years?

The USO is failing simply due to insufficient staff, I work in a small DO but we have lost around 10% of our staff and only a couple of new starters have been taken on. The office seems now to be set up to work when every member of staff is in and if just one goes off sick their round fails. There seems no issues with the mail getting to the DO, so it's clearly delivering it which is the problem.

I'd imagine a large percentage of tory voters are retired pensioners who appreciate a 6 day mail service, so I can't see agreeing to move it to a 5 day service will be a vote winner at the next election, likewise if Labour win the next election I doubt they'll agree to put 10K to 20K of their typical voters on the dole queue.

More worrying is this just the tip of a very big iceberg, as I doubt just one company found a loop whole in who much RM charged for postage? Perhaps the reason letters seem to be down is not due to customers refusing to pay the high postage charges but down to the fact counterfeit stamps can no longer be used??

GLS are virtually non existent in the UK you've more chance of seeing a hen with teeth than a GLS van/HGV

Or is it just a worrying signs that it's difficult to make money in parcel deliveries, given that this latest move follows on from Tuffnels going belly up? This sounds more like a fire sale than the Barclays looking to get a decent return on their investment.

The pandemic raised it's head at the right time for the union meaning any major changes had to be put to one side until that was out of the way, not really sure why RM gave so much money away to shareholders rather than keep some of it back to fight the union's/bribe the workforce to accept the changes.

What's odd is ST seems to have completely won the battle but had to fall on his sword and as a result seems to be discredited as a CEO., unless he's about to do a Bobby Ewing and now re-appear as the CEO!!

Https://www.cwu.org/ltb/ltb-170-23-hse-notification-of-contravention-letter-royal-mail-north-west-parcels-super-hub-warrington/

Given this was a new state of the heart hub this makes grim reading, let's hope RM have learnt their lessons and rectified the issues at the new hub

Apparently all the issues are now fixed.

2nd class letters can still only increase by CPI and the only reason it's no longer been enforced on parcels is down to the competitive market containing increases, it doesn't seem much of a move to me, it certainly won't allow RM to increase prices above the CPI, unless they want to lose even more parcel business to their competitors

What a load of nonsense, I've found there's usually more customers at home on a Sunday than during the week, if they are out the parcel is either left with a neighbour, who's also more likely to be in, a safe place or re-delivered on the Monday.

At least 3 rounds out of 50 in our DO didn't go out today as the OPG's declined to work their rest day's and we had insufficient reserves to cover the duties, how is that due to anybody being "workshy" ??

I assume tomorrow the duty holders will now have double post to deliver, which hardly sounds "workshy".