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| | | Author: | Stuart9  | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2024 12:01 | | Subject: | Royal Mail | | Viewed: | 82 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Due to pressures on their delivery system, not enough mail, they are looking
at becoming a third rate service.
Nothing decided but toying with the idea of only three deliveries per week, seriously
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Probably proposing three days so that when they reduce it by one day it looks
like a good compromise, mind games as usual.
For those older like myself, remember when we had two deliveries a day ?
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| | | | | Author: | infinibrix | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2024 12:25 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail | | Viewed: | 40 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Due to pressures on their delivery system, not enough mail, they are looking
at becoming a third rate service.
Nothing decided but toying with the idea of only three deliveries per week, seriously
!
Probably proposing three days so that when they reduce it by one day it looks
like a good compromise, mind games as usual.
For those older like myself, remember when we had two deliveries a day ?
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Yes and mentions of only one service with 1st and 2nd being merged into one!
In fact after a recent conversations with two of my regular posties they both
recommended that even as of right now not to even bother with first class as
there is currently minimal if any difference between the handling times of 1st
and 2nd compared to what there once was!
If you think about it the delivery of 1st class is meant to take priority over
any 2nd class post particularly when things are busy yet if the numbers of Letters
are down so much there cannot be much need for any prioritization!?
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jan 28, 2024 13:26 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Due to pressures on their delivery system, not enough mail, they are looking
at becoming a third rate service.
Nothing decided but toying with the idea of only three deliveries per week, seriously
!
Probably proposing three days so that when they reduce it by one day it looks
like a good compromise, mind games as usual.
For those older like myself, remember when we had two deliveries a day ?
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For letters, I don't think it matters too much. I rarely get any and those
i do get are rarely time sensitive. If doing 3 deliveries a week guaranteed that
everywhere would get 3 deliveries a week then it would be OK. In my area, we
currently have posties six days a week. But my dad's area, it seems to be
just 1-2 deliveries.
For parcels, they need to compete with the courier companies so presumably they'd
still do 6 days a week.
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| | | | | Author: | Thomaswt | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 04:59 | | Subject: | Re: Royal Mail | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Stuart9 writes:
| | Due to pressures on their delivery system, not enough mail, they are looking
at becoming a third rate service.
Nothing decided but toying with the idea of only three deliveries per week, seriously
!
Probably proposing three days so that when they reduce it by one day it looks
like a good compromise, mind games as usual.
For those older like myself, remember when we had two deliveries a day ?
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3 deliveries per week ? That would be nice. PostNord (Danish post) changed to
1 delivery per week some years ago, and some years before, they merged 1st and
2nd service. Now, we pay for 1st service and receive 2nd service, compared to
the service they used to provide before the changes.
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