Post office closures UK

Linton · 10-04-07, 07:07 AM

The postal strike is not going to encourage the UK public to send anything by Royal Mail!

Letum · 10-04-07, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Linton

The postal strike is not going to encourage the UK public to send anything by Royal Mail!

The PO has asked people not to post anything over the strike period to avoid backlogs.

They process so many letters, so quickly that when the system stops, the backlogs
quickly get massive. Every time there is a backlog, the PO gets fines, even when there
is a strike. No doubt they are under a lot of pressure from the union.

On the whole the PO doesn't mind too much if the public don't send letters anyway. Public
letters are very much a low profit area for the PO, which is why they have almost no
competition for public letters.

STEED · 10-04-07, 12:10 PM

Thanks a bunch postal workers for going on strike when I got something bloody important in the post which I need, now I have to waste money on a reorder and have them delivered from someone else. You better have a good reason for this strike or I am going to blow a fuse.

bigboywooly · 10-04-07, 01:28 PM

The 2500 PO closures are at the Governments order
The Royal Mail wanted to close 6000

As Letum stated the PO is in decline
No more Giro payments - all made into banks as are Pensions
Car Tax avaialble online
Those above knocked a big dent on Post Office counters turnover

No need for all the POs
You can buy your stamps and packaging anywhere these days

I work in the Swindon warehouse
The only one RM has left - used to have loads all over the UK

We supply the Post Offices direct so will face a downturn in work also
Early retirements already being offered

Plus it doesnt help the RM is capped by the regulators and FORCED to take mail from its competitors - the ones who took all the lucrative business work from the Royal Mail when the monopoly was ended - at a fixed rate for RM to deliver

Doesnt take a genius to work out if you lose all the big money contracts then are forced to deliver those for your competitors it stinks

Meh

The Munster · 10-04-07, 02:40 PM

Well, whichever way you look at it, it's a shame that services such as Royal Mail are negatively affected by competition and it's reached this point

Traditions of our British Heritage are gradually eroding due to money and that is a shame as well.

@BBW, I sincerely hope your job isn't affected either in the short or the long time and all this is resolved and brought to a satisfactory conclusion.

bigboywooly · 10-04-07, 02:55 PM

Thanx KM

It is for the moment
Though by 2009 I believe the warehouse will be no more - is already half the size it was when I started
Thats when the lease is up
And when the new Regional Delivery Centre right next door will be open - They are extending the current mail centre next door into an RDC and closing down the same at Oxford and Reading
Prime building land

= big bucks

Plus by 2009 there will be very few PO left open to supply
The crown offices are already being merged into WHSmiths with the alterations to WHSmiths stores being paid for by RM

Tis a shame
Royal Mail is obligated to deliver to EVERY house in the UK and losses money on the delivery side
Partly due to having to deliver the competitors mail also

Years of Government cash syphoning ( when RM was a civil service ) has left it backward in terms of technology
Instead of re investing the government just used the cash for other stuff

Opening it up to competition has just shown how poor it was in being able to compete

Usual story

Letum · 10-05-07, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

I work in the Swindon warehouse
The only one RM has left - used to have loads all over the UK

Im at the York sorting office.

STEED · 10-12-07, 03:28 PM

Next weeks strike has been......................

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2647481.ece

10-04-07, 07:07 AM	#1
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STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Thanks a bunch postal workers for going on strike when I got something bloody important in the post which I need, now I have to waste money on a reorder and have them delivered from someone else. You better have a good reason for this strike or I am going to blow a fuse. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

10-04-07, 01:28 PM	#4
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	The 2500 PO closures are at the Governments order The Royal Mail wanted to close 6000 As Letum stated the PO is in decline No more Giro payments - all made into banks as are Pensions Car Tax avaialble online Those above knocked a big dent on Post Office counters turnover No need for all the POs You can buy your stamps and packaging anywhere these days I work in the Swindon warehouse The only one RM has left - used to have loads all over the UK We supply the Post Offices direct so will face a downturn in work also Early retirements already being offered Plus it doesnt help the RM is capped by the regulators and FORCED to take mail from its competitors - the ones who took all the lucrative business work from the Royal Mail when the monopoly was ended - at a fixed rate for RM to deliver Doesnt take a genius to work out if you lose all the big money contracts then are forced to deliver those for your competitors it stinks Meh __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

10-04-07, 02:40 PM	#5
The Munster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Deepest Dumbria Posts: 1,243 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Well, whichever way you look at it, it's a shame that services such as Royal Mail are negatively affected by competition and it's reached this point Traditions of our British Heritage are gradually eroding due to money and that is a shame as well. @BBW, I sincerely hope your job isn't affected either in the short or the long time and all this is resolved and brought to a satisfactory conclusion. __________________ *GWX Team Member; Retired* GWX Home Page

10-04-07, 02:55 PM	#6
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Thanx KM It is for the moment Though by 2009 I believe the warehouse will be no more - is already half the size it was when I started Thats when the lease is up And when the new Regional Delivery Centre right next door will be open - They are extending the current mail centre next door into an RDC and closing down the same at Oxford and Reading Prime building land = big bucks Plus by 2009 there will be very few PO left open to supply The crown offices are already being merged into WHSmiths with the alterations to WHSmiths stores being paid for by RM Tis a shame Royal Mail is obligated to deliver to EVERY house in the UK and losses money on the delivery side Partly due to having to deliver the competitors mail also Years of Government cash syphoning ( when RM was a civil service ) has left it backward in terms of technology Instead of re investing the government just used the cash for other stuff Opening it up to competition has just shown how poor it was in being able to compete Usual story __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

10-12-07, 03:28 PM	#8
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Next weeks strike has been...................... http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article2647481.ece __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!