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Better than the Chinese or Russians but still not ideal!
Do we even have much british owned these days? it seems everything gets to a size and then get bought for foreign companies, is it just greed? ARM for example, their chips are in everything then got sold to Softbank
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My partner is a postie for RM. 10+ yrs ago it was a great local job with good working conditions, team spirit and effective low level management. People took pride in their work and looked after their kit.
Slowly, and now more quickly, it's been hollowed out. Underfunded, understaffed and hamstrung branch managers force the team to prioritise the most valuable deliveries and delays the rest. It's no longer a job with pride and a team effort to deliver a good service to the local population. Vans are wrecks that no one cares about. Many are just hire vans.
However, our office has just been allowed a few new hirings. Long overdue but maybe there is a bit more investment floating around.
Slowly, and now more quickly, it's been hollowed out. Underfunded, understaffed and hamstrung branch managers force the team to prioritise the most valuable deliveries and delays the rest. It's no longer a job with pride and a team effort to deliver a good service to the local population. Vans are wrecks that no one cares about. Many are just hire vans.
However, our office has just been allowed a few new hirings. Long overdue but maybe there is a bit more investment floating around.
I noticed over Christmas that RM vans were rentals from Practical, I assumed it was just because demand was much higher over the period
The only post we ever get are letters from the hospital for the Mrs, and stuff from the tax man, both of which could quite easily be dealt with through e mail.
I dont know what everyone else is getting post wise. but I'd be quite happy for them to hang on to the letters and deliver it with the parcels, or once a week.
In fact I'd rather have a once a week post delivery if they could actually garuntee that they would actually stick to that.
I dont know what everyone else is getting post wise. but I'd be quite happy for them to hang on to the letters and deliver it with the parcels, or once a week.
In fact I'd rather have a once a week post delivery if they could actually garuntee that they would actually stick to that.
At least 2 fully loaded cargo planes coming into Prestwick airport every day from China with Temu and Ali-X. Prestwick setup a dedicated freight handling facility to deal with the increase in small goods from China. They went from almost zero Chinese incoming freight to 3 different carriers and being one of the busiest in the UK in the space of a year. Created over 200 additional jobs to deal with it all.
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We have good and bad service from all couriers.
Used to know our postie by name. Nice old guy.
When he retired our post started to arrive much earlier (we were near the end of the round), usually before midday. New guy said the old guy used to string it out and spend half the day chatting to people, having a drink even meals. Claimed overtime most days.
A couple of years later and definitely only get post every few days now.
Used to know our postie by name. Nice old guy.
When he retired our post started to arrive much earlier (we were near the end of the round), usually before midday. New guy said the old guy used to string it out and spend half the day chatting to people, having a drink even meals. Claimed overtime most days.
A couple of years later and definitely only get post every few days now.
Gareth J
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One of the worst things for RM is that they've a universal service obligation, so are obliged to post a letter/package to North Uist for the same cost as one to Reading. Yet they have to complete with others that do not. As far as I'm aware, despite this unfair obligation agreed to when privatised, they don't get extra cash for this uncompetitive ball and chain.
Dont shoot the posties, they may have been told to do so. Branch managers the same from higher up and so on. Do call the local office and complain though, if whoever is deciding this is ok can do so without complaints, it'll only happen more.
Potentially posties that are too pushed to meet the delivery targets of signed for items are scanning them as attempted so it looks like they're meeting the targets.
Dont shoot the posties, they may have been told to do so. Branch managers the same from higher up and so on. Do call the local office and complain though, if whoever is deciding this is ok can do so without complaints, it'll only happen more.
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No intention of shooting the posties, or complaining to be honest, just an observation.
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This is the very statement which has the far north of Scotland in uproar, courier companies do just that, royal mail do not discriminate against location, obviously it depends where the mail is getting sent from, the logistics are in place anyay.
IIRC RM often end up as the final link in the chain for the private companies. It's RM that delivers to the door, but this is always in the remote and difficult areas, and they're not getting the required payment for it.
Nothing is really British anymore unless it's a small company, still find it ridiculous that jaguarlandrover got a government bailout after the cyber attack that almost crippled them... When they outsourced the IT security to themselves in India!
