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I agree, paperless offices and online everything must be putting RM under a lot of pressure, a hike in charges is inevitable to keep it afloat. Probably won’t be here in fifty years from now, I can see the couriers taking over postal delivery in the future.
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....so where does this all end? Every week some organisation, business, government department, local authority......... jacks up the prices of XYZ into the stratosphere wayyy above what most people will getting as a percentage wage increase, if at all.
Im stumped as to where they think all this extra is coming from? It would be great if the increase in service matches the extra we have to pay, but that might be asking too much.....no wonder the country is on edge
Ive adopted a strict policy at home since "that time" when companies started profiteering. If we need it and have to have it, then we shop around, if we have it and don't need it when the annual inflation busting price increase comes around we get rid of it. We then have to wait for the "why are you leaving" email and letters to stop, which takes a few months. We never miss whatever it was we were paying over the odds for
Perhaps if people started voting with their bank balances instead of just saying its only an extra few pence/quid etc then we could all benefit
Im surrounded by them, you know the people, the ones who started on the new car treadmill on £200/month now paying £400/month as its crept up over the years.........blind I tell you blind 
....so where does this all end? Every week some organisation, business, government department, local authority......... jacks up the prices of XYZ into the stratosphere wayyy above what most people will getting as a percentage wage increase, if at all.Im stumped as to where they think all this extra is coming from? It would be great if the increase in service matches the extra we have to pay, but that might be asking too much.....no wonder the country is on edge
Ive adopted a strict policy at home since "that time" when companies started profiteering. If we need it and have to have it, then we shop around, if we have it and don't need it when the annual inflation busting price increase comes around we get rid of it. We then have to wait for the "why are you leaving" email and letters to stop, which takes a few months. We never miss whatever it was we were paying over the odds for
Perhaps if people started voting with their bank balances instead of just saying its only an extra few pence/quid etc then we could all benefit Im surrounded by them, you know the people, the ones who started on the new car treadmill on £200/month now paying £400/month as its crept up over the years.........blind I tell you blind 
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I thought it was the only way, that or reinvestment, didn't realise they still posted paper bonds.
I think 5 years is to soon but if the mail side of RM is still with us in 15 years, I'd be surprised.
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I'm pretty sure we do, but still get a notification by mail
Perhaps because delivery of mail by RM is a bit like USAs constitutional amendments, not impossible to be rid of but almost, our daily RM delivery service is enshrined in law.On a more constructive note, why they haven't reduced their (letter) deliveries to every other day I don't know (well I do know, it's in their SOP's). Do we really need letters delivered the next day? Anything that important now goes via email surely?
I've thought long and hard about this and I really can't think of anthing that RM delivers to me that I can't wait anoher day for. It's only ever bills, junk mail and the occasional £25 from NS&I.
What do you think @Wozzaaah?
The Government's stance is, you signed up to it, it's yours, you are stuck with it, RM stance is, yeah but we don't really want it and never did, so basically imo they are pricing the service into non existence.
I personally have no issue with no hard copy mail, like others there is little I receive that isn't digital or I can't send digitally not forgetting email communications are now considered a legal form of document but there are many who rely on hard mail delivery for various reasons.
I object to the way RM are going about their goal of getting rid of the mail side of RM.
Henry 8th, his bones would be turning in his lead coffin, he is after all the reason why we have a Royal Mail.
I think a future government, RM themselves are hoping the likes of an Amazon will step in, take over and while more than capable, Amazon are not interested although the thought of robo copters dropping our letters from the skies amuses me a little.
Should RM succeed in their goal and I think they will, they should not be allowed to use " Royal Mail " but I suspect they have thought of that as a small price to pay so long as they are shot of the mail delivery side.
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I totally agree with you, but do they really need deliveries every day?
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Yes.I totally agree with you, but do they really need deliveries every day?
To make up for sleeping in the van on the job.
Not the first time either.
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More money to be made, that's why.
I don't think so, others will understandably differ in their views.I totally agree with you, but do they really need deliveries every day?
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Indeed sir!
I've got no problem with one or two post deliveries a week. But it would be nice to know what days they're going to deliver it, instead of the totally random deliveries we seem to get now.
Although having said that, I can't remember the last time I actually got something through the post that didn't go straight in the bin. Maybe if they focused on just delivering proper letters and not endless junk mail, they'd find it more profitable and easier to meet their obligations.
Although having said that, I can't remember the last time I actually got something through the post that didn't go straight in the bin. Maybe if they focused on just delivering proper letters and not endless junk mail, they'd find it more profitable and easier to meet their obligations.
Do remember, imo, even if RM get every other day delivery they are just drip feeding the public, as is any Government as to what is going to happen, the goal, eventually, the end of RM postal delivery.Indeed sir!
Both don't want to say it outright, why, well the Government in place will face disquite, rebuke, end of a very old institution, RM don't give a crap, so they bleat and dance a merry tune of give it time while holding the conductor's baton.
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I don't actually know, but it wouldn't surprise me if they earn (and I use that term loosely!) more from delivering junk mail than they do from regular mail.
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This last fortnight I’ve been thinking that we’ve not had much mail, checked our post box and it’s been empty. Then we get a mail dump ! I could live with mail delivery twice a week, if that helped RM outthats a big joke just had nearly all our mail delivered in one day suposedly 1st class and its took 10 days to get it all
got my overdue tax return and hospital apointment 2 late last time pity. they didnt have any competition to speed it up
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I recently had a part for my splitter delivered. I ordered it and a week later asked if it had been posted yet. They sent me a picture of the package in a Jiffy bag with the proof of posting next to it on the counter dated the day after I ordered it. They sent me a replacement the day after I enquired and five days later I got a note from the postman saying I could get my package if I paid £5 for the unpaid charges on it. I paid online as I needed the part and complained to the seller who had posted it. They again sent me proof of posting and a picture of the package and said they did not know what was going on. I booked redelivery for the day after and the part arrived in a ripped plain white envelope with my address written on it in green felt pen and no evidence of stamps. I still don't know what had gone off with the package.
