Alastair Cochrane - An extra 3,000 posties a year?

[postslippete]

On the robin app, Alastair Cochrane says that RM are investing over £500 million over 5 years, with £100 million a year being equivalent to 3,000 posties on the ground. However, he also explains this isn't necessarily 3,000 new recruits, but largely the equivalent of 3,000 FT roles created by increasing the hours of around 6,000 existing part-time colleagues.

RM has around 1,200 delivery offices across the UK, so spread evenly that's the equivalent of only 2-3 extra full-time posties per delivery office.

So if that relatively small increase is expected to make such a significant improvement in quality of service, doesn't that suggest many delivery offices have been operating just below the staffing level needed to consistently complete the workload?


Many posties have complained about the overtime ban in our office. A 3% pay increase on my legacy contract before tax is an extra £17 a week and I know many posties were claiming that by working a few hours every day!

[oypostie]

Smoke and mirrors. Royal Mail are making a lot of noise about putting some of the lapsing duties back in but then they expect three people to cover four duties which will remove considerably more staff

[Clappedoutpostie]

£100 million per year would give you 5000 new vans at £20000 a piece. Funny when they make statements like this trying to sound good, it’s not even an investment it’s a cost of doing business.