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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

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Aberdare DO (CF44 and CF45)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, and OX27)
Newtownbutler SPDO (BT92)
Prenton DO (CH43)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20, TN22)
Upton DO (CH30 and CH49)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

Angel number 17 is often interpreted as a sign of new beginnings and spiritual guidance.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

25


Aberdare DO (CF44 and CF45)
Airdrie DO (ML6)
Batley DO (WF5, WF15, WF16 and WF17)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, and OX27)
Newtownbutler SPDO (BT92)
Prenton DO (CH43)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20, TN22)
Upton DO (CH30 and CH49)
Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

25 is a Cullen number and a vertically symmetrical number. 25 is the smallest pseudoprime satisfying the congruence 7n = 7 mod n.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

26


Aberdare DO (CF44 and CF45)
Airdrie DO (ML6)
Batley DO (WF5, WF15, WF16 and WF17)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, and OX27)
Mill Hill DO (NW7)
Newtownbutler SPDO (BT92)
Prenton DO (CH43)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20, TN22)
Upton DO (CH30 and CH49)
Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

Messier 26 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scutum.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
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LouBarlow wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 11:00
This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
It didn't mean a lot in the first place tbh. :chuckle
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SkiSunday wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 17:17
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 11:00
This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
It didn't mean a lot in the first place tbh. :chuckle
No don't think it did, the rot set in when it apparently no longer mattered if offices were clear, ah reminiscing now to the days when you got a right bollocking if you accidentally left an item behind
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ted_e_bear wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 17:29
SkiSunday wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 17:17
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 11:00
This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
It didn't mean a lot in the first place tbh. :chuckle
No don't think it did, the rot set in when it apparently no longer mattered if offices were clear, ah reminiscing now to the days when you got a right bollocking if you accidentally left an item behind
The good old days when we all genuinely cared about the non-tracked service. :cuppa
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LouBarlow wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 11:00
This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
Oh dear, the perfect office has joined the ranks! :wink:
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The way they count the fails is dodgy.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Mr Rush wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 18:50
LouBarlow wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 11:00
This list really doesn’t mean a lot any more. We have had 5-10 rounds a day not go out, and it has been that way for a while, but we never make it onto the leaderboard. The service in general is the worst I have seen it in 20+ years no matter how Royal Mail try to spin it.
Oh dear, the perfect office has joined the ranks! :wink:
Indeed. We have gone from top 10 nationally to an utter s**t show. If anything though it takes the pressure off those of us on the shop floor as we have worked our full hours for some time now, so given the managers don’t care about the office being cleared, nor do we. If anything it makes the job even better. Come in on time and leave on time.
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Exactly only way to be now, this peak is going to be brutal. Remember in January there will be a overtime ban so put your own overtime ban in place over peak we don't get paid till December 31st anyways(Monthly paid)
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We have definitely had over 50% of rounds failing for 5 days or more recently and not been on that list?
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

25

Airdrie DO (ML6)
Batley DO (WF5, WF15, WF16 and WF17)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, and OX27)
Mill Hill DO (NW7)
Newtownbutler SPDO (BT92)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Uckfield DO (TN20, TN22)
Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

In baseball, the number 25 is typically reserved for the best slugger on the team.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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postmanzach wrote:
25 Sep 2025, 11:00
We have definitely had over 50% of rounds failing for 5 days or more recently and not been on that list?
It boggles the mind how bad things would have to be to make the list, considering I could, hypothetically speaking, declare my eyes see very similar things. If such things were to be true which I can neither confirm nor deny. :wave
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

18


Batley DO (WF5, WF15, WF16 and WF17)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, and OX27)
Mill Hill DO (NW7)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

In Ancient Roman custom the number 18 can symbolise a blood relative.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.