Working 9 to 5

[Acca Dacca]

Sundays have stopped 2 weeks ago in my office

Those on the new contracts?

Some offices have just scrapped Sunday deliveries altogether

Just absorbing into the Monday regular deliveries as before

Can't see that lasting too long otherwise RM will lose some contracts.

More are actually following suit

[ted_e_bear]

Sundays have stopped 2 weeks ago in my office

Those on the new contracts?

Some offices have just scrapped Sunday deliveries altogether

Just absorbing into the Monday regular deliveries as before

Can't see that lasting too long otherwise RM will lose some contracts.

Let's plunge in a bit further, presumably we got those contracts due to agreeing to deliver on Sundays plus maybe also agreeing to deliver items accepted too late into our network for the regular delivery so they get delivered as lat's, I'm guessing both these cost royal mail considerably more than the profit they make on the items concerned which will offset any profit made on the business we get that is delivered during "core" delivery so perhaps we're actually beginning to work a bit smarter under the albeit quite recent new ownership than previously.

[SpacePhoenix]

Let's plunge in a bit further, presumably we got those contracts due to agreeing to deliver on Sundays plus maybe also agreeing to deliver items accepted too late into our network for the regular delivery so they get delivered as lat's, I'm guessing both these cost royal mail considerably more than the profit they make on the items concerned which will offset any profit made on the business we get that is delivered during "core" delivery so perhaps we're actually beginning to work a bit smarter under the albeit quite recent new ownership than previously.

Trouble is how much do we lose when we lose the entire contract to a rival firm? A big sending company won't just take the Sunday delivery and late delivery work elsewhere, they'll take EVERYTHING elsewhere.

[ted_e_bear]

Let's plunge in a bit further, presumably we got those contracts due to agreeing to deliver on Sundays plus maybe also agreeing to deliver items accepted too late into our network for the regular delivery so they get delivered as lat's, I'm guessing both these cost royal mail considerably more than the profit they make on the items concerned which will offset any profit made on the business we get that is delivered during "core" delivery so perhaps we're actually beginning to work a bit smarter under the albeit quite recent new ownership than previously.

Trouble is how much do we lose when we lose the entire contract to a rival firm? A big sending company won't just take the Sunday delivery and late delivery work elsewhere, they'll take EVERYTHING elsewhere.

It's possibly the case, maybe definitely if it's one of the reasons we got the contract but neither of us know that for a fact, also what neither of us don't know is how much impact it has on the overall profit.