dingo wrote:Chunk whilst I have always questioned the loss of traffic especially in packets and letters in flat ipks.
However what is not in doubt is that the amount of mail which used to be business to business has reduced dramatically and that has been replaced by email .
Downstream access reduces work on the outward but inward has also reduced as less a pace thats for sure but it has reduced.
Even the Birmingham traffic audit which exposes the fallacy that traffic has dropped at 10% when in reality it has reduced by less but some streams have increased. But lets not beat around the bush overall traffic has reduced as recognised by every country. But without doubt the biggest effect is the amount of work which is done by mech and will be sequenced and in mail centres by ILsms or flat machines with one outward pass and inward pass.
I wouldn't deny for a minute that mail of certain sorts is diminished .
it has diminished by a few percent a year( no where near 10%)!
The phrase that yanked my chain was
dying industry .
post is far from dying, but it is changing in nature and as packets replace letters we will
need to invest in a structure that can accommodate this.
(I'm a fan of bicycles but packets have near finished them)
if you work in a mail center then talk of a dying industry may seem relevant
we are going to lose about 20 mail centers in the next couple of years.
but ill say there will always be post and there will always be a need for delivery.
we just have to make sure its us.
I'm a postman-and i know where you live.....
