SpacePhoenix wrote:Do RM even have the authority to reduce what they accept? I would have though that it'd be down to OFCOM
That was not my suggestion. Mitigating could be encouraging the public to only order essential items for a certain time period, marking the outside of certain packets such as medical supplies to enable them to be prioritised, allowing D2D companies to cancel with no financial costs if done so within an agreed timescale. advising internet companies that there are severe delays so they can warn sellers and buyers.
All simple stuff.
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SpacePhoenix wrote:I just googled for the time taken for a container ship to travel to the UK from China, it come up with 35-40 days. I don't how much of the stuff from China normally goes via air but if that % is high then could there be a massive load of stuff from China about to enter the UK soon?
I would have thought so, hardly see any Chinese stuff at the moment. It will all hit again once.
SpacePhoenix wrote:Do RM even have the authority to reduce what they accept? I would have though that it'd be down to OFCOM
That was not my suggestion. Mitigating could be encouraging the public to only order essential items for a certain time period, marking the outside of certain packets such as medical supplies to enable them to be prioritised, allowing D2D companies to cancel with no financial costs if done so within an agreed timescale. advising internet companies that there are severe delays so they can warn sellers and buyers.
All simple stuff.
Are DO still receiving D2Ds to be delivered this week and onwards??
Last week in our office we only had the Boris virus letter D2D letter to deliver.
Not thinking in terms of any virus transmission risk but more in terms of prep time when we barely have enough time to do the main function of the job.
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stodgy88 wrote:no ,blaming management that we are still working,cant go anywhere near my grandkids,but its ok to go and mingle with dozens of postal workers ,ok no ones forcing me ,but like thousands of others the financial impact rightly or wrongly comes into the equation,plus in my office no option in place for people that are ok with working to move holiday,and been forced to take them, suppose that's not management fault either .
You still wouldn't be able to see your grand kids even if you weren't working. Come on read your post before you make it.
Starting new sock account won't work you are getting so easy to spot.
Each new account (4 at the moment IIRC) you start off okay, but then can't help yourself and purposely aggravate other posters by attacking them in a personal way. Well if you keep using sock accounts and keep progressing in the same way, we will keep banning and deleting your accounts.
Now please act like an adult and debate the ideas, not attack the posters - or prove your just a troll and keep on doing what you are. If you do keep trolling I'll just keep on dealing with you.
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SpacePhoenix wrote:Do RM even have the authority to reduce what they accept? I would have though that it'd be down to OFCOM
That was not my suggestion. Mitigating could be encouraging the public to only order essential items for a certain time period, marking the outside of certain packets such as medical supplies to enable them to be prioritised, allowing D2D companies to cancel with no financial costs if done so within an agreed timescale. advising internet companies that there are severe delays so they can warn sellers and buyers.
All simple stuff.
Are DO still receiving D2Ds to be delivered this week and onwards??
Last week in our office we only had the Boris virus letter D2D letter to deliver.
Not thinking in terms of any virus transmission risk but more in terms of prep time when we barely have enough time to do the main function of the job.
Yes - we got farmfoods this week - at least they are open I suppose.
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Last week had Boris letter plus 2 other d2ds, 1 was a double glazing company, how can that be essential, they're not gonna come & measure up never mind fit it. A waste of time
Celgar wrote:Are DO still receiving D2Ds to be delivered this week and onwards?? Last week in our office we only had the Boris virus letter D2D letter to deliver. Not thinking in terms of any virus transmission risk but more in terms of prep time when we barely have enough time to do the main function of the job.
We've received a batch of new ones to go out this week. Usual pizza delivery stuff and supermarket specials. Last week I finished dispatching the D2Ds for an internet provider offering a fiber optic broadband deal. All of it pretty useful for the quarantined public.
stodgy88 wrote:Apparently there was a massive failure over the weekend.
4,800 yorks of packets. from a share chat forum,not sure how true it is ,but wouldn't surprise me with the management team weve got.
Assuming that's the total for all MCs (think there's about 30 now) that's about 160 failed yorks each. Just wait until all the stuff ordered over the Sunday and Monday enters the system on Tuesday
SP stop trying to cheer us up! You keep this up and we'll have to make you "Head Morale Officer"
Like all Wage Slaves, he had two crosses to bear: The people he worked for and the people he worked with! (Stephen Vizinczey.)
Janet Brum wrote:Big profits plus possible USO downgrade from 6 to 5 days...
Maye more but Rico seems to win.
If anything the volume of packets/parcels proves that 6 day post is needed. Imagine having to fit in all the Parcels/packets into 5 days ?? Not possible!
Janet Brum wrote:Big profits plus possible USO downgrade from 6 to 5 days...
Maye more but Rico seems to win.
If anything the volume of packets/parcels proves that 6 day post is needed. Imagine having to fit in all the Parcels/packets into 5 days ?? Not possible!
Long term I think we could see a very limited number of packets (possibly a select few SDs and Tracked) get delivered on Sundays as well but with a premium paid
Janet Brum wrote:Big profits plus possible USO downgrade from 6 to 5 days...
Maye more but Rico seems to win.
If anything the volume of packets/parcels proves that 6 day post is needed. Imagine having to fit in all the Parcels/packets into 5 days ?? Not possible!
Yes we are more likely to see RM offer a 7 day service than cut it to 5, the letters may not go out every day but they will take all the parcel contracts they can get.
HA1 wrote:
Why is the fault of management, what a stupid comment. Are you blaming Royal mail management for colvid-19. Another pointless post.
Management hasn't helped.
When the government were telling everyone on national news about social distancing our managers were engaging postie's in mass huddles about the Corona virus.
How important are delivering dominos leaflets when there's Yorke's full of packets not being delivered??
Surely they must have known that postie's couldn't deliver in pairs in the vans? Yet their reaction to seeing it happen was to send half the staff home with duties undelivered. Proper planning prevents poor performance.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
Packages will still be delivered over the six- or seven-day per week period, but it'll be letters that'll be cut back to five or even three days a week. Five days per week for letters is already the case in other countries and territories such as the Isle of Man.
Other countries run a three-day per week letter delivery service alternating with Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for some routes while Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are for other routes. And that delivery frequency has been strongly considered by many more countries including the United States.
With Royal Mail, there needs to be a change with the USO before implementing the reduced letter delivery frequency, but it makes a lot of sense and savings to cut back on letter deliveries while the number of packages are increasing.
You keep this up and we'll have to make you "Head Morale Officer" 