Offices 'officially' in trouble?

[SpacePhoenix]

There a 4 types of DSA:

* DSA 1C (hardly any so far)
* DSA 2 day
* DSA 3 day
* DSA 5 day

Is there anyway of determining which is which? Presumably the DSA 1st Class is marked as such? What do the five figure codes in the top right hand corner of the DSA mail mean?

1C DSA is marked, there's no way to know which of the other 3 DSA types a DSA item is.

[Mr Rush]

Presumably the DSA 1st Class is marked as such?

Yep, big '1' next to the DSA operator's trading name (see here). The numeral makes it quite noticeable (so they get the service they pay for), unlike some of those Moonpig cards out of the Channel Islands that spell out 'First Class' which is not what you're scanning for.

[POSTMAN]

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

68

Aberdare DO (CF44, CF45)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62 - NE64)
Banbury DO (OX15 - OX17)
Barry DO (CF62-CF63)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
Bridge Of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
Cambridge DO (CB1-CB5, CB21-CB25)
Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
Edinburgh South East DO (EH16-EH17)
Flint DO (CH6 and CH8)
Huntingdon DO (PE26 - PE29)
Ilfracombe DO (ME13)
Johnstone DO (PA5-PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kidderminster DO (DY10-DY12, DY14)
Lochgelly DO (KY5)
Lydney DO (GL15)
Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Paisley DO (PA1-PA3)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34-BS35)
Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Portslade DO (BN41, BN42)
Tobermory SPDO (PA75)
Waterlooville DO (PO7-PO8)
Winsford DO (CW7, CW10)

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)

There are exactly 68 10-bit binary numbers in which each bit has an adjacent bit with the same value, exactly 68 combinatorially distinct triangulations of a given triangle with four points interior to it, and exactly 68 intervals in the Tamari lattice describing the ways of parenthesizing five items.

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.

[oypostie]

Finally the numbers seem to be rising to more believable levels

[Barnacle]

How can this be? They’ve been allowed to deliver 2c every other day and yet they are still not delivering it? It’s almost as if they are prioritising 1c letters and Tracked, and have cut overtime and so posties are unable to deliver anything other than 1c and Tracked??

Or it could be something completely different

[taurus88]

In our local area, offices that had snuck back under budget have been rewarded with a budget cut, so I imagine this is happening across the board. Without early IP and extra prep, we’re in a bad way having just got back above the water.

[POSTMAN]

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, CF45)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62 - NE64)
Banbury DO (OX15 - OX17)
Barry DO (CF62-CF63)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
Bridge Of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
Cambridge DO (CB1-CB5, CB21-CB25)
Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
Edinburgh South East DO (EH16-EH17)
Flint DO (CH6 and CH8)
Huntingdon DO (PE26 - PE29)
Ilfracombe DO (ME13)
Johnstone DO (PA5-PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kidderminster DO (DY10-DY12, DY14)
Kilsyth DO (G65)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13, WS14)
Lochgelly DO (KY5)
Lydney DO (GL15)
Northolt DO (UB5-UB6)
Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Paisley DO (PA1-PA3)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34-BS35)
Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Portslade DO (BN41, BN42)
Saxon Way DO (HU4, HU10, HU13-HU15)
Syston SPDO (LE7)
Tobermory SPDO (PA75)
Tweedale DO (TF3-TF4, TF7-TF8, TF12)
Waterlooville DO (PO7-PO8)
Wellingborough DO (NN8-NN9, NN29)
Winsford DO (CW7, CW10)

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)

88 is a strobogrammatic number.

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.

[scotchy1962]

The infection is growing.
Soon it will be a pandemic.
Surely the new delivery method will cure it.
Not a feckin hope in hell.

[Barnacle]

Ban overtime and this is what you get