Is 'delay of mail' still a thing?

[norris9]

With Royal Mail not employing floats at our depot for 2 years now and therefore purposefully delaying people's mail 1 day per week. With the investigation by Ofcom into failure to stick to delivery targets. With the strikes causing mayhem. With the '10,000 job cuts'.....

Is the USO pretty much irrelevant now and delay of mail not being questioned by management now?

[Acca Dacca]

The special dispensation from OFCOM due to COVID really has done so much damage

[McArthurizer7]

I can mind folk were getting sacked for bringing one item of mail back when a started 13 years ago. Mental how thats not even an issue these days.

[Clappedoutpostie]

Yes it is if your face doesn’t fit.

[DirtyHarry]

Is delay of the mail still a thing?

Yes, managers do it on an almost daily basis.

[Gary55]

Mention it and be labelled a trouble maker I'm afraid from our experience

[qwerty2]

Same thing with d2d
People have been sacked over the years for dumping them etc
Now some don't care - loads left at end of week

[broughts]

It’s an oversight if they do it and sackable offence if u do always been the way

[enskied]

It’s an oversight if they do it and sackable offence if u do always been the way

It's not an oversight anymore is it. Boss instructing us to take it out and bring it back with no attempt at delivery.
But whoa betide you if you say no.

[glass joe]

I remember the days if you brought back mail and got caught you would get sacked/conduct now you can bring back as much as you want as long as the tracked gets delievered.

[sindba]

A few years ago, one letter in your frame would see the mnagers hauling you in to explain yourself.

Now you can pretty much bring back what you want, as long as the tracked are done.

[zombiepostman]

one of our guys got suspended for wilful delay and then brought back as the union pointed out six rounds never went out that day rm didn't have a leg to stand on

[twoloops]

What a load of bollox, our office is swamped with mail due to executive action making walks totally unachievable, yesterday we did tracks & collections only, 100s of Mother's Day & Birthday cards left in the frames

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[hawkeye622]

I know it's an older thread but absolutely love how nothing has changed. I work in quite a big DO and yesterday I would estimate only 50/60% of the mail went out leaving thousands of mothers without their cards this morning.
Maybe moonpig and others should start sending cards as tracked items since that's our priority!

[jbo5066]

Is the USO pretty much irrelevant now and delay of mail not being questioned by management now?

No, believe it or not .. we have someone at ours suspended for weeks for delaying mail - management are currently still deciding whether or not to sack him ...