TNT to deliver giros

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » 26 Jul 2007, 22:21

Heard this afternoon from one of the sub post offices that TNT will be delivering giros in boxes to them for collection by those due dole money due to the postal strike. Anyone else heard that one? I thought he was taking the piss but he was deadly serious. He's a bit nervous of all the scruff gathering at his shop in a oner. Doesn't know if he has enough Buckfast to go round.

johnnyp · Post by **johnnyp** » 26 Jul 2007, 23:35

Dont see many if any now,dont people have there money paid in to there acount?

kinmad4it · Post by **kinmad4it** » 27 Jul 2007, 04:20

We do still deliver the odd giro now and then. But like the above poster said, most are paid straight into bank accounts now.
Nice to see that during the strike our competitors are thinking about the unemployed, sod the elderly and sick, but lets rally around those that can't be arsed to get a job.
Well done TNT, your humanitarian award is in the post.

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 27 Jul 2007, 12:18

we seem to get them on a sat its something to do with payments for kids from the fathers

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 27 Jul 2007, 15:00

I still get them on my "sink estate" but all the ones that I usually see on a Saturday have already been delivered so not sure about the veracity of the statement that TNT are doing it.

blackadder · Post by **blackadder** » 27 Jul 2007, 15:05

aint deliverd a giro for good 5 years, fink hes taking the mickey out of you

jafferpants · Post by **jafferpants** » 27 Jul 2007, 16:30

TRUEBLUETERRIER I DO WISH YOU'D STOP" PLUGGING" YOUR SINK ESTATE ITS DRIVING ME ROUND THE" BEND"

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 27 Jul 2007, 16:33

jafferpants wrote:TRUEBLUETERRIER I DO WISH YOU'D STOP" PLUGGING" YOUR SINK ESTATE ITS DRIVING ME ROUND THE" BEND"

The U bend

sj · Post by sj » 27 Jul 2007, 16:35

still get loads of them on my walk. The scum bags follow me round for them and think they can talk to you like s**t when you can't get in the block to deliver them coz there too bloody lazy to answer the buzzer.

kinmad4it · Post by **kinmad4it** » 27 Jul 2007, 20:14

Sink estate? Is that on the North, South or East alley. Don't think the West has a really bad one.

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » 27 Jul 2007, 20:43

blackadder wrote:aint deliverd a giro for good 5 years, fink hes taking the mickey out of you

I spoke to him again today and he gave me a print out. It's to long for me to be arsed to write it all out but here are two of the paragraphs;

" As a result of the industrial action taking place in Royal Mail contingency arrangements for DWP Cheques will be implemented in your area.

From Monday 30 July 2007 DWP Cheques will be sent to Post Offices rather than the payees addresses and will be delivered in cartons by TNT. The cartons will be labelled urgent data and have a DWP seal."

Post by **POSTMAN** » 27 Jul 2007, 22:18

DWP have already deserted us,we lost their contract a while ago.

fedup postie · Post by **fedup postie** » 30 Jul 2007, 12:29

This was in todays internet news:-

TNT plans aggressive UK expansion

David Gow in Brussels
Monday July 30, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

TNT, the Dutch mail group, is planning a further aggressive expansion in the UK and elsewhere in Europe in a new drive to offset its declining postal business at home, it said today.

Executives said in Amsterdam that the company was raising its forecast for volume growth in its European mail networks (EMN) division - mainly Britain and Germany - to between 30 and 35% this year from 25% and its operating margin to 17.5% from 17%. Volume growth was 37% in the second quarter.

TNT, which has capitalised on the running series of strikes by postal workers at Royal Mail, said organic growth in EMN was up 21.3% in the first half, driven overwhelmingly by its UK business. It has started up a new parcels business in Britain. But mail volumes in Holland declined by 3.5% in the second quarter.

The former Dutch monopoly, one of Royal Mail's biggest new rivals, has already indicated that it plans to develop a full-scale network in Britain rather than use that of its UK rival to deliver mail. Peter Bakker, chief executive, said today the group's new strategy would be disclosed in December.

Giving an upbeat outlook for the full year, Mr Bakker said operating income fell 2% in the second quarter to â‚¬330m (Â£223m) because of one-off costs but half-year sales were up 9.6% at â‚¬5.4bn and profits up 2.6% at â‚¬681m. TNT is raising the interim dividend by 15% to â‚¬0.30 and initiating a further â‚¬500m share buy-back.

"This not because we don't know what to do with our money," Henk van Dalen, chief financial officer, told reporters. "We will have higher revenue growth but we need more investment to develop those higher sales and generate more solid organic growth." The planned investment drive, particularly in the UK, could depress overall mail margins.

Mr Bakker made plain that TNT is worried by the delayed date - 2011 rather than 2009 - for the introduction of full-scale liberalisation of EU postal markets and the impact of this in Germany which is due to bring in full competition for Deutsche Post next year. Britain's market has been open to competition since 2006 and TNT is active in eight of the 27 domestic European markets.

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 30 Jul 2007, 18:54

kinmad4it take your pick we have our fair share of them

phantomshare · Post by **phantomshare** » 30 Jul 2007, 19:49

info is correct.

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