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A doctor feels he is being put “into the wilderness” by cuts to the postal service.
Dr David Leigh, Gibbons Close, is concerned that the collection times for the Sandridge post-box has been moved.
On Friday, May 26 Dr Leigh walked past the box at 2.50pm and read a sticker saying that next collection would be on Saturday.
The collection time had been moved from 6.30pm to 4pm six months ago in order for the company to become more efficient.
Dr Leigh said: “I visited Royal Mail’s website where I discovered that the 9am – 4pm collection window that sticker told us now applied to Sandridge was applicable to postboxes in “Deep rural” locations.
“Royal Mail appears to have moved Sandridge into a wilderness. Every year we pay more for our post but the service gets worse.”
The Sandridge resident now believes that the previous collection may also have been the first collection of the day, and that the post-box may only be emptied once a day.
Earlier this month a small sticker advising last pick-up is at 4pm and first collection would not be before 9am.
On the Royal Mail website, it states pick-ups from towns and pick-ups are between 9-6.30pm, and for the rest of the UK between 9-5.30pm.
The 9-4.30pm collections are for “Deep Rural” areas, even though Sandridge is less than three miles away from the city centre.
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Dr David Leigh should really that Royal Mail has been privatised and the shareholders are more important than customers now. 
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Every year we pay more for our post but the service gets worse
And so it is with our gas, electricity, water, trains etc etc.
Yet nationalisation remains such a dirty word for so many.
And so it is with our gas, electricity, water, trains etc etc.
Yet nationalisation remains such a dirty word for so many.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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He's lucky , we have got Deep rural boxes at 9am mon-fri and 7am on Sat
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Who do you think is write hear? Is it a load of people in the ivory tower who's only objective is to make share holder's happy and rich at all costs including at the expense of the service and the paying public! Or a DOCTOR who is just seeing it (royal mail in this case) as it actually is?