Do people want letters

[pieoftheday]

On one hand I hear that letters are down, nobody wants letters anymore it's all going online etc, but then every week in the News section of RMchat theres uproar somewhere in the country because people havnt had their mail for a few days with the local MP writing a letter,ahem, to RM demanding answers. So, are letters important or not?

[grchpo]

They're important to me, waiting for a pension estimate after 1st one went missing, so yes waiting impatiently.

[richietns]

On one hand I hear that letters are down, nobody wants letters anymore it's all going online etc, but then every week in the News section of RMchat theres uproar somewhere in the country because people havnt had their mail for a few days with the local MP writing a letter,ahem, to RM demanding answers. So, are letters important or not?

Thats a really good deduction the government seems to think we still need six days and its still not loss making although they have to put prices up,on my round some people open the door before I can get to the letterbox there's definitely some sort of psychological pleasure with material mail.

[koolishy67]

No hardly any letters for me no more payslip as well now so 5-6 letter and junk a week

[dazzler123]

an old lady grilled my ear yesterday not having any mail for a few days expecting an important letter. Not everyone in the world lives online

[CRIBMAD]

They're important to me, waiting for a pension estimate after 1st one went missing, so yes waiting impatiently.

Word of advice , choose option 1a ! massive difference in lump sum and annual pension (its the one with the cash balance) , if i had choosen the other two options i would have lost £8000 ! Just do not know why they offer the two crap options - oh wait yeah rip off merchants !

[Woody Guthrie]

I emptied 3 boxes on Saturday.

Box 1 contained a squashed diet coke can.
Box 2 on a busy main street contained two letters one of which was a misdelivery that had "delivered to the wrong address you twat" written on it.
Box 3 had nine items, eightl of them were marked "not at this address". The other was a citation that had been delivered by hand and obviously wasn't appreciated.

Three boxes, eleven items, one legitimate piece of revenue...to a freepost address.

[LouBarlow]

Most of the boxes on my delivery are full of small packets now. I’ve said it before on here and been berated, but I can have nearly 50% of my D2Ds left in my frame on a Friday now, having prepped them on a Monday. I have to number them and deliver them without any letters over the Friday and Saturday each week because letter mail is increasingly becoming an extinct species.

New build estates especially seem to be the areas of most scarcity.

[R5001]

I don't know how some people aren't seeing what I see. I visit every single house on my walk at least 3 times a week. the overall volume might be down, but the call rate doesn't seem to have suffered where I work, not since I've started.

[pieoftheday]

I don't know how some people aren't seeing what I see. I visit every single house on my walk at least 3 times a week. the overall volume might be down, but the call rate doesn't seem to have suffered where I work, not since I've started.

For the most part that is my experience, the occasional light day though. I've been on a duty for around 9 years and although the duty has got bigger I deliver pretty much the same amount of letters over the same area as I have over the past 9 years. No I havnt kept a record before anyone gets on their high horse. Small packets are no different, the odd light day but on the whole a full half York 4 days a week and 10 to 30 large

[postieblueshirt]

Most of the boxes on my delivery are full of small packets now. I’ve said it before on here and been berated, but I can have nearly 50% of my D2Ds left in my frame on a Friday now, having prepped them on a Monday. I have to number them and deliver them without any letters over the Friday and Saturday each week because letter mail is increasingly becoming an extinct species.

New build estates especially seem to be the areas of most scarcity.

Very odd that a new build gets hardly any.All new builds my way are bombarded with mail and if there's a better word than bombarded I'd use it to describe the parcels.New builds are a nightmare.Young family's lots of money I'd say why they have money but I'd give away my location but one employer for them all locally.

[Wullie10]

Waiting to send off my pension form. No mail no pension..

[LouBarlow]

Most of the boxes on my delivery are full of small packets now. I’ve said it before on here and been berated, but I can have nearly 50% of my D2Ds left in my frame on a Friday now, having prepped them on a Monday. I have to number them and deliver them without any letters over the Friday and Saturday each week because letter mail is increasingly becoming an extinct species.

New build estates especially seem to be the areas of most scarcity.

Very odd that a new build gets hardly any.All new builds my way are bombarded with mail and if there's a better word than bombarded I'd use it to describe the parcels.New builds are a nightmare.Young family's lots of money I'd say why they have money but I'd give away my location but one employer for them all locally.

I mean, I am basing this entirely on the two new estates on my walk, but they both get rammed with parcels, but by the end of the week, I won’t have visited every house. Every day the gaps in the frame for those roads are definitely more pronounced than the older roads. It might be a young person thing, in that the new builds tend to have young couples and families, who have probably switched to online bills and don’t sign up for mailing lists etc.

[Rommagic]

It will be quiet the next six weeks as school holidays but bigger walks now and letters still earn more then parcels for RM.

[postslippete]

Standard stamp prices have recently gone up again by 16% from April this year. It's not unfeasible that Royal Mail are simply pricing letters out of existence.


Also. a reminder that non-barcoded stamps with the picture of the Queens head can no longer be used by the end of this month. Obviously this doesn't apply to our Xmas stamps