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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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Banstead DO (SM7)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19 and PO20)
Glenmoriston SUDO (IV63)
Keith DO (AB55)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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)

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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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

6


Glenmoriston SUDO (IV63)
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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)

6 of the worst...

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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POSTMAN wrote:
07 Jul 2025, 15:43
We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

6


Glenmoriston SUDO (IV63)
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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)

6 of the worst...

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.
Not sure how Southend is missing from that list as I hear it's failing worse now than ever :whistle
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A2B wrote:
07 Jul 2025, 21:41
POSTMAN wrote:
07 Jul 2025, 15:43
We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

6


Glenmoriston SUDO (IV63)
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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)

6 of the worst...

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.
Not sure how Southend is missing from that list as I hear it's failing worse now than ever :whistle
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

5


Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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)

On the seven-segment display of a calculator and digital clock, it is often represented by five segments at four successive turns from top to bottom, rotating counterclockwise first, then clockwise, and vice versa.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

4


Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)

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)

The four-color theorem states that a planar graph (or, equivalently, a flat map of two-dimensional regions such as countries) can be colored using four colors, so that adjacent vertices (or regions) are always different colors.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

7


Banstead DO (SM7)
Brighouse DO (HD6)
Bristol North DO (BS6 and BS7)
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)

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)

The number 7 is the basis of the Western musical scale.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

12


Banstead DO (SM7)
Brighouse DO (HD6)
Bristol North DO (BS6 and BS7)
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34 and BS35)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20 and TN22)

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)

In prose writing, twelve, being the last single-syllable numeral, is sometimes taken as the last number to be written as a word.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

19


Banstead DO (SM7)
Brighouse DO (HD6)
Bristol North DO (BS6 and BS7)
Hull City DO (HU1, HU2, HU3, HU5, HU9, HU12 and HU19) *?
Manningtree DO (CO7 and CO11)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34 and BS35)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20 and TN22)

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)

The only nontrivial normal magic hexagon is composed of nineteen cells, where every diagonal of consecutive hexagons has sums equal to 38, or twice 19.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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Malmo Road Delivery Office HU7-Just sayin'
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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

15


Banstead DO (SM7)
Brighouse DO (HD6)
Hull City DO (HU1, HU2, HU3, HU5, HU9, HU12 and HU19)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34 and BS35)
Sunbury On Thames DO (TW16)
Uckfield DO (TN20 and TN22)

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 15 Archimedean solids and 15 Catalan solids when enantiomorphic forms are counted separately.

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.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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POSTMAN wrote:
16 Jul 2025, 21:32
Malmo Road Delivery Office HU7-Just sayin'
Hull CDO is not the trial office
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woofwoof wrote:
17 Jul 2025, 14:19
POSTMAN wrote:
16 Jul 2025, 21:32
Malmo Road Delivery Office HU7-Just sayin'
Hull CDO is not the trial office
Wonder if they've sent a load of posties to the trial office, they're both large offices over 100 duties in each.
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Re: 18 offices 'officially' in trouble?

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clashcityrocker wrote:
19 Nov 2021, 16:39
Mine is on the list of 100 but not on the list of 18.
Wouldn't it just be more open for RM to publish the list of 100?
Out of curiosity how do you know if your office is on the list of 100?
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Re: 18 offices 'officially' in trouble?

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CatEnthusiast13 wrote:
17 Jul 2025, 16:15
clashcityrocker wrote:
19 Nov 2021, 16:39
Mine is on the list of 100 but not on the list of 18.
Wouldn't it just be more open for RM to publish the list of 100?
Out of curiosity how do you know if your office is on the list of 100?
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