Royal Mail backlog cleared

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14 April 2009

By Thomas Glover

ROYAL Mail staff in Gainsborough had a backlog of parcels to contend with last week, which affected delivery across the town.
Staff at the sorting office were unable to deliver a "small number" of parcels on Tuesday 7th April, but all parcels had been moved by the following day, according to a spokesman.

"We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to customers," she said, "Any customer with concerns about the service provided by Royal Mail can contact Royal Mail Customer Services on 08457 740 740."

[POSTMAN]

How the heck does this make the news,and why aint my ofice in it as well.

[BELIAL]

I suppose some concerned employee just rings the local rag everyday stuff goes undelivered ? Don't think the public like knowing their stuff is actually gathering dust in their local office.

[DGP1]

Maybe we should direct some of the local papers to this site, they could get themselves lots of ideas for stories (albiet most of them anti RM management).

[Stormproof]

How the heck does this make the news,and why aint my ofice in it as well.

and my office, the way it was today perhaps it might make next weeks paper

[pinstripe]

My office would be in the papers every day. Our drivers have had so much put on their duties that packets are left for up to a week, sometimes longer. Depends if we are due an audit.We usually have at least 2 yorks of packets undelivered every day, which are taken out the following day, leaving that days packets for the next day. What happens, as we all know, is that we get even more in, are they are shunted to the back and 'forgotten' about, until management realise that we are not going to get an easy day, then they get shifted on overtime.
This only ever happened before during Christmas Pressure, but now it happens all the time. The thing is, if we leave a single letter, we could be done for wilful delay, their excuse is operational necessity. Not that they have cut too many hours to meet their budget and get their bonus.

[jockstrapp]

It's a weekly occurance in our office, packets can lie in our office for a week in fact today it was the manager who was out delivering them.

[BELIAL]

Local papers are often quite grateful to get newsworthy items ,even better if it stirs up a bit of scandal and outrage