no hope

[just_nuke_it]

Asked a colleague how I get on a driving duty and he jokingly said ask the DOM in about 20 years (I have been there for less than a year). I said Royal Mail won't be here in 20 years.

You could hear a penny drop.

:mfo

[Dogs of War]

So true in 20 years people will be saying Royal Mail who are they.

[coxie]

long live royal mail

[el_cartero]

its all going to become digital - screens will be installed compulsary into a persons home with messages sent to them.
messages must be read otherwise an alarm will tone.
creating a wave of new jobs installing and updating these machines.
id advise doing a technical course.

Controlled by the goverment. with propganda sent - but also nuclear strike information could be usefull.

[NWpostie]

On a serious note, how much do you think Royal mail will exist as an entity ? I could even venture to say 25% letters will have declined a great deal, packets will be the main breadwinner.

[Caniel]

In 20 years time the idiot masses of the general public will be moaning for Royal Mail once it's gone and how much better it was back then.... USO will be gone, rural deliveries will be gone, thefts will be through the roof due to the workforce being all casual .

[TrueBlueTerrier]

its all going to become digital - screens will be installed compulsary into a persons home with messages sent to them.
messages must be read otherwise an alarm will tone.
creating a wave of new jobs installing and updating these machines.
id advise doing a technical course.

Controlled by the goverment. with propganda sent - but also nuclear strike information could be usefull.

Have you read 1984 because what you describe is the plot line.

[NWpostie]

its all going to become digital - screens will be installed compulsary into a persons home with messages sent to them.
messages must be read otherwise an alarm will tone.
creating a wave of new jobs installing and updating these machines.
id advise doing a technical course.

Controlled by the goverment. with propganda sent - but also nuclear strike information could be usefull.

Have you read 1984 because what you describe is the plot line.

I have read that and the other one, Animal Farm, "some are more equal than others"

required reading if you ask me for everyone in School.

[Pinky 1]

its all going to become digital - screens will be installed compulsary into a persons home with messages sent to them.
messages must be read otherwise an alarm will tone.
creating a wave of new jobs installing and updating these machines.
id advise doing a technical course.

Controlled by the goverment. with propganda sent - but also nuclear strike information could be usefull.

Have you read 1984 because what you describe is the plot line.

I have read that and the other one, Animal Farm, "some are more equal than others"

required reading if you ask me for everyone in School.

And that's where you've hit the nail on the head .....but he's not in school today ...

[POSTMAN]

RM will always be here,mail volumes WILL come back.

[brunswick]

royal mail will always be here. mail volumes will return. you must be living in cloud cuckoo land. royal mail are currently through wtl sessions testing the water as to how many hours they can retreive through buying hours and vr. it doesn't take an einnstein to see whats behind this exercise, tnt run their operations on the continent almost solely on part time hours, the government through their most kind gesture of dqwn stream access have given the private companies enough revenue to be able tob buy into royal mail without using their own rescources. in addition the possibility of a £600 million fine will greatly reduce the asking price. rest assured if labour hold onto office at the forthcoming election peter mandelson will go full tilt for part or full privatisation, and god forbid if the tories get in full privatisation will be top of the agenda and then we can forget saturday deliveries, the universal service order and look forward to zonal charging.

[waitaminute]

Royal mail sold off, me on the dole eating endless tins of cold baked beans as my doorbell rings fifteen times a day and a disgruntled dishevelled babbling berk after berk asks me to sign for a pizza voucher. Sell off royal mail to the highest bidders!

[krussel]

royal mail will always be here. mail volumes will return. you must be living in cloud cuckoo land. royal mail are currently through wtl sessions testing the water as to how many hours they can retreive through buying hours and vr. it doesn't take an einnstein to see whats behind this exercise, tnt run their operations on the continent almost solely on part time hours, the government through their most kind gesture of dqwn stream access have given the private companies enough revenue to be able tob buy into royal mail without using their own rescources. in addition the possibility of a £600 million fine will greatly reduce the asking price. rest assured if labour hold onto office at the forthcoming election peter mandelson will go full tilt for part or full privatisation, and god forbid if the tories get in full privatisation will be top of the agenda and then we can forget saturday deliveries, the universal service order and look forward to zonal charging.

I totally agree And how people will cry when they need to send a letter up the country and have to pay £3 for the zoned service but of course it will be to late, when its gone its gone.

[POSTMAN]

It has to still be here,i'm investing in some new smilies!!