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why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds only

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arnold cheshire
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why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds only

Post by arnold cheshire »

this way we could concentrate on proper mail and others could do d2ds on different walks :arrrghhh each day
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to door d2ds

Post by arnold cheshire »

they can finance this with the cra'@p delivery supplement they can shove that 20 quid i dont need the bother :wave
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by smokerjim »

I've thought about this before, one bod doing 6+ d2ds on one walk for each day, he could come in at 10am, prep all it himself, then take it out and deliver it ( and get the bus driver / p&l driver for that round to come back and take out his drop bags if he needs any ).....5 or 6 hrs a day would be all you need - but hey, what do I know about the job, I only do it every bleedin' day :roll:
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by bunkerland »

Probably be much cheaper and better for Royal Mail just to advertise for people to deliver them for nothing,but then again what sort of fools would agree to that :left: oh wait........... :sad: :oops:
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

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Problem is what if there is only 1 lot of doors to doors for area and it is not economically enough to pay the mug to deliver it.
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by Lounge Lizard »

Carew wrote:Problem is what if there is only 1 lot of doors to doors for area and it is not economically enough to pay the mug to deliver it.
Yes, they're not going to pay two people to go to each house when one will do it.
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

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Carew wrote:Problem is what if there is only 1 lot of doors to doors for area and it is not economically enough to pay the mug to deliver it.
pay them min wage and you know theres going to be no shortage of d2ds in the office they could go anywhere in the postcode in their cars :funneh
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by REDLETTER »

We could do it like The-Two-Bundle-Delivery-Method as used at Canada Post ( Hi Moya Greene) :crazy:

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Mail in one hand and D2Ds in the other......simples..................no extra cost!

Oh They do it with sequenced mail in one, manual and oversized in the other.

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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

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bringon4dayweeks wrote:this way we could concentrate on proper mail and others could do d2ds on different walks :arrrghhh each day
D2D's is proper mail these days.
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by arnold cheshire »

if door to doors are proper mail charge them 2nd class rate per item :dance
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Re: why dont royal mail employ seperate postie to do d2ds on

Post by lekker »

The thinking behind putting D2D in the main post is that letter volumes are dropping and it bulks up the delivery which seems to be a good idea unless of course letter volume is not actually dropping. I reckon it is so i would rather do D2D on the current basis than see my job go down the leg-side.