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[TrueBlueTerrier]

Royal Mail managers from across UK arrive in Dundee to help clear backlog

Royal Mail hope to clear the massive backlog of mail in Dundee East by the end of next week.

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Managers from all over the UK have been drafted in to help clear the mail mountain at the troubled depot.

Bosses from England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being put up in Dundee hotels and have been joined by colleagues from more local depots to get letters and parcels out to customers in the DD4 and DD5 postcode areas.

The backlog resulted from a new delivery system called The Way Forward which Dundee East staff struggled to cope with, and then the bad weather.

The Courier was inundated by complaints from readers in Dundee East about delayed mail in the run-up to Christmas.

Many people said they had not received Christmas cards and parcels — in many cases presents — they were expecting.

Royal Mail threw extra resources at the problem last month and apologised to its customers for letting them down.

One of its emergency measures was to send Dundee East mail to sorting offices all over Britain with spare capacity, then returned to the West Pitkerro premises and organised into rounds for distribution.

It hoped to get all Christmas mail delivered on time but that was not achieved.

Some belated Christmas post went out last week but there is understood to still be a considerable volume that staff began clearing from Wednesday of this week.
'So ridiculous'

A Royal Mail spokeswoman said, "The majority of Christmas mail was delivered despite the most hostile start to winter weather in the UK in living memory. We will continue to deliver any remaining items posted before Christmas as quickly as possible.

"Royal Mail will use any contingency necessary to deliver mail to our customers and has a large workforce that is flexible to work anywhere required."

Meanwhile, residents in the west end have pointed out that they, too, have suffered from delays.

One Blackness Road resident said, "I've had three deliveries since Hogmanay, all of them with Christmas cards among them.

"All the cards were posted well before Christmas and one in particular was franked December 12, posted in Ayrshire."

Another west end resident said her first mail of the year on Wednesday included Christmas mail posted in mid-December.

She said, "At first I was annoyed but it's just so ridiculous now that you can only laugh.

"I feel sorry for the posties at Dundee East though getting all the flak when it's obviously just as bad in the west end."

A Royal Mail spokeswoman said the vast majority of Christmas mail was delivered in Dundee West.

[postghost]

So let's say the management go in and they miraculously clear the millions of items.

What then in two weeks when another huge backlog has arisen? not from the weather but the fact the revisions do not work.

[shimmyrule]

unreal, london, ireland, wales, all being put up in hotels, theyre useless, its just a jolly up for the, still 60 manpower workers working there too, and as of today , we have near 600 boxes of flats stored in the canteen again, with mail boxes plied high at side of work frames, from above, it looks like the manhattann skyline,we reckon, if you took the roof off the building, youd see the masses of mail boxes from the moon, like the great wall!!!!
Surely gotta be 500000 quid spent on "extra work" since imposition on nov 1st.
Also funny to see some of those most useless senion somd, doms, and regional directors, withh glasses on, trying to prep frames all day, hahahahaha, crackin us up it is, fuds!

[steven100]

Instead of putting them up in hotels, according to reports they could make beds with the mail and sleep in the office and save money for Royal mail, wait forget its only posties that are treated like ......

[BELIAL]

"I'll take these three packets, you take those six

[fishtank]

So let's say the management go in and they miraculously clear the millions of items.

What then in two weeks when another huge backlog has arisen? not from the weather but the fact the revisions do not work.

by fishtank » Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:44,pm

What will happen when the "support" is removed?
They can't use managers,casuals and the desperate for ever.

It's 6 weeks since i said the same thing....does that answer your question?
I don't think you will get a hotel room in Dundee until the summer.

[steven100]

So let's say the management go in and they miraculously clear the millions of items.

What then in two weeks when another huge backlog has arisen? not from the weather but the fact the revisions do not work.

by fishtank » Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:44,pm

What will happen when the "support" is removed?
They can't use managers,casuals and the desperate for ever.

It's 6 weeks since i said the same thing....does that answer your question?
I don't think you will get a hotel room in Dundee until the summer.

Do Dundee have any hotels, because i always thought Dundee was a bit of dive!!!!

[fishtank]

Do Dundee have any hotels, because i always thought Dundee was a bit of dive!!!!

Probably a B&B in Broughty Ferry...or a caravan in Monifieth.

[edwardo]

a manager working i will walk to dundee to see that , but still won't believe it . do you think they will still blame the weather in july ! why do all royal mail management have to lie time after time the general public no who is to blame for the mess that moya and her team have created they aren't that thick ps the lanark dream team are on there way to dundee on sunday or is it dunfermline ha ha

[steven100]

Royal Mail manager lieing is, too joe bloggs cliptomaniac.

[bunkerland]

Royal Mail managers from across UK arrive in Dundee to help clear backlog

You boys in Dundee East better get used to your snack machines being empty then!

[NWpostie]

Do Dundee have any hotels, because i always thought Dundee was a bit of dive!!!!

Probably a B&B in Broughty Ferry...or a caravan in Monifieth.

Only to be woken by a 3am full on section attack, firings, mortar, artys, thunderflashes in the MOD training area next door

[sareknees]

Royal Mail managers from across UK arrive in Dundee to help clear backlog

You boys in Dundee East better get used to your snack machines being empty then!

Nah mate the coffee is on free vend when they have the troll visitors

Hope there will be 1 minute prep tests ( bullying ) doubt it though

Remember your D2D .. live mail now

Manhattan lol - get Alicia Keys into the canteen to sing her ditty Mail Jungle

Are the Crimbo tunes still on whilst you sort the cards ? Town sorting THE WAY FORWARD

[baldrick]

Royal Mail managers from across UK arrive in Dundee to help clear backlog

You boys in Dundee East better get used to your snack machines being empty then!

So that's where our managers are. They are still a bit thin on the ground in our MC. Keep them as long as you want.

[steven100]

So after Dundee, where next for these travelling managers???????