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BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

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moyas slave
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BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

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just listening to 5live and they are doing a spot about delays and working practices etc this afternoon.

bound to be a top man on there.

hope its steve smart again :left:
Wessex
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by Wessex »

Now I understand why they use a faceless RM spokesman rather than allow managers to give their opinions :Very Happy
moyas slave
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

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how long was the piece?
i went to the toilet and missed it!
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

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moyas slave wrote:how long was the piece?
i went to the toilet and missed it!
Me too! Why didn't you sit down? :chuckle

I don't know about 5Live but there was a piece on Granada Reports about delays in mail and one case in particular a bloke due chemotherapy when the letter was posted on 14th/12 and delivered 23rd/12 but he'd missed his appointment. Closer to home a chap in a town not far from me had a similar experience.
Royal Mail spokesman blamed the weather in both instances. I can't say about the Granada case but the local one was from a DO who had just had a revision.
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by plainpat »

There was a feature yesterday on You and Yours (Radio 4) on "Are you still getting Christmas Mail" - Plenty of people rang in complaining. reckoned biggest response they have ever had to an item - played a recorded reply from an RM spokesperson in one area in the North West with usual pre-scripted bollocks about abnormal weather etc but did actually admit that a change in operational workings had played a small part in delays, but that now all backlog had been cleared. Presenter finished up by saying "Well, we have been contacted by a number of postmen and women disputing that" and said they would be returning to the subject in the future. The word is starting to get out to the national media now :Very Happy
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by BELIAL »

The word is starting to get out to the national media now
:chuckle Bet you a dollar thats the last you'll hear of it :wink:
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itllnottouchyou
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by itllnottouchyou »

i was still delivering xmas cards yesterday somthing need tRo be done so it dosn't happen next year!!! Keep the sorting LOCAL!!! you cannot buy local Knowlage!!Royal Mail doing xmas on the cheap and running down the service!!!!!
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stratford-on-avon

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any stratford posties out there are you clear yet,ive heard it,s been shite in your d/o for weeks
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by bexhil palace »

It's great that RM managers :left: are getting it in the neck from the public. But can't help feeling that the public have no concept
of what's in store for the service after privatisation. As i tell my customers, if you think it's bad now,God knows what you will make
of what's coming.
Eric Cantona
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

Post by Eric Cantona »

dvbuk55 wrote:
moyas slave wrote:how long was the piece?
i went to the toilet and missed it!
Me too! Why didn't you sit down? :chuckle

I don't know about 5Live but there was a piece on Granada Reports about delays in mail and one case in particular a bloke due chemotherapy when the letter was posted on 14th/12 and delivered 23rd/12 but he'd missed his appointment. Closer to home a chap in a town not far from me had a similar experience.
Royal Mail spokesman blamed the weather in both instances. I can't say about the Granada case but the local one was from a DO who had just had a revision.
Found that clip.

http://www.itv.com/granada/failing-to-deliver16580/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
dvbuk55
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Re: BBC 5live doing a bit on RM

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Eric Cantona wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
moyas slave wrote:how long was the piece?
i went to the toilet and missed it!
Me too! Why didn't you sit down? :chuckle

I don't know about 5Live but there was a piece on Granada Reports about delays in mail and one case in particular a bloke due chemotherapy when the letter was posted on 14th/12 and delivered 23rd/12 but he'd missed his appointment. Closer to home a chap in a town not far from me had a similar experience.
Royal Mail spokesman blamed the weather in both instances. I can't say about the Granada case but the local one was from a DO who had just had a revision.
Found that clip.

http://www.itv.com/granada/failing-to-deliver16580/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That's the latest one Eric, but there have been others across the nation plus the local rags with two or three articles and the radio.