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Where does the money go ?

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Lounge Lizard
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Where does the money go ?

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On a normal day I might sort and deliver about 2000 letters which, ay about 25p each, means about £500 income for Royal Mail. I get paid about £60, so what happens to the other £440 ?
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Re: Where does the money go ?

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Lounge Lizard wrote:On a normal day I might sort and deliver about 2000 letters which, ay about 25p each, means about £500 income for Royal Mail. I get paid about £60, so what happens to the other £440 ?

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Re: Where does the money go ?

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Lounge Lizard wrote:On a normal day I might sort and deliver about 2000 letters which, ay about 25p each, means about £500 income for Royal Mail. I get paid about £60, so what happens to the other £440 ?
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I think a memeber of staff costs RM about £75 per day when you include NI contributions and pension.
At a guess, I'd say that 50% of RM staff are on delivery so that means another £75 per day.

I can see that being more than doubled by rent, power, vehicle maintenance/purchase, stamp production and distribution etc so that is another £200

That leaves £150 out of which comes 40% tax, leaving £90 profit per town delivery route.

I really haven't got a clue what the real numbers are - although they are in the annual results - but there is a suprising amount of money spent.
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You would also have to factor in the loss on the DSA items its quite hefty apparently.
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Post by The Postal Avenger »

What happens to the money that Postcon fine us? Wouldn't surprise me if they share it out with our competitors. :roll:
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Post by tyconuk »

The Postal Avenger wrote:What happens to the money that Postcon fine us? Wouldn't surprise me if they share it out with our competitors. :roll:
yes what does happen too the bloopdy fines?
A damn good question
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