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Whats RM doing about....

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ashadd
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Whats RM doing about....

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Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
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ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????
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ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
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Sliders
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ebbzie wrote:
ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????

I wish I had :cool
WHITEANT
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Post by WHITEANT »

Whats royal mail doing , simple they lose the contracts to other firms ,the firms sub contract them back to us (hence losing revenue)then the managers are telling us mail is down .When in fact its the revenue is down and the mail is not down as much as the PO are saying ;liar
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They have (very slowly) been pressurising Postcom to allow them to increase the charge rates for our DSA service. Finally they have been given the go ahead to increase prices. :hmmmm

However I feel this is too little too late and the only way the playing field will be evened is upon the sell off and privatisation whereupon the new operators will cry and claim they cannot run a service under these restrictions. Then the dsa agreement will be scrapped and you can sit back and watch the profits pile up. :no no

Of course Joe public ( and MP’s) will all say that its due to private industry and how lazy the Postal workers were before they sold it. :arrrghhh
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ashadd
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ebbzie wrote:
ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????
NO........But when you see these other couriers mail day in ,day out, you dont really notice how many customers we are really losing. Its like the peeling wallpaper syndrome, at first you notice it, but the more times you walk past it , it becomes invisible.
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Lounge Lizard
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ebbzie wrote:
ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????
Surely you can't accuse someone with an arab name of that. :shock: :crazy: :shock:
ashadd
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Lounge Lizard wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????
Surely you can't accuse someone with an arab name of that. :shock: :crazy: :shock:
HEY......thats arabism.....isnt it ????? :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy
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Lounge Lizard
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ashadd wrote:
Lounge Lizard wrote:
ebbzie wrote:
ashadd wrote:Heavy day today, had to deliver to every house again , mail from the council regarding bin day changes, not long ago we had to deliver rates bills from the council. My point being is that all this mail is being franked by other couriers and delivered by us, we must be losing millions, WHY ???? Why cant we undercut our competitors? WHATS RM DOING ABOUT IT ?????? :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm :hmmmm
Have you lived the last 3 years with your head buried in the sand????
Surely you can't accuse someone with an arab name of that. :shock: :crazy: :shock:
HEY......thats arabism.....isnt it ????? :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy
Just as long as you've not ben offended, taken it as racism or any other -ism, then that's fine. :nana :nana
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ashadd wrote:
HEY......thats arabism.....isnt it ????? :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy :Very Happy


I apologise in advance for being pedantic but it's more likely to be anti-Arabism ashadd. :oops:

Arabism
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clashcityrocker
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I don't think a reference to sand could be construed as Anti Arabism.
Sand is found in many countries and is an integral part of many cultures.

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Lounge Lizard
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clashcityrocker wrote:I don't think a reference to sand could be construed as Anti Arabism.
Sand is found in many countries and is an integral part of many cultures.

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But sand goes with oil, camels and palm trees, and Arab countries seem to have more than their fair share of all these. :Very Happy
And you couldn't bury your head in a sand pit like that. :crazy:
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

Lounge Lizard wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:I don't think a reference to sand could be construed as Anti Arabism.
Sand is found in many countries and is an integral part of many cultures.

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But sand goes with oil, camels and palm trees, and Arab countries seem to have more than their fair share of all these. :Very Happy
And you couldn't bury your head in a sand pit like that. :crazy:
Sand also comes with Kangaroos, dingos, snakes, nuclear test sites and the odd white fella going bush - don't sound very Arabian to me.
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Sand castle day ----Texas

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