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5 Day Delivery

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5 Day Delivery

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In the UK we have a national 6 day postal delivery now...

Question..... Does anyone know if any european country has only a 5 day delivery .... at the present time.
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Ireland
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england (uk) mon-fri, april 2014
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oh aye?,,,,,, we,ll see. pigs will fly
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Here's a thought - if we DO go to 5 day delivery ... word is that we'll lose jobs ... maybe not ??

- Peeps will not be asked to work their rota week ...

- Peeps will not be asked to work "their day off" ...

Maybe no change in numbers ... or am I being too simplistic here ...
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RedBagMan wrote:Here's a thought - if we DO go to 5 day delivery ... word is that we'll lose jobs ... maybe not ??

- Peeps will not be asked to work their rota week ...

- Peeps will not be asked to work "their day off" ...

Maybe no change in numbers ... or am I being too simplistic here ...
If an office is fully staffed, peeps aren't required to work their day/week off.
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Is an office ever "fully staffed" - holidays (allowed); sickness(a lot of it about); management/staffing incompetence (a lot of it about); short-term in-outs (we read about all the time - and the appropriate delays in recruitment) ...

One wonders ...
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a five day delivery would play into royal mails hands it will be another tool to make more
cuts on delivery as for jobs as a whole we would lose between 5000-10,000 duties across the uk.
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I would love a Mon-Fri with weekends off, no problem with me at all
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Question..... Does anyone know if any european country has only a 5 day delivery .... at the present time.
There was a list,i've seen the list,i can't find the list at the mo,some are 5 days some are less.

Pick what you can outa here and report back,the list is there somewhere...
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I think if RM were to ever go for a 5 day delivery it would be Mondays that would get axed as it would mean that MCs, RDCs and logistics would not be needed on a Sunday, saving them all that money on Sunday rate. The hours from Mondays would probably either be split five ways and added to each day (Tue-Sat) or added to a single day (longer Saturday plus collections?)
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Germany,France,Netherlands,Denmark still 6 days.
Most if not all of the rest 5 days.
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Sandd and Selekt Mail,the competition,deliver the way in Holland TNT deliver over here,ironic.
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SpacePhoenix wrote:I think if RM were to ever go for a 5 day delivery it would be Mondays that would get axed as it would mean that MCs, RDCs and logistics would not be needed on a Sunday, saving them all that money on Sunday rate. The hours from Mondays would probably either be split five ways and added to each day (Tue-Sat) or added to a single day (longer Saturday plus collections?)
shush space phoenix 99.9 % of us want saturdays off.
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comeracing wrote:
SpacePhoenix wrote:I think if RM were to ever go for a 5 day delivery it would be Mondays that would get axed as it would mean that MCs, RDCs and logistics would not be needed on a Sunday, saving them all that money on Sunday rate. The hours from Mondays would probably either be split five ways and added to each day (Tue-Sat) or added to a single day (longer Saturday plus collections?)
shush space phoenix 99.9 % of us want saturdays off.
i thought our union wanted to work 9 hour saturday as were not far from it now.
but it was the best deal we would get.