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Red letters from Royal Mail today!

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Kings Norton
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Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Kings Norton »

Which bright spark sent all those Red Letters out today 1st class from Royal Mail for every household? That's was a proper p**s take its our busiest time of the year and some clown sends them out today. It was that bad the letters got munched up in some of the sorting machines and prevented the coded boxes getting out on time this morning. Only good thing out of it was our manager said we can do them over a few days but still that's not the point. The point is GREED they want more and more money from these letters. Them letters has sent a lot of posties over today so the ultimate price has been paid the other way...
bustedflush
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

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Kings Norton wrote:Which bright spark sent all those Red Letters out today 1st class from Royal Mail for every household? That's was a proper p**s take its our busiest time of the year and some clown sends them out today. It was that bad the letters got munched up in some of the sorting machines and prevented the coded boxes getting out on time this morning. Only good thing out of it was our manager said we can do them over a few days but still that's not the point. The point is GREED they want more and more money from these letters. Them letters has sent a lot of posties over today so the ultimate price has been paid the other way...

Who is that manager? Should get done for wilful delay, this will affect the 97% first-class target for his office. :arrrghhh
Kings Norton
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

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bustedflush wrote:
Kings Norton wrote:Which bright spark sent all those Red Letters out today 1st class from Royal Mail for every household? That's was a proper p**s take its our busiest time of the year and some clown sends them out today. It was that bad the letters got munched up in some of the sorting machines and prevented the coded boxes getting out on time this morning. Only good thing out of it was our manager said we can do them over a few days but still that's not the point. The point is GREED they want more and more money from these letters. Them letters has sent a lot of posties over today so the ultimate price has been paid the other way...

Who is that manager? Should get done for wilful delay, this will affect the 97% first-class target for his office. :arrrghhh
The decision came from the area manager I was told..
Wednesday
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Wednesday »

They probably came out now as the chance of a strike over Christmas has now gone.They would have looked rather stupid sending them out while we were in dispute,
Surreypostie
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Surreypostie »

We had those a week ago. Don't have a problem with Royal Mail drumming up business. Rather that that do TNT and the likes work on the cheap.
postmanplod69
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by postmanplod69 »

Got ours tomorrow (my day off) :Very Happy
IcanthelpthewayIam
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by IcanthelpthewayIam »

Kings Norton wrote:
bustedflush wrote:
Kings Norton wrote:Which bright spark sent all those Red Letters out today 1st class from Royal Mail for every household? That's was a proper p**s take its our busiest time of the year and some clown sends them out today. It was that bad the letters got munched up in some of the sorting machines and prevented the coded boxes getting out on time this morning. Only good thing out of it was our manager said we can do them over a few days but still that's not the point. The point is GREED they want more and more money from these letters. Them letters has sent a lot of posties over today so the ultimate price has been paid the other way...

Who is that manager? Should get done for wilful delay, this will affect the 97% first-class target for his office. :arrrghhh
The decision came from the area manager I was told..
a little email to moya saying that this has happened will probably yeild some interesting results :) even area manager definitely does not have authority to delay these items
glenfiddich
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by glenfiddich »

we got ours last saturday then the wheelie bins monday beginning to feel the strain a bit now :Boo hoo!
Hitcher
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Hitcher »

bustedflush wrote:
Kings Norton wrote:Which bright spark sent all those Red Letters out today 1st class from Royal Mail for every household? That's was a proper p**s take its our busiest time of the year and some clown sends them out today. It was that bad the letters got munched up in some of the sorting machines and prevented the coded boxes getting out on time this morning. Only good thing out of it was our manager said we can do them over a few days but still that's not the point. The point is GREED they want more and more money from these letters. Them letters has sent a lot of posties over today so the ultimate price has been paid the other way...

Who is that manager? Should get done for wilful delay, this will affect the 97% first-class target for his office. :arrrghhh
Only if they report it. :wink:
jaylime
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by jaylime »

Busiest day so far under Christmas pressure,i got rid of 95 % of them.I did think it was a bit of a piss take though.
Richard007
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Richard007 »

You would of thought the Royal Mail would send out letters that were able to go through the sequence machine but no they design them to get rejected and have to be manually sorted at our worst month in the year for traffic unbelievable its as if they want break offs :nana
WornOutPosty
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by WornOutPosty »

We got em and were told we had three days to get rid. It's a bit late now, they should have been sent out weeks ago - if at all. Spamming everyone isn't the way to win business, it just looks desperate.
Shaman Mao
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by Shaman Mao »

Complete cock-up. Not only were the red letters unsuitable for the CSS machines we had the double whammy of a letter for every house advertising some sort of "government energy scheme". 2nd wave was unsequenced and we finally got out of the office at 11am. Oh, and why were the RM letters (which any sensible company would have sent out 3 or 4 weeks ago) made of the most slippery paper available.
Ne'er mind - long weekend coming up...
DirtyHarry
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by DirtyHarry »

Royal Mail management, and those vastly overpaid, underworked executives, haven't the combined intelligence of a Gnat.
Small wonder that at the busiest time of the year, with us drowning in mail and packets, they decide that now is the right time to burden us with that crap.

We love parcels. :roll:
5plusbonusball
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Re: Red letters from Royal Mail today!

Post by 5plusbonusball »

Seems like the company is all manager and office minded, they don't have to go outside so don't know what it's like and they don't care, need a good powerflush from lino's upwards, cut out all the deadwood!
Why are lino's paid full-time ??