Royal Mail should be cut to three deliveries a week

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 19 May 2016, 13:46

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"The business is still viable, particularly on the parcels side, but it's not got a very good long term future" he says.

"You have to realise that value of delivering a parcel is going up, the value of delivering a letter is going down."

The great majority of letter mail is not time sensitive anymore” says Ian, who adds that going down to three days a week would be a huge saving.

This clip is originally from Wake up to Money on Thursday 19 May 2016.

Pidleypoo · Post by **Pidleypoo** » 19 May 2016, 16:30

We can barely manage most days in our office it's been the same for ages with what we have now.how do we fit that in 3 days.in fact forget the first thing I said we don't manage without people coming in early and going over most of the time multiple deliverys would not get delivered daily.

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 19 May 2016, 16:41

My god,What an eejit!

Pidleypoo · Post by **Pidleypoo** » 19 May 2016, 17:03

An eejit is what he is on his best day

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 19 May 2016, 17:57

The thing is he is an economist of the postal service to make money profit yet he says letters are declining but packets are up has this fool tried to deliver two days of mail and packets at the same time these idiots think we only deliver letters or packets and not both at the same time. It's bad enough now but with royalmail listening to these clowns and the government media and public and some others with all the postmen/women so pissed off already and the managers who are putting all this extra work for NO benefit of the workers this will end in a bad way soon!

ukvoyager2004 · Post by **ukvoyager2004** » 20 May 2016, 16:17

Mail is significantly up on the last few years ..reason for this being companies are now spending vast amounts of their increased budgets on direct marketing following the post recession era ..and that is showing in what comes in.

Last year and in the previous year ... mail volumes at this time of year were nominal..?this year however it has remained constant due to the direct mail factor.

motherhubbard · Post by **motherhubbard** » 20 May 2016, 16:58

ukvoyager2004 wrote: following the post recession era

When did that start then?