MRM.COM : Coronavirus : The impact on postal services : We need to look at costs now

[wacko74]

Might have spoke too soon about letters and flats being more or less back up to normal summer volumes... remarkably few today, probably even less than the first couple of weeks of lockdown.

Seems very strange given the steady rise we've been seeing the last few weeks.

[Woody Guthrie]

Might have spoke too soon about letters and flats being more or less back up to normal summer volumes... remarkably few today, probably even less than the first couple of weeks of lockdown.

Seems very strange given the steady rise we've been seeing the last few weeks.

Mondays have been false for the last 6 weeks, you've been taking out 6 days mail over 5 days.
Today was just Monday.
It's a stark reminder.

[Grumpyoldmailman]

Might have spoke too soon about letters and flats being more or less back up to normal summer volumes... remarkably few today, probably even less than the first couple of weeks of lockdown.

Seems very strange given the steady rise we've been seeing the last few weeks.

No Whistl stuff up here today, in fact not much of anything.

[wacko74]

Might have spoke too soon about letters and flats being more or less back up to normal summer volumes... remarkably few today, probably even less than the first couple of weeks of lockdown.

Seems very strange given the steady rise we've been seeing the last few weeks.

Mondays have been false for the last 6 weeks, you've been taking out 6 days mail over 5 days.
Today was just Monday.
It's a stark reminder.

No it was way below that, probably the least mail I've seen in 20 years, less than 1 tray for the whole round.

[DGH]

No it was way below that, probably the least mail I've seen in 20 years, less than 1 tray for the whole round.

That's right.

In fact I've never seen so few letters and flats. It would have been surprising on a summer Tuesday. If it hadn't been for the fact that I had most of Saturday's mail to take too I would have got the entire round's letters and flats into four bundles, and it's got over 900 delivery points!

[Cucumber]

Couldn't even tell how 'little' came in today. We are still 1-2 days behind on standard mail/parcels. Some days only a fraction of IPS get sorted.

[Mr Rush]

For the last few years since Greene came in we were told letters were unprofitable and we needed to ‘manage their decline’ as parcels was where there was money to be made to sustain RM in the future. [...] All of a sudden its’ parcels are s**t and unprofitable - its letters where there’s money to be made’. All this from the people who’ve chased the parcels dream all this time and manoeuvred us into this position of doom.

Executive 1 joins the company, lauded for their brilliant vision to turn things around 'we need to stop doing X and start doing Y'. Time passes. Executive 1 departs; company failing, wallet bulging. Executive 2 joins the company, lauded for their brilliant vision to turn things around 'we need to stop doing Y and start doing X'. And so on.

Then how is it that parcel companies like Yodel, Hermes, TNT etc are making and have been making plenty of profit WITHOUT delivering letters?

That's the real vision to turn things around, really the only one - shaft the workforce like the other companies already did. But they can't just say it out loud.

[postslippete]

I suppose if the average CEO spends 30% of the time working, 10% commuting, 25% being awake (but not working), 5% on vacation and the rest of it sleeping; then I suspect that Rico Back spent 70% of his time on vacation 30% sleeping and 0% commuting.