MRM.COM/RMTV : Seven days a week : We're starting a Sunday parcel delivery service : With trust comes change

[POSTMAN]

https://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2021/0 ... -days-week

We’re responding to growing customer demand by introducing a Sunday parcel delivery service for major retailers, writes Paul Smith.

The move sees Royal Mail tap into the seven-days-a-week parcels delivery service for the first time.

In the next month, a number of retail brands will begin trialling our new Sunday delivery service across the UK. We’re currently in discussions with additional retailers about rolling out the service to their customers too.

Chief operating officer, Achim Dünnwald, said: ‘It’s something that our customers have been asking for. It provides more opportunities in a growing market and it provides opportunity to work on different days. It is voluntary so people can fit it into their schedules, if they wish.’

Battersea postman Seymour Rose adds: ‘Everybody’s doing it. If we don’t catch up, we’re going to be left behind.’

Look out for a feature in the next RMtv programme, with more from Achim and colleagues at Battersea Delivery Office.(We have it early below...)

With trust comes change.

[DGH]

"With trust comes change" is a non sequitor (if that's the phrase I'm reaching for) worthy of an Orwellian dystopia.

Change is easier to effect with trust, but the two things are not dependent. It's like saying 'if you don't agree with Sunday deliveries, you're not worthy of our trust', and more insidiously implies that if you don't want to do a Sunday delivery you may not be worthy of trust'

[CHUCKYPIG]

As a leave reserve I don't know my day off week to week and so can't plan my life very well. The only day I know that I have off is a Sunday.

Does this mean from now on that I will get 2 random days off a week that I only find out which ones the week before?

If that is the case then I think I will leave and so will others I suspect?

[charlatans]

I trust i will be doing a saturday night fixing the parcel machine at the mail centre aswell. That aint gona be voluntary.

[Kesknight]

Before thinking about Sundays Royal Mail need to get the Monday to Saturday service sorted out. There's loads of duties failing everyday because of lack of staff. The service will be even worse if we get Sundays as well to consider.

[rambo1]

Before thinking about Sundays Royal Mail need to get the Monday to Saturday service sorted out. There's loads of duties failing everyday because of lack of staff. The service will be even worse if we get Sundays as well to consider.

Exactly this . Get someone to finish all the walks that are consistently bringing stuff back every Saturday. There just aren't enough hrs in a Saturday duty any more. How long is it gonna be before the regulator fines start kicking in?
(I presume they know what's going on?)

[Grumpyoldmailman]

Before thinking about Sundays Royal Mail need to get the Monday to Saturday service sorted out. There's loads of duties failing everyday because of lack of staff. The service will be even worse if we get Sundays as well to consider.

As long as the specials and tracked go seems to be the way. What company’s have they got signed up for on the sundays, anyone know?

[yubin282]

What if no one 'volunteers' to work Sunday?

[General Mannerheim]

The only trust i'm interested in at this point is the one that you chumps will deal with my impending retirement in a quick fashion,

[Marshamp11]

Before thinking about Sundays Royal Mail need to get the Monday to Saturday service sorted out. There's loads of duties failing everyday because of lack of staff. The service will be even worse if we get Sundays as well to consider.

Exactly this . Get someone to finish all the walks that are consistently bringing stuff back every Saturday. There just aren't enough hrs in a Saturday duty any more. How long is it gonna be before the regulator fines start kicking in?
(I presume they know what's going on?)

Just on Saturday. I bring stuff back everyday and it has been that way for 2 years.

[Grumpyoldmailman]

What if no one 'volunteers' to work Sunday?

Agency

[tmac]

I wonder how many senior managers will be working on sunday's .

[SpacePhoenix]

Before thinking about Sundays Royal Mail need to get the Monday to Saturday service sorted out. There's loads of duties failing everyday because of lack of staff. The service will be even worse if we get Sundays as well to consider.

Exactly this . Get someone to finish all the walks that are consistently bringing stuff back every Saturday. There just aren't enough hrs in a Saturday duty any more. How long is it gonna be before the regulator fines start kicking in?
(I presume they know what's going on?)

Realistically RM might well have to reverse the SWW at some point

[DGH]

Realistically RM might well have to reverse the SWW at some point

I doubt they'd have agreed to introduce it if they thought there was the remotest possibility of having to reverse that decision. While the union have hailed it as a huge success, I suspect people working fewer hours suits RM's long term plan.

[edward918]

How will the 7 days per week work in offices such as mine where staff work 6 days per week, Monday - Saturday and have 1 week off every 5 weeks?