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D2d mail down.

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wazer
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D2d mail down.

Post by wazer »

Has it been mentioned to our lovely Director's and CEO, that we still deliver D2ds to every house in UK.So how the he'll is the post down.Yes the stamped post but we still cover every new house being built. Majority of my calls is junk mail.Or am I missing something.Only 5 this week.
Shirtbuttons
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Shirtbuttons »

I have finally realised you might as well talk to the brick wall :arrrghhh
bo72
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by bo72 »

Although I would agree that mail volumes have declined over the years I have been a postie there now seems to be a lot more than there has been over the last couple of years since Corona virus started. I also haven't heard anything about the mail volumes dropping off lately. Could this be a coincidence?
Cucumber
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Cucumber »

Mail volumes have increased hugely in the past 2 years.

It's just that this can't be used to beat us with, hence the non reporting of it.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Cucumber wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 19:34
Mail volumes have increased hugely in the past 2 years.

It's just that this can't be used to beat us with, hence the non reporting of it.
Packets and Tracked are up, letters and flats are down
Cucumber
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Cucumber »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 20:45
Cucumber wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 19:34
Mail volumes have increased hugely in the past 2 years.

It's just that this can't be used to beat us with, hence the non reporting of it.
Packets and Tracked are up, letters and flats are down
Depends what dates you choose them from. Kind of like what RM do.
Clappedoutpostie
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Clappedoutpostie »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 20:45
Cucumber wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 19:34
Mail volumes have increased hugely in the past 2 years.

It's just that this can't be used to beat us with, hence the non reporting of it.
letters and flats are down
That’s not what RM reported to the stock market.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Clappedoutpostie wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 21:14
SpacePhoenix wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 20:45
Cucumber wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 19:34
Mail volumes have increased hugely in the past 2 years.

It's just that this can't be used to beat us with, hence the non reporting of it.
letters and flats are down
That’s not what RM reported to the stock market.
I can tell that they're down from the sizes of the batches we put through the CSS. If it weren't for the number of DPs on a batch we'd probably have started running multiple batches together.
Woody Guthrie
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Woody Guthrie »

I'm going to be completely honest here.
Letters are significantly down over the past couple of years.
So is D2D.
It might just be my area.
It is what it is.
Doesn't mean the delivery side is any easier, one letter or five letters for a door I'm still walking the same distance.
There I've said it.
Only dead fish follow the current
SpacePhoenix
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Woody Guthrie wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 21:26
I'm going to be completely honest here.
Letters are significantly down over the past couple of years.
So is D2D.
It might just be my area.
It is what it is.
Doesn't mean the delivery side is any easier, one letter or five letters for a door I'm still walking the same distance.
There I've said it.
Some of the drop in letters might be down to people working from home, maybe getting documents sent to them electronically rather than posting. Back when the current data protection regs came in, we saw a big drop in letters then

I've noticed that over the last few months I've received way less D2D in the post
TopperGas
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by TopperGas »

SpacePhoenix wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 21:31
Woody Guthrie wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 21:26
I'm going to be completely honest here.
Letters are significantly down over the past couple of years.
So is D2D.
It might just be my area.
It is what it is.
Doesn't mean the delivery side is any easier, one letter or five letters for a door I'm still walking the same distance.
There I've said it.
Some of the drop in letters might be down to people working from home, maybe getting documents sent to them electronically rather than posting. Back when the current data protection regs came in, we saw a big drop in letters then

I've noticed that over the last few months I've received way less D2D in the post
It's the opposite for me, all I seem to receive his D2D's or personally addressed junk mail, I rarely get any normal letters, you have to sense the drop in mail could well be business mail, letters to households doesn't seem to have fallen to me. Whilst packets/parcels maybe the biggest financial generators we still deliver an hell of a lot of mail each day.
Route1
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by Route1 »

Woody Guthrie wrote:
14 Jun 2022, 21:26
I'm going to be completely honest here.
Letters are significantly down over the past couple of years.
So is D2D.
It might just be my area.
It is what it is.
Doesn't mean the delivery side is any easier, one letter or five letters for a door I'm still walking the same distance.
There I've said it.
I concur.
wazer
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by wazer »

Can't argue with that.SIMON READ THIS.
2yearpostie
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by 2yearpostie »

Do catalogues count as mail? if so they are massivisly up
wazer
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Re: D2d mail down.

Post by wazer »

Yes totaly agree letters are down.I think since covid finished I've had one week without D2Ds ,.I dream pizzas.lol