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[Route1]

Firms now cancelling evening collections so they don't have for and getting delivery staff to collect for free and it's only going to get worse heard on grapevine next collection revision all boxes back onto delivery staff and no more afternoon S/A

All our boxes went onto delivery staff in the last revision. Apparently next collection revision all s/a will go & the collections will be based from the Mail Centre like the sat / sun covid collections.

[pieoftheday]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

[LouBarlow]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

But RM are generating revenue either way. I can’t believe people are complaining about this frankly, but then posties moan about literally any change to their working day. Definitely the whiniest profession out there.

[LancePercival]

Read one company think it was perfume shop were paying rm £12,000 pm for parcel collections, now they get it for nothing as delivery lad picks them up on his job, maybe thats what folk are going on about

[LouBarlow]

Read one company think it was perfume shop were paying rm £12,000 pm for parcel collections, now they get it for nothing as delivery lad picks them up on his job, maybe thats what folk are going on about

Yeah, you read nonsense and believed it.

[pieoftheday]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

But RM are generating revenue either way. I can’t believe people are complaining about this frankly, but then posties moan about literally any change to their working day. Definitely the whiniest profession out there.

They're still getting a service for free, it was originally 72p now it's nothing, so its free

[enskied]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Each second delivery cost royal mail a fortune apparently. Yet a free collection can take three days and cost them nothing at all.

[scotchy1962]

RM have historically charged for customer collections, it wasn't that long ago that you were told not to pick up from businesses unless they are paying for collection, and that included parcels.
Now who's to say these people now get their parcels collected for free as part of the latest money making initiatives.
I think just saying its nonsense is possibly not correct, maybe it has happened.
Either way to my way of thinking RM are missing a trick, nearly every company nowadays has a charge for everything and by not charging you are encouraging the numpties, who no there's no comeback, to not worry about if it gets collected or not.
Charge them a £1 and they will care a bit more and charge them more than that and it will really sharpen their minds.
At a rough estimate i would say i have about a 60% strike rate for them since they began and i only cover 4 dutys in a small town with 7 dutys altogether.
Maybe that's good or maybe it's bad, but the time wasted waiting around and trying to get a answer surely makes the staff costs in time lost outweigh any profit in it.
But then again what do i know i am a humble postie.

[postieblueshirt]

Read one company think it was perfume shop were paying rm £12,000 pm for parcel collections, now they get it for nothing as delivery lad picks them up on his job, maybe thats what folk are going on about

Yeah, you read nonsense and believed it.

yeah your right i must stop reading you posts..

[enskied]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

But RM are generating revenue either way. I can’t believe people are complaining about this frankly, but then posties moan about literally any change to their working day. Definitely the whiniest profession out there.

You are definitely not a postie Lou

[Nickvilla20]

Read one company think it was perfume shop were paying rm £12,000 pm for parcel collections, now they get it for nothing as delivery lad picks them up on his job, maybe thats what folk are going on about

If you do so much business with Royal Mail the collection is usually free anyway or was when I was on collections unless they have to pay extra for a lorry to go in.

[Nickvilla20]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

But RM are generating revenue either way. I can’t believe people are complaining about this frankly, but then posties moan about literally any change to their working day. Definitely the whiniest profession out there.

They're still getting a service for free, it was originally 72p now it's nothing, so its free

If the collection is free then you will probably get more business. How many time have you been shopping online and gone for the company that offers free delivery?

As with collections been free it sort of makes sense if you already have someone in the area delivering then it won’t cost any extra to collect. A collection usually takes no longer than delivering a parcel unless they have no idea what’s going on then it can be a problem.

[LouBarlow]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

Nevertheless customers are still getting a collection service for free

But RM are generating revenue either way. I can’t believe people are complaining about this frankly, but then posties moan about literally any change to their working day. Definitely the whiniest profession out there.

You are definitely not a postie Lou

I definitely am. I’m just not a serial moaner like most other posties, and can appreciate moves made by the company to safeguard my job, and yours. If it encourages more people to use us for collections, it is a wise move. Why people can’t just do the job as they are instructed I don’t know. If RM want you to pick up parcels on delivery, just do it! You are being paid to work between set hours and how those hours are filled, isn’t dictated by you. If you want that, go and start a self-employed business.

[richietns]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

For a company losing a million a day not charging for a service doesn't make sense even if it were 30p undercutting absolutely everyone,it puts more time on going to more houses whether your in the area or not more petrol more in van if parcel not there more wasted time,company's are meant to make profit not give money away,company's who give free delivery incorporate the price into the product its nigh on a year RM just give that extra profit away,they have a history of doing stupid things you have to much faith in them.

[LouBarlow]

We can't be losing money anymore as we keep giving away free collections to customers

How are they free? They are still paying postage and we get all of it, in comparison to if they take it to the post office where they take their own cut. Why posties continue to complain about services that pay their wages is beyond me.

Because the collection part is the service they were paying for

And so is knocking on someone’s door to deliver a parcel. The price they are paying for postage alone is worth it for RM. Especially when you consider how much cheaper it is to send items with our competitors.

For a company losing a million a day not charging for a service doesn't make sense even if it were 30p undercutting absolutely everyone,it puts more time on going to more houses whether your in the area or not more petrol more in van if parcel not there more wasted time,company's are meant to make profit not give money away,company's who give free delivery incorporate the price into the product its nigh on a year RM just give that extra profit away,they have a history of doing stupid things you have to much faith in them.

If you charge extra on top of the postage, it will dissuade people from using the service entirely. They will simply drop it into a Post Office when passing, and we lose money via the cut the PO takes from posting this way. It is a way to build up loyalty and establish a user base that you can then eventually start charging. RM want it to be as convenient as possible to send items using its services, and offering to collect for free is just another way of doing so.