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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Hmmm the vote is over and the numbers are rising..........
Funny that.
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

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Ashington DO (NE22, NE62 - NE64)
Bridge Of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
Brierley Hill DO (DY5)
Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
Dover DO (CT15, CT16, CT17)
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Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Portslade DO (BN41, BN42)
Tarporley DO (CW6)
Tobermory SPDO (PA75)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

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Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
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I don't think my callrate has ever been so low. I'm just going to say that if the packets continue at these elevated levels and DTS rams the sequenced trays tomorrow then the unit is boned, mathematically.
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Mr Rush wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 16:33
I don't think my callrate has ever been so low. I'm just going to say that if the packets continue at these elevated levels and DTS rams the sequenced trays tomorrow then the unit is boned, mathematically.
Thursday nights seem to be the night now where loads of DSA hits the DTS time limits. My guess is that the big firms want loads to be delivered on Fridays and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 20:18
Mr Rush wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 16:33
I don't think my callrate has ever been so low. I'm just going to say that if the packets continue at these elevated levels and DTS rams the sequenced trays tomorrow then the unit is boned, mathematically.
Thursday nights seem to be the night now where loads of DSA hits the DTS time limits. My guess is that the big firms want loads to be delivered on Fridays and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
Fridays have been the busiest mail day for quite a while now in my DO.
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claretandblue wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 06:58
SpacePhoenix wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 20:18
Mr Rush wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 16:33
I don't think my callrate has ever been so low. I'm just going to say that if the packets continue at these elevated levels and DTS rams the sequenced trays tomorrow then the unit is boned, mathematically.
Thursday nights seem to be the night now where loads of DSA hits the DTS time limits. My guess is that the big firms want loads to be delivered on Fridays and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
Fridays have been the busiest mail day for quite a while now in my DO.
We still get the DTS releases hitting our office on a Saturday.....
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

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Aberdare DO (CF44, CF45)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62 - NE64)
Banbury DO (OX15 - OX17)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
Bridge Of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
Flint DO (CH6 and CH8)
Huntingdon DO (PE26 - PE29)
Ilfracombe DO (ME13)
Lydney DO (GL15)
Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Portslade DO (BN41, BN42)
Tarporley DO (CW6)
Tobermory SPDO (PA75)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

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USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 20:18
and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
Arrives in the unit. I wouldn't go so far as to say it goes out on delivery! :shhhhh
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Mr Rush wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 16:36
SpacePhoenix wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 20:18
and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
Arrives in the unit. I wouldn't go so far as to say it goes out on delivery! :shhhhh
If it is held for 5 days they would have to drop it in on Monday for Friday release.
But then it is possible it would be released at any point during that week if a proper letter was sequenced for that address.
So I think that not only is improbable but is pure rubbish.

And DM 26 would mean they have to work something else out.
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clashcityrocker wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 16:42
But then it is possible it would be released at any point during that week if a proper letter was sequenced for that address.
Yes, it could. But we know it mostly doesn't. The top of the week is dead. The majority of stuff gets released at the end of the week, so the bulk of a posting intended to be seen at the weekend will (theoretically) arrive through letterboxes on Friday or Saturday as intended at the cost of a few people seeing it at an unoptimal time.
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Mr Rush wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 17:07
clashcityrocker wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 16:42
But then it is possible it would be released at any point during that week if a proper letter was sequenced for that address.
Yes, it could. But we know it mostly doesn't. The top of the week is dead. The majority of stuff gets released at the end of the week, so the bulk of a posting intended to be seen at the weekend will (theoretically) arrive through letterboxes on Friday or Saturday as intended at the cost of a few people seeing it at an unoptimal time.
Is the top of the week at the beginning or the end?
Monday is a heavy mail day for us, as is Saturday.
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Barnacle wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 17:24
Is the top of the week at the beginning or the end?
Monday is a heavy mail day for us, as is Saturday.
Monday-Wednesday at the top and Thursday-Saturday the bottom half.

Very occassionally Monday is the heaviest sequenced day when the preceding Friday and Saturday have been unusually quiet. The nodes of the traffic wave are Monday and Thursday, the former is the falling edge and the latter the rising edge.
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clashcityrocker wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 16:42
Mr Rush wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 16:36
SpacePhoenix wrote:
04 Jun 2026, 20:18
and have worked out what day to drop it into RM's system to maximise the amount that goes out for delivery on a Friday.
Arrives in the unit. I wouldn't go so far as to say it goes out on delivery! :shhhhh
If it is held for 5 days they would have to drop it in on Monday for Friday release.
But then it is possible it would be released at any point during that week if a proper letter was sequenced for that address.
So I think that not only is improbable but is pure rubbish.

And DM 26 would mean they have to work something else out.
There a 4 types of DSA:

* DSA 1C (hardly any so far)
* DSA 2 day
* DSA 3 day
* DSA 5 day
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 20:07

There a 4 types of DSA:

* DSA 1C (hardly any so far)
* DSA 2 day
* DSA 3 day
* DSA 5 day
Is there anyway of determining which is which? Presumably the DSA 1st Class is marked as such? What do the five figure codes in the top right hand corner of the DSA mail mean?
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goneaway wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 20:20
SpacePhoenix wrote:
05 Jun 2026, 20:07

There a 4 types of DSA:

* DSA 1C (hardly any so far)
* DSA 2 day
* DSA 3 day
* DSA 5 day
Is there anyway of determining which is which? Presumably the DSA 1st Class is marked as such? What do the five figure codes in the top right hand corner of the DSA mail mean?
They are customers accounts, usually start C9... as far as I know.