DSA

[plodsie]

I have always been under the impression that DSA was introduced only to locations where competitors would have difficulty in supplying a delivery. e.g. Outer Hebrides, Highlands, etc... This does not seem to be the case does it?

From PostCon:

End-to-end competition has declined by four million items and stands at less than one per cent of total mail volume, but mail volumes collected by ‘access’ operators and delivered by Royal Mail have more than doubled and now represent 19 per cent of revenue-derived mail volumes.

The research shows that a larger number of small businesses are beginning to benefit from competition, but much more needs to be done before small firms can experience the full benefits of competition that larger mailers have seen since the market was opened.

The full benefits seem only to be one thing.... CHEAP POST!

And there is choice... but not for Delivery (Probably the most important of all stages!!!! )

PostCon seems to be unlike any other Regulatory bodies in that it regulates only one company... US... and they are crap at it!

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... /11106.htm

[councillor]

Our competitors don't deliver to anybody, anywhere. We do, on our lonesome own. Whether it's central London or your auld granny on the Isle of Bute, it's us, Royal Mail. However, if they ever did start to actually deliver the stuff, then your Auld Granny on Bute or Raithlin will have to find other ways of sending those shortbreads at Christmas.

[heapsy]

We are a heavy traffic office, one of the bussiest in the Manchester(M) postcode area, and we get loads of DSA stuff, about 25 to 30 percent I reckon.

[billyb8]

At CB MC the first two hours of the night shift are on DSA. That's before we are allowed to touch local to local 1st class.