What is the point, of having a Royal Mail?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Several weeks ago, I complained to RM about letters being delivered delayed, and in batches, along with junk mail. I also signed up to NOT receive junk mail. I received an apology from RM, and for a few weeks, the junk mail also stopped.

This morning, another yet batch of mail, and a pile of junk mail. All the letter had taken 14 to 16 days to deliver, some of the junk mail, had also time expired.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I'd suggest preserving your mental state and not getting wound up about it.

They're being deliberately trashed. It's owned by a Czech billionaire who bought it for less than the value of the land on which its sorting offices sit. I'm going to speculate that the plan is to deliberately crash it into the ground so it can be shut down and the land sold to housebuilders. I.e. good old-fashioned asset-stripping.

Do we need a postal service? Perhaps in future all messages could/should be online, so letters won't be needed. There's already a thriving market for parcel delivery, I regularly send parcels with InPost, who will deliver anything up to 2kg to the other end of the country for about £2.50. With tracking and often a delivery photo.

Many other countries are grappling with the same issues. As the volume of posted letters has declined, the cost of delivering each item has increased, as you still need to pay someone to walk or drive past most addresses.

 

[blup]

I suspect junk mail keeps them afloat. Dropped a large letter off at the PO and was given a choice of first class, delivery tomorrow and 2nd class, delivery in three working days, will see how it goes.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I'd suggest preserving your mental state and not getting wound up about it.

They're being deliberately trashed. It's owned by a Czech billionaire who bought it for less than the value of the land on which its sorting offices sit. I'm going to speculate that the plan is to deliberately crash it into the ground so it can be shut down and the land sold to housebuilders. I.e. good old-fashioned asset-stripping.

Do we need a postal service? Perhaps in future all messages could/should be online, so letters won't be needed. There's already a thriving market for parcel delivery, I regularly send parcels with InPost, who will deliver anything up to 2kg to the other end of the country for about £2.50. With tracking and often a delivery photo.

Many other countries are grappling with the same issues. As the volume of posted letters has declined, the cost of delivering each item has increased, as you still need to pay someone to walk or drive past most addresses.

Now try sending a letter or a parcel to a remote location or island for the same price

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I'd suggest preserving your mental state and not getting wound up about it.

They're being deliberately trashed. It's owned by a Czech billionaire who bought it for less than the value of the land on which its sorting offices sit. I'm going to speculate that the plan is to deliberately crash it into the ground so it can be shut down and the land sold to housebuilders. I.e. good old-fashioned asset-stripping.

It's causing very real problems... Some NHS departments, rely on mail, some on sms, others even on WhatsApp, or a web login. The whole NHS mess, is doing my head in, then RM, delaying delivering appointments, so I get no, or little warning.

RM should either take the job seriously, or concede defeat, and close down.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Now try sending a letter or a parcel to a remote location or island for the same price

They should pay a premium, as they often need to if not using Royal Mail.

People in remote places are currently being subsidised by the rest of us.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

The NHS should stop using the post for appointments. Which may be enough to bankrupt Royal Mail in itself. Definitely if TV licencing were banned from sending their millions of threatening harassment demands at the same time.

Perhaps the NHS could get some sort of robot-phone call service for people who still insist on being offline. They need to do something bold, as the concept of sending a message via a piece of paper carried to someone's door is pretty much dead.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Perhaps the NHS could get some sort of robot-phone call service for people who still insist on being offline. They need to do something bold, as the concept of sending a message via a piece of paper carried to someone's door is pretty much dead.

If the NHS would at least all work using a single method of communication, it would be a major step forward. When I get appointments, I write them in my diary, then when I get near them, I struggle to work out how I got the message, to recheck the details.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

They should pay a premium, as they often need to if not using Royal Mail.

People in remote places are currently being subsidised by the rest of us.

Yes I see your capitalist extremism is kicking in again.

The whole rationale of the Royal Mail is the ability to deliver everywhere at a set price.

 

[Notch7]

They're being deliberately trashed. It's owned by a Czech billionaire who bought it for less than the value of the land on which its sorting offices sit. I'm going to speculate that the plan is to deliberately crash it into the ground so it can be shut down and the land sold to housebuilders. I.e. good old-fashioned asset-stripping.

You are aware enough to it’s a problem, but unaware that you support and vote for parties that do it.


Farage and Tice if they win power would asset strip everything British and flog it to foreign private equity.


You vote against your best interests.

 

[Notch7]

It's causing very real problems... Some NHS departments, rely on mail, some on sms, others even on WhatsApp, or a web login. The whole NHS mess, is doing my head in, then RM, delaying delivering appointments, so I get no, or little warning.

RM should either take the job seriously, or concede defeat, and close down.

I’m convinced the Royal Mail don’t deliver every day, we seem to get nothing for days then suddenly a load…..my wife spoke to the postie once who admitted they were in a bit of chaos.

I really wish Royal Mail / Parcelforce had worked with Amazon / eBay etc before everybody else then they could’ve kept open thousands of post offices.

If I order from say DPD,they can give me tracking time slot of an hour




For the Royal Mail, The reality is that a fixed price for letter deliveries is not sustainable and they now make their money on parcels

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You are aware enough to it’s a problem, but unaware that you support and vote for parties that do it.


Farage and Tice if they win power would asset strip everything British and flog it to foreign private equity.


You vote against your best interests.

You do keep posting non-truths!

Labour approved the takeover.

You voted against your best interests.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Yes I see your capitalist extremism is kicking in again.

The whole rationale of the Royal Mail is the ability to deliver everywhere at a set price.

Extremism? Blimey, you really are skewed so far left you don't know which way anything is.

People in remote places pay a premium for lots of things. It's just how the world works. We don't have mains gas so pay more for heating. But I knew this when we moved here, I don't cry about it, demand my rights or expect anyone else to pay the difference.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Extremism? Blimey, you really are skewed so far left you don't know which way anything is.

Oh the irony. I'm not even over on the left.

Is there anybody in here that you consider as central?

People in remote places pay a premium for lots of things. It's just how the world works. We don't have mains gas so pay more for heating. But I knew this when we moved here, I don't cry about it, demand my rights or expect anyone else to pay the difference.

That's your choice, but it's different to the rationale

 

[blup]

People in remote places are currently being subsidised by the rest of us.

Roads? The NHS?