Are Royal Mail delivering on foot every day?

ThatFragranceGuy said:
Realistically our "letters" are almost always adverts or stuff for previous occupants that we've given up on returning to sender.

Other than that it's usually something from Matt vickers, which is worse.

Can see why it's dwindling away
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For some unfathomable reason, the NHS seems to insist on sending out snail mail. Subscriptions to the likes of Private Eye are mail only.
 
Have a mate who is a postie, he says that parcels are now the priority, they don't care if no letters get delivered as long as all the parcels they go out with are delivered, he said most days they will take letters out but never get round to them so will bring 90% back, management dont care.
He's been there for about 5/6 years they are in general tryng to get rid of the older staff who have been there years are on better contracts and good pension plans and replace with minimum wage with no benefits. The quality of people they get he said is horrendous, he was working a lad from Tunisia very limited english speaker who couldn't read, he was permanently just delivering stuff to the wrong address's, took them 4 months to get shot of him, said the recruitment is a joke.
 
I see the actual postman delivering mail to the door maybe twice a week.

however, I see royal mail vans in the street multiple times a day delivering parcels.

Doesnt seem too efficient, especially when we get multiple parcels from different royal mail vans in the same day, sometimes 2 vans at a time.
 
No matter where you are in the country, all postmen are told the same thing - Prioritise parcels and take 1st class letters, so because of the amount of parcels, the letters will rarely be delivered daily. They end up back in the frame for the following day, then go through the same routine as the day before.
It's a chuffing nightmare for postal staff
 
I was a postman until the b@stard cancer floored me. It was a great job. But. There's no way it should have been privatised. It is expected to compete with parcel delivery conpanies and still deliver the mail. It not a workable economic model.
On the plus side, the feller who was best man at George Osborne's wedding made several million quid out of privatisation.
 
What have they done to upset the BBC, everyday there seems to be another story.

In the modern world other than physical parcels why are people still getting so many letters.

If it wasn’t for the latest Farm Foods and Dominoes offers or notification of a Barker and Stonehouse sale I’m not sure I’d get any mail.
 
NYboro said:
For some unfathomable reason, the NHS seems to insist on sending out snail mail. Subscriptions to the likes of Private Eye are mail only.
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I was waiting for a scan last year... letter came in the post 5 days after the scan was scheduled for. Lucky for me the Mrs worked there and got a heads up or otherwise I would have missed it

cant imagine the amount of wasted appointments that this crazy system creates.
 
We have the best village postie on the planet, a few years ago he even ran into a house to rescue 2 people caught in a house fire. He received community a recommendation from the fire service and police, and a £50 voucher from Royal Mail. He knows everyone in the village, and loves his job, but he's very critical since the new owners took control. Parcel priority, shortage of staff, and constantly asked to do more. I had a hospital letter delivered after my appointment was scheduled so didn't make it. The postmark on the envelope was the day of the appointment, the hospital letter was dated one week before the appointment was due. There could be serious consequences for people who don't attend appointments and could get taken off the hospital care list through no fault of their own.
 
I was a postie once for about a year, during wot was I guess a mid-life crisis - divorce, boozing too much, stressy IT jobs had got to me. Really enjoyed it - was fantastic therapy for the mind & body, a great mix of teamwork first thing with likeminded people who had opted out of "the real world", then out all day on your own (was a bike then). I was doing 10 hour days, and was surprised at the physical intensity required. Respect to the posties.
 
Schlumberger said:
I was a postman until the b@stard cancer floored me. It was a great job. But. There's no way it should have been privatised. It is expected to compete with parcel delivery conpanies and still deliver the mail. It not a workable economic model.
On the plus side, the feller who was best man at George Osborne's wedding made several million quid out of privatisation.
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The best man probably went to George's school and university too. Ok for some.
 
A lot of the parcel delivery companies and using drivers on Living Wage and pushing them to the limit - see film "Sorry I missed You". Some are new to the UK and desperate for work. Others I have noticed are using effectively members of the public and their kids to deliver parcels on the final legs of the journey. Its all putting pressure on Royal Mail and their delivery service. Parcels is a growth business while letters are declining. So its easy to see what is happening, parcels are getting priority.

I took a A4 letter containing 6 pages and was charged £3.15 by Royal Mail on Monday for first class delivery, its an expensive service now for letters. Small parcels sometimes don't cost much more and they must take up a lot more room and weight.

I am surprised the Royal Mail is struggling to recruit posties on Teesside. I thought there was shortage of work.
 
NYboro said:
For some unfathomable reason, the NHS seems to insist on sending out snail mail. Subscriptions to the likes of Private Eye are mail only.
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it's wild that their digital stuff works so well, any time we go to doctors or have tests or anything you can read all about it on the app before the my even get round to ringing you - if people register for the app they should switch to digital messaging because surely people would rather get the stuff faster
 
With NHS, its slow to change and its dealing with in general with a very elderly client base, people in their 80s and 90s often in low income groups.

I do use many Apps but I use the NHS App - the problem is you get test result and sometimes there is no explanation and no course of action. So the result can be wasted. I had a frozen shoulder I suspected and went/setn for a scan. I get a message back "you have orthoarthritis, its normal." I was a bit anxious. There was no other follow up or feedback. I did book another GP practice appointment to ask what did this mean. I saw a nurse who luckily was a ex NHS physio and she did show me the x-ray and said the black line on the bone was arthritis and I should do some arm exercises and time will heal it say 6 months. I did pay £50 to go to a private physio who actually did the exercises with me after one session I could do them myself at home. I was told the NHS physios don't touch now and there was a long wait hence I paid £50.
 
Much the same as everyone else. A couple of deliveries a week. The new owners have no interest in mail deliveries. They were fined £21 million last year for shyteness, but seem to view it as a bargain price for evading their statutory requirements. There are new regulatory requirements starting 1st April, with heavier fines. We shall see.
 
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