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Post by dodgydave on Mar 29, 2023 1:42:37 GMT
The Royal Mail board are threatening to put the 500 year old company into administration if the union do not accept their latest offer. Royal Mail talks over pay on brink of collapse What have we here, a company that makes £750m one year, pays out £450m in dividends and bonuses, then claims to be losing £1m a day the year after. Before you claim letters are dying, the Royal Mail Group recently changed its name to International Distributions Services and ended cross-subsidy between its three arms Royal Mail, Parcelforce and GLS. Between the group they delivered 8 billion letters, and 1.5 billion parcels in 2022. Royal Mail is by far the biggest parcel delivery company in the UK and has built / in the process of building 4 new "super" parcel sorting hubs. Royal Mail has a "Universal Service Obligation" to deliver post to every address in the UK, 6 days a week (Mon-Sat). It doesn't take a scientist to work out what is going on, they want to ditch the USO, so they have ended cross-subsidy so they can turn round to government and claim it is impossible to deliver. Cue some foreign billionaire rescuing the company but without the USO... and you can all enjoy picking your mail up from the (not so) local depot. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 29, 2023 2:01:15 GMT
I'm not up to speed on current Royal Mail affairs. But one thing is for sure, Paula Vennells should be hauled, in handcuffs if necessary to court and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which in the US would mean 60 years before parole could be considered. In this country it means she's awarded a CBE.
Apologies, I didn't mean to divert the thread. Well not so soon anyway, lol.
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Post by dodgydave on Mar 29, 2023 2:08:08 GMT
I 'm not up to speed on current Royal Mail affairs. But one thing is for sure, Paula Vennells should be hauled, in handcuffs if necessary to court and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which in the US would mean 60 years before parole could be considered. In this country it means she's awarded a CBE. Apologies, I didn't mean to divert the thread. Well not so soon anyway, lol. Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 29, 2023 2:13:23 GMT
I 'm not up to speed on current Royal Mail affairs. But one thing is for sure, Paula Vennells should be hauled, in handcuffs if necessary to court and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which in the US would mean 60 years before parole could be considered. In this country it means she's awarded a CBE. Apologies, I didn't mean to divert the thread. Well not so soon anyway, lol. Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 29, 2023 4:00:59 GMT
Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? Where do peeps take their parcels to use the RM, the PO's of course.......Its the only option they have if they want to use the RM or parcel force. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 8:52:01 GMT
Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? Exactly, some people are stupid. Will this affect my telephone service?  |
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Post by wapentake on Mar 29, 2023 9:45:42 GMT
But But privatisation was a great idea,wasn't it?
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Post by Steve on Mar 29, 2023 9:51:00 GMT
The Royal Mail board are threatening to put the 500 year old company into administration if the union do not accept their latest offer. Royal Mail talks over pay on brink of collapse What have we here, a company that makes £750m one year, pays out £450m in dividends and bonuses, then claims to be losing £1m a day the year after. Before you claim letters are dying, the Royal Mail Group recently changed its name to International Distributions Services and ended cross-subsidy between its three arms Royal Mail, Parcelforce and GLS. Between the group they delivered 8 billion letters, and 1.5 billion parcels in 2022. Royal Mail is by far the biggest parcel delivery company in the UK and has built / in the process of building 4 new "super" parcel sorting hubs. Royal Mail has a "Universal Service Obligation" to deliver post to every address in the UK, 6 days a week (Mon-Sat). It doesn't take a scientist to work out what is going on, they want to ditch the USO, so they have ended cross-subsidy so they can turn round to government and claim it is impossible to deliver. Cue some foreign billionaire rescuing the company but without the USO... and you can all enjoy picking your mail up from the (not so) local depot. Amazing how they've got into this mess. Certainly makes all those that say it was sold off too cheap look a bit silly. It had and has huge deep rooted problems and the current management seems to have been determined to make more problems. |
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Post by Vinny on Mar 29, 2023 10:24:27 GMT
But But privatisation was a great idea,wasn't it? A response to ideas from the EU which the Coalition government approved of. |
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Post by patman post on Mar 29, 2023 12:43:31 GMT
Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? Only those who don't bother with real news. Do you still think BT is part of the same group too... |
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Post by patman post on Mar 29, 2023 12:57:14 GMT
I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? Where do peeps take their parcels to use the RM, the PO's of course.......Its the only option they have if they want to use the RM or parcel force. Post offices offer just one product that's not available elsewhere — Parcelforce will collect if ordered online or by phone. And there's a number of other courier companies... |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 29, 2023 13:11:53 GMT
Where do peeps take their parcels to use the RM, the PO's of course.......Its the only option they have if they want to use the RM or parcel force. Post offices offer just one product that's not available elsewhere — Parcelforce will collect if ordered online or by phone. And there's a number of other courier companies... I kown there are other courier companys, But if you post parcels by the RM you have to take them to the PO. |
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Post by patman post on Mar 29, 2023 13:45:24 GMT
Post offices offer just one product that's not available elsewhere — Parcelforce will collect if ordered online or by phone. And there's a number of other courier companies... I kown there are other courier companys, But if you post parcels by the RM you have to take them to the PO. We like things delivered. Why would we want to schlepp all the way with a parcel to a post office?
Take the effort out of sending parcels With Parcel Collect, we'll pick up your parcels from your home, safeplace or work.
We'll even bring your labels too.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 29, 2023 13:56:37 GMT
Yes she should. However, that is the Post Office, which is entirely separate from Royal Mail. I agree. However, most people who are not as clued up as you would probably associate the two. Dont you think? I still do. For most of my life they have been one, and in my town the two are still in the same building, it's just that you have to walk around to a separate entrance now rather than get it over the main counter. |
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Post by jonksy on Mar 29, 2023 14:31:03 GMT
I kown there are other courier companys, But if you post parcels by the RM you have to take them to the PO. We like things delivered. Why would we want to schlepp all the way with a parcel to a post office?
Take the effort out of sending parcels With Parcel Collect, we'll pick up your parcels from your home, safeplace or work.
We'll even bring your labels too.
You don't have have leave your own house to have the likes of dpd etc pick up from home....The RM are on strike more than they work and are a total waste of space plus being more expensive option. |
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