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General Discussion / Part time posties!
« Last post by Sorastro on January 25, 2024, 08:42:29 PM »Another brilliant idea thought up by the suits.......
There is talk of cutting down the number of days you will receive your mail, could be down to three days a week if the P.O. have their way.
I cannot see how that would work {let alone save money} if postmen have only 3 days to deliver six days worth of mail they will most definitely require more staff on those days which will undoubtedly cost more, granted the amount of letters posted nowadays pales in comparison to years ago {a good % of all mail is now emails and courier sent} but every address has to be covered. There has been a steady decline in the postal service as we can see as the vast majority of people now get their mail in the P.M., me included. I used to get my mail at 7 o'clock in the morning now if someone wants to send me an "urgent" before noon letter they have to pay extra and still no guarantee.
A classic example will be what will happen to those people who have prescriptions through the post?
Unless they have a plan B that I am not aware of {baring in mind I was in a very similar delivery industry for nearly 40 years} then my opinion is it's doomed to fail, that means more taxpayers money down the drain, lets see what they come up with.
There is talk of cutting down the number of days you will receive your mail, could be down to three days a week if the P.O. have their way.
I cannot see how that would work {let alone save money} if postmen have only 3 days to deliver six days worth of mail they will most definitely require more staff on those days which will undoubtedly cost more, granted the amount of letters posted nowadays pales in comparison to years ago {a good % of all mail is now emails and courier sent} but every address has to be covered. There has been a steady decline in the postal service as we can see as the vast majority of people now get their mail in the P.M., me included. I used to get my mail at 7 o'clock in the morning now if someone wants to send me an "urgent" before noon letter they have to pay extra and still no guarantee.
A classic example will be what will happen to those people who have prescriptions through the post?
Unless they have a plan B that I am not aware of {baring in mind I was in a very similar delivery industry for nearly 40 years} then my opinion is it's doomed to fail, that means more taxpayers money down the drain, lets see what they come up with.