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[Elite Pete]

I did a stint at the Royal Mail in Chester over the Christmas period and I think it won't be long before it goes belly up. The union is king and the staff are lazy. The Royal Mail had just put prices of the 1st class stamps up to 60p which all but killed off the posting of the Christmas card. There were 6 temps in goods in and they got rid of two after a couple weeks the four of use left did the work while the Royal Mail staff sat in the canteen watching tv

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I fail to understand what the problem is.

So Royal Mail are now charging a realistic price to take your parcel say from Cornwall and deliver it to an address in Scotland for an average of a fiver.  I call that a more than reasonable price to pay.

The days of the 1d black are well and truly over, as you all want to earn more than 1s. a day!

[albitz]

Many parcels which last month woud have cost £2.70 to send will now cost £5.65. Thats an increase of more than 100%.
It doesnt help businesses in their struggle to survive,when they have to pass the increases on to their customers. Privatise the whole thing,cancel union recognition,and drag the whole thing kicking and screaming into the competive commercial world.

[OmegaAnglesey]

Many parcels which last month woud have cost £2.70 to send will now cost £5.65. Thats an increase of more than 100%.
It doesnt help businesses in their struggle to survive,when they have to pass the increases on to their customers. Privatise the whole thing,cancel union recognition,and drag the whole thing kicking and screaming into the competive commercial world.

Agreed ...

[ffcgary1]

I totally agree with Lizzy's point, it is a great price for sending something the length of the country, where it falls down is the lazy gobby git drivers who dont bother to deliver to the address on the parcel but stick a card through the door then dump it at a local post office.
Twice this has happened to me withing the last week, second time they did not bother with the card, dumped it at the post office and marked it on the tracking scanner as delivered.
It was not delivered to me and a call to the parcel fail office confirmed it was at the post office.
I asked why a card was not put through the door , the reply was "our drivers are very busy and he must have forgotten", uh more like he couldnt be bothered to knock and wanted to get back to his ps2 at the depot.
WE ARE PAYING FOR A SERVICE THAT WE DONT GET.

[aaronjb]

Many parcels which last month woud have cost £2.70 to send will now cost £5.65. Thats an increase of more than 100%.
It doesnt help businesses in their struggle to survive,when they have to pass the increases on to their customers. Privatise the whole thing,cancel union recognition,and drag the whole thing kicking and screaming into the competive commercial world.

Which is great, but .. how much would a letter cost to send via a commercial courier? Nobody will be happy when the new privatised RM charges £4.95 to send a letter first class...

[albitz]

Letters are almost a thing of the past now,and soon will be completely.The revenue they have lost from the lack of letters being posted is probably the reason they are hiking up all the other prices to compensate.

[Kevin Wood]

Letters are almost a thing of the past now,and soon will be completely.The revenue they have lost from the lack of letters being posted is probably the reason they are hiking up all the other prices to compensate.

Indeed. In fact, I'm almost considering filling in my letter box, as all Royal Mail deliver to it is spam, in abundance.

[albitz]

Yep.Loads of junk mail and the occasional bill.Dont want either.

[Rods2]

Monopolies don't work, period. They end up being there for the convenience of the work force, not the customer.

The sooner Royal Mail is privatized and opened to competition the better. 

There have been massive price increases over the last few years to pay for union bloody-mindedness and a very inefficient workforce.

I very, very rarely send a letter these days, due to the cost, preferring to do everything online, which just goes to show that when companies push prices up to unrealistic levels or Governments do the same with taxes, then the population will change their behaviour to avoid them.

[TheBoy]

Trouble is, you can't fully privatise until there it is viable as a business.

Yup, the civil service mentality still rules within RM, same as Titish Brelecom when I first started there.

[Elite Pete]

First day at work for RM, six of us turned up at the time we were asked, 6am. I took us ages to get into the place then we had to stand around for over an hour because no one knew we were coming

To get paid we had to sign in and out everyday and get a manager to sign it, problem was the sheet was never there and we had to chase it up, sometimes it took a couple of days to get it signed off. Last day of work, no sheet which I couldn't chase up because I wasn't there again so £45 down. Emailed RM and answered a couple of questions they asked telling them which manager was in at the time etc and they replied that it's tough, I wouldn't get paid because I didn't get the sheet signed as per our contracts  

[STMO123]

RM, as PO Telephones used to be' is a great hulking dinosaur. The employees are not necessarily lazy or militant, they are just carrying on with the job as it's always been. They were probably quite keen when they first started, but the old hands would soon knock that out of them.
When I started work for post office telephones, as a bushy tailed 17 year old, I was shocked at the inefficiency. We would pick up our jobs from the exchange, all drive off in our little vans and meet up at the cafe round the corner for an hour-long breakfast. (Within sight of the 'bosses' at the exchange).
Then we would do a couple of hours work before all meeting up again at the pub. Swift two pints and a game of footie later, we had time for one more job then drop the van off.
Don't get me wrong, it was great, but no way to run a business.

[TheBoy]

RM, as PO Telephones used to be' is a great hulking dinosaur. The employees are not necessarily lazy or militant, they are just carrying on with the job as it's always been. They were probably quite keen when they first started, but the old hands would soon knock that out of them.
When I started work for post office telephones, as a bushy tailed 17 year old, I was shocked at the inefficiency. We would pick up our jobs from the exchange, all drive off in our little vans and meet up at the cafe round the corner for an hour-long breakfast. (Within sight of the 'bosses' at the exchange).
Then we would do a couple of hours work before all meeting up again at the pub. Swift two pints and a game of footie later, we had time for one more job then drop the van off.
Don't get me wrong, it was great, but no way to run a business.

That was how it was when I started in the late 80s. I spent my first couple of months (as their was a delay getting any courses, as I joined a bit later than the others) with some of the new starters, who were still keen and dedicated. I think this was on purpose by the management.

I think the old school boys found it very difficult when SMCD merged with others for a NHC area, and the new management regime came in.  And the blondie bird who currently runs Openreach, she is a nasty piece of work, caught out by not going on mute on a conf call last year, and had to take a few weeks off. Right ideas, wrong implementation plan.

RM have yet to go through all that shite yet. It's employees need a few years of pain to turn it around.