The Royal Mail is dying on its arse

[KIlliePieMyOhMy]

Have friends that work for Royal Mail.
They tell me tracked parcels are the only thing that are prioritised.
Many posties bring letters back as they simply do not have time to complete a round.
If Royal Mail go to second class post not being daily they fear posties being made redundant.
Where did it all go wrong for this great national service,

Vince Cable and Amazon are key contributors

I find the postal service very frustrating.
I don’t receive Mail much anymore, often very delayed letters and some that have never arrived.
It’s rare to see a postie on their round these days.

I don’t think they modernised when the likes of Amazon, Evri and Dpd could bring parcels the next day. Royal Mail are still very slow even now.

I can’t remember the last time I used Royal Mail and it’s a rare day I get any post. Most of my bills are paperless and places I shop with don’t use them as their delivery service. Last week I did have a knock on the door from a neighbour a few streets away has been given some of my post but thankfully it was nothing important. I’ve also had post for other houses. Very careless.

We only get post twice a week now. Complete nuisance a friend received a hospital appointment the day after she should have been there.

The NHS workers on here need to take note of this when posting about missed appointments

People just don’t use it anymore. I love writing letters and sending cards but it’s just so expensive now. I used to post 60 Christmas cards. Last Christmas I posted 15.

I nearly died the other day when I bought a standard first class stamp for the first time in ages. £1.70!!

We have recently moved to a semi rural village and I have to say Royal mail have been brilliant, especially as they seem to deliver all the Amazon parcels !

Daughter and I were looking out her window whilst chatting on Friday. Royal Mail van pulls up outside my house parking at weird angle. Guy gets out, leaves his door open and looks in back of his van. Dithers a bit, then bangs his doors and drives off. Seems a bit odd I said to DD.
a few minutes later I received an email from a company saying a delivery had been attempted by Royal Mail but I wasn’t in and they would try again on the 23rd.
absolute lying twat !

Amazon avoid rural locations. You will find it goes via Royal Mail. Rural is not profitable for Amazon
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This is what happens when you privatise essential services

It is a private service that has to compete with other private services whilst also having a universal service obligation to boldly go where no other providers will go

Royal Mail is the only carrier that is obligated to deliver everywhere for the same price. Other carriers can pick and choose where they deliver to and charge varying amounts if they want. The universal service obligation makes huge parts of Royal Mails business unprofitable so where’s the money to come from for modernisation? Removing the universal service obligation however is hugely unpopular. I wouldn’t want to be the one trying to balance this.

It took me 10 days to get a letter from my local council delivered to me and a month for a letter from my bank. (I used to work for one of them and I know how the mail room works. They print everything off centrally, put it in envelopes and the Royal Mail lorry collects the bulk mail already partially postcode sorted).

They are awful, lost 2 parcels of mine in the last month and with letters they stockpile and only deliver every 9-11 days. And we seem to have a different delivery person each time who seem more “Evri”, if you catch my drift.

I always used Royal Mail 2 nd class to send off eBay parcels . Only had two not delivered and usually they were received within a couple of days so I don’t agree.

What’s the point in buying one though?

Nothing gets there the next day.

Our postie is great, friendly, local PO great -don’t know what people are wingeing about.

i could bet once it fails that Amazon will up its prices for delivery. We are ina rural area, 8 miles from nearest small town. We don’t need daily service 3 times a week would be plenty. The fuel costs, driving up and down all the local farm tracks to deliver, must be a fortune.

They’re incredibly expensive, as well as being slow.
They quoted me £125 to send a small parcel to Bristol; Evri did it for £7.95 🤷🏻‍♀️

Upcoming appointments can be found in the NHS App.

ABSOLUTE garbage management which started as far back as 2003 with Crozier.

He was just as useless at the FA!!

60 cards would be about £81!!!

The NHS app is in fact very hit and miss. I'm under 2 consultants for separate conditions, for one all my appointments are in the app, for the other, none (although for that dept I do get a text reminder a few days before). On the plus side re appointment letters I read recently that a new class of postage is going to be created for NHS mail to ensure prompt delivery

We are very rural. Have excellent postman and also excellent Amazon service.

I can see Royal Mail dying out.

When you can buy cards more cheaply than the stamp to send them, fewer and fewer people will bother.

Not everyone has the NHS app, but most people have email, so it ought to be possible for appointments to be sent that way. I know people who’ve missed appointments because the letter arrived after the date.