Reply to: The end of the postal service?

[TimberWolf]

Was Crozier not the one who advocated the delivery of junk mail as it made the Royal Mail a fortune? Any business model that suggests delivering the one entity that p1sses its customers off the most is the way forward is doomed to failure in my opinion.
Anyway, can't say I have too much sympathy with them as they consistently seem to deliver me more than my fair share of bills!!!!

It looks as if Crozier is taking the mickey out of everyone. Sums up British management over the last 10 years.

[shaunbhoy]

Boomed.

Was Crozier not the one who advocated the delivery of junk mail as it made the Royal Mail a fortune? Any business model that suggests delivering the one entity that p1sses its customers off the most is the way forward is doomed to failure in my opinion.
Anyway, can't say I have too much sympathy with them as they consistently seem to deliver me more than my fair share of bills!!!!

[TimberWolf]

Chief executive Adam Crozier has been awarded a total of £2.4m in performance bonuses since arriving at the company in 2003. The figure boosted his £3.6m salary over the period by two-thirds – but it does not include a series of further perks that have added millions to his pay package during his time at the troubled company...Royal Mail Group has paid its executive board members – who typically number between four and six at a time – a total of more than £22m in salaries alone. But the executives received £10.7m in performance-related bonuses...The bonus bill has risen from £616,000, shared between seven executives and the former non-executive chairman Allan Leighton in 2002/3, to £1.03m split by just four individuals last year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-1801011.html

Boomed.

[FarmerPalmer]

I had Home Delivery Network deliver the new Terry Pratchett from Amazon this week.

Was it an issue?

Not to me, Amazon or Home Delivery Network.

It is for Royal Mail because they are losing business.

It is for their striking employees because if Royal Mail lose business then even more of them will lose their jobs.

I think maybe Darwin might have had something to say about Royal Mail employees.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

What would all the simpletons with regional accents do if they stopped running trade unions though?

Well there's one in charge of the Tory party, so they'd find jobs somewhere.

[TimberWolf]

Ours only delivers junk mail addressed to The Occupier even though I filled in that 'no junk mail' request thingy over a year ago.

Postmen hate the junk mail just as much as you do. Some even go to the trouble of making it 'disappear' before you get to see it. They do get paid a bit extra to deliver it though. Most people have good reliable postmen and I don't think we will get a better service for less cost than what we have now. It can only get worse or more expensive. The only area where savings could be made, IMO, are in the pensions package, but there should be bigger public sector targets to go for before lowly paid postmen.

[singhr]

You'll miss it when it's gone.

Ours only delivers junk mail addressed to The Occupier even though I filled in that 'no junk mail' request thingy over a year ago.

[Mich the Tester]

If any of us kicked up a fuss when our employers/clients wanted to modernise and demanded that they take on some of our ideas we would be thrown out on the street within 30 seconds.

They are living in a fantasy world.

permies

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Amazon are already looking a contingency plans and if they manage to still deliver without Royal Mail then quite possibly they (and others) will make a permanent shift to a more reliable service.

Wrong on one count:

Amazon.co.uk has cancelled its long-term contract to use the Royal Mail for parcels over 500 grams and will use a rival service, Home Delivery Network

[swamp]

I'd settle for 2 or 3 reliable deliveries a week.

Right now I get no mail. My redirections from the flat I just sold have mostly gone missing. Let them have a national strike I say: at least it will resolve the problem in SW London quicker.

[Sysman]

Amazon are already looking a contingency plans and if they manage to still deliver without Royal Mail then quite possibly they (and others) will make a permanent shift to a more reliable service.

That has certainly happened with previous strikes.

[TimberWolf]

You'll miss it when it's gone.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

First decide what you want of Royal Mail:

1. A national public service that carries a letter from any part of the Kingdom to any other for the same nominal fee.
2. A commercial delivery service like any other.
3. A hybrid: let it compete in the market, but step in to ensure that it (or somebody) will guarantee delivery everywhere for a nominal fee.

Your choice will pretty much decide what direction you advocate it taking. What you can't have is setup no. 2 with the results of no. 1.


BTW a not dissimilar analysis applies to the BBC too.

[minestrone]

If any of us kicked up a fuss when our employers/clients wanted to modernise and demanded that they take on some of our ideas we would be thrown out on the street within 30 seconds.

They are living in a fantasy world.

[SantaClaus]

I was amazed when my post arrived at 8:00 this morning...













....then I realised it was a kind neighbour from a few streets away where my post had been wrongly delivered.

Regular occurence round these parts. They always get the house number right, just not the street.