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ColinB · Guest

I just received this Press Release from the government's COI Press Office. Thought you might be interested:

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Errr. Well the Government want rid of the Royal mail. At least the tax payer won't have to fund it. Some of the poposals we have already heard. As long as I still get my post who really cares.

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7182 Location: North Yorkshire

I care. I want my post delivered to my home and by people who are honest and trustworthy. I think we are on a slippery slope downhill and at the bottom of it post will get delivered by any old riff raff to housing estates etc. and places where there are not many properties will probably have to collect their own post from goodness knows where. I would much prefer the Royal Mail bringing mine. You only have to look at the sort of firms who bring parcels these days to see what is ahead. We get parcels left on our doorstep out in all weathers and half the time they have been left at the wrong address! As long as they get rid of it they don't care.
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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

The question is will people get their post though

Or at least will they get it at a standard price especially if they live in a remote area where delivery is not profitable

I am generally in favour of privatisation but I am not sure it will work with the postal service
It's a bit like when the Major Government made the mistake of privatising British Rail which led to masses of problems and a disjointed service

Royal Mail certainly needs a kick up the backside but there are other ways of achieving the desired result
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undiscovered · Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough

Well how long til we have to go and collect our mail from the PO, at least that will give the PO some more work but rubbish fo rthe rest of us.

As long as the queens head is still on the stamps eh? at least they got their priorities right. Private money = job cuts
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

I wonder if we will have to pay for our mail to be delivered.

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Ian Robinson · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:54 am Post subject:

A year ago I'd have been all against the privatisation of Royal Mail but the company is so utterly useless that I welcome any change now.

Don't know about other areas but here in the North West there's a massive backlog of mail because the managers cut the number of sorting offices from 5 to 2 - which would be bad enough, but the dozy sods did it a month before Christmas. That's a special kind of stupid.

ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

I agree with you about mail in the North West Ian

In mid December I sent a quite valuable item to the USA by Air Mail only to receive an e mail late last night telling me it had not arrived
Whren I took the item to the Post Office they said it would take around three days to reach its destination

Of course the problem could be at the USA end but somehow especially bearing in mind the weather in mid December I have a feeling it it stuck somewhere in Britain but tracing such items is virtually impossible

Does anyone happen to know whether one can claim any compensation from Royal Mail in such circumstances and if so up to what financial limit?
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I must be fortunate, for a change, to live in the right part of the country, because I've never had a problem with Royal Mail.

Everything I ordered online before Christmas arrived by Dec 24th, even something I only ordered two days before, which wasn't expected until the New Year (I was out at the time, but they kept the parcel office open until 5pm so I could go and collect it). Everything I sent arrived at the other end within two days.

(I even ordered something from Amazon France this week. They sent it on Tuesday and it arrived yesterday. They did cheat, though - it came from Milton Keynes!)

Nice of the government to relieve the new foreign owners of the pension fund liability - well, of course, no-one would be interested if they didn't.

Perhaps a privatised national mail service will be more efficient and less wasteful - they could start by doing something about all the red rubber bands which the postmen drop everywhere.
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undiscovered · Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 650 Location: Peterborough

I have no complaint about service here either, snow and wieght of orders didn't affect service in the slightest. Like Ron all our post arrived on in time for Christmas.

I have a pile of those red bands on my desk as we use them when banking rather than buying them (every penny and that) but it would benice not to see them strewn all over the road
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Will the cost of a stamp rise if the Royal Mail is sold off? Postmen & Women are paid over £300 a week, which is a good wage. I wonder if they will still get the same wage. I suppose the contracts will be the same, but new recruits may get a lower wage.

ColinB · Guest

First Class post will be costing 46p in April which is regulated. Single item post isn't what the big operators want, they want the large bulk contracts so it's bound to suffer. Personally, I'm fed up with Royal Mail. They've been useless here in the last month, whereas parcel companies have been working well. The outlook isn't good for RM.

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK