Someone has decided that every tracked item now needs a signature or photograph on delivery. Having read all the official announcements it does make me laugh how often the word 'efficency' is mentioned. The old uniform is being sent away for whatever they're going to do with it - recycling / repurposing I hope rather than being dumped in a landfill, but who knows? It actually looks good and people say it's comfy but, instead of phasing it in with people getting new uniform when the old stuff wears out, we were all told last year to order everything and it'll all come in one go. In other news, the latest waste of tens of millions of pounds has hit the streets. Problem is, the office isn't big enough for what already needs to happen so, needless to say, the smaller office is staying put. My old office recently had a feasibility study to see if a smaller office nearby could fit in the same building. I know RM are looking to change the DO structure where they can. To be blunt many should be sold off and new ones built but where? And at what cost? It'll take billions of investment to get every DO up to a modern spec. There are some DO's where mail has to be transported by a lift as the sorting frames are on two floors - half hour waits for the lift are standard. Just down the road from me there's a DO in an old Victorian building that has five floors, three floors aren't used as there's no need for them. The problem of us being considered a parcels business is that many Delivery Offices weren't built with today's mail needs in mind. If Amazon are to go around leaving prescription pills on people's doorsteps that could lead to all sorts of fun.īut yes, an interesting development that can only be a good thing for RM. When Amazon and Royal Mail were competing for the Covid test kit contract who got it? Not based on price but based on delivering the things correctly.
WHISTL POSTIE DRIVERS
One lady actually printed a map out to give to drivers showing where they should go as she got so many Amazon parcels, and she's not even an Amazon customer. It was meant for a new build estate which clearly isn't on Amazon's sat navs yet as loads of residents on my delivery ask me what they should do with the parcels Amazon have left on their doorsteps that are meant for the new estate.
I deliver to a rural area and, last week, there was a parcel left at a farm entrance for days which had an address two miles away on it. Virtually every delivery postie must have seen things from Amazon (and other carriers) left on the wrong doorstep - their refusal to actually put anything through a letterbox makes their mistakes easier to spot. It did make me laugh as, although RM may not be able to compete on price, we can actually deliver things to the correct houses. I remember about a year ago a piece where someone who works for an online pharmacy was saying RM would never be able to compete with Amazon who offer a similar service, or will be soon. This just looks like an extension of that. 20:47Īnger - RM have been delivering for Pharmacy2U for a while now. RE: Launch of Royal Mail Health division….
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