Royal Mail stops Saturday letter deliveries

[Steevo]

My brother is my postman
There's six of them in there local sorting office there's not room to swing a cat in it
They have to stager the sorting know only two in at any one time it means he's 2 hours late at starting his run parsels are mental there bigger than Christmas or black Friday

Explains why they are still doing parcel deliveries on Saturdays - they're probably glad to get them out the door rather than taking up space in the sorting office. Probably makes the van a bit cosy Mon-Fri too compared to a normal week.

 

[colhonk]

Only been delivering once a week here for weeks.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

I thought I had rose tinted glasses remembering getting the milk and post in first thing as a kid at least 3pm before we get anything now and that’s sporadic. Such a shame we have great regular postie but it must stem from cutbacks that have brought it to its knees have done shopfitting for the po before way too many bosses involved

 

[kiwi pom]

I think the posties stagger there runs round here now so we see them 3 days a week in our street, not sure on rural deliveries. Couriers do most parcels and are flying up and down all the time in their vans.

 

[Banana Bar]

For years I’ve said no body needs a daily postal service, every third day would surely be enough. This could well be the future of Royal Mail.

BB

 

[Sid]

I remember my mother getting letters from my grandmother on Sunday morning and she would write back for the afternoon post at 3.10 . This was between cooking Sunday lunch and doing the Express cryptic crossword

I have a collection of those sort of correspondence from relatives, some are just a few words in reply. It was how they organised to meet up !

 

[Sid]

For years I’ve said no body needs a daily postal service, every third day would surely be enough. This could well be the future of Royal Mail.

BB

It's how its run other places around the world.

In Australia they use to get mail in a bag on monday and Friday. Left at the end of the road.
They were lucky to be on a main road or they would have to go into town and collect it!

 

[An Gof]

We get very erratic post at the moment and sometimes it is every other day. Even had a Sunday delivery recently!
Our normal guy is first class and will normally make sure signed for stuff gets left!! He does loads of parcels now as well which has got to be good for the PO.
I just need the last few Luddites to stop writing cheques and pay by BACS!

couldn't agree more. Drives me insane the farmers still paying me by cheque. In the current lockdown situation I put a polite note in with invoices to the normal “offenders” asking for online settlement. Apparently it’s all too difficult. ?
That means a bank charge if £1.50 per cheque and a special journey to the bank, 20 mile round trip, just to pay them in. Drives me nuts.

 

[gorgous]

Our Postie said they have been trying to drop the saturday letter service for awhile and this is a good excuse to implement it. She thinks its a shame. She also said they cant keep up with parcels. With the move to reduce cheques everything done by email and msging and voice call, parcel delivery has to be the future for the royal mail imho.

 

[Sid]

couldn't agree more. Drives me insane the farmers still paying me by cheque. In the current lockdown situation I put a polite note in with invoices to the normal “offenders” asking for online settlement. Apparently it’s all too difficult. ?
That means a bank charge if £1.50 per cheque and a special journey to the bank, 20 mile round trip, just to pay them in. Drives me nuts.

I just pop cheque and paying in slip into envelope and away they go.

Perhaps they just post you a cheque for entertainment ??

 

[TheTallGuy]

Good point this - all these couriers must add to quite a few extra miles and fuel burnt than if the postie dropped them all off each morning.

Most of the couriers around here start off with vans stuffed full so if you gave the job to the postie then you'd need just as many vans to do the job anyway. You might reduce mileage a bit, but it would also complicate things for the postie as they're not set up very well for doing bigger parcels; those in urban areas would struggle - especially those who use the trollies rather than vans.

 

[Daddy Pig]

Most of the couriers around here start off with vans stuffed full so if you gave the job to the postie then you'd need just as many vans to do the job anyway. You might reduce mileage a bit, but it would also complicate things for the postie as they're not set up very well for doing bigger parcels; those in urban areas would struggle - especially those who use the trollies rather than vans.

Maybe the couriers could work together , say 5 couriers doing a 5th of a county each.

 

[2YardOfLard]

It's how its run other places around the world.

In Australia they use to get mail in a bag on monday and Friday. Left at the end of the road.
They were lucky to be on a main road or they would have to go into town and collect it!

We get mail in a box at the end of the road. Usually 4 days a week though. Parcels are left in the shed at the next farm in the valley & we call round to check if there are any every few days.
Glad I saw this thread - need to avoid the postie on Mondays.

 

[Sid]

Maybe the couriers could work together , say 5 couriers doing a 5th of a county each.

Could also do it with Milk Tankers.

Saw 4 different companies pass here yesterday!

 

[Danllan]

Hopefully this will only be a short term measure. I can see they must be affected with staff being off ill or self isolating. It'll create a bit more work for them Monday to Friday but I guess will save the working hours...

EDIT: Also only seems to apply to letters and not parcels.

We had letters delivered yesterday, perhaps it's only in England?

My regular postie ambles in anytime between 2pm and 3pm. Dont think he gets up in the middle of the night.At least if he does,its not to sort post out.

We get a delivery at around midday. When I was a student I temped as a postman and had to be at the sorting office for 0400hrs... I've a chum who is a postman now and he has to be at the office for 0500hrs... progress?

It's how its run other places around the world.

In Australia they use to get mail in a bag on monday and Friday. Left at the end of the road.
They were lucky to be on a main road or they would have to go into town and collect it!

In both Zim and Tanzania we had a P.O. box in the local towns; whoever went town-ward took the key; it wasn't a problem, things seemed in less of a rush in those days. That written, things also seemed less rushed over here when I was a kid, and we had 'second post' back then - those were the days...

 

[solo]

couldn't agree more. Drives me insane the farmers still paying me by cheque. In the current lockdown situation I put a polite note in with invoices to the normal “offenders” asking for online settlement. Apparently it’s all too difficult. ?
That means a bank charge if £1.50 per cheque and a special journey to the bank, 20 mile round trip, just to pay them in. Drives me nuts.

You could just open an account where you can take a picture of the cheque to pay it in via your phone app. Lloyd’s do it. Transfer the money where you want then. Bit of a faf but saves the trip.?

Post delivered here yesterday.

 

[An Gof]

You could just open an account where you can take a picture of the cheque to pay it in via your phone app. Lloyd’s do it. Transfer the money where you want then. Bit of a faf but saves the trip.?

Post delivered here yesterday.

Barclays (my bank) offer that service but cheques limited to £500 which isn’t much use for a Buisness.

 

[solo]

Barclays (my bank) offer that service but cheques limited to £500 which isn’t much use for a Buisness.

Wasn’t aware of a limit on that service.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Barclays (my bank) offer that service but cheques limited to £500 which isn’t much use for a Buisness.

Do you have a post office nearer than your bank? I take all my cheques to local P.O. after my local Barclays closed, so easy!

 

[An Gof]

Do you have a post office nearer than your bank? I take all my cheques to local P.O. after my local Barclays closed, so easy!

Yes, I didn’t know about that service.