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Is it just me, or has Royal Mail gone downhill badly? (self.ukcasual)

submitted 1 year ago by Transcendant to c/ukcasual

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Obv I don't want to get too deep into privatisation weeds as we don't want to get into the dreaded (whispers) politics in this comm. But I'm interested to know if other people are noticing the postal service deteriorating.

Mail for other houses (my door number is clearly marked)... delivery timelines missed... then the icing on the cake, had a delivery that was supposed to come up to Newcastle delivered while I'm not at home, they left it in a 'safe place' despite one not being designated.

Want to hear what the 'safe place' was? Out on the street, jammed behind a random neighbours wheelie bin! So yeah that's £110 of new clothes gone to some lucky local who swiped it. Boooo, Royal Mail, booooo!

To counteract the whinge, I just made a banging pizza almost from scratch. Success!

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[–] Coop 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worked for royal mail as postie for nearly 15 years now, was an incredible job and a decent company to work for but now they are racing to become Amazon whilst also trying to ger rid of the uso ( government agreed 6 day a week mail service that hits targets) we are tracked and given more work than possible and they are now bringing in a new workforce on terrible contracts for less money. Our strikes did nothing because the company is rogue asf.

[–] Transcendant 3 points 1 year ago

Wow. It's very interesting / illuminating to hear from a postie on this issue. Thanks for all your years of service, for what it's worth I respect the fuck out of you. It's such an important job.

My usual postlady is fantastic but recently we've had a new guy, he returns the cheery 'hello' with a glare and a grunt. And I presume is responsible for the recent cockups... but I'll temper my annoyance because from the sounds of it, they're massively taking the piss out of you all.