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[Lxxx]

Not necessarily the island's fault but the positives of living here, which were slowly being eroded, have now quickened up the pace.

[Moghrey Mie]

3 hours ago, Andy Onchan said:

I've heard similar.

How about introducing some standardised labels. Would that make things easier?

[Banker]

5 hours ago, Non-Believer said:

There are a number of reports from very reliable sources that the new sorting machine is not all it was cracked up to be. As in, it takes as many people to staff it as were previously employed in manually sorting (to wit, 10 including one who has to man a prodding stick to free stuck parcels), it won't sort about 1/3rd of parcels that it can't read the addresses on and lots of proven, established delivery practices have had to be altered to accommodate its "shortcomings", the main fallout of which is slower deliveries to the areas outlying Douglas (because naturally, no criticism can dare be directed at the new machine).

All this from a source within the P.O....

No doubt one of the old ones who doesn’t like change, didn’t want it & can see his cushy job going!

[Banker]

5 hours ago, Omobono said:

difference is Royal Mail deliver 6 days a week , Isle of  of Man post 5 days but you can exclude  Monday's   as often the UK mail is  not delivered until Tuesday , 

with the way the airport had been running   the mail would be just as quick going out on the evening ferry and into the Royal mail hub , 

items coming here should be easier no silly rules about flight restrictions , and some things  possibly   a day  later  , 

Parcel force is a good service  and reliable ,  when you see the losses Royal mail  have been experiencing  you can understand  their problem , 

but we seem to be awash with money  ,as it seems every postal worker now has a van  some electric , and no one humping bags of letters ,and the machine does all the sorting , 

Aren’t royal mail asking for permission to scrap Saturday letter deliveries due to massive costs & only do parcels which is exactly the same as IOM Post, Jersey, Guernsey & most countries around the world. No one wants letters so no need for Saturday letters.

[woolley]

1 hour ago, Lxxx said:

Not necessarily the island's fault but the positives of living here, which were slowly being eroded, have now quickened up the pace.

Thing is that other places are going down the pan faster still. It's quite a race.

[woolley]

Letter post is hardly a thing now though, is it? It's pretty much all junk and bills for those who are too old to arrange to do it online. It's hard to justify a loss making government enterprise to deliver the remaining traditional post. Very soon it will be a parcels delivery business and nothing more, and government ownership will seem increasingly anachronistic.

[Non-Believer]

1 hour ago, Banker said:

No doubt one of the old ones who doesn’t like change, didn’t want it & can see his cushy job going!

Obviously clearly related to teachers in your blinkered, prejudiced world...

[newaccount]

45 minutes ago, woolley said:

Letter post is hardly a thing now though, is it? It's pretty much all junk and bills for those who are too old to arrange to do it online. It's hard to justify a loss making government enterprise to deliver the remaining traditional post. Very soon it will be a parcels delivery business and nothing more, and government ownership will seem increasingly anachronistic.

Royal Mail is owned by International Distributions Services (IDS). Nothing to do with the UK Government since in 2015 George Osbourne sold the remaining 30% of shares that the Government owned

[woolley]

Just now, newaccount said:

Royal Mail is owned by International Distributions Services (IDS). Nothing to do with the UK Government since in 2015 George Osbourne sold the remaining 30% of shares that the Government owned

I was talking about Isle of Man Post Office.

[offshoremanxman]

1 hour ago, woolley said:

Letter post is hardly a thing now though, 

No but the package service here is fairly horrendous too. I’m sick of refunding buyers in eBay for late and delayed stuff. The service here is in general crap. 

[Ringy Rose]

8 hours ago, Omobono said:

when you see the losses Royal mail  have been experiencing  you can understand  their problem

It’s the easiest trick in the world to manipulate your business to show one division is making a huge loss. Royal Mail’s strategy is to start by carving out all the profitable bits then get the begging bowl out for the rest.

The group overall made a profit in 2022 of £700m, but just the Royal Mail letters bit lost a billion a year later? If you believe that I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in.

Edited May 18, 2023 by Ringy Rose

[A fool and his money.....]

Classic privatised public service, the price goes up and the service goes down.

[woolley]

23 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said:

It’s the easiest trick in the world to manipulate your business to show one division is making a huge loss. Royal Mail’s strategy is to start by carving out all the profitable bits then get the begging bowl out for the rest.

The group overall made a profit in 2022 of £700m, but just the Royal Mail letters bit lost a billion a year later? If you believe that I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in.

Exceptional, non-repeatable pandemic factors involved though:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/20/royal-mail-posts-726m-profit-amid-pandemic-demand-for-parcels

[Banker]

25 minutes ago, Ringy Rose said:

It’s the easiest trick in the world to manipulate your business to show one division is making a huge loss. Royal Mail’s strategy is to start by carving out all the profitable bits then get the begging bowl out for the rest.

The group overall made a profit in 2022 of £700m, but just the Royal Mail letters bit lost a billion a year later? If you believe that I’ve got a bridge you might be interested in.

Letter deliveries have been loss making for years, when you’ve got to deliver to outer Hebrides for same price as local delivery then it’s obvious, also Saturday letter deliveries, outdated union practices etc etc

[A fool and his money.....]

I'm surprised Stu Peters hasn't sorted this one out, quietly and without any fuss before the public were aware of it.

Then again, actually I'm not. I think, especially in the case of politicians, it's important to judge someone by what they do, rather than what they say they do.