Publicly owned Royal Mail delivered letters six days a week. After privatisation, that is set to fall to three days a week. Yes, it's our old friend 'the superior efficiency of the private sector'.
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Privatizing is crap! Same with our healthcare in Ontario, Canada. Some of it is being privatized, and you need a good company plan when you’re working to get all you’d get free in the UK.
🤬🤬🤬 The Post Office works best when part of the public sector! The obsession with privatisation does not work best. It’s one of our oldest services. Just take a look at our water 😳 rotten and corrupt to its core!!!
But back then most written Comms were posted, now it's a tiny fraction, I get 2 or 3 junk mail deliveries a week and maybe one thing that couldn't have been electronic a fortnight
My post has been delivered up to 7pm. Used to be 10am - midday. On Mondays, there is usually no delivery. Some weeks, there is nothing for days, and then heaps delivered in one go. I’ve even had emails from Royal Mail confirming delivery for items that are delivered days later.
The big problem for Royal Mail was not privatisation but the opening up of it's delivery service to 'competition' back in 2007.
This lead to the most lucrative distribution of letter delivery being syphoned off by private companies leaving RM with the costly delivery ...
Other companies could use Royal Mail delivery. E.g. TNT or Deutsche Post collect collect all the mail from British Gas and then distribute it to Royal Mail hubs and claim 90% of the money while RM was left with the expensive final delivery of every single letter.
As letter volumes fall and packes increase it is becoming an economic liability to have posties walking miles on the streets with just a handful of letters.
The solution to this is two fold ...
Firstly, increase the cost of a first class letter to make it more viable and discourage non-essential sending.
First class will still exist but only usefull for documents etc - birthday cards/letters etc should be sent second class. ...
Secondly, mail will only be delivered every other day (or maybe 3 days) but first class will be delivered daily like packages made viable from the extra charge.
It sounds like a huge drop in service but in reality, the only change is that 2nd class will probably take 3 days instead of 2 and you'll tend to get all your mail twice per week, unless you have a first class letter or package.
Same trend in Denmark, where the distribution of letters will stop completely within the next years. Postal service should be considered critical infrastructure. Also in the future.
They have just put up the price of medium size 48hr tracked parcels so that its now cheaper for me to send the same parcels with DPD next day tracked service
True. Console yourself with the knowledge that some already very rich people will get even richer, screw up the entire system, have control over people's private mail and gaslight everyone about how much cheaper and efficient it is, by saying it WOULD have gotten worse if left in public hands.
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This lead to the most lucrative distribution of letter delivery being syphoned off by private companies leaving RM with the costly delivery ...
The solution to this is two fold ...
First class will still exist but only usefull for documents etc - birthday cards/letters etc should be sent second class. ...
2012-2013 14 billion letters
2022-2023 7.3 billion letters
Clearly delivering half as many letters over 6 days does not need meaningfully any fewer delivery staff...
They're more interested in parcels.