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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

76


Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63, NE64)
Banbury DO (OX15, OX16, OX17)
Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
Batley DO (WF5, WF15, WF16, WF17)
Blyth DO (NE24)
Carterton DO (OX18)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19, PO20)
Coulsdon DO (CR5)
Crosby DO (L22, L23, L29)
Deal DO (CT14)
East Dulwich DO (SE22)
Egremont DO (CA21, CA22 CA23, CA24, CA25, CA27)
Erskine DO (PA7 and PA8)
Frome DO (BA11)
Glenrothes DO (KY6 and KY7)
Herne Hill DO (SE24)
Holbeck DO (LS11)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kettering DO (NN14, NN15, NN16)
Lisburn DO (BT26, BT27, BT28)
Margate DO (CT7, CT8, CT9)
Newcastle West DO (NE5, NE15)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9, WF11)
Pontypridd DO (CF37, CF38, CF46)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
South Molton DO (EX36)
South Woodford DO (E18)
Torrington DO (EX38)
Uddingston DO (G71)
Washington DO (NE37, NE38)
Wellington DO (TA21)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26, CA28)
Yeovil DO (BA20, BA21, BA22)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

76 is an automorphic number in base 10. It is one of two 2-digit numbers whose square, 5,776, and higher powers, end in the same two digits.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
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The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
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Thommo44 wrote:
14 Jan 2026, 19:46
The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
'We' as in the whole office, the duty you're allocated or you personally whatever duty you're on (if you're cover)?
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yellowbelly wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 17:10
Thommo44 wrote:
14 Jan 2026, 19:46
The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
'We' as in the whole office, the duty you're allocated or you personally whatever duty you're on (if you're cover)?
The whole office
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Thommo44 wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 19:23
yellowbelly wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 17:10
Thommo44 wrote:
14 Jan 2026, 19:46
The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
'We' as in the whole office, the duty you're allocated or you personally whatever duty you're on (if you're cover)?
The whole office
The rurals are taking half a round per day, town rounds packets and parcels only. Queuing all week at customer service point, people trying to collect their own mail.
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Thommo44 wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 19:31
Thommo44 wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 19:23
yellowbelly wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 17:10
Thommo44 wrote:
14 Jan 2026, 19:46
The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
'We' as in the whole office, the duty you're allocated or you personally whatever duty you're on (if you're cover)?
The whole office
The rurals are taking half a round per day, town rounds packets and parcels only. Queuing all week at customer service point, people trying to collect their own mail.
The management should be sacked. The office management for having zero backbone and the management above them for failing to allow resourcing and having no clue how to turn around a failing office.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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Thommo44 wrote:
14 Jan 2026, 19:46
The pattern looks terrible, but we haven’t delivered a letter since New Year’s Eve and still can’t get on the list 😂
The list is just an attempt to appear transparent. Our office has never been on the list, even though all throughout the last two years, it should have been almost all of the time. I suspect that publishing a full list at the present time would amount to a national scandal. The scale of the failures really is that great at the moment.
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taurus88 wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 20:58
I suspect that publishing a full list at the present time would amount to a national scandal.
The wording on the list has always been "the most impacted". I have the exact same suspicions as you that it would amount to having to admit the service is almost universally failing.

If RM were still a crown corporation we'd either know now through Freedom of Information requests, or failing that have to wait for the truth to eventually clear the 20/30 year rule. As a private company we will never know what all those DODRs said. Barring a leak, which I cannot imagine anyone in management would care enough about as avowed holders of the sinecure.
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Mr Rush wrote:
17 Jan 2026, 00:00
taurus88 wrote:
16 Jan 2026, 20:58
I suspect that publishing a full list at the present time would amount to a national scandal.
The wording on the list has always been "the most impacted". I have the exact same suspicions as you that it would amount to having to admit the service is almost universally failing.

If RM were still a crown corporation we'd either know now through Freedom of Information requests, or failing that have to wait for the truth to eventually clear the 20/30 year rule. As a private company we will never know what all those DODRs said. Barring a leak, which I cannot imagine anyone in management would care enough about as avowed holders of the sinecure.
I might finally gain some respect for a manager if one of them stuck their head above the parapet and leaked what is really going on in a steady drip drip
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

42

Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63, NE64)
Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
Blyth DO (NE24)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19, PO20)
Egremont DO (CA21, CA22 CA23, CA24, CA25, CA27)
Herne Hill DO (SE24)
Holbeck DO (LS11)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kettering DO (NN14, NN15, NN16)
Lisburn DO (BT26, BT27, BT28)
Morley DO (LS27)
Nantwich DO (CW5)
Newcastle West DO (NE5, NE15)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9, WF11)
Pontypridd DO (CF37, CF38, CF46)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
Swindon DO (SN1, SN2, SN3, SN6, SN25, SN26, SN38. SN99)
Syston SPDO (LE7)
Uddingston DO (G71)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In Douglas Adams' sci-fi series, 42 is the mysterious answer computed by a supercomputer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

87


Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63, NE64)
Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
Blyth DO (NE24)
Camberley DO (GU15-GU17)
Chichester DO (PO18-PO20)
Egremont DO (CA21-CA25, CA27)
Herne Hill DO (SE24)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kettering DO (NN14-NN16)
Leicester East DO (LE2, LE5-LE7)
Lisburn DO (BT26-BT28)
Morley DO (LS27)
Newcastle West DO (NE5, NE15)
North Tyneside DO (NE25-NE30)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9, WF11)
Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Pontypridd DO (CF37, CF38, CF46)
Prenton DO (CH43)
Rugeley DO (WS15)
Ryde DO (PO33-PO35)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
Southport DO (PR8-PR9)
Spennymoor DO (DL16-DL17)
Sunderland DO (SR1-SR6, SR9)
Swan House DO (LE1, LE3, LE7-LE9, LE19, LE95)
Swindon DO (SN1-SN3, SN6, SN25-SN26, SN38. SN99)
Syston SPDO (LE7)
Uddingston DO (G71)
Wilmslow DO (SK9)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

Cricket in Australia holds 87 as a superstitiously unlucky score and is referred to as "the devil's number".

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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What’s going on in the northeast?
Ashington
Blyth
Newcastle West
North Tyneside
Spennymoor
Sunderland
Think they’re all covered by Team Valley Gateshead
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It’s bad. No overtime so no chance of clearing. Just work your time and go home.
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Be awful, just awful, if the press or some major MP were to find out that the failures are a choice RM managers make every year before the end of year accounts go in.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

106


Aberdare DO (CF44, CF45)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63, NE64)
Banbridge DO (BT32)
Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
Belfast East DO (BT4-BT6, BT16)
Belleek SPDO (BT93)
Blyth DO (NE24)
Camberley DO (GU15-GU17)
Chichester DO (PO18-PO20)
Coalville DO (LE67)
Coulsdon DO (CR5)
Egremont DO (CA21-CA25, CA27)
Glaisdale Parkway DO (NG7, NG8)
Herne Hill DO (SE24)
Hyde DO (SK13, SK14, SK16)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Kettering DO (NN14-NN16)
Leicester East DO (LE2, LE5-LE7)
Lisburn DO (BT26-BT28)
Morley DO (LS27)
Newcastle West DO (NE5, NE15)
North Tyneside DO (NE25-NE30)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9, WF11)
Pontyclun DO (CF72)
Pontypridd DO (CF37, CF38, CF46)
Prenton DO (CH43)
Ryde DO (PO33-PO35)
Shrewsbury DO (SY1-SY5)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
Southport DO (PR8-PR9)
Spennymoor DO (DL16-DL17)
Sunderland DO (SR1-SR6, SR9)
Swan House DO (LE1, LE3, LE7-LE9, LE19, LE95)
Swindon DO (SN1-SN3, SN6, SN25-SN26, SN38. SN99)
Syston SPDO (LE7)
Uddingston DO (G71)
Wilmslow DO (SK9)

Units that report three consecutive days of 30% of DPs failing USO gets you on the list and public RM service disruption website. Then you need three consecutive days below 30% to get off the list (well below and back to stable USO)

106 is a centered pentagonal number, a centered heptagonal number, and a regular 19-gonal number.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymena, Blackwood, Brinklow, Bulwell, Cardiff, Carlton, Cheltenham, Clifton, Coventry North, Cumbernauld, Fleetwood, Girvan Hadleigh, Hexham, Hull Malmo Road, Louth, Lytham St Annes, Melton Mowbray, Mount Pleasant W, Newton Mearns, North Finchley, Nottingham North, Preston South, Romsey, Salisbury, Scunthorpe, Southend On Sea, Stockton On Tees, Stoke Newington, Tenterden, Tonbridge, Trowbridge, Usk, Winchester.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.