https://www.altonherald.com/news/royal- ... rea-635877
The Royal Mail has apologised to customers for severe postal delays in Alton and surrounding villages which it has blamed on an ongoing staffing crisis.
Many local postcode areas are having to wait up to a week between deliveries, with customers complaining they have missed important health appointments as a result.
Postal workers are reportedly being asked to cover around double the number of letterboxes as usual, and many rounds are still being missed.
This has put the Royal Mail at risk of breaching its universal service obligation to provide a six-day-a-week, one-price-goes-anywhere postal service to every address in the UK.
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Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
No staff wonder why 
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
A staffing crisis of their own making.
Royal Mail, better known as, clown world.
Royal Mail, better known as, clown world.
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
i must have seen around 100 of these reports now with the same generic PR line. You posties must be ashamed of yourselves 
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
We had a newbie that fecked off after just 2 hours on a walk the other week 
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
Once upon a time that would have been a cleared duty!
The machine stops.
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
Don't you get a long service award for two hours now 
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
"they admitted staff retention is an issue, with two new employees recently joining the service but quickly deciding “the job is not for them”
A decent recruitment process would have identified that and not even offered the job to them. Occasionally people will leave for that reason, but two cases in a short space of time indicates a bigger problem
A decent recruitment process would have identified that and not even offered the job to them. Occasionally people will leave for that reason, but two cases in a short space of time indicates a bigger problem
Royal Mail
failing the workforce, failing the public and deliberately failing mail on a daily basis for too many years.
failing the workforce, failing the public and deliberately failing mail on a daily basis for too many years.
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
Royal mail needs to understand no one wants to work for the company anymore, with many leaving due to ridiculous work loads..
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Re: Royal Mail blames staffing crisis for post delays in the Alton area
Staff retention on new contracts is highly unlikely! Who the hell will do the same work and on lesser terms than another person. As pointed out a problem entirely of their own making! There are other ways of saving money rather than bashing the terms of new staff! Let’s start at the top and work down, shall we! 