Going back to pouch boxes

[pieoftheday]

As posted sarcastically on a different thread, but would going back to pouch boxes be a more effective way of delivering letters while drivers did packets and parcels?

[glenfiddich]

yes and let the postie drive out to his delivery in his car(owner driver)

[pieoftheday]

yes and let the postie drive out to his delivery in his car(owner driver)

Well i can see RM loving that but no I didn't mean that, driver would drop you like the good old days I suppose there are too many small packets these days to make it work without a van

[hans solo]

Pouch boxes all rotting away just like RM

[hans solo]

Pouch boxes all rotting away just like RM

[qwerty2]

They’ve all been removed years ago

[olilew]

They certainly have not all been removed. We still have them on some of our loops and indeed just this last fortnight new ones have appeared!

[pieoftheday]

Still got a few around where I live,only plastic ones though all the metal ones where nicked just leaving the post and concrete poking out of the ground. New ones ? What can that mean then?

[qwerty2]

Well in my DO area they been taken away either RM or the local(useless) council
Think you have to ask council permission to put them up
I would go back to using them again

[scoobydo79]

They’ve all been removed years ago

No not here. They paid a bomb for planning permission then were told they needed permission to remove them now no longer needed so have left em to rust and rot here.

[SpacePhoenix]

All the ones locally have either been removed or are so rusted that a kick would probably break them

[roman]

I’ve got a good idea bring back 5am starts and bikes !!!!

[Mr Rush]

God knows I wish the job would go back to working off pouch boxes for three hours. We've still got a handful of walks set-up that way. Everywhere else they've either rusted into stumps or they've somehow survived the last decade but the keys have been lost to time.

Thinking about it, you could probably get an entire duty's letters in one box now. With an LWT you wouldn't even need a box at all.

[mjd24]

God knows I wish the job would go back to working off pouch boxes for three hours. We've still got a handful of walks set-up that way. Everywhere else they've either rusted into stumps or they've somehow survived the last decade but the keys have been lost to time.

Thinking about it, you could probably get an entire duty's letters in one box now. With an LWT you wouldn't even need a box at all.

Wow i wanna be on your duty if thats true!!

[wacko74]

Everything being discussed here would make perfect sense with a reduction in the letters USO, but is pointless under the current 6 day format.