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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Clappedoutpostie wrote:
24 Jun 2025, 16:45
Can we assume staff from Canvey Island were sent to try and bail Southend out but it’s backfired?
That’s what I thought too!

Someone needs to pull the plug on this nonsense.
’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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Barnacle wrote:
24 Jun 2025, 17:01
Clappedoutpostie wrote:
24 Jun 2025, 16:45
Can we assume staff from Canvey Island were sent to try and bail Southend out but it’s backfired?
That’s what I thought too!

Someone needs to pull the plug on this nonsense.
What an absolute f***ing clown show. :left:
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Clappedoutpostie wrote:
24 Jun 2025, 16:45
Can we assume staff from Canvey Island were sent to try and bail Southend out but it’s backfired?
We’ve got people in from every where - from bout 8 other offices - plus about 10 agency just on DPs alone
It’s a s**t shower
But who gets the blame - local resources, staff sickness etc
It’s bollox
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Agencyoap wrote:
25 Jun 2025, 22:14

We’ve got people in from every where - from bout 8 other offices - plus about 10 agency just on DPs alone
It’s a s**t shower
But who gets the blame - local resources, staff sickness etc
It’s bollox

The trials can't be sustainable if they are having to bring in additional resources. They might look manageable on paper but the pilots are only proving that it works temporarily with unsustainable resource shifting. It's just a short term PR exercise and the real question is when this rolls out nationally, where the extra resources are going to come from?
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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postslippete wrote:
26 Jun 2025, 06:11
Agencyoap wrote:
25 Jun 2025, 22:14

We’ve got people in from every where - from bout 8 other offices - plus about 10 agency just on DPs alone
It’s a s**t shower
But who gets the blame - local resources, staff sickness etc
It’s bollox

The trials can't be sustainable if they are having to bring in additional resources. They might look manageable on paper but the pilots are only proving that it works temporarily with unsustainable resource shifting. It's just a short term PR exercise and the real question is when this rolls out nationally, where the extra resources are going to come from?
Hopefully, the new upper management will be recognising the pilots as the last gasp of the previous regime, who wouldn’t know how to generate a profit if it slapped them in the face.
’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:

11


Battle DO (TN32 and TN33)
*Canvey Island DO (SS8)
*Southend On Sea (SS0-SS4, SS9, SS22 and SS99)

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 number 11 (alongside its multiples 22 and 33) are master numbers in numerology, especially in New Age.

USO Trial offices
Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymen, 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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We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

2


Battle DO (TN32 and TN33)

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)

A set that is a field has a minimum of two elements.

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Antrim, Arlington, Ayr, Ballymen, 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.
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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:

1


Banstead DO (SM7)

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)

1 is the value of Legendre's constant, introduced in 1808 by Adrien-Marie Legendre to express the asymptotic behavior of the prime-counting function.

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.
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I thought they had a rep on one of those CWU lives from Southend as well as a work place coach that said it was all amazing? Just a few things that are being put in place to fix it, I could be wrong but I could swear it was Southend.
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Surreypostie wrote:
02 Jul 2025, 17:28
I thought they had a rep on one of those CWU lives from Southend as well as a work place coach that said it was all amazing? Just a few things that are being put in place to fix it, I could be wrong but I could swear it was Southend.
Let me know who and I’ll put a poster up at work - it’s been horrendous
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Surreypostie wrote:
02 Jul 2025, 17:28
I thought they had a rep on one of those CWU lives from Southend as well as a work place coach that said it was all amazing? Just a few things that are being put in place to fix it, I could be wrong but I could swear it was Southend.
Can't remember Southend, but this is the only 1 I can think of...
viewtopic.php?p=1132423#p1132423
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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.
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Agencyoap wrote:
02 Jul 2025, 19:04
Surreypostie wrote:
02 Jul 2025, 17:28
I thought they had a rep on one of those CWU lives from Southend as well as a work place coach that said it was all amazing? Just a few things that are being put in place to fix it, I could be wrong but I could swear it was Southend.
Let me know who and I’ll put a poster up at work - it’s been horrendous
I think the Southend video was before they started the trial and was more about the takeover and the probable change to the USO
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Could it have been this one?




"Billionaires become billionaires by making money and not spending it on the workforce". Well said - they do it by squeezing costs, maximising profits and running businesses lean. He sees an opportunity to make money and cutting back on the workforce is always part of that plan!
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
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postslippete wrote:
02 Jul 2025, 19:25
Could it have been this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTvcB8tOpnc


"Billionaires become billionaires by making money and not spending it on the workforce". Well said - they do it by squeezing costs, maximising profits and running businesses lean. He sees an opportunity to make money and cutting back on the workforce is always part of that plan!
Yes that one,, the girl is a wpc done a couple of years
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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:

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Banstead DO (SM7)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19 and PO20)
Keith DO (AB55)
Saxmundham DO (IP13 and IP17)
Strathcarron SUDO (IV54)

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 octonions are a hypercomplex normed division algebra that are an extension of the complex numbers.

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.