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Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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On today's BBC news, they visited mount pleasant mail centre this morning, interviewed Ricky McCauley, pretty sure he said out of 1250 delivery offices he thinks only around 50 have any issues with delivery ;liar :left:
Would you believe anything he said ? One of the three monkeys that were happy to lie to parliament :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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At this time in 2021 we were all extremely upset that around 21 offices were failing. How times have changed.
’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:

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Altens DO (AB10, AB11, AB12 and AB35)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63 and NE64)
Belfast West DO (BT10, BT11, BT12 and BT17)
Bristol East DO (BS5)
Brixton DO (SW2)
Callington DO (PL17 and PL18)
Clevedon DO (BS21 and BS49)
Dundee East DO (DD4, DD5 and DD7)
Dunstable DO (LU5 and LU6)
Dursley DO (GL11, GL12 and GL13)
Dyce DO (AB21)
Egremont DO (CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25 and CA27)
Erskine DO (PA7 and PA8)
Glasgow G52 DO (G52 and G53)
Gloucester North DO (GL3 and GL4)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10 and PA12)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13 and WS14)
Lisburn DO (BT26, BT27 and BT28)
Londonderry DO (BT47 and BT48)
Northwich DO (CW8 and CW9)
Nottingham South DO (NG2 and NG12)
Paisley DO (PA1, PA2 and PA3)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9 and WF11)
Renfrew DO (PA4)
Seaham DO (SR7)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
St Helens DO (WA9, WA10 and WA11)
Stalybridge SUDO (SK15)
Tipton DO (DY4)
Warrington DO (WA1, WA2, WA4, WA5 and WA55)
Westhill DO (AB13, AB14 and AB32)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26 and CA28)
Whitwood DO (WF6 and WF10)
Wigan DO (WN1, WN2, WN3, WN4, WN5 and WN6)

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)

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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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Off the list? I think if the visiting MSP were to stand in the chamber and declare all is well in the unit he may be asked to withdraw the comment.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Funny how the list appears to be shrinking, the public glare is either getting some stuff moving or causing the managers to lie a bit more than usual.
Either way i fancy it's not the end of it.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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scotchy1962 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:30
Funny how the list appears to be shrinking, the public glare is either getting some stuff moving or causing the managers to lie a bit more than usual.
Either way i fancy it's not the end of it.
Well last Christmas things got immediately worse as soon as January hit because they cancelled overtime.
’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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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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scotchy1962 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:30
Funny how the list appears to be shrinking, the public glare is either getting some stuff moving or causing the managers to lie a bit more than usual.
Either way i fancy it's not the end of it.
Yes how can that be, the last three days have been horrendous for parcels, more than any day for the last month plus Christmas cards have really ramped up.
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Its probably been asked before but why are trial offices not on this list?
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Dandaman23 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 20:54
Its probably been asked before but why are trial offices not on this list?
Because the management in the trial offices aren’t reporting the fails.
’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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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Barnacle wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 21:01
Dandaman23 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 20:54
Its probably been asked before but why are trial offices not on this list?
Because the management in the trial offices aren’t reporting the fails.
The senior management are the failures so who do they report to?
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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Barnacle wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:53
scotchy1962 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:30
Funny how the list appears to be shrinking, the public glare is either getting some stuff moving or causing the managers to lie a bit more than usual.
Either way i fancy it's not the end of it.
Well last Christmas things got immediately worse as soon as January hit because they cancelled overtime.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that. Our office fell over!
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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yellowbelly wrote:
20 Dec 2025, 17:36
Barnacle wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:53
scotchy1962 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 19:30
Funny how the list appears to be shrinking, the public glare is either getting some stuff moving or causing the managers to lie a bit more than usual.
Either way i fancy it's not the end of it.
Well last Christmas things got immediately worse as soon as January hit because they cancelled overtime.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that. Our office fell over!
Ours did too, by day 2 there were boxes of mail on the floor and IPS was backing up. The office doesn't function without OT. If the crazy amount of DPR we have are using al the office budget then the manager will be shocked if OT is stopped!
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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:

83


Altens DO (AB10, AB11, AB12, AB35)
Belfast East DO (BT4, BT5, BT6, BT16)
Brixton DO (SW2)
Clevedon DO (BS21, BS49)
Dundee East DO (DD4, DD5, DD7)
Dursley DO (GL11, GL12, GL13)
Dyce DO (AB21)
Egremont DO (CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25, CA27)
Erskine DO (PA7, PA8)
Gloucester North DO (GL3, GL4)
Inverclyde DO (PA14-PA19)
Johnstone DO (PA5, PA6, PA9, PA10, PA12)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13, WS14)
Lisburn DO (BT26, BT27, BT28)
Londonderry DO (BT47, BT48)
Northwich DO (CW8 and CW9)
Nottingham South DO (NG2, NG12)
Paisley DO (PA1, PA2, PA3)
Pontefract DO (WF7, WF8, WF9, WF11)
Renfrew DO (PA4)
South Woodford DO (E18)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
St Helens DO (WA9, WA10, WA11)
Tipton DO (DY4)
Warrington DO (WA1, WA2, WA4, WA5, WA55)
Whitehaven DO (CA18, CA19, CA20, CA26, CA28)
Whitwood DO (WF6, WF10)
Wigan DO (WN1, WN2, WN3, WN4, WN5, WN6)

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)

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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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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

Post by Agencyoap »

Dandaman23 wrote:
19 Dec 2025, 20:54
Its probably been asked before but why are trial offices not on this list?
Maybe because when we were bringing back 40-50 parcels that should have been scanned back in as Del Not Attemped, the managers were scanning them back in as Delivery attempted but No Answer
Times that by 60-80 DP drivers every day !!
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Re: Offices 'officially' in trouble?

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A2B wrote:
17 Dec 2025, 16:56
Find it strange that Southend isn't on the list while the local paper is running a story on delays in the area :cuppa
Through Dec we’ve had staff shipped in from as far as Ipswich, Felixstowe and Watford - which after travel etc has given them 30-90 mins max delivery time
We’ve had 40 + angency in daily just on parcels - that’s on top of our dedicated 35 DP staff
BUT we’ve had no extra PDAs or van - you wait up to 4 hours for one or both
Then you’re sent out with a full duty - so the managers clear the floor
Then as you only have 2.5 hours delivery time, you bring back up to 70 parcels that should have been scanned back in as Del Not Attemped, but the managers have been scanning them back in as Delivery attempted but No Answer

And Mail has sat in frames for 7-10 days -