Any hope left?

[Chelseablue]

Its £47 a week, inc when on hols. Doing nothing for it months on end. Incredible waste of money.

[funkflex55]

If every office has an average of 2 workplace coaches, they get around £40 a week and there's around 1200 offices. Getting rid of the role would save the company around 5 million a year!

Additionally getting rid of 2 COMs from each office would save about 100 million if those going get paid about 40k. No way we need so many managers, they do next to f**k all from what I see each day.

Why stop there? Delivery supplement costs the company £100,000,000 a year, legacy payments tens of millions more too.

No, I like the delivery supplement. I think we definitely deserve to get paid for those D2Ds.

[Splappy_McSplap]

If they want to save money they could easily cut 4/5ths of the useless mail centre managers that stand around with their arms crossed, sometimes in groups of 5, talking about football or what they did at the weekend...many of whom used to be mail centre staff that did actual work.

[norris9]

The only way is down.

Royal Mail cannot compete with the gig economy.

At best Royal Mail might make a slight profit each year for the next 3 years and then Kretinsky will say the company cannot survive and has to turn into a gig economy employer.

In the shorter term.... the USO changes make workload impossible, workplaces become ever more toxic and the rate people leave ends up higher than ever.

[billycat]

It’s quite simple there is no future as an employee of Royal Mail it’s a race to the bottom we all can see it with our own eyes.

[Mr Rush]

Royal Mail cannot compete with the gig economy.

One of the few points of Martin's missives on here than I agree with is that the bogus self-employed model the other couriers operate has profoundly undercut RM's existence. Alas, this is not a recent development. Evri (as Hermes) has spent a quarter of a century since the Postal Services Act 2000 behaving like that. The time has well passed for a levy on our cousins at the door to make a difference - that would have had to have been way back during the Brown government, when the union had an in, but also requiring some significant foresight as Amazon had yet to launch their end-to-end network. It certainly doesn't help that the CWU is totally absent in the delivery sector bar us. It's GMB that's active amongst Evri and others.

It was all lost when we went to van shares, and the constant pile on of extra things to do since. Boxes, packets, collections and now collection of Parcel Force s**t

CDVs and PDAs. The two TLAs without which they wouldn't have been able to pile on half as much as has been lumbered onto delivery.

[goldy2007]

The only way is down.

Royal Mail cannot compete with the gig economy.

At best Royal Mail might make a slight profit each year for the next 3 years and then Kretinsky will say the company cannot survive and has to turn into a gig economy employer.

In the shorter term.... the USO changes make workload impossible, workplaces become ever more toxic and the rate people leave ends up higher than ever.

Agree on the job getting tougher toxic etc

Who working for Royal Mail now is going to go down the owner driver gig employment buy a van fuel maintenance insurance

We all know how bad it is for them not really making minimum wage

Without pension holiday pay etc

It would cost the business a fortune in redundancy pay off

Just can’t see it happening in 3 years