Offices 'officially' in trouble?

[Mr Rush]

Come on, 300!

88 offices listed above, out of 1,250 so this still only represents <10% of the country if you can believe it.

[scotchy1962]

Holy feck! Its a feckin nightmare for the humble postie.
On the other hand who really gives a feck anymore.

[whisperlite6]

Last week they shipped in extra bods to help clear the office. Still didn't clear. However, not surprised the office is in a mess when two van share pairs were left waiting nearly 4 hours for their hire vans to show up. Vans were pre-booked so not a last minute arrangement. HCT route's not fairing much better due to lack of staff and aging HCT's.

[POSTMAN]

We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted here:

210

Abingdon DO (OX13, OX14)
Altens DO (AB10-AB12, AB35)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62-NE64)
Ashton Under Lyne DO (OL5, OL6, OL7)
Barry DO (CF63)
Basingstoke DO (RG21-RG26, RG28)
Bedford DO (MK40-MK45)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
Blyth DO (NE24)
Bracknell DO (RG12, RG42, RG45)
Brecon DO (LD3)
Brierley Hill DO (DY5)
Calderway DO (WF12-WF14)
Calne DO (SN11)
Cambridge DO (CB1-CB5, CB21-CB25)
Carmarthen DO (SA17, SA31, SA32, SA33)
Carterton DO (OX18)
Castle Bromwich DO (B35-B37, B40)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19, PO20)
Clifton NG DO (NG11)
Coalville DO (LE6, LE67)
Deal DO (CT14)
Derwentside DO (DH8, DH9)
Dudley DO (DY1-DY3)
Dursley DO (GL11, GL12, GL13)
Ebbw Vale DO (NP23)
Fareham DO (PO14-PO17)
Flint DO (CH6, CH8)
Frome DO (BA11)
Gloucester North DO (GL3, GL4)
Gosforth DO (NE3, NE13)
Great Glen SPDO (LE8)
Hull Central DO (HU1-HU3, HU5, HU9, HU12, HU19)
Hunslet DO (LS10)
Ilfracombe DO (EX34)
Kidderminster DO (DY10-DY12, DY14)
Kingswinford DO (DY6)
Kingswood DO (BS15, BS30)
Lee DO (SE12)
Leiston DO (IP15-IP16)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13, WS14)
Llangollen SUDO (LL20)
Loughborough DO (LE11-LE12)
Malton DO (YO17)
Mid Rhondda Ganol DO (CF39-CF40)
Mildenhall DO (IP28)
New Ferry DO (CH32, CH62, CH63)
Neston DO (CH33, CH64)
Northwich DO (CW8, CW9)
Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
Nuneaton DO (CV10, CV11, CV13)
Okehampton DO (EX19, EX20, EX21)
Orton Southgate DO (PE2, PE7-PE9)
Oxford DO (OX1, OX2)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34, BS35)
Penarth DO (CF64)
Portslade DO (BN41 and BN42)
Ramsgate DO (CT11 and CT12)
Rugby DO (CV21, CV22, CV23)
Sandy DO (SG19)
Saxon Way DO (HU4, HU10, HU13-HU15)
Shaftesbury DO (SP7)
Shepshed DO (LE12)
Shrewsbury DO (SY1-SY5)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
St Helens DO (WA9-WA11)
Stalybridge SUDU (SK15)
Stourbridge DO (DY7-DY9)
Stourport On Severn DO (DY13)
Swindon DO (SN1, SN2, SN3, SN6, SN25, SN26, SN38, SN99)
Thirsk DO (YO7, YO51, YO61-YO62)
Thornbury DO (BS35)
Tipton DO (DY4)
Tiverton DO (EX16, EX18)
Upton DO (CH30, CH49)
Wantage DO (OX12)
Warrington DO (WA1-WA2, WA4-WA5, WA55)
Weston Super Mare DO (BS23-BS24, BS40)
Witham DO (CM8)
Wolverhampton NE DO (WV11, WV12)
Wolverhampton NW DO (WV6-WV9)
Yate DO (BS37)

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)

In 2013, a driver in Finland was caught speeding and, due to the country's income-based traffic fine system, was handed a jaw-dropping fine of over €210,000 for going 48 mph in a 30 mph zone.

[POSTMAN]

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-AB12, AB35)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62-NE64)
Ashton Under Lyne DO (OL5, OL6, OL7)
Barry DO (CF63)
Basingstoke DO (RG21-RG26, RG28)
Bedford DO (MK40-MK45)
Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
Brecon DO (LD3)
Brierley Hill DO (DY5)
Calderway DO (WF12-WF14)
Cambridge DO (CB1-CB5, CB21-CB25)
Carmarthen DO (SA17, SA31, SA32, SA33)
Castle Bromwich DO (B35-B37, B40)
Chichester DO (PO18, PO19, PO20)
Clifton NG DO (NG11)
Deal DO (CT14)
Derwentside DO (DH8, DH9)
Dudley DO (DY1-DY3)
Ebbw Vale DO (NP23)
Fareham DO (PO14-PO17)
Flint DO (CH6, CH8)
Frome DO (BA11)
Gloucester North DO (GL3, GL4)
Gosforth DO (NE3, NE13)
Hull Central DO (HU1-HU3, HU5, HU9, HU12, HU19)
Hunslet DO (LS10)
Ilfracombe DO (EX34)
Kidderminster DO (DY10-DY12, DY14)
Kingswinford DO (DY6)
Leiston DO (IP15-IP16)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13, WS14)
Llangollen SUDO (LL20)
Loughborough DO (LE11-LE12)
Malton DO (YO17)
Margate DO (CT7, CT8, CT9)
Mid Rhondda Ganol DO (CF39-CF40)
New Ferry DO (CH32, CH62, CH63)
Neston DO (CH33, CH64)
Northwich DO (CW8, CW9)
Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
Nuneaton DO (CV10, CV11, CV13)
Orton Southgate DO (PE2, PE7-PE9)
Oxford DO (OX1, OX2)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Patchway DO (BS32, BS34, BS35)
Penarth DO (CF64)
Portslade DO (BN41 and BN42)
Rugby DO (CV21, CV22, CV23)
Sandy DO (SG19)
Shaftesbury DO (SP7)
Shepshed DO (LE12)
Shrewsbury DO (SY1-SY5)
Sleaford DO (NG34)
St Helens DO (WA9-WA11)
Stalybridge SUDU (SK15)
Stourbridge DO (DY7-DY9)
Stourport On Severn DO (DY13)
Swindon DO (SN1, SN2, SN3, SN6, SN25, SN26, SN38, SN99)
Thirsk DO (YO7, YO51, YO61-YO62)
Thornbury DO (BS35)
Tipton DO (DY4)
Tiverton DO (EX16, EX18)
Upton DO (CH30, CH49)
Warrington DO (WA1-WA2, WA4-WA5, WA55)
Weston Super Mare DO (BS23-BS24, BS40)
Wolverhampton NE DO (WV11, WV12)
Yate DO (BS37)

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)

If you look at the periodic table, Hafnium-179 is a specific stable isotope of the element Hafnium. It holds the quirky scientific crown of having the largest "quadrupole moment" of any stable nuclide, which is a fancy way of saying its nuclear charge distribution is incredibly unspherical and oddly shaped.

[youngoffender]

Imagine if my electricity provider decided that it was only going to supply me with power on two or three days per week, because it did not have the staff to provide the daily service it is legally obliged to.

Ofgem would, I hope, have zero tolerance for such excuses. Failure to recruit and retain sufficient staff to meet your obligations is entirely a failure of management and HR policy, not the population for whom these roles are either so unattractive that they don't apply, or so onerous and poorly supported that they leave after a few weeks or go on long-term sick leave. The regulator would be removing their licence to operate.

So where are Ofcom? Completely MIA. OK, on the face of it, conducting another 'investigation', which will no doubt end in another fine which represents just a few days' turnover, and which costs Royal Mail less than it would to resource their operations to meet the USO. So once again, RM prices it in as a cost of doing their ever-worsening business. This is not regulation, it is capitulation.

[Mr Rush]

Imagine if my electricity provider decided that it was only going to supply me with power on two or three days per week, because it did not have the staff to provide the daily service it is legally obliged to Ofgem would, I hope, have zero tolerance for such excuses.

In terms of networks, the most apparent parallel in Ofcom's domain is/was the oversubscription of service by Internet Service Providers. It has long been the caser that bandwidth is starved because no-one wants to lay new copper/fibre while continuing to sell subscriptions beyond the reasonable carrying capacity of the network.

They used to blame Torrenters hammering the lines, and in a way that's really the problem we have. Everyone knows the usual suspects on their duty driving up packet volumes.