4th October

[donein]

i delivered a pkt today posted on the 7-10-07 not bad , got an ear full from customer .

[majeed]

I don't know, hoever I haven't delivered anything posted before the 10th for a few days now. I expcet your packets are stuck in a corner underneath more recent additions.
We don't have a weekly packet burn so they will turn up eventually. If RM had allowed us to clear the backlog they would be there by now.

It sounds like they will have gone through a major hub like London and as such would also have been affected by the more recent strikes.

You will get sacked or fired for burning the packets

[majeed]

i reckon it could take till well after xmas for the backlog on everyting to go!![/color]

Just in time for Santa to help out!

[POSTMAN]

I think all my packets have now arrived at their destinations.

The longest delayed one I am aware of took 26 days!

My missus posted a load on the 11th oct and most of them arrived yesterday the 31st oct.
I am delivering packets dated back to the 10th ect.

The packet situation is horrendous i reckon it could take till well after xmas for the backlog on everyting to go!!

#
Maybe there should be a ban on fekking junk mail until the backlog sorted.

That is the best thing I have heard in a long time!!

If there was no junk mail people would be running up the street after us screaming 'I've had no mail for ages!!'
Junk mail is here to stay,it has it's benefits,and strangely enough when i get it i open it and within a couple of seconds if it is of no use to me it's in the bin.
It doesn't take a lot off of my 'Customer-stylee' life.
As someone who runs a business i'm sure it's a god send to you

[moanmoanmoan]

If there was no junk mail people would be running up the street after us screaming 'I've had no mail for ages!!'
Junk mail is here to stay,it has it's benefits,and strangely enough when i get it i open it and within a couple of seconds if it is of no use to me it's in the bin.
It doesn't take a lot off of my 'Customer-stylee' life.

Very true Postman - I supose a bit of junk mail makes for a change from bills.

Actually maybe a different approach is required - could you delay the bills and prioritize the junk mail?

Then a good post day is "great just junk" - straight for recycling.

I have tried this with the bills but they just send another!

[Paul]

I think all my packets have now arrived at their destinations.

The longest delayed one I am aware of took 26 days!

My missus posted a load on the 11th oct and most of them arrived yesterday the 31st oct.
I am delivering packets dated back to the 10th ect.

The packet situation is horrendous i reckon it could take till well after xmas for the backlog on everyting to go!!

#
Maybe there should be a ban on fekking junk mail until the backlog sorted.

That is the best thing I have heard in a long time!!

See the thing is it may be junk mail to you. I am sure the paying customer that sends it will disagree. all mail is a good source of revenue to RM and keeps us in a Job. if you expect priority service there are other products you can use ie Special delivery.

[majeed]

I think all my packets have now arrived at their destinations.

The longest delayed one I am aware of took 26 days!

My missus posted a load on the 11th oct and most of them arrived yesterday the 31st oct.
I am delivering packets dated back to the 10th ect.

The packet situation is horrendous i reckon it could take till well after xmas for the backlog on everyting to go!!

#
Maybe there should be a ban on fekking junk mail until the backlog sorted.

That is the best thing I have heard in a long time!!

See the thing is it may be junk mail to you. I am sure the paying customer that sends it will disagree. all mail is a good source of revenue to RM and keeps us in a Job. if you expect priority service there are other products you can use ie Special delivery.

It seems that the watchword is, 'What's in it for other people?'

[littleshit]

Paul is spot on. it is not junk mail it pays our wages and as soon as we realies this the better.
we are getting sucked in by the bad press again.Think about the number of people that are employed in this massive industry.Do you think BIG firms and Banks would advertise in this way if it was not profitable?

[majeed]

Paul is spot on. it is not junk mail it pays our wages and as soon as we realies this the better.
we are getting sucked in by the bad press again.Think about the number of people that are employed in this massive industry.Do you think BIG firms and Banks would advertise in this way if it was not profitable?

I agree on the point of profitability: unless we actually asked the customers exactly what was the return percentage of custom, we would not really know. I used to volunteer for a charity which regularly has marketing campaigns. The return from leaflets, I was told, was a steady 2% - which was not bad. Even if an RM customer gets 1%, this is 1% of the millions of households up and down the countries, to which we deliver. The yield may be relatively small, but in actual terms, the coverage is huge, the advertising is huge and brand recognition and a turnover of customers top-up the address databases. Added to this is all of the profiling information of new customers from that small percentage to better target new customers from other advertising streams.

So, the work we do, although it involves a lot of manual work, is probably vitally important to our customers: and they are not necessarily looking for volume uptake of new custom: a small snapshot - in percentage terms - will give them an extremely good idea of what's happening on the ground with the general population. Let's not forget: it's not the politicians that run the country, but civil servants, businessmen and lobby groups.