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Consultation: Modifications of the USP Access Condition for regulating access to Royal Mail’s postal network
Access mail is the main form of competition in the letters market in the UK and is facilitated by access to Royal Mail’s postal network. This means other bulk mail providers collect mail from businesses and other organisations, sort it and then insert it into Royal Mail’s network for delivery.
Access to Royal Mail’s postal network is currently regulated by Ofcom via the Universal Service Provider Access condition (USPA condition). The current USPA condition requires that Royal Mail provides services that are delivered within two working days from the sender posting (“D+2 access services”), and includes a margin squeeze control as well as other ancillary access obligations. Mandated D+2 access services ensure that, once an access item enters Royal Mail’s network, Royal Mail delivers that item to the recipient the next working day.
Royal Mail intends to introduce a new suite of access services (“D+5 Letters access services”) from 4 January 2021. The new services will defer the mail until there is another item already being delivered to the recipient’s address, subject to a maximum of four days after it enters the network.
Currently, these services fall outside the scope of the USPA condition. However, it is expected that they will be important services for access operators and could account for a material proportion of access volumes in the future. Consequently, we are of a preliminary view that D+5 Letters access services will be important in maintaining effective competition in bulk mail services, promoting efficiency within Royal Mail’s delivery operations and delivering benefits to users of postal services.
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New Royal Mail service : The new services will defer the mail until there is another item already being delivered to the recipient's address, subject to a maximum of four days after receipt
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POSTMAN
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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.
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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eh? so we dont have to go to a house with 1 letter anymore?
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eh? so we dont have to go to a house with 1 letter anymore?
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This will be interpreted as unless you have a 1st or 2nd Class item for the address , nothing will be delivered until the oldest item is 5 days oldnoggin1969 wrote:Not if it's downstream access mail by the sounds of it.eh? so we dont have to go to a house with 1 letter anymore?
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This is a back door reduction in the USO.
Only dead fish follow the current
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yes but what is downstream mail?Woody Guthrie wrote:This is a back door reduction in the USO.
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DSA.2yearpostie wrote:yes but what is downstream mail?Woody Guthrie wrote:This is a back door reduction in the USO.
All the stuff that comes from whistl and UK Mail etc.
Basically the bulk of what we deliver.
Only dead fish follow the current
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How do you maintain QofS when there's a s**t load of DSA left in your frame?
Is it all going to be date stamped?
How many guys will get sacked for shanking mail?
Is it all going to be date stamped?
How many guys will get sacked for shanking mail?
Only dead fish follow the current
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Sounds like the return of Rebate,For those in the job long enough to remember it.(became mailsort)
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It was standard practice when I started in the 1980s.noggin1969 wrote:Not if it's downstream access mail by the sounds of it.eh? so we dont have to go to a house with 1 letter anymore?
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Slippery slope indeed , i wonder whether the CWU were privilege to this information
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If you have to check every slot with one letter and check to see if it is DSA and then check how long that letter has been in the frame it will take about a year to tie down every day.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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wont most postie just do what they do now?clashcityrocker wrote:If you have to check every slot with one letter and check to see if it is DSA and then check how long that letter has been in the frame it will take about a year to tie down every day.