Running a business such as Royal Mail

[TopperGas]

Problem is that different offices/areas seem to use different processes, in our DO and the area generally we seem to be going dow the route of DPR drivers delivering the oversized parcels.

[kazardaimenu]

Smaller duties but with oversized parcels on board should be the most efficient way outside of the November/ December overload.

[ted_e_bear]

Smaller duties but with oversized parcels on board should be the most efficient way outside of the November/ December overload.

Absolutely agree anything else is like banging your head against a wall.

[Londonsburning]

It has become apparent to myself and no doubt tens of thousands of fellow RM employees that this place would be better off run by a child at this point. How do we even begin to lift this job back up to the respectable career it once used to be? Fire/demote to delivery all shoddy managers equalise all walks put to a vote all union reps annually. Any other suggestions?

The two-tier workforce, the forced revisions and the continual watering down of delivering letters Monday to Saturday in spite of the USO led by the boardroom has all contributed to losing our overall creditability out on the streets in recent years.

Even though the minimum requirements on letters have not changed, our regulator has chosen to conclude their reviews sometime next year. The CWU will likely agree any reform of the universal service in return for upgrading the inferior workers pay and terms that the company itself created. Whether this will happen with a new owner on board is anyone's guess but it would make sense if staff are leaving and are not adequately being replaced.

The question then becomes how are we all going to manage with the increased workloads of delivering surplus mail as well the explosion of parcels. It would be more efficient going back to permanent dedicated large van drivers to deliver all the medium/larger parcels and posties to deliver the letters and smaller parcels as we used to but I doubt the big bosses see that way as being cost effective, and that is always the problem.

Sack the board?

[postslippete]

Sack the board?

Yes

IDS reported a huge profit at the end of May 2021 but less than year later RM allegedly losing over a million pounds a day. Those who provided the company with those profits were the last on the list to be rewarded and even during our industrial action, four of the directors awarded themselves with over £2 million worth of IDS shares and gave £1,500 to managers to work during these strikes. With the takeover in sight, the Chairman Keith Williams, is expected to net around a million quid with the sale of IDS. Quite a nice retirement package don't you think? And the business is clearly awash with cash as they have just recruited another CEO on an attractive salary to continue with their strategy of watering down the universal service and bumping up the price of letters. The service we once provided is in tatters yet those at the top are creaming the profits.

[Mr Rush]

Smaller duties but with oversized parcels on board should be the most efficient way outside of the November/ December overload.

When I joined I thought at Christmas there'd be something like reverse-lapsing where a duty would be created from the surrounding ones thereby taking the pressure off. I'm not the only one that thought that. But no, if it'll take till midnight to clear a monster duty they have nothing to say if you have nothing to say. I wish I was being facetious about midnight.

[TopperGas]

Sack the board?

Yes

IDS reported a huge profit at the end of May 2021 but less than year later RM allegedly losing over a million pounds a day. Those who provided the company with those profits were the last on the list to be rewarded and even during our industrial action, four of the directors awarded themselves with over £2 million worth of IDS shares and gave £1,500 to managers to work during these strikes. With the takeover in sight, the Chairman Keith Williams, is expected to net around a million quid with the sale of IDS. Quite a nice retirement package don't you think? And the business is clearly awash with cash as they have just recruited another CEO on an attractive salary to continue with their strategy of watering down the universal service and bumping up the price of letters. The service we once provided is in tatters yet those at the top are creaming the profits.

The profits were made from COVID RM have not a profit for years in "normal" times, most large co's employ a CEO and the stockmarket could probably be asking questions if RM didn't appoint one.

[postslippete]

The profits were made from COVID RM have not a profit for years in "normal" times, most large co's employ a CEO and the stockmarket could probably be asking questions if RM didn't appoint one.

When Royal Mail changed its group holding name to IDS it was more than just a marketing ploy and when the company made this £1 billion operating loss in 2022-23 with industrial action estimated to have cost around £200 million, our overall revenues only declined by 5%. So there is no doubt that the accounts of RM have been deliberately blackened to make the USO look financially unviable in the UK. They are still doing it now! And like I said the senior management were busy helping themselves to millions of pounds worth of shares and awarding shop floor managers bonuses while we were out on the picket lines. The company were also sitting on retained earnings of £3.8 billion so any ideas that we were going to go into administration are laughable.

The Stockmarket will always ask questions regarding the revolving door of leadership in Royal Mail and a high quality postal service is good for stakeholders and the whole of Britain.

[ihatedogs]

Have an admin guy on about £28k to sort out all the days off and input overtime and you’re half way there all whilst saving a shed load of cash.

That sounds like something a PHG would do. Naturally that was scrapped way back in 1999. The ability to progress in this job used to be something they advertised.

Someone starting as a telegram boy after the war could do the time and demonstrate their competence to move up through the pay grades and see out the century as a DOM. Now we've got people in business casual after a year on delivery and running offices in three.

No idea what he gets paid, but we have an admin guy who does just that, seems to work ok. Some places won't have the budget for that though.