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Prioritising first class letters

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Whippy
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by Whippy »

Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
ted_e_bear
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
It'll be neither but they're supposed to be delivered during the course of the week they are booked as per what the customer paid for.
Thommo44
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
Farm Foods and Domino’s are first class
😂
TooManyLoops
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by TooManyLoops »

Thommo44 wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 16:22
Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
Farm Foods and Domino’s are first class
😂
These two must have got a right deal, every other bloody week :arrrghhh
Thommo44
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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TooManyLoops wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 18:48
Thommo44 wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 16:22
Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
Farm Foods and Domino’s are first class
😂
These two must have got a right deal, every other bloody week :arrrghhh
Same, but the nearest of either to my round is 7 miles away
Whippy
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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ted_e_bear wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 15:01
Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
It'll be neither but they're supposed to be delivered during the course of the week they are booked as per what the customer paid for.

Thanks for that I have the SOP pdf of d2ds so that still stands.
tramssirhc
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
Unaddressed mail products have a contractual delivery date, i.e, to be delivered week commencing. They will be delivered as per the work plan for the office.
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SkiSunday
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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tramssirhc wrote:
21 Sep 2025, 08:26
Whippy wrote:
20 Sep 2025, 14:51
Does anyone have written information on what D2Ds are classed as 1st or 2nd class?
Unaddressed mail products have a contractual delivery date, i.e, to be delivered week commencing. They will be delivered as per the work plan for the office.
I wonder how the pilot offices are dealing with that one? :left:

Out of interest, are the COMs at these DOs being offered a bigger bonus than the rest of them running non-pilot DOs?
Rage24
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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Absolute nightmare this
fadetogrey63
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by fadetogrey63 »

This 1st class mail It's just adding a extra 20-30 drops to a already max workload, we had non stamped 1st class today to "the occupier" , surely this kind of "1st" class shouldn't be put on us, should just be addressed stamped
Trumanity
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by Trumanity »

fadetogrey63 wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 15:22
This 1st class mail It's just adding a extra 20-30 drops to a already max workload, we had non stamped 1st class today to "the occupier" , surely this kind of "1st" class shouldn't be put on us, should just be addressed stamped
Why are they doing it now? We are literally weeks away from peak and USO reform has been kicked down the road. So why now? What are they up to? :nervous
scoobydo79
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by scoobydo79 »

We have had the same. It’s not possible. You end up doing first class letters and failing tracked or delivering all the tracked but failing on your letters.
Clappedoutpostie
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

Post by Clappedoutpostie »

Just ask them what they want you to do, I was instructed to come back with the 1st class today if I didn’t have enough time after clearing the tracked off a pairing. I went 45 minutes over just doing that (at my choice) if I had done the 1st class as well it would have been another hour.
SkiSunday
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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Clappedoutpostie wrote:
24 Sep 2025, 17:04
Just ask them what they want you to do, I was instructed to come back with the 1st class today if I didn’t have enough time after clearing the tracked off a pairing. I went 45 minutes over just doing that (at my choice) if I had done the 1st class as well it would have been another hour.
I thought Royal Mail didn't prioritise tracked :left:

Last time I checked, perjury was a custodial sentence in this country...
Mr Rush
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Re: Prioritising first class letters

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By rights the 1st Class items should be delivered before Tracked, as the latter is not a USO-regulated product. RM's core competency, the whole reason for the company's existence, is the thing that it ranks least important. Still, the hardon for clearing the 1C letters I would imagine is to prevent an embarassing failure to meet Ofcom's newer softer QoS targets that the company so desired.

Don't worry about 'Peak', though. Once we enter the exemption period on December 1st the 1C will be allowed to languish in the frames with the rest of the letters. It's November that's been terrible for the last decade ever since Tracked exploded.
The machine stops.