Offices 'officially' in trouble?

[qwerty2]

Is this evidence that they have run out of staff to move around to fix things?

Get the fat lazy managers out on delivery - most have never done the job

[Barnacle]

Is this evidence that they have run out of staff to move around to fix things?

They are running out of staff full stop. We had 3 new starters last week, by the end of the week 2 had already left and the 3rd had gone off sick.

That’s the exact situation with us. New starters either don’t arrive or disappear after the first week or are off sick finding a different job.

So if RM are dragging staff from other offices to prop up DM26, there just aren’t enough people in the pot

[Mr Rush]

Does anyone actually get pulled in for this? I mean area managers and above.

Yes, I can confirm the fertiliser cascades from an elevated position. OPGs get whipped by the COMs who get scolded by the OPL who gets harangued by ROD(?). The vitriol sort of dissipates beyond that. At a certain level you're more likely to be having lunch with the head of Ofcom than receiving a tirade down the phoneline.

There used to only be seven steps from LM to CEO, so you could attract yourself some powerfully negative attention very quickly depending on circumstances (like a colleague who posted something online and then the Daily Record reprinted it). Although in these times of 200+ offices on the list I would imagine everyone feels safer in the herd.

[OikOik]

None in Yorkshire that I can see? Whitwood where are you!

[POSTMAN]

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

239

Aboyne SUDO (AB34)
Altens DO (AB10-AB12, AB35)
Andover DO (SP9, SP10, SP11)
Arbroath DO (DD11)
Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63, NE64)
Banbury DO (OX15, OX16, OX17)
Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
Basingstoke DO (RG21-RG26, and RG28)
Bedford MK40 DO (MK40-MK45)
Belfast East DO (BT4, BT5, BT6, BT16)
Belfast South and Central DO (BT1, BT2, BT3, BT7, BT8, BT9)
Bicester DO (OX25-OX27)
Blaydon On Tyne DO (NE16, NE21, NE39, NE40)
Brentwood DO (CM13, CM14, CM15)
Bridge of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
Brierley Hill DO (DY5)
Carmarthen DO (SA17, SA31-SA33)
Cambridge DO (CB1-CB5, CB21-CB25)
Canvey Island DO (SS8)
Carterton DO (OX18)
Castlewellan SPDO (BT31)
Cheadle SK DO (SK8)
Cheddar DO (BS27)
Chester DO (CH1-CH4, CH88, CH99)
Chichester DO (PO18-PO20)
Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
Coalville DO (LE6, LE7)
Crewe DO (CW1, CW2, CW3)
Cullompton DO (EX15)
Dawlish DO (EX6, EX7)
Downham Market DO (PE32, PE33, PE38)
Dudley DO (DY1-DY3)
East Dulwich DO (SE22)
Ebbw Vale DO (NP23)
Egremont DO (CA21, CA22, CA23, CA24, CA25, CA27)
Ely DO (CB6,CB7)
Exmouth DO (EX8,EX9)
Frome DO (BA11)
Glenrothes DO (KY6, KY7)
Houghton Le Spring DO (DH4, DH5)
Hoylake DO (CH47, CH48)
Ilfracombe DO (EX34)
Jarrow DO (NE31, NE32, NE35, NE36)
Kidderminster DO (DY10-DY12, DY14)
Kirkcaldy DO (KY1-KY3)
Lark Lane DO (L17)
Leicester East DO (LE2, LE5, LE7)
Lichfield DO (WS7, WS13, WS14)
Lochgelly DO (KY5)
Loughborough DO (LE11, LE12)
March DO (PE15)
Minehead DO (TA22, TA23, TA24)
Mid Rhondda Ganol DO (CF39, CF40)
New Ferry DO (CH32, CH62, CH63)
Northfield DO (BS31)
Northwich DO (CW8, CW9)
Nuneaton DO (CV10, CV11, CV13)
Orton Southgate DO (PE2, PE7-PE9)
Oxford DO (OX1-OX2)
Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
Porthcawl DO (CF36)
Portsmouth DO (PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6)
Ramsgate DO (CT11, CT12)
Reading East DO (RG4, RG5, RG6, RG10)
Reading West DO (RG30, RG31)
Runcorn DO (WA7)
Rugeley DO (WS15)
Shrewsbury DO (SY1-SY5)
Speke DO (L24)
St Helens DO (WA9, WA10, WA11)
Swan House DO (LE1, LE3, LE7-LE9, LE19, LE41, LE95)
Tarporley DO (CW6)
Taunton DO (TA1, TA2, TA3, TA4)
Teignmouth DO (TQ14)
Thornbury DO (BS35)
Wallingford DO (OX10, OX49)
Warrington DO (WA1, WA2, WA4, WA5, WA55)
Waterlooville DO (PO7-PO8)
Wednesbury DO (WS10)
Westbury DO (BA13)
Weston Super Mare (BS22, BS23, BS24, BS40)
West Norwood DO (SE27)
Wigton DO (CA7)
Wilmslow DO (SK9)
Wincanton DO (BA7, BA8, BA9, BA10)
Winscombe DO (BS25, BS26, BS29)
Winsford DO (CW7, CW10)
Witham DO (CM8)
Witney DO (OX18, OX28, OX29)
Woolton DO (L25, L26, L27)

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 modern science, 239 is one of the most critical numbers in existence. Plutonium-239 is the primary fissile isotope used to fuel nuclear reactors and build nuclear weapons.

[funkflex55]

Somebody please make a spreadsheet that can match the above list to the list of offices on DM26. I could do it manually but it takes ages and I'm interested to see how many are on there.



delivery-office-go-live-update-4.pdf
PDF

You can read that PDF?

Yes. I can read the PDF you uploaded — “delivery-office-go-live-update-4.pdf.”

It contains the Delivery Office list with columns for Delivery Office, Postcode District/Sector, Forecast Go Live and Actual Gone Live Date. For example, it shows Denton, Frodsham, Manchester North West, Crewe and Warrington with their July/September 2026 go-live dates.


So yes — I can use this PDF as the DM26 list and cross-reference it against the 229 offices from the RoyalMailChat post.

If you want, I'll do the full match and give you the exact number + names of every office appearing on both lists.


Give me the exact number and names of every office appearing on both lists

Yes — I’ve now cross-referenced the 239 offices currently shown on the RoyalMailChat list against the DM26 Delivery Office PDF you uploaded. The RoyalMailChat page itself labels the list as 239.

Exact overlap: 54 offices
Altens

Ashington

Bedford MK40

Belfast East

Belfast South and Central

Brentwood

Bridge of Don

Brierley Hill

Carmarthen

Canvey Island

Carterton

Cheadle SK

Cheddar

Chester

Chipping Norton

Crewe

Dawlish

Dudley

East Dulwich

Ebbw Vale

Egremont

Glenrothes

Houghton Le Spring

Hoylake

Jarrow

Kidderminster

Lark Lane

Lichfield

Lochgelly

Mid Rhondda Ganol

New Ferry

Northfield

Northwich

Orton Southgate

Oxford

Porthcawl

Ramsgate

Reading West

Runcorn

Rugeley

Shrewsbury

Speke

St Helens

Tarporley

Warrington

Wednesbury

West Norwood

Weston Super Mare

Wigton

Wilmslow

Wincanton

Winscombe

Winsford

Woolton

This is what chatgpt says. If it's true then it's funny as f**k.

[gfte]

Just mind at least one of the offices listed as having gone live most definitely has not.

(The pdf, not your list, feck knows how were not on the naughty list.)

[Roadie8282]

Weston-Super-Mare hasn't gone to dm26.
Was meant to be mext week but it's been put back as its a mess in there

[A2B]

Weston-Super-Mare hasn't gone to dm26.
Was meant to be mext week but it's been put back as its a mess in there

Have they started sending the sequenced through as heavy and light? I think they are using that as the trigger the office has moved to DM26

[Mr Rush]

I heard something very interesting about an office that was somewhat habituated to being on this list and has this summer reformed itself into a model office. What that might be will be left to everyone's imagination as I'm not going to dish out the gossip that may or may not be deliberately drip-fed to me.

Now I must retire to ponder the kingdom located in Jutland and materials decomposing therein.

[SpacePhoenix]

Weston-Super-Mare hasn't gone to dm26.
Was meant to be mext week but it's been put back as its a mess in there

Have they started sending the sequenced through as heavy and light? I think they are using that as the trigger the office has moved to DM26

Over half the DOs locally have gone over, we can tell easily on a Friday night as just about everything gets deferred and we can just about get all the mail released by a batch into a single tray. The biggest DOs have already gone over, it's mainly smaller DOs left to go over. I think RM will have all remaining DOs onto DM26 by the end of the month whether they are ready or not to get everything bedded in before packets pick up around mid November.

[Barnacle]

I heard something very interesting about an office that was somewhat habituated to being on this list and has this summer reformed itself into a model office. What that might be will be left to everyone's imagination as I'm not going to dish out the gossip that may or may not be deliberately drip-fed to me.

Now I must retire to ponder the kingdom located in Jutland and materials decomposing therein.

Thinking… I’m thinking..

Belfast? Am I cold?

[funkflex55]

Whitwood is my guess. They were always on it.