Stamp increase

[Selhurst]

Just seen on ch 5 news stamp increase again from next month

[kazardaimenu]

Probably by way more than the 2% payrise we‘re getting.

[A2B]

Just a continuation of the policy of making it unaffordable to send mail so they can ditch the service

Things are going to go downhill very fast I'm afraid

[qwerty2]

They are total SCUM

[LouBarlow]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

[derekm]

Must be the only company in the uk who get slaughtered about Mail not being delivered then tell them a couple of days later the price of their undelivered Mail is going up

[richietns]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

[Mike G]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

When was the last time shareholders got "paid"?

If you consider being a shareholder is such a cushy, money for nothing option how come you're not one?

[richietns]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

When was the last time shareholders got "paid"?

If you consider being a shareholder is such a cushy, money for nothing option how come you're not one?

Its the system its just a legal way of siphoning off profit is it not and I dont have to be a shareholder its a royal mail forum.

[norris9]

I swear mail's going up, so RM probably want this to stop - all they care about is parcels, that's where the margins are.

2-3 years ago we used to have quiet Tuesdays and Saturdays where you'd go to 1 in every 4 or 5 houses. Nowadays getting even the odd day like this has been rare.

I don't even understand how people are getting so much post in today's day and age. I get 2 or 3 letters a month, whereas people I am delivering to are getting 3 letters a day, everyday.

I am wondering if people working from home means that instead of mail going to the office they once worked in....it's going to their homes, which has made volumes go up on residential property deliveries.

[SpacePhoenix]

I swear mail's going up, so RM probably want this to stop - all they care about is parcels, that's where the margins are.

2-3 years ago we used to have quiet Tuesdays and Saturdays where you'd go to 1 in every 4 or 5 houses. Nowadays getting even the odd day like this has been rare.

I don't even understand how people are getting so much post in today's day and age. I get 2 or 3 letters a month, whereas people I am delivering to are getting 3 letters a day, everyday.

I am wondering if people working from home means that instead of mail going to the office they once worked in....it's going to their homes, which has made volumes go up on residential property deliveries.

Some of that might be down to the DTS system which essentially only releases a 2C item if a DP has a 1C item going to it. If it reaches 5 days then the item gets released anyway

[Sean06]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

When was the last time shareholders got "paid"?

If you consider being a shareholder is such a cushy, money for nothing option how come you're not one?

Its the system its just a legal way of siphoning off profit is it not and I dont have to be a shareholder its a royal mail forum.

But you said gotta pay them shareholders pretty simple question.

[richietns]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

When was the last time shareholders got "paid"?

If you consider being a shareholder is such a cushy, money for nothing option how come you're not one?

Its the system its just a legal way of siphoning off profit is it not and I dont have to be a shareholder its a royal mail forum.

But you said gotta pay them shareholders pretty simple question.

Say what?

[ted_e_bear]

I swear mail's going up, so RM probably want this to stop - all they care about is parcels, that's where the margins are.

2-3 years ago we used to have quiet Tuesdays and Saturdays where you'd go to 1 in every 4 or 5 houses. Nowadays getting even the odd day like this has been rare.

I don't even understand how people are getting so much post in today's day and age. I get 2 or 3 letters a month, whereas people I am delivering to are getting 3 letters a day, everyday.

I am wondering if people working from home means that instead of mail going to the office they once worked in....it's going to their homes, which has made volumes go up on residential property deliveries.

Some of that might be down to the DTS system which essentially only releases a 2C item if a DP has a 1C item going to it. If it reaches 5 days then the item gets released anyway

Pesumably the only 1C item the machine would be aware of would be a 1C letter that passed through it, in the meantime the address may have had numerous parcels and magazines etc type items, up until recently we were getting shafted every Friday with excessive amounts of sequenced letters, you could tell you'd already delivered to a lot of the addresses as the d2ds were gone, I'm guessing that was down to this system.

[LouBarlow]

Operating costs continue to increase and the company needs to make money. How else are they going to do this without raising prices?

yeah gotta pay them shareholders.

When was the last time shareholders got "paid"?

If you consider being a shareholder is such a cushy, money for nothing option how come you're not one?

He is right. The company operates to make profit. That is the primary goal. It is not a service industry any more. Everything is getting more expensive. Your food, rent, mortgages, council tax. Why people expect Royal Mail to deliver the same service for the same stamp price is beyond me. Costs are going up for every company that exists to be profitable.