Earlier Collection

[Georgiesmum]

Did you see, up to 50,000 royal mail post boxes in the uk are going to make their last collection earlier now, expected to be between 9am and 3pm.
Whats happening to this country?

[boxtops]

Yep, I head that a few days ago on the radio, I forgot to comment on it. The idea is that instead of having to send out the usual vans to collect from each pillarbox, the walking delivery men will collect from the boxes as they do their delivery round.

I think it's rubbish - considering the cost of a stamp these days - and is no help at all to small businesses who go to the pillar box at the end of the working day.

[Zacs-Master]

What's happening is, there isn't the demand anymore and so instead of the taxpayer paying for posties to fly round the country unnecessarily, the privatised company are making more money. It's how the free world works.

[mikey4444]

We were warned before the Tories hived off Royal Mail at a knock-down price, that this sort of thing would happen. I hope all those that voted for this shower are now seeing the error of their ways.

[Zacs-Master]

Crikey. Echoes of Arthur there.

[mikey4444]

Royal Mail handle millions of items every day, so it makes no sense to suggest that there isn't any demand any more. What there is demand for is every increasing profits from the greedy owners of Royal Mail...its all about profits and not about service to the public.

[Zacs-Master]

I am enlightened. Thank you.

[mikey4444]

Sorry Zacs but its true.

By the way, if its Arthur Scargill you had in mind, I found out last week from a worker there, that Aberthaw Power Station, on the South Wales coast now burns coal from Perth, Australia, rather than the huge reserves of Welsh coal, available on its doorstep. I am far from being Arthurs biggest fan, having been an active Trade Unionist during the miners strike of 30 years ago. I and my colleagues in the Post Office Engineering Union helped the miners families from starving to death. He was an arrogant pillock. But he was right about the closure of the mines.

My avatar once described Britain as "an island, made of coal, surrounded by fish ".......he must be turning in his grave now.

[mikey4444]

Glad to be of service Zacs !