3 Days Mail A Week

[jdfc]

People living in rural parts of Angus including Monikie would have to travel to Dundee to collect their mail as they lived in the DD postcode area.

Correct

[jdfc]

Don't understand how the savings will be generated. Could a postie explain please?

At the moment posties work a 5 day week over 6 days with a different day off each week

Go down to 5 days over 5 then a sixth of the workforce wouldn’t be needed to deliver letters, a percentage of them could deliver parcels but the bulk would leave the business

If mail is being delivered over five days the the fuel bill for vans would be cut by a sixth, over the whole of the UK it’s a big saving

[Returnofrros]

At the moment posties work a 5 day week over 6 days with a different day off each week

Go down to 5 days over 5 then a sixth of the workforce wouldn’t be needed to deliver letters, a percentage of them could deliver parcels but the bulk would leave the business

If mail is being delivered over five days the the fuel bill for vans would be cut by a sixth, over the whole of the UK it’s a big saving

Maybe stop driving van 10 yards.

[islaydarkblue]

At the moment posties work a 5 day week over 6 days with a different day off each week

Go down to 5 days over 5 then a sixth of the workforce wouldn’t be needed to deliver letters, a percentage of them could deliver parcels but the bulk would leave the business

If mail is being delivered over five days the the fuel bill for vans would be cut by a sixth, over the whole of the UK it’s a big saving

Our postie on Islay delivers letters and parcels at the same time on his round.

[jdfc]

Our postie on Islay delivers letters and parcels at the same time on his round.

As do all, but if letters only need to be 5 days you would have separate parcel duties to cover 6 days

[eric_sinclair]

Is there not a far greater number of vans now than their used to be?
If yes is this due to parcels being the war royal mail make cash these days?
Letters must be well down these days with emails etc.

[noahrab]

Maybe stop driving van 10 yards.

As I posted earlier, lazy basturds.

Would also help reduce carbon emissions and help save the planet from climate change etc etc.

Posties have a lot to answer for including elastic band polution.

[islaydarkblue]

As do all, but if letters only need to be 5 days you would have separate parcel duties to cover 6 days

The big problem on Islay is that the Royal Mail have the contract to deliver parcels from Amazon and the local residents go daft ordering goods from Amazon which exacerbates the problem of the delivery of letters on the island.
In my opinion there is no need to have a delivery of mail by the posties on a Saturday which would give them every weekend off which currently only happens once every few weeks unless they are on annual leave.

[islaydarkblue]

Is there not a far greater number of vans now than their used to be?
If yes is this due to parcels being the war royal mail make cash these days?
Letters must be well down these days with emails etc.

Letters includes bank statements, credit card statements, birthday cards and Christmas cards etc.
Thanks to emails it is likely that few people send letters nowadays.

[islaydarkblue]

Is there not a far greater number of vans now than their used to be?
If yes is this due to parcels being the war royal mail make cash these days?
Letters must be well down these days with emails etc.

Soon after the Royal Mail was privatised it went daft supplying posties with a new van.