Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
I assume from the other posts that you are union official and a postman.
There is a big problem with the delivery of the Royal Mail on Islay which has been happening since May 2021 and despite reassurances from the Royal Mail bosses in Glasgow that it was a short term problem at the time, it is getting worse. Mail has not been getting delivered to the correct address with the new posties who do not receive sufficient adequate training operating a ‘pot luck’ delivery service.
If they cannot find the correct house they fire the mail through the letter box of another house hoping that the home owner will do their job for them and deliver the mail to the correct address.
Last June we returned after a holiday to discover eleven items of mail for a neighbour who lives two houses away from our house. Surely the postie should have realised that Royal mail with two different surnames living at different addresses should not be pushed through the letter box of one house.
It is not ‘rocket science’ even on the island of Islay where things get slower the further west you go in Scotland.
Every place in the country is struggling to get people to fill the posts of those that have left, folk in my office refuse full time contracts due to benefits they receive, in a lot of cases the jobs go to folk who wouldn’t get near to them years ago, it’s a poor service now due to this