Cash Turnstile in Dens Park

[jdfc]

It is time that the Government of the day was tightening up the benefits system in this country and stopping the working tax credit scheme to encourage people to work full time contracts. I can see posties going the same way as staff working in bank branches. They will become a dying breed as people stop sending birthday cards and Christmas cards through the post.
Emails have taken over from posting letters.
In 2006 a postie on Islay told me that junk mail paid his wages. Now we get little junk mail as firms now bombard us with emails so we are now paying through the nose for first and second class stamps for a poor service.
In addition to the birthday card my wife sent which took eight weeks to be delivered she sent another two birthday cards at the same time. They were posted a least a week before the date of the birthday each with a second class stamp and they arrived late.
Goodness knows where the Royal Mail are getting their performance figures for the delivery of their mail on time. They must be using a desk top exercise or using selective counting.

Have a look at prices around Europe for letters you’ll be surprised at how cheap the uk is, letters are dying a painfully slow death, it’s packets/parcels that make the money

[islaydarkblue]

Have a look at prices around Europe for letters you’ll be surprised at how cheap the uk is, letters are dying a painfully slow death, it’s packets/parcels that make the money

That is the other problem on Islay.
Royal Mail have the contract for the delivery of the Amazon parcels on the island which means that the posties spend a lot of extra time on their round delivering Amazon parcels which have a deadline for delivery which is to the detriment of the delivery of letters assuming that the posties can find the correct address in the first place.
The Islay residents go mad ordering goods online from Amazon and then moan about the late delivery of their mail.
In my opinion the simple solution on Islay is to have a separate parcels delivery service by the Royal Mail with the letter delivery rounds being increased in size to take account of the reduction in the number of letters being delivered.
However that is unlikely to happen as the Royal Mail bosses in Glasgow treat the island of Islay as a place which is out of sight, out of mind.
The posties on Islay never go on strike but a couple of years ago they all arranged to phone in sick on a Saturday morning which meant that no mail was delivered on Islay that day.
It was not much of a loss as at that time our mail was being delivered once a week due to a lack of staff.