adam277:
Well royal mail are not exactly great.
Royal mail workers get paid significantly more than Amazon workers and provide a much worse service.
Whenever I order from Amazon I get next day delivery heck sometimes same day with tracking.
With royal mail you just never know.
Eh? You pay royal mail for next day delivery it gets there. Ive been using them 20 years, used it a thousand times and theyve never missed once. Are you just saying that because you 're tory?
The royal mail want it changed to gig economy work like amazon do - just employ anyone with a van on 40 pence a drop - less than minimum wage - if that happens lots of parcels will “go missing” just from people trying to make the job pay.
I’m not a Tory.
Also, I prob can count on 1 hand the amount of times a next day delivery from the royal mail actually reached me.
Amazon on the other hand. Every single time. Same with DPD I can see exactly where the parcel is. What stop the driver is on and what stop I will be with a 30 min time window.
Royal Mail is grossly mismanaged. But the employees themselves are not exactly hard workers on the whole. I don’t blame them, a lot of them are past 50. Compared to the Amazon work which yea, is a young man’s game on the whole.
But as I already said. This is a capitalist system. In this system the consumer decides what is best.
I’d sooner trust DPD or Amazon over Royal Mail any day of the week. A lot of people feel the same which is why they are doing so well.
Ive never had a problem with royal mail in 20 years - dunno why our experience would be different?
And would you trust a gig economy worker to leave something on your doorstep? If I was him and getting paid tuppence an hour I would be calling my mate and saying “Just left something tasty at number 29”
I see one of the non-Royal Mail parcel delivery guys around here who, when turning around at the end of the street, often has his Sprinter in reverse before it has stopped going forwards and uses the opposite kerb as the ‘brake’. His van is filthy and looks to have few, if any, straight panels on it. He runs up and down drives with his parcels, knocking on and then beating an immediate retreat. For sure his whole working day is like that.
If Royal Mail staff are striking for fear of that kind of working ‘environment’ becoming their future, one cannot blame them. That way lies only burnout and potentially much worse.
adam277:
Well royal mail are not exactly great.
Royal mail workers get paid significantly more than Amazon workers and provide a much worse service.
Whenever I order from Amazon I get next day delivery heck sometimes same day with tracking.
With royal mail you just never know.
Eh? You pay royal mail for next day delivery it gets there. Ive been using them 20 years, used it a thousand times and theyve never missed once. Are you just saying that because you 're tory?
The royal mail want it changed to gig economy work like amazon do - just employ anyone with a van on 40 pence a drop - less than minimum wage - if that happens lots of parcels will “go missing” just from people trying to make the job pay.
I’m not a Tory.
Also, I prob can count on 1 hand the amount of times a next day delivery from the royal mail actually reached me.
Amazon on the other hand. Every single time. Same with DPD I can see exactly where the parcel is. What stop the driver is on and what stop I will be with a 30 min time window.
Royal Mail is grossly mismanaged. But the employees themselves are not exactly hard workers on the whole. I don’t blame them, a lot of them are past 50. Compared to the Amazon work which yea, is a young man’s game on the whole.
But as I already said. This is a capitalist system. In this system the consumer decides what is best.
I’d sooner trust DPD or Amazon over Royal Mail any day of the week. A lot of people feel the same which is why they are doing so well.
I’ll agree with you that Royal Mail is grossly mismanaged, it should have never have been privatised. How can a company that delivers to 32 million addresses a day under the USO compete with the gig economy outfits who only deliver to towns and cities.
If you lived in the rural areas your Amazon, DPD, Evri and the likes will pass their items onto Royal Mail to deliver because it’ll eat into their profits.