Prestons take over Royal Mail

wheel_nut · 22 November 2011 00:39

I went to pick a mate up from East Midlands airport today and saw a POP pulling a Royal Mail Trailer.

It is definately true

newmercman · 22 November 2011 00:44

It’s a funny old world, I saw a red bus with Guinness livery, who knew that buses had taken over the Guinness contract

jonnytruckfest · 22 November 2011 01:19

Could have told you that one

From what I’ve been told there’s quite a few prestons drivers on the Royal Mail contract

Cheers

Jonny

the_rustler · 22 November 2011 06:37

I regularly see one pulling a Reed Boardall fridge.

jessicas_dad · 22 November 2011 11:37

Longs of Leeds used to have the royal mail contract but used their own trailers. Its shifting the leaflets and junk mail about not the actual post.

jimmychoo · 22 November 2011 11:48

It’s xmas time you will see all sorts of units pulling royal mail trailers, the more desperate royal mail get the more subbies they use, last year with so much snow there were more subbie units than royal mail ones, it is normally chaos, a good contract if you can get it, do very little for your money you might not even move for a whole week and get paid for it

switchlogic · 22 November 2011 12:15

I may be wrong but I think it maybe possibly could be that the original post was a joke. Maybe.

jimmychoo · 22 November 2011 12:39

May well be so

wheel_nut · 22 November 2011 12:57

switchlogic:
I may be wrong but I think it maybe possibly could be that the original post was a joke. Maybe.

Maybe I should have entitled it differently Luke

Royal Mail goes POP

jimmychoo · 22 November 2011 13:18

Royal Mail went pop a long time ago

bewick · 22 November 2011 13:23

I wonder if “fast eddie” got sniff at the Royal Mail job ? Just think about it,put red hats on the ESL Elves and Hey presto ! well Christmas is approaching and it would put a smile on the “little Jimmies” faces to see one of “fast eddies” elves delivering christmas cards ect. Bewick.

jase · 22 November 2011 20:22

It’s true,saw a Prestons with a royal mail trailer on today on the M1.

phantom309 · 22 November 2011 20:31

Bewick:
I wonder if “fast eddie” got sniff at the Royal Mail job ? Just think about it,put red hats on the ESL Elves and Hey presto ! well Christmas is approaching and it would put a smile on the “little Jimmies” faces to see one of “fast eddies” elves delivering christmas cards ect. Bewick.

stobart were pulling for RM last year and earlier in this year so it may just happen

dazaster · 22 November 2011 20:44

royal mail are using subbies for some runs, i know a good one going from south wales to hamilton, which 2 companys are pulling