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[casholaa] 11/4/2024 12:45

Because China pays RM for the last leg of its exports to the UK.

[isis] 11/4/2024 12:29

China Copies/forges everything. How can it not be China!

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 12:24

I wonder whether it was\is China, might just be scammers in China or printing in China. I recall all those love-frauds and advance fee frauds where nobody blamed the Nigerian government

[31337 c0d3r] 11/4/2024 12:17

China has more than likely been doing this for years, and only caught following the recent switch to barcoded stamps.

[isis] 11/4/2024 11:05

Fake Stamps cost RM £50m a year!

[isis] 11/4/2024 10:25

Yeah they may be lying and not told that they bought them online at a discount. Some were saying they bought from the P.O etc. which is highly unlikely.
They've been scammed. There were tons of Wilko adverts doing the rounds that looked legit for fire sale goods. Could not tell the difference as to the Website.
I googled it and found it was a Scam, if it looks too good to be true then it isn't.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 09:46

I agree, they should tell RM where they bought the stamps from or how they came by them.

*it may benefit RM to have a sale a couple times a year for residential customers

[isis] 11/4/2024 09:25

I feel sorry for the Punters who are buying these Stamps. It rang alarm Bells as they were offering the forged one's at 25% discount which didn't seem right on the adverts I saw.
The one's I buy are from WH Smiths which incidentally is also has the local Post Office inside.

[casholaa] 11/4/2024 09:10

I'd love to know how many times the £5 charge has been successfully collected compared to the previous year. It seems potentially more fruitful to collect the £5 per stamp rather than £1.35 or £0.85 per stamp. Nice one China!

[31337 c0d3r] 11/4/2024 02:25

Errrr.... So we collect 5 quid each time one of these is used???


Yes, double the price it was just 6 months ago.

[casholaa] 10/4/2024 22:13

Errrr.... So we collect 5 quid each time one of these is used???

[isis] 10/4/2024 19:31

RM never get a fekin break! You have to wonder how many Millions were forged before the New Barcoded ones?

[moorsie2] 03/4/2024 18:43

This has definitely been oversold.

Value gap now to be filled

[lefrene] 03/4/2024 12:16

I didn't see that documentary, but have many times in the past driven artics in and out of RM depots. Like many industrial processes there are surges and lulls in activity. There could well be people stood about for a time whilst they await the arrival of a fresh truck, and then the labour is needed to move up to 110 'Yorks' (trolleys) that weigh up to 250kg off the trucks and into either sorting for local delivery, or for onward trunking.

They do use a lot of agency staff, so there's room to reduce the number of agency staff.

If they are able to do 2nd class every other day, then there could be the potential to save 50% of vans and delivery staff. Things never work out that smoothly, but there's plainly room for huge savings on the 'last mile' which is the most expensive part of the process by far.

[31337 c0d3r] 03/4/2024 12:14

I note they state "letters" without a capital, therefore I assume this also applies to the 2nd Class Large Letter format.

If so then a lot more business will switch their Large Letters to Evri.

Quite significant as I imagine Royal Mail send more Large Letters than Parcels (of any size).

[careful] 03/4/2024 12:00

RMG are not be able to get rid of staff even if they have nothing to do.

Watched that documentary on TV a few weeks ago highlighting the parcel/letters problem.

They showed a modern sorting off.
There was a long line of workers spaced about 5 yards apart, wheeling baskets similar to a large supermarket trolley filled with parcels.
Some were just standing around watching.

Most of these workers had little to do, and should be made redundant.
Investing millions in modern machines and allowing sorting office workers to stand around watching the machine work is business madness.

With a 12 billion turnover, in the longer term after this business is sorted out and natural wastage or early retirement has worked through we should have good prospects.

But for as long as those suicidal agreements signed with the CWU at the time of privatisation are applied the hands of the management will be tied.

[lefrene] 03/4/2024 11:39

2nd class every other day means they can get rid of huge numbers of vans and drivers.

A massive saving to the company.

First class in my experience is a very small segment, it could likely be done by a bloke on a small motorbike.

[isis] 03/4/2024 10:59

Not very radical really but if they say it will give the cost savings they need then so be it.
The only thing I look out for is my Weekly Copy of the Radio Times, unless it's a package or Parcel. People hardly send Cards now and haven't had a Post Card for years!

[cwa1] 03/4/2024 10:36

Intnl.Distrbtn.Svcs. - Proposal for the Future Universal Service

[chachacha] 03/4/2024 00:21

Company is useless, management hopeless, and the shares probably worthless.

[isis] 26/3/2024 14:26

I think the Government should P.O themselves.