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Thirty years ago when i worked at RM they were most definitely three separate businesses - don't think had been for long though. Still worked together slightly, e.g. RM collecting from sub-offices, including posted parcels (for Parcelforce) which were put straight in the back of an artic trailer...

My 85 year old Dad still receives more than one item of normal mail most days, whereas i get maybe about one thing per week... I would guess most people are somewhere in between... Re small parcels - my late partner received something she'd ordered literally almost every day through RM, mostly...

Agree with every word of that, both intellectually and experiencially. DPD though do seem ok; regular driver, and they actually offer their staff the option to be properly employed which will make a huge difference. I think the others (evri certainly) all use the "self employed" model, where...

I think most boxes are now emptied by the same person who delivers in that area, round here atleast (urban)...one reason they each have their own van now, and also most boxes are only emptied in the mornings. Only the very few with later collections still require a separate trip out to them.

Maybe, but i suspect most people would prefer to know when to expect stuff, i.e. set days.

Possibly that could work, while there is no competition for letters, but if daily delivery is not retained for parcels/packets, Royal Mail instantly becomes less attractive than other courier firms. However, would any reduction in days for any part of the service not have a detrimental effect on...

Just posting that to share my experience that staff, and in some cases it would have been the manager, in shops are extremely happy to handle cash.

Not following this thread, but as it was in "New posts", just thought i'd say i've recommenced regularly using cash again in the last few weeks (the stumbling block to doing so sooner was forgetting to go to a cashpoint first...). Due to often being a bit fumbly as i get used to it again, i'll...

Wow... so the cost of motoring is now actually comparable with one single person travelling by public transport What is the comparison like with freight transportation?

Yes. But i have very little money. The rest of my comment?

I don't think 'ordinary' people need to pay more tax. Just claw it from the rich and the corporations who avoid/evade, and cease and reverse this government's general looting of public assets and finances. There is plenty of money to go around.

Thanks for that explanation :)

Several trains have still run ecs

Thanks all for the insights :) Re rostering. Obviously it would be better to recruit more staff. Without that, if i understand correctly, staff work 8-ish hour shifts, plus, if they choose, 4-ish hours overtime, and certain moves are covered permanently on overtime? This is how it was in Royal...

Theoretically, that could make organising some kind of back up fleet of RRBs (and drivers for them on call) for short notice work easier.

Reading this sort of thing always reminds me of back in about '94, still BR - a Glasgow-Euston on a (scheduled) diversion over the S&C, while on that route got stuck behind a broken down freight train. All the time the guard kept us informed, including regularly walking through the train. Then...

Thanks, good post. And good point about the waste, if all fragments are not fully digested...

Interesting about it growing in and around larval flows hence it's hardiness - hadn't read that before, thanks. Knew in its natural climate it faced more resistance so was kept in check. There was something a few years ago about it not being quite as bad as thought, i.e. it won't actually break...

I have been told i should get a goat or similar...but minus the weedkiller... 1651584474 Remember hearing of a case of it growing in one small location alongside a major trunk road, possibly the A43 but not sure now, along comes the tractor hedge trimmer thingy and scatters it, it now grows...

As i said, just use it as if its rhubarb, taking care obviously to make sure not a trace of it ends up in normal compost or whatever. Also i have added it to salads. 1651582689 Probably, i wasn't necessarily advocating doing it.