LONDON MAIL DELIVERY - Nation's worst

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[To give a little perspective, remember that Britain is about the same area as Oregon but with 60+ million population who use the mails more than Americans do.]

Telegraph

Mail delivery in London is nation's worst By David Graves (Filed: 01/12/2001)

CONSIGNIA, the former Post Office, reported improved delivery figures yesterday, but the industry watchdog claimed that they masked "unacceptable performance" in several areas, particularly London.

In the three months to September, the group delivered 90.7 per cent of first class letters the following day, still below its national target of 92.1 per cent. But in many areas of London it fell well below the nationwide figures.

Postwatch, the industry watchdog, said 17 of the 20 worst performing postcode areas were in or around London, with east London achieving only 80.9 per cent next-day delivery.

Bradford, Sheffield and Sunderland were the best performing areas, achieving 94 per cent or more next-day deliveries.

Peter Carr, chairman of Postwatch, said about 2.5 million letters were still arriving late every day.

"Although there have been improvements, customers continue to receive a third-rate service. The Hebrides enjoys a better service than 10 London postcodes," he said.

The figures were released the day after the Government decided not to renew the contract of Neville Bain, Consignia's chairman, because the group's service was "simply not good enough".

[Hell, I'm lucky if something I mail within Durham gets to Durham the next day!!!]

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001

Answers

We are getting a lot of RTS [return to sender] mail handled now that has been backed up for a while. But, in this mail is 'good mail.' That means it is not RTS but 'still to be delivered' which somehow got mixed into the RTS. Sometimes employees will put trays of good mail in the containers holding RTS, whether by mistake or on purpose I don't know, and when we find that we have to take it to the clerks handling the hot mail and have them handle it. Hot mail is mail that was posted that day in our area. We are charged with clearing the hot mail daily. When hot mail comes in, we stop working 'cold mail' and do the hot. When the hot is done, we go back to cold.

For us, hot mail is mail that was mailed in our county, but we do get mail that was mailed yesterday in the next county or two that arrives at the same time, so it is incorporated into our hot mail.

Hot mail is finished daily, and RTS is, well, handled as time allows. If we have any mail that has traces of Anthrax, it will be on the RTS, unless a new letter is mailed by someone somewhere. Of course any traces of Anthrax would be very small. at least, I hope so! It could be that another Anthrax letter was mixed into the RTS, or misrouted somehow and is somewhere waiting....

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001


That's got to be nerve racking, Barefoot, wondering if another killer letter is going to turn up. I wish that I could peer into my crystal ball and assure you that this particular threat is over.

Alas, the last time I peered into my crystal ball, all I received was a beer commercial.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001


One of the more entertaining ones, I hope! LOL

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001

Nope. Passed over there, too. Ladies in bathing suits don't do much for me. I just can't win. Got tons of porno spam in my primary email account, too. Now someone named "Beth" at moanalot.com wants me to view her hot times with her sisters.

I'm thinking this probably has nothing to do with canning veggies in August from the harvest.

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001


ROTF! (Spamcop.net)

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2001


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