Royal Mail has this afternoon (Tuesday) announced that due to the Coronavirus outbreak they are temporarily suspending all Saturday letter deliveries.
As of the 2nd May, Royal Mail will no longer be delivering letters on Saturday – but will continue their letter delivery service from Monday to Friday as normal.
They will, however, continue to deliver Special Delivery, Tracked, all non-account services and most other parcels from Monday to Saturday across the country.
Residents can still post both letters and parcels as usual on Saturday as collections from businesses, post offices and post boxes will continue as normal.
| Services now delivered on a Saturday |
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| 1st Class Parcels |
| 1st Class Signed For Parcels, Large Letters and Letters |
| 2nd Class Parcels |
| 2nd Class Signed For Parcels, Large Letters and Letters |
| Royal Mail 24 Parcels and Large Letters |
| Royal Mail Tracked 24 & 48 Parcels and Tracked Letterboxable formats |
| Royal Mail Tracked Returns |
| Special Delivery Guaranteed by 9am* (all formats) |
| Special Delivery Guaranteed by 1pm* (all formats) |
| International import tracked services (all formats) |
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As a postman for 32 years I see this as the way forward for the time being. In our office we are carrying on but still at a very high risk. This way, we win and the public win. As for our union, have stood behind you for 32 years but in this instance I say behave
still a great service, in all weathers
All this time they have been delivering now they decide to stop doesn’t make sense just my opinion great service year round
No, they are still delivering, read the article fully please
Heroes.
“Due to Coronavirus” is a bit vague
Any idea if this is due to staff sickness or cost cutting?
This is something management have been pushing for pre corona – it will mean job losses in the long run as I doubt it is temporary. Workers had voted to strike over this before Christmas but were forced to delay strike , voted again this year against to strike against this and other cuts but delayed strike because of corona – the privatisation of Royal Mail will result in job loses and poorer service.
Having maintained a 6 day delivery service through the first, and hopefully worst, month of the lockdown it seems odd timing to introduce this when the rest of the UK is talking about restoring normal services.
It really does smack of totally unscrupulous management actually using Covid-19 as an excuse for introducing otherwise controversial changes.
Cost cutting..and..they have been putting in Executive Actions all over the business lately..once the Virus has gone i am positive as are most sceptical posties that theybwill not reinstate it saying the public are happy ..just another one of their ways of bringing something in through the back door..i am a postman and i only heard about this yesterday so there was no discusion with us.
I am not what you may call a supporter of ROYAL mail!? BUT, The majority of Postmen and Post women are NOT the RM. (Apart from that JIM!! ) AND I fully support the idea, but not surprised they haven’t done it before. Let’s face it, ever tried to get ANY sense out of the RM Website?? (Blood from STONE rings a bell!!) .
Suspending ‘temporarily’? Yeah right, lets see that come back – NOT!
And remember they are also no longer collecting mail from many postboxes after 7AM (ANY day) either.
Another institution in total decline.
Eons ago had three deliveries a day
Then two deliveries a day
Then one delivery a day
Now only weekday deliveries and anything up to late afternoon before you see it – yet the price keeps rising.
So then you get the ‘private’ third party firms come in which dilutes what is already a bad service to a multi-agency, multi-firm utter fiasco where none of them end up providing any quality of service whatsoever.
Jeez Louise
Hard to see how this would relieve the burden of postman. Surely if they are not delivering letters on Saturday they will be faced with delivering ‘double bubble’ on the following Monday. I think this is a ploy by RM to implement cost cutting measures and concentrate on the lucrative packet and parcel element. To sneak this in under the guise of the current global emergency is very underhanded.
Wasn’t going to say anything, except to just say what a nice picture of the little post box with the flowers next to it. So pretty.
But, I hope they reinstate the letter delivery once all this is over. I’m sure I can recall a time when there used to be a delivery on Christmas Day morning. And there always used to be a delivery twice daily for many years. I suppose email and text messages and the like have gone some way to the reduction in the need for letter writing.
2 days no Bill’s coming through the letter box, on a serious note I cant understand y postmen /women cant just do monday to friday anyway .back in the days used to have letters and junk mail or the time now all emailed now aprt from couple letters a week
so Is tomorrow the last day the deliver letters on Saturdays or ?