Post office rumour.
 

Seemingly the liquidators are moving in nationwide.:shrug:

Union be saying that for some time

Also that another Company is going to take them over,


But has not yet happened

the PO won't be allowed to go under

I don’t understand how the post office is struggling given we all send and receive twenty times more parcels and packages nowadays due to online purchases and sales ( eBay , Amazon etc )


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letters were their bread and butter and the majority of companies have gone paper free for things like bank statements, bills etc

True but now there are millions of parcels being sent / received .

I don’t think we EVER sent a parcel until eBay


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That is why they are struggling they dont deliver at the rate of Evri DPD or Amazon...and the recent strike was about the PO wanted to move t a new model delivering letters later and focussing parcels

Fair enough.. it’s just that they’re ideally placed to thrive in this age of buying / selling online

They just need to adapt / evolve very quickly


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The postie who told me had been to a staff meeting that morning.

Could be the Union spreading lies
of what is to come.



Possible Take Over
could happen, though.

There's barely any margin in most of the services they offer and they're pretty much all declining. Agree with bots they won't be allowed to go under though as they offer so many vital services

Remember that the Post Office and Royal Mail are separate entities as well - they only ready things for posting, they don't actually act as a courier. The local postie won't even be a Post Office employee so is probably talking rubbish lol

Are we talking Royal Mail or Post Office they have not been connected for years and no one seems to get that in their head? So who are we talking about ?

I'm not sure, I forgot about that part, so forgot to ask him.

Sounded like the actual post office to me though by the way he was talking.

Well its actually the idiotic boss of Royal mail - the one that bare face lied to the goverment threatening this, he should be in jail for what he's done to the company.

Could be this:


Royal Mail to axe up to 10,000 jobs as losses rise

[Royal Mail has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs
by next August, blaming ongoing strike action
and rising losses at the business.
The postal company said it will begin notifying
workers of its plan, which includes up
to 6,000 redundancies.
Apart from the redundancies, the firm will
cut roles through natural attrition,
for example by not replacing workers who leave.

Royal Mail also said it expects its full-year
losses to hit £350m.

It said this included "the direct impact
of eight days of industrial action" as
well as lower volumes of parcels being posted.

But the firm warned that losses could
reach as much as £450m
"if customers move volume away
for longer periods" following strike action.]


[Mr Thompson told the BBC that nearly 20 years ago,
Royal Mail delivered 20 billion letters a year.
Today, it is eight billion.
"We are now a parcels business that
also delivers letters," he said]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63253687

It was the auditors who moved in, not the liquidators.

Yes thats it.