Post at 4pm plan for Sussex (From The Argus)
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Post at 4pm plan for Sussex
3:30pm Tuesday 8th November 2011 in News By James Wallin
Royal Mail reforms will see post delivered as late as 4pm across Sussex.
The latest changes to deliveries have hit Worthing, but the company has said the whole county will eventually be affected.
Opponents say the elderly and small businesses will be hardest hit.
Royal Mail says the new methods will reduce injuries to postmen delivering bulky items and will keep prices low.
Residents in Newhaven and Polegate complained when the same system was introduced in August because of missed deliveries.
The changes by Royal Mail will mean new delivery routes and could see post delivered later each day.
The latest delivery time will be 3pm in urban areas and 4pm in rural areas.
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: “Many customers will continue to get their mail by lunchtime.
“The time customers receive mail will depend on where they live on the new delivery route.
"This may be later or possibly earlier than current delivery times.
“Eventually this will be rolled out across Sussex but we do not have a definite timescale.”
The latest postcodes to be affected by the changes are BN11, BN12, BN13 and BN14.
See the extended special report in today's Argus.
Comments(6)
fretlessbass
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4:48pm Tue 8 Nov 11
Servalan
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5:05pm Tue 8 Nov 11
fretlessbass
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6:03pm Tue 8 Nov 11
5:05pm Tue 8 Nov 11
Having queued on several occasions last Xmas for about 90 minutes (!?) on North Street to collect my post (after getting a "we called but you were in! lol!" card through the door), cos they're couldn't be arsed to put more than one person on duty in the office despite the enormous queues, I have to say they struck me not such much as salt of the earth but more the slugs
- The decision to put one person on duty in the callers office would have been taken by one of the many muppets masquerading as managers, leaving the one postman to face the anger of the public.
Servalan
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6:49pm Tue 8 Nov 11
keeshond8
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12:59pm Fri 11 Nov 11
Servalan says...
4:33pm Tue 8 Nov 11
Also, here's a wee hint: if they stopped delivering all that crap spam junk mail they accept on contacts, they might have more time to deliver actually proper mail that people want.
I filled in a form to opt out of their spam and I still get it.