Saturday morning post deliverys to STOP

PS AIBU to dislike shouty capitals in a thread title?
It does shout out at me!

Meant to add I never get anything nice in the list anyway . Just bills and hospital appointments . Will be nice to have a whole weekend off from those.

“Does” not “dies”! ?????

I have the most lovely friendly postman . He is always cheerful and upbeat . I think it’s a good thing that they are cutting down on deliveries. Can you remember when there used to be 2 a day ? I don’t think many of us really need a post at the weekend anyway.

Oh no! That's my son's birthday. No cards for him then

It’s not that long ago that a member (can’t remember who) was berating us for “adding to the risks and dangers” posties face by sending birthday cards or letters to our grandchildren. Also letters to care homes.
Cutting back on services is happening everywhere - refuse collections, garden waste among them.
I think it is a knee-jerk reaction to say it will mean job losses and am sure the same Union rep would be among the first to speak up for the protection of his members.
People need to get used to the idea of a “new normal” even when normality returns- if it ever dies.

I have thought they should deliver only on Mon, Wed and Fri at the moment.
Maybe that would mean too much mail building up, tho.

Royal Mail says it is doing this to reduce strain on workers . Union rep says they are afraid it will mean job losses so don’t really know what to think about it. Not a lot of inconvenience for most of us I guess

It is only temporary like many things for the “foreseeable future” and hardly surprising.
Delivery giant Royal Mail has said it will “temporarily” stop the deliveries of letters on Saturdays.
It said it will continue to provide its letter delivery service from Monday to Friday as normal and said customers “should continue to post both letters and parcels as usual on Saturday Royal Mail will continue to collect all mail from businesses, post offices and post boxes”, it said.

Deliveries will be halted from this weekend (Saturday, May 2).

Shame more running down of a service. Unless this is just during the current situation.

My pesky phone mail not nail!!

That will be one less days junk nail then. We rarely get post of any significance now!