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I quote directly from the letter sent to me from the CEO's office. It may refer to on-site secure parking (in mitigation) which I would not know about


The main driving reason to relocate is size. East Dulwich Delivery Office does not have enough capacity for the increase in parcels and doesn?t have sufficient parking for our vehicles. Peckham Delivery Office has the capacity to alleviate all these issues.

I thought the parking mentioned at the meeting was referring to the staff's own cars (they can drive to work and park in Sylvester Road, but won't be able to in Peckham).


I don't recall that there was any mention at all of lack of parking for Royal Mail vehicles.

  • 4 weeks later...

Royal Mail's annual profits have jumped 25% thanks to better-than-expected growth in its parcel delivery business.

Parcel deliveries rose 3% thanks to shoppers' insatiable appetite for online shopping, although the number of letters posted fell by 6%.


Royal Mail put the rise in parcels down to upgraded computer systems, which allow the packages to be sorted faster.

Pre-tax profits rose to ?335m in the year to 26 March from ?267m, while revenues grew 1% to ?9.8bn.


Article here:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39959159


DulwichFox

Penguin68 wrote above:

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> I have also received a reply from the CEO's office

.....

> It was perhaps an irony that one of the reasons given for

> the need to move from Silvester was parking problems -


Over the last few Sundays there have been 6-8 RM vans comfortably parked at the back of the delivery office in Pellatt Road, with on one occasion one in Crystal Palace Road.

There is a protest against this closure TOMORROW in Sylvester Road, but for some reason my post about it has been moved to the "What's On" section.


Anyway, more information here:


http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?6,1824930


It's at 1.30pm and Helen Hayes will be there.

I had some standard responses to the email and follow up email I sent to the post office, really disappointing. Initially failed to answer my questions directly and then said at a cost I could have parcels dropped off at other post offices locally (if those post offices were partaking).

Consultation based on my experience means decisions have been made and I think their approach is distasteful to their customers. Their initial email drew out how they would look after their employees, which I found rather silly to draw out given they are required by law to do xyz, so no, they are just doing what they need to, rather than benefit employees - and have no regard to the community.

  • 1 month later...
Staff were informed today that the consultation has now closed and Royal Mail have decided to close the office and move to Peckham. It will take some months because work will need to be done on the building, duties will need to be reorganised and extra vans purchased to replace the trolleys. Very disappointing for both staff and customers.

singalto Wrote:

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> How frustrating.... I don't think Royal Mail was

> ever going to listen to locals or their posties.

> They'll be doing a lot of redeliveries!


Indeed. Hit them and their shareholders in the wallet. If the package isn't urgent, get them to redeliver for free:

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/redelivery

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