Royal Mail scraps iconic trains after 200 years

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24 күн бұрын

After 200 years of transporting the nation’s post, Royal Mail says it is going to stop sending letters by train. Known as ‘Mail by Rail’, the trains inspired famous poems and songs throughout the decades.
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Пікірлер: 35

@TheMaccie 22 күн бұрын

Sounds like slower postal service to me

@badda_boom8017 20 күн бұрын

Not in a capitalist world. If you're stupid you'd continue to use the same broken/ "slow" service... If you're smart and you understand how the world works you use the service who provides the best to suit your needs

@dan27032 13 күн бұрын

@@badda_boom8017choosing roads over railways and flights is objectively slower

@badda_boom8017 13 күн бұрын

@@dan27032 well. Apparently not.

@sukikahlon1 22 күн бұрын

Actually, this is called corporate greed, shareholders want bigger returns.

@gravyjamable 22 күн бұрын

Good for the environment, traffic jams, jobs, getting your post any quicker? NO! but more money for share holders YES!

@xFF7xGIRLx 22 күн бұрын

Aye, and now if I want to post a birthday card to my family that live less than 20 miles away it gets picked up and taken to Edinburgh (100 miles away) and takes even longer to arrive back to my family. What a f*cking joke!

@twolessba1087 20 күн бұрын

So how would you run a logistics for the royal mail?

@cestlextase 22 күн бұрын

Government run logistics without shareholder dividends would save tax payer. backward thinking to keep on with privatisation.

@banksiasong 22 күн бұрын

Royal Mail is privatised.

@sasquatch3518 22 күн бұрын

Since privatisation the postal service has gotten worse and this doesn't inspire me that things will be improving.

@SuperRobertByrne 22 күн бұрын

A train lasts for 40 years with cheaper rail maintenance than roads need. A van lasts 5 to 8 years and requires a driver for a relatively small amount of mail compared to what a train can carry. This is about taking maintenance off the books since taxpayers already maintain the roads for free from Royal Mail's viewpoint. Charge everyone for road use and the incentives would change, making rail more attractive.

@eggyboy123 17 күн бұрын

Mail will take even longer

@paulkerrigan9857 22 күн бұрын

I hope we can turn this around as a nation. Goodness knows we’ve recovered from worse. It’s ironic that fourteen years of Tory government has been worse for the UK than the Second World War.

@Will_3rd 22 күн бұрын

I thought they had already removed these trains?

@olivere5497 22 күн бұрын

Famous songs... which none of us know or care about

@jimoconnor2594 20 күн бұрын

where is Andrew Parker working now ?

@silondon9010 21 күн бұрын

Royal Mail now has a two teir workforce with New Entrants on inferior terms and conditions, the race to the bottom has begun 😢

@OilBaron100 22 күн бұрын

Sounds like they are cutting costs so that they can deals with all of the impending lawsuits over false convictions with the Toshiba scandal.

@Manu-Official 21 күн бұрын

Horizon IT, developed by Fukitsu, not Toshiba

@OilBaron100 21 күн бұрын

@@Manu-Official I would’ve made the effort to check that first but I wrote that comment with one hand while I was on the toiletz

@bernieburrows3731 18 күн бұрын

And what will replace them? 😒

@user-nb6ff4kl8w 19 күн бұрын

Too expensive to run bruh😂

@VoiceSriLanka 22 күн бұрын

Well we are heading for more postage costs and slow service

@TinTin01234 20 күн бұрын

Disgraceful! Another part of history lost

@KINKObun 21 күн бұрын

nationalise it

@Manu-Official 21 күн бұрын

Royal Mail now sold to some eastern European billionaire...

@morlanius 22 күн бұрын

lol

@GrandpaVince 22 күн бұрын

Vince can't believe this we want postman pat and his black and white cat

@Rob-hy8vb 22 күн бұрын

Got to cut costs somewere to fund a couple of wars ay

@Manu-Official 21 күн бұрын

Royal Mail was sold recently, cutting costs due to private ownership.

@SCP--ck5ip 22 күн бұрын

Noooooooooo