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By James Barber · Posted
Approved scheme usually have three years to start. Start can be pretty minuscule in practice. -
By James Barber · Posted
Ofcom states how to formally complain - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-complaint/complain-about-postal-services/royal-mail/ 1st step Royal Mail - https://www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/Complaint_Handling_Process_AUG_2019.pdf 03457 740 740 https://help.royalmail.com/s/contactsupport/wheresmyitem Failing that - you can seek compensation form Royal Mail - https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/325 I've never needed to tried these - so if anyone has please let us know. 2nd step Postal Redress - https://www.cedr.com/consumer/postrs/overview/ -
We receive (should receive) 20-30 items of post a week, some subscription magazines, catalogues and (about a third) normal business mail (personal mail is far less frequent, save over Christmas and birthdays). This tends to arrive in only two (more frequently one) delivery. Magazines are invariably late, often up to a week late. Not good for political weeklies. This has been my 'steady state' position following much worse frequency on the closure of the real ED Delivery Office, and of course Covid. There seems little point in complaining any longer - to anyone. There will be a sudden flurry of mail delivered, of course, in the few days after an MP intervention, and then it falls back into rubbish deliveries. It is a combination of senior management focus on high(er) value parcel and special delivery items (which I do get more regularly) which is a management decision, under-employment (vacancies) of posties and, I believe, extremely poor local management of what resources Royal Mail actually has in Peckham. I don't now believe it is curable. I do believe that no one in Royal Mail management gives a sh*t! -
By James Barber · Posted
The US has been one of the most dynamic high growth economies for several years. They have planning zones. The two are not mutually exclusive. Two recent mobile phone mast applications in the area. Both of such terribly poor quality they were refused. They both broke the code of conduct all mobile operators singed up to. The agents were just trying it on. So huge cost of repetition and low productivity. Planning is blamed but it's just shoddy work. Recent case of the new Kent Thame tunnel talking about £200m of planning costs - which turned out to be design, project planning and planning. I would suggest mostly the former. It is lazy to blame planning process and generally by those who wont a no holes bar approach for their schemes without any consideration of the opportunity cost imposed on others.
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