![]() ![]() ![]() " How on earth can you include this unaudited figure? This amounts to 3328 items at an average of 64 a week? Reality is nowhere near this close." One Postmaster did a bit of number-crunching when he saw the Post Office expected his branch to earn £931.84 a month from P739/Mailswaps. According to some Postmasters the estimates for the amount of P739/Mailswap products being routed through the SPDO are wildly optimistic. Good news for the 85% of SPDOs who will see a net increase in their remuneration, right? Mailswaps are the letters/parcels a postie couldn't deliver to your house and so brings to the SPDO to store whilst they await collection via a P739 card. P739s are the "Something for you" cards which posties put through your door when you're out, often taken off your hands at an SPDO in exchange for a letter/parcel. It is also offering a transaction fee rather than a flat fee based on the number of P739/Mailswap items the SPDO handles on a monthly basis. So what changes are the Post Office attempting to enforce on Subpostmasters? Well, rather than base Subpostmaster remuneration on the number of Royal Mail employees operating out of their adjoining delivery office, the Post Office are now paying Subpostmasters a flat fee for the existence of the delivery office, no matter how many Royal Mail staff are based there. According to the letter, discussions with the Post Office-funded National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) about this pay, er, alteration "ran alongside Royal Mail discussions to ensure we could obtain the best outcome possible." This is the first change to SPDO Subpostmaster remuneration since 1998, yet it came without warning and without the "agreement" of the Subpostmasters it affects.ĭon't worry, though. The letter was dated 15 April, and the "agreement" was, in fact, a contractual change, backdated to 1 April this year. "I am extremely pleased to advise you" it began, "that Post Office Ltd has come to a revised agreement for the provision of Mailwork Delivery Offices with Royal Mail." On 24 April this year, five weeks after the Post Office was condemned by a High Court judge for its " culture of excessive secrecy" and efforts to " conduct itself as though it is answerable only to itself", a letter from Chris Howard, Post Office's "Remuneration Development Manager" landed out of the blue on the doormats of each of SPDO Postmaster. They're the sort of places people like me would go to collect an undelivered parcel. The delivery offices attached to the Post Office are the responsibility of the Subpostmaster, but operated by Royal Mail staff. There are 11,500 Post Offices in the UK, of which around 450 are post and delivery offices, or SPDOs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |