Have your say on post cuts
Friday 24th December 2010, 3:00PM GMT.
Should postal deliveries be reduced from six days a week to five days a week?
ISLANDERS are being asked for their views on Jersey Post’s plans to reduce its collections and deliveries to five days per week.
The company recently asked the Island’s competition watchdog, the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority, to allow it to reduce the service from six days following years of decline in mail volumes.
The JCRA is now asking for Islanders’ views on the possible reduction in Jersey Post’s universal service obligation – its legal minimum level of service.
Jersey Post chief executive Ian Carr says that scrapping the Saturday postal delivery service is essential to securing the business.
Ian Carr is asking people to back plans to reduce Jersey Post’s collections and deliveries from six days a week to five. However, he warned that if they faced serious competition in the fulfilment industry in the future, they may have to reduce deliveries further.
Copies of the latest consultation paper from the JCRA can be downloaded from www www.jcra.je or collected from the JCRA’s offices on the second floor of Salisbury House, 1-9 Union Street, St Helier. All comments must be submitted by 28 January.
Read the full story in the Jersey Evening Post.
Click here for subscription details.
Individual editions are also available online.
Travel
To, from and around the Island
Airport Arrivals/Departures
Harbours Arrivals/Departures
Bus Information/Timetables
JOIN US ON...
Facebook and Twitter
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Got a story? Get in touch
KIT 4 CLUBS
Win a share of £10,000
2012 is the year of the London Olympics and to celebrate this great event the Jersey Evening Post, in association with sponsors Ogier is giving all sporting clubs a chance to win a share of £10,000.
This is Jersey
Jersey Evening Post
Useful links
More to the point what about asking Joe Public what they think about the JCRA? I for one am fed up with their inability to get import/export costs and travel sorted out. Faffing around with the telco market and crippling the postal service is not my idea of helping the consumer.
With litle to no parcels to deliver now due to the liberalisation of the market place how on earth are postal going to survive on letters?
Answers on a post card JCRA if you are up for it.
Report abuse
Why is another survey being undertaken, I remember filling in an extensive questionnaire on just this a few months ago.
Was it that the outcome was not what was wanted or is this differently sourced?
Either way it looks like more money being wasted and it always come down to you and I paying the bill
Report abuse
Once upon a time there were postal deliveries every day of the week and I can remember when on the run up to Christmas, deliveries were twice a day.
Times have changed and there are so many other methods of quicker communication, and we are all better for it.
I would hazard a guess that most of the mail these days is business related, so bring the 5 day week on and give the posties a decent weekend like most of us enjoy.
My only problem is that this could mean that the ones who deliver the mail and who are not appreciated for the work they really do will have to be subject to yet another pay cut.
Report abuse
Great as long as the posties dont have to take another kick in the teeth with another wage cut. Very few items of mail is that important that it cant wait till monday , when i was a postie most of the mail was junk mail anyway
Report abuse
Surely it makes sense, as significant a change as it is – a sign of the times.
Junk mail is welcome less frequently (as well as the regular no longer at this address stuff!), and I can’t think of anything that can’t wait.
My bank still send me statements monthly despite my asking for them annually, telecoms bills, water bills, electric bills … all being paid by direct debit, so they’re statements too and end up in the bin …
I suppose the only thing I will miss is “next day delivery” of my Amazon orders as I get a great price and avoid GST.
A small price to pay.
Report abuse
Question should be do we want to continue to employ the current imported management who have wasted millions on trying to justify their inflated salaries by diverting funds away from the core postal services and setting up in telecoms market, UK warehouses etc all of
Sack the current management, re-employ those who have been sacked to pay for the inflated salaries of the imports, give all OUR postman a pay rise, promote from within with the objective to concentrate on returning the Jersey Postal service to what is was before the States started to intervene.
The States need to recognise that the “user pays” policy needs to incorporate an element of recognition of the extended benefits of such services from both an economic and community perspective. Our finance industry relies on an effective postal service whilst for many, especially the elderly the postman may be their only contact with the outside world. This may require a “subsidy” but this should be viewed against the wider benefits outside the pure pounds, shilling and pence mentality of our CoM.
Report abuse
The JCRA have not done anything constructive for Jersey only caused further problems which they dont accept any responsibility for .If they cause a Jersey Government Department to lose money a similar sum should be taken from their budget .
The Jersey Post should be five days delivery a week mon to Fri. to give Postmen the opportunity of having the weekend off. Also the Post Office in the Central MARKET should not have been closed.
Report abuse
Another service being reduced along the way, I cannot believe the postal mangers are so narrow minded they didn’t see this coming they only have themselves to blame. Either way it looks like more money being wasted and it always come down to you and I paying the bill, where are the results of the survey done earlier in the year??? other ways of communication and in other formats have taken over and are reliable! Move with the times Jersey post or its bye bye…..
Report abuse
come on JCRA stop the milk and bread monopolies over here and if your gonna open up the markets then do it for everything not just cherry pick certain things out
Report abuse
Poorer service with increased prices.
This is progress?
The States fail to support Jersey Post despite having taken millions of pounds from them in the seventies and early eighties when the sales of stamps through the philatelic bureau was phenomenal with at least 30,000 account holders. Needless to say the States wanted more money, so Jersey Post increased the number of issues and killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. If,as may well happen, the fulfilment industry declines, what will Jersey Post do then?
Instead of dabbling in industries they know very little about i.e telecoms(remember their mobile phone failure)they should try and get a decent workforce who aren’t on 6 month contracts with the sword of damacles hanging over them. Would you want to work at a place that has got rid of most of their long serving staff and replaced them with staff on cheap short term and part-time contracts? Neither would I, and they wonder why staff morale is at an all-time low !
The current management seem to be getting massive wages for providing us with a much poorer service than 5 years ago, but then their bonuses were dependent upon reducing staff numbers and thus deliveries. Definitely a case of too many chiefs and not enough indians !!
Report abuse
How is it that the post office management ( rightly or wrongly ) can rip up work contracts, and then re-employ the same people on less money? Yet the States employment board cannot mirror this action accross battalions of mid management in the public sector ( not front line workers).
Very strange, or just more lousy states management.
Davey West.
Report abuse
Perhaps we should be more tolerant of junk mail? It helps keep postage costs down as naturally companies pay the Post Office to deliver their brochures and so on.
It’s so lucrative that Royal Mail actually suspended a Postman who wrote a leaflet telling people how to opt out – personally I can’t see what all the fuss is about; having a log fire, I’m always in need of scrap paper for kindling…
Report abuse
I’d be in favour of junk mail if I could heat the house with it, Delta.
Report abuse
They need to scale it down more than that. Post should be almost redundant. Receiving mail should now be a novelty. I don’t open 90% of the rubbish I get through the door. It’s almost entirely wasted money and paper.
Saying that – I would be furious if something I bought from Ebay was a day late.
Report abuse
Australia hasn’t had a Saturday delivery in the 30 years I have lived here. No problem. Banks don’t open on a Saturday either although we have 7 day a week retail shopping! No big deal.
Report abuse
Davey West # 11. Bang on mate. Islanders’ money is steadily being syphoned off by the increasing number of middle managers who have grandiose titles, with meaningless roles. Our politician’s seem to be repeatedly bamboozled, by the sycophantic hierarchy in publicly run organisations, to create more and more ‘non jobs’. The more senior staff the bosses have, the more their ego grows.
It’s a pity they didn’t concentrate on trying to achieve an improvement in their service, rather than their already over inflated salaries.
Report abuse
The point about junk mail is that the profits keep down postage costs (and in my case my heating bill…)
There are actually 101 ways that Jersey Post could save and make money if it wanted to rather than scale back its deliveries, how about these just off the top of my head.
- Put post boxes on buses (a little idea I borrowed from our German friends).
- Station more of those automated post and pay machines around town, sponsored by local companies.
- Reintroduce the POD system for everyone whereby people can come to collect packages delivered to them at any time, saving tonnes of fuel and hours of man power per year.
- Allow people to upload letters on the website using a print and send service as they do in most European countries. Payment by Credit card – in short, bring back the telegram. It’s quick, efficient and a nice little earner.
- Speaking of which, finally get their act together so that eBay sellers can automatically print off postage stamps to the Channel Islands via PayPal, generating tonnes of revenue.
- Cut back services such as offering mobile phones(!) and concentrate on core services i.e physical mail and banking services. Allow people to make withdrawals from their NS&I accounts over the counter.
- Offer better rates than travel agents in order to get foreign currency.
We could go on but if some fool tapping away at his keyboard can think of this, why can’t one of the people at Jersey Post do the same?
Report abuse
here here delta. those are good ideas maybe on the next set of votes you could stand for the states or you could approach jersey post and sell them some of your ideas
Report abuse
Funny you say that Born, my friend said the same last night but I’m not saying anything you or anyone else hasn’t thought of, I think it just comes down to how willing they are to do some hard work. Dropping the existing level of service is easier than finding new ways to garner business.
If any of my ideas can help Jersey, they’re welcome to them but I doubt what I’ve written is particularly original.
Report abuse