If new houses are built existing postmen/postwomen will have to work longer hours or more posties will have to be employed in the area. Does the Royal Mail suffer every time a new house is built, or do they just put the price of stamps up? Do the government help out? What happens?!
2006-06-05 23:28:54 · 5 answers · asked by JT Beub 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
(Someone suggested that post will not be delivered to the old house, so no new posties will have to be employed - someone usually moves into the old house. The population is increasing.)
2006-06-05 23:39:15 · update #1
Are they really NEW customers if they move into a new house? People presumably got post at their previous address, for example, if they lived with parents. If they move out, that would be twice as much work for a postie.
2006-06-05 23:43:42 · update #2
dont feel sorry for the Royal Mail.They make a huge profit and could easily afford to deliver mail efficiently if they chose.Waht usually happens is if the new round is out of the normal area,they pick a random bit of the country,far far away and send all the mail there for a while.Usually its in norfolk. its better to hand deliver anything important
2006-06-05 23:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by salforddude 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More addresses=more addressed & unaddressed (junk) post to deliver=more income.
First new addresses are registered at the land registry & borough council and postal codes are designated & uploaded on computer systems.
The local delivery office will modify existing 'walks' or create a new one. Each postman/woman follows a 'walk' which is designed to ensure they don't miss any addresses, follow an efficient route, and the workload is evenly shared between staff(in theory).
The postman sorts the mail for his walk in the early hours using a frame of pidgeon holes at the delivery office. The mail for each section of the walk is put in to bags & a van driver will take the bags to designated collection points along the postman's walk. Collection points can be post offices, council buildings, retirement homes, locked boxes etc. anywhere which is secure & accessible throughout the day. This is necessary because a postman can't physically carry all the mail for his entire walk, even with a bicycle, and even if he could it would be impossible to keep the mail in it's sorted order.
2006-06-06 00:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by Quasimojo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are a business so make their money posting letters, the more houses the more letters they will be delivering (and people paying them to deliver them), meaning the more money they will be making. It's no hardship. It's like asking if a shop is really busy who pays for the new shop assistant....extra customers mean extra money so you can afford it, and will make more money by hiring.
2006-06-05 23:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either there will be more post to deliver, or they will stop delivering to the old house.
2006-06-05 23:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by Piet Strydom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They also deliver advertisments and other speacial packages so it get compensated for it. The stamps are the other way to ensure the wages are kept upto date.
2006-06-05 23:32:19 · answer #5 · answered by pj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋