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....to keep up with the widening girth of the Europeans.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
That aside some of these things are enormous and hardly fit into a car parking space in a supermarket.Comment
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I think that's more to do with parking spaces being far too small to squeeze two or three extra cars in.Comment
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The sizes of some cars seem nuts for city driving though. I get it when you have a family of seven or are outside a city but so many cars in the midst of unplanned messy tiny European cities seem based on huge jeeps meant for out in the wilds.Comment
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SUV's just need effectively taxing off the road, there's zero need for most of themComment
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Wes Streeting says Labour has been too nostalgic about the NHS and that rather than more money, it needs reform
Mirror publisher’s boss warns print titles could become loss-making in five years | Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror) | The Guardian
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Maybe, but there are plenty of SUVs that are putting out less emissions that a 20 year old Fiesta - and these spaces are still too small for Fiestas.Originally posted by Dogg Thang View Post
Hate parking in public car parks, pretty much even little dent or scratch my cars have gotten are because of it.Comment
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Nonsense
The move to drop Saturday letter deliveries makes sense and only won't happen because of yet more cheap Tory election tactics
He might as well, because even if the Tories won the General Election they'd oust him within 12 months.Comment
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Not if that's the only day of the week you're in to receive signed-for packages it isn't.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
I can't see reducing the level of service helping RM tbh, I think it's more likely to speed up people moving to other services. But they're likely screwed whatever they do.
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To be fair Marty it's only the letters, packets/parcels shouldn't be affected.Originally posted by MartyG View PostComment
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Knowing Royal Mail, they'll change the definition of what a letter is 😅Originally posted by Anpanman View PostComment
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How can it not? Small packets are delivered with letters. Are they suddenly going to start delivering those with the vans? Can only see that increasing costs.Originally posted by Anpanman View PostComment
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The state of the Royal Mail is absolutely the fault of the government - they opened it up for competition but didn’t require anyone else to play by the same rules. RM is mandated to deliver what they call a universal service - deliver to anyone regardless of whether they live in the city or 10 miles down a muddy track. Historically the loss-making routes were subsidised by the easy ones. What’s happened is that they let other companies come in and cherry-pick the easy profitable routes and let RM do all the costly ones (because they have to), inevitably pushing up the prices and forcing them to cut services.
They basically just handed over the market to a bunch of largely foreign-owned companies for the purpose of pure profiteering.Comment
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Nobody knows what will happen there are various proposals on the table, the press release relates to letters. Posties may still go on deliveries on Saturday just taking packets, vans delivering large parcels may go past houses that need a small packet delivery, software could easily do the route just like Amazon, Fedex, DHL, UPS as their routes differ daily. Post boxes are emptied on Saturdays, again those routes could be changed.as those vans have to drive past lots of houses.Originally posted by MartyG View Post
If in the end it increases costs then these will have to be passed on, the market will then decide RM's fate.
Broadly speaking that's correct.Originally posted by Hirst View Post
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Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘wrongly fined for driving in London Ulez’ | TfL | The Guardian
Slow clap for Khan everybody
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