In reply to a post by GonePostal:

With an overnight success rate in the 1980s for letters not posted in the local area of somewhere about 80% IIRC. First quarter results for 2019 show that 93.2% of all first class letters achieved next day delivery. (You may guess I have a bit of a vested interest from my handle!).

One might suggest with large numbers of postboxes changed to a last collection in the region of 09:00-10:00 in the morning that an increase in the next day for first class is hardly surprising.

It's like taking an axe to ~20% of the A level Physics syllabus and saying standards have not dropped because the quality of the answers is the same!!!

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Everybody everywhere is too busy squabbling about Brexit ...

... there�s a rose spectacled past I fondly hanker for ... no sodding Brexit.

Hopefully the squabbling will stop once the democratic will of the UK people is achieved

The great majority of the uplift in performance occurred long before the cost-driven removal of box collections. I can bore for England about mail circulation and mail processing if you want a longer discussion.

Edited by GonePostal (Sat 26-Oct-19 23:41:09)

A choice is made

a) Cover every piece of PR material that arrives
OR
b) Curate what gets added to news, remembering we don't copy/paste press releases and will take a bit of time looking into coverage claims etc

Reality of the future is that FTTP is a stable technology, so the only news is pricing and availability

The tracking down of availability is the big time consumer.

The rise in forum posts about mobile broadband has been most notable to me over the current year and also people wanting broadband without an attached telephone service.

Edited by deleted (Mon 28-Oct-19 11:00:51)

We have added the unlimited SIM deals to listings too.

The not wanting phone service is driven by the incorrect belief that they will be able to just pay £4 or £5/m for broadband if they can ditch the £20 line rental element. Alas this is not the case and prices may actually go up as the switch to voice over broadband (or just using your mobile) rises.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Alas this is not the case and prices may actually go up as the switch to voice over broadband (or just using your mobile) rises.

One only has to look at the price of calls now, BT charge 20p per minute to call landlines and mobiles vs 3p on O2/Three PAYG mobile. I can only imagine very few would be willing to pay BT's nonsense prices.

Clearly the intention is to push people onto call packages and a steadier fixed income stream, but more likely many will just abandon the landline for calls altogether.

Could it be that they are trying to scare up some revenue to fund all this fibre they are rolling out ?

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Could it be that they are trying to scare up some revenue to fund all this fibre they are rolling out ?

We should probably give our thanks to the grannies who aren't aware of call packages and who are spending a fortune to fund the fibre rollout, I guess.

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Alas this is not the case and prices may actually go up as the switch to voice over broadband (or just using your mobile) rises.

One only has to look at the price of calls now, BT charge 20p per minute to call landlines and mobiles vs 3p on O2/Three PAYG mobile. I can only imagine very few would be willing to pay BT's nonsense prices.

Clearly the intention is to push people onto call packages and a steadier fixed income stream, but more likely many will just abandon the landline for calls altogether.

Quite - why bother with a landline call package when you've already got one on your mobile (as many people do). Of course not everyone has mobile reception where they live, though - in theory at least - coverage should be gradually improving all the time.

I've set a couple of landline users up with the 18185 call-through service (Gigaset DECT cordless phone systems can be programmed to add the 18185 prefix automatically), which provides for far cheaper landline calls. The quality isn't necessarily amazing though (calls are routed through various VOIP gateways), and mobile to mobile calls can nowadays often provide better quality.