Royal Mail Reviews

Pros

Its a high-achieving environment underpinned by team spirit

Cons

some operations are manual and quite demanding

Advice to Senior Management

more process automation needed

Pros

Full time permanent direct employees get a larger amount of compensation than might usually be expected. I wasn't one of these, but I did see many people satisfied. Co-workers, whilst disillusioned, are mostly pleasant people with a good work ethic.

Cons

Working as a temporary employee, I saw people let go without notice for "underperformance", without being spoken to beforehand. These decisions come from management that you don't ever meet and you never know who they are despite working in the same open plan office.

I wasn't a victim of the above, but being in close proximity to that sort of behaviour led to a disgraceful work atmosphere.

Advice to Senior Management

I would favour a more meritocratic approach to promotion to management level.

Pros

Pros of working for deliveries at royalmail are the early finnishes.
Get to meet a massive range of people from loads of backgrounds.

Cons

Unreasonable targets which you cant reach!

Advice to Senior Management

Remove ssaturdays from our week and save copious amounts of money!

Pros

Good pay, good location, good benefits package.

Cons

Too much politics and no work gets done - incompetent senior management, bad communications

Advice to Senior Management

Stop playing politics and do your jobs, communicate with your staff

Pros

good pay and benefits, our national postal service

Cons

Disrespectful senior managers, too much politics, incompetent senior management

Advice to Senior Management

Sack them all

Pros

Job flexibility and work life balance.

Cons

Constant reorganisations and closed salary reviews

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure processes - operational and personnel - are deployed before the next initiative

Pros

Relative security of employment at RM

Cons

Senior management cannot manage and are still reliant on whether the unions agree to any proposals

Advice to Senior Management

Make big changes and tell; the unions that they have to live in the real world

Pros

Working outside in good weather occasionally

Cons

bad pay very poor organisation

Advice to Senior Management

This company is the biggest mess to work for. They carried on paying me for 3 months after I had left despite notifying them. Then they turned around and asked for it all back and threatened me with legal action, implying it was my falult.