To be fair there bulk has been supplemented heavily by foreigners . I like their style though . <| sep |> I completely agree with you . I only worked as a postman for about 6 months and eventually it became infuriating due to the outdated practices and attitudes . I ' m not insulted if anybody slags them off as I didn ' t play any part in their work practices . However , making changes is easier to imagine than it is to implement . After all , the Royal Mail is a massive organisation and it ' d cost a shit load of money to make those change . And as I mentioned everybody is unionised and would fight hard against change anyway . A 510 pm delivery might work for customers , but probably not the posties , so they ' d not accept it . From my experience , a lot of posties that have been doing it for a long time are sitting pretty in their jobs . They ' ve been there so long that they ' ve got really short routes which they can do quickly . Any change that would mean more work for them is vigorously opposed . One example I can think of is that during the summer , the mail would lessen so all the routes would become a lot quicker . Meaning lots of posties would finish their route really early but still get paid for their remaining time . To counteract this , the management split up a long route into multiple parts , then every postie would have to do a part of that route before doing their own route . It added maybe 20 minutes to a day which most posties were finishing early anyway . But it pissed all the career posties off a lot of them were having temper tantrums . They saw it as 20 minutes of extra work they shouldn ' t have to do . Despite the fact they still finished work early and got paid to do fuck all !