Royal Mail.......great arent they!

[Thermo]

Last week i ordered some new hitachi cordless kit from america. From two different suppliers. EVen with the import duty etc, with the way the exchange rate is its still less than half price. The first item was shipped by a us courier from washington and delivered by a britsih courier and arrived in 3 days. Not bad going.

The second items were shipped by ups and although a little slow in getting shipped over here, it was trackable over the net and took 7 days. So its cleared customs and now in the hands of the good old royal mail. Come home yesterday and theres a note on the doormat saying they tried to deliver it whilst i was out, and they will try to redeliver it today. Problem was i knew no-one would be in so i spent 15 minutes on the automated system arranging for it to be sent to my local post office (as its in the gatwick airport depot 35 miles away) where i could pick it up. I get home and theres another note on the doormat saying they tried to deliver it. so i phone up and eventually speak to a humanoid who tells me the computer phone system is ****e and he will sort it for me. I can pick it up after 2 tomorrow afternoon at my local post office 1/2 mile down the road.

Tonight i get a call while im on the other phone and they leave a message telling me its to big to send to the post office!!!!FFS ITS COME HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD AND THE ROYAL MAIL CANT SEND IT 35 MILES IN A BIG TRUCK!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve]

It has to go through the hatch!

 

[Softus]

And you wonder why UK retail prices are higher?

 

[Tim 77]

My postman oftens pops a 'we tried to deliver but you were out' card through my letter box. Sometimes I'm at home but don't hear him knocking, I whip the door open and shout to him that I am in (stating the obivious) and I'd like my parcel that he just tried to deliver. He then starts to mumble something about not having the parcel on him, I ask if he's lost it somewhere between posting the card through and reaching the end of my drive, he then tells me that he never had it in the first place!!
Lazy git, how hard can it be to carry a few parcels, it's his job FFS!!

 

[gcol]

Yep, the sooner they scrap royal mail and get contractors in, the better. *light's blue touch-paper and stands back*

 

[BoxBasher]

Yep, the sooner they scrap royal mail and get contractors in, the better. *light's blue touch-paper and stands back*

Controversial, or is it?


I'm sick of them "losing" things. I've had an empty torn open envelope delivered in a plastic bag with a note attached before. The note said "was there anything in this envelope?" or similar.

No, it's just a tradition we have in our family of sending empty envelopes at Christmas and Birthdays...

 

[kevindgas]

Yep, the sooner they scrap royal mail and get contractors in, the better. *light's blue touch-paper and stands back*

Controversial, or is it?


I'm sick of them "losing" things. I've had an empty torn open envelope delivered in a plastic bag with a note attached before. The note said "was there anything in this envelope?" or similar.

No, it's just a tradition we have in our family of sending empty envelopes at Christmas and Birthdays...

i agree with you my t#####t postie likes to deliver my mail to the same number in the next street and deliver no's 19,21,23,27,29 & 31 to me at no. 25
i got fed up with complaining about it a long time ago!


vvvvvvvvv bit over the top but i like you style on this one and yes i would pay double too if i could guarantee not to lose any more mail.

 

[Softus]

I agree. I would happily pay double the current prices for the 100% rock solid guarantee that nothing ever goes missing.

For one thing (IMHO) post[wo]men should be paid so much that they aren't tempted to steal stuff. And their homes should be inspected regularly to make sure they're not hoarding the mail.

And every single last solitary item of mail should be synthetic DNA marked, and tracked to the point of delivery. And every single missing item should be hunted down by specialist mail tracking dogs and handlers. The thief should then be thrown into the Tower and the dungeon key into the Thames, with shame heaped upon his/her family for a hundred of our Earth years.

 

[2scoops0406]

Yep, the sooner they scrap royal mail and get contractors in, the better. *light's blue touch-paper and stands back*

Bit like British Rail, Gas, electricity, water, NHS etc, bound to get immeasurably better.

 

[BoxBasher]

For one thing (IMHO) post[wo]men should be paid so much that they aren't tempted to steal stuff. And their homes should be inspected regularly to make sure they're not hoarding the mail.

Used to work at McDonalds where money would regularly go missing from tills. Turns out it wasn't the minimum wage grunts but the assistant store manager (one down from top grade).

She wasn't stealing it because she needed to. She stole because she could. Her argument was "it's not me, why would I need to?"

Paying posties more won't stop theft. They don't rifle the mail to feed their family. I would imagine [sweeping generalisation] it's to fund drinking/gambling habits or just to satisfy the urge to get a thrill out of stealing argos vouchers from an 8 yr old girl on her birthday...

 

[Softus]

For one thing (IMHO) post[wo]men should be paid so much that they aren't tempted to steal stuff. And their homes should be inspected regularly to make sure they're not hoarding the mail.

...She wasn't stealing it because she needed to. She stole because she could. Her argument was "it's not me, why would I need to?"

This is merely one example. Are you implying that it alone proves a point?

Paying posties more won't stop theft.

I didn't say that it would.

They don't rifle the mail to feed their family.

I didn't say that they did.

So, how would you improve the service?

 

[billyo]

now i know why the counter staff have faces like bulldogs pi## on a nettle

 

[spice]

For one thing (IMHO) post[wo]men should be paid so much that they aren't tempted to steal stuff. And their homes should be inspected regularly to make sure they're not hoarding the mail.

More postmen steal stuff than postwomen, but things are tightening up and have been for the last 18 months or so, well, in the thieving side of things anyway.
When they suspect someone on the fiddle, whether its male or female they set a trap.

One of the traps is to to pick a couple of local names and addresses from the postpersons round, obviously the householder is on it.
They make sure mail or parcels are in the sorting office waiting to be picked up by the postperson who they suspect,and wait for the postie to deliver at these adresses.
When they dont arrive they have the proof they need, they then deal with them.

 

[spice]

i agree with you my t#####t postie likes to deliver my mail to the same number in the next street and deliver no's 19,21,23,27,29 & 31 to me at no. 25
i got fed up with complaining about it a long time ago!


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I get every persons posts also,its my address, but different names.

I get a Xmas card every year to my address for the same two different people, I open the cards hoping to find thier address so I can tell them, I have had peoples passports, legal stuff from solicitors, and one was a returned comedy sketch for a competition by the BBC.
Its the only the odd one I open if there is no return address, but I could have chucked out something really important, but I get so many that I just now put on it not known at this address.

And the thing is I have lived at the same address for 15 years, and each postman we have, lasts a couple of years on the same round, so they know there is no other names but mine.

 

[empip]

Come live somewhere naice...

On second thoughts better not.

Sounds awful out there in the wild - Still not to worry we only live once, so you do not get a further dose -- You hope !