Royal Mail

[marinyork]

The Austrian one was delivered last Tuesday 10th. My sister has just sent me a text message to thank me for her present that arrived this morning! Last time I looked, England was a lot closer to Northern Ireland than Vienna

Had this issue for years where post from the south east of england will get to Yorkshire quickly and before Yorkshire post gets to Yorkshire. Had the same issue internationally too. There seem some massive capacity constraining issues locally. The odd bit about international is you can track where and when a parcel is - most of the delay is at the other end.

 

[wait4me]

Just posted my bowel cancer test. The Post office will obviously take any ****

 

[Aperitif]

Every time I post something now, I get asked what is inside the parcel and more specifically, are there any batteries.
Firstly, I don't like to say what's inside! Secondly, do RM no longer ship anything with a battery in it?

It seems to me like Royal Mail are trying very hard to turn more people away to the ever-growing number of courier companies. RM parcel prices are insane if it's over 1kg and thicker than 8cm!

Postmodernism. A Graves situation for all who Venturi there...

 

[slowmotion]

And its a prohibited item, so should not be sent.



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I think that the sender knew that full well.. I have never seen a cardboard box smothered in so much parcel tape. I nearly cut straight through into the bottle of acid as I tried to unpack it.

 

[e-rider]

I think that the sender knew that full well.. I have never seen a cardboard box smothered in so much parcel tape. I nearly cut straight through into the bottle of acid as I tried to unpack it.

I once worked as a Christmas temp in a sorting office. We had some very basic training before starting and one thing they mentioned was to be suspicious of 'over taped parcels' - apparently most things dodgy (bombs, drugs, weapons etc.) are excessively taped! There were also so many boxes with 'fragile' on them and when you picked them up, you could hear broken glass!

 

[slowmotion]

I once worked as a Christmas temp in a sorting office. We had some very basic training before starting and one thing they mentioned was to be suspicious of 'over taped parcels' - apparently most things dodgy (bombs, drugs, weapons etc.) are excessively taped!

Excellent! In retrospect, it's obvious really.

 

[e-rider]

Point proven!!!

well, I did some temp work for Royal Mail several years ago. My job was to delivery bags of mail, mainly small letters. Stuffed amongst all the letters were loads of 'sorry I missed you' cards with names/addresses on them - I delivered those along with all the letters, there was no attempt to delivery the parcels, from what I could see!!!

one more thing, I quit this job very quickly because I was hired on an hourly basis. When they started paying me for how many hours it should have taken to deliver 4 sacks of mail, rather than actually how long it did take to deliver 4 sacks of mail I told them to piss off! What a shite company!

 

[nuttall1991]

I used to work for William Hill the bookies, they only pay you till the shop closes which doesn't take into account the 15/20 minutes it takes to cash up all their precious money. One of my colleagues actually got a warning for leaving at 10 when the shop closed and not doing the end of day stuff even though he wasn't paid to be there any longer, worst company I've worked for!
It p***es me off how Royal Mail think they can go on strike so often when they don't do their job in the first place.

 

[Tanis8472]

Thats quite common in a lot of businesses.
Where i work its the same

 

[screenman]

A large parcel arrived here for me today, it was posted in London yesterday at 4pm, I call that good service. I posted 4 parcels out yesterday and just checked they have all been delivered some as far away as Cornwall, good service Royal Mail.

 

[User6179]

I have just ordered an artificial plant from China , 65p delivered

 

[Sandra6]

I noticed this recently too.
I posted a parcel to a friend who's in the Falklands this xmas, and they asked all about what I was sending. I couldn't remember so agreed it was mostly just confectionery. I realised after that it also contains a credit card multi tool (no knife) and a little battery powered light.
The parcel hasn't arrived yet and I'm worried it's been detained because of my misinformation.

 

[rualexander]

Over the past two weeks I've had 5 "something for you" cards left saying the item couldn't be delivered even though I was in at the times the post man put on said cards and so I've had to travel half way across Manchester to get them, even though I've paid for them to be delivered to my house. The Royal Mail is a farce.

You may well have been in, but if you don't answer the door when the postie rings/knocks, then you can't blame Royal Mail or the postie. Maybe you were out in the garden, watching tv, listening to music, sleeping, having a shower, etc.
I've worked as a postie, and this happens quite often.

 

[Lance Jack]

I am a Postie. We have a staff of something like 130,000. Of those there are bound to be some bad ones, some lazy ones and even a few thieves. Before that I was in the army and the same could be said for them. Most of them will do the job as it should be done, I like to think the postman I work with and myself are those. Years ago I worked from a cycle, started at five and was finished by 11.30am, I made about two hours a day. I had one bag of mail and it was an easy job. Royal Mail now wants to get value for money from their staff, they want me to work to my time, and I don't blame them. However, with the way we work now there is no allowance for days we are very busy, normally from Wednesday onwards, and this where some postman take short cuts and just write a card out and don't take the packet.
If you need answers to why we do things the way we do, ask me. You will get an honest answer.

 

[nuttall1991]

You may well have been in, but if you don't answer the door when the postie rings/knocks, then you can't blame Royal Mail or the postie. Maybe you were out in the garden, watching tv, listening to music, sleeping, having a shower, etc.
I've worked as a postie, and this happens quite often.

The buzzer shakes the walls in my flat and I'm up at 8 everday. The times put on the cards ranged from 09.15-11:45. The post man never rang the buzzer and so never did his job.