What's wrong with some post office outlets ?

[Vapin' Joe]

I don't use EBay as I don't like how the system works and it has so many dodgy people selling stuff on it imo. Though I sell vinyl records through a dedicated music web site and discovered that your local PO don't make any money if you have pre-paid parcels, so I can understand some small PO frustrations who are trying to run a buisiness

If you want to support your local PO pay for your parcels at the PO. Not on line

As far as I know local post offices don't make any money from any of the transactions they do, the owner is paid a fixed salary which most of them top up by selling other goods.

My local PO welcomes all the business they can get, on the basis that it is likely to ensure they stay open.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Sadly they are all doing it

Mate had a quote to ship a bike via dhl for £800

From mainland uk to mainland uk

Wtf ???

I really cant understand Royal Mail they need to wake up and realize that in a few years the only customers they will have will be online traders, and the market is just getting bigger all the time, they really missed the boat.

They need to stop going on strike all the time all it is doing is costing them customers, I would like more money but I am self employed so I get what I get by working hard not moaning I havent had a pay rise in over 10 years.

 

[gaz]

I remember when I sold a load of DVD's on eBay when I was in Plymouth. Took them down to the post office. Must have been 30 packages. The woman was furious that I had brought so many.
I don't see what the problem was. After all I was paying for the postage.

 

[vernon]

I havent had a pay rise in over 10 years.

So you must have been overpaying yourself from the outset?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

So you must have been overpaying yourself from the outset?

Yeah right I wish

 

[smokeysmoo]

If you want to support your local PO pay for your parcels at the PO. Not on line

If that is true then they should take PayPal. Your money is tied up in PP when you've sold on eBay, and this is the primary reason I pay for my postage online. You can actually pay online via www.RoyalMail.com too, so will they still moan about doing their job if you did this?
They should moan to the RM, after all it's their bosses that have agreed to allow PP to process RM payments online, it's not the fault of the customer.

 

[snorri]

As far as I know local post offices don't make any money from any of the transactions they do, the owner is paid a fixed salary which most of them top up by selling other goods.

I'm fairly certain they get a percentage on cash coming in over the counter on top of the fixed salary.

 

[col]

I remember when I sold a load of DVD's on eBay when I was in Plymouth. Took them down to the post office. Must have been 30 packages. The woman was furious that I had brought so many.
I don't see what the problem was. After all I was paying for the postage.

Same philosophy as some council workers, annoyed she had to do some work.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I worked as a Christmas casual this year. Instead of paying my last week's wages, today they paid exactly £0.01 into my account for the New Year - they didn't pay the first week either and I got my first payslip today. Oh, and a penny into the bank.). Money owed, nothing I can do about it now. You can break a public organisation from the outside and the inside. (The staff agency - Angard - that pretends to be a legitimate agency is owned by Royal Mail, registered at the same address as Royal Mail, and directed by the head of HR, Duncan.) Their job is to break it from the inside. As they're shoot at keeping anything together, breaking things is dead easy for them. They manage it by not even lifting a finger. No idea which plc RM has been promised to, though. We'll hear soon.

I'm surprised anything ever gets delivered.

 

[col]

I worked as a Christmas casual this year. Instead of paying my last week's wages, today they paid exactly £0.01 into my account for the New Year - they didn't pay the first week either and I got my first payslip today. Oh, and a penny into the bank.). Money owed, nothing I can do about it now. You can break a public organisation from the outside and the inside. (The staff agency - Angard - that pretends to be a legitimate agency is owned by Royal Mail, registered at the same address as Royal Mail, and directed by the head of HR, Duncan.) Their job is to break it from the inside. As they're shoot at keeping anything together, breaking things is dead easy for them. They manage it by not even lifting a finger. No idea which plc RM has been promised to, though. We'll hear soon.

I'm surprised anything ever gets delivered.

They have got very complacent, and think they can get away with alsorts. We need a competitor to knock them on their heels.

 

[brokenflipflop]

A bit like bin men needing competitors or the whole council for that matter.

 

[vernon]

They have got very complacent, and think they can get away with alsorts. We need a competitor to knock them on their heels.

India's tiffin men. They are far more accurate in their deliveries than RM according to Top Gear.

 

[col]

A bit like bin men needing competitors or the whole council for that matter.

Councils are the same, they think they can do what they want too, but they do tend to get away with it also. A case of power/authority abuse as is so prevelant in todays society.

 

[gb155]

I remember when I sold a load of DVD's on eBay when I was in Plymouth. Took them down to the post office. Must have been 30 packages. The woman was furious that I had brought so many.
I don't see what the problem was. After all I was paying for the postage.

Pretty much my thoughts on it all

 

[Falwheeler]

I work in a Post Office, sometimes there is only one member of staff on. If we have a customer with a dozen or more packets, not unusual, it can be very frustrating for some poor old pensioner stood in a queue for twenty minutes waiting for their pension or a few stamps. We did have a sign, in no way sarcastic, saying no more than five packets or parcels when there is only one member of staff on but were told by our area manager to take it down.