Thieving Royal Mail
Discussion
Not statisified with being unable to deliver a letter in a reasonable timeframe, the Royal Mail came up with the idea of special delivery, whereby they would undertake to deliver by 12 the next day or your money back, now at the price of £3 odd this was reasonable value for stuff that (a) You really wanted there for the next day and (b) that you could prove had been delivered (like Self Assessment Tax Returns and Invoices), that is, if you ignore the fact that (c) they were supposed to be doing this in the first bl@@dy place!
Now, my contract agency requires all invoice to arrive by 12 on Friday the week after the month ends and this above method used to work fine for me to ensure that I got my paperwork in on time to be included in the earliest payment run.
However, those thieving scumbuckets at the Royal Mail have seen fit to try to rip me off even more for a service that was entirely possible in times gone by for the price of a first class stamp. No longer can I send something for guaranteed 12 delivery, No!, now I have the choice of by 1PM delivery or by 9AM...for twice the price! So if, as I have this week, I have had to wait until Thursday to get my timesheets signed, I have to elect for the pre-9AM delivery to ensure I get paid.
Am I the only one who thinks this sort of thing is just a cynical rip-off Britain exercise to which the 3 week delivery time of 2nd class post was just a pre-cursor?
Aaaaaaargh!
I think the PO are very shrewd.
Where else can you pay for a service with
a) no guarantee it will work
b) no comeback if it doesn't work
c) no knowledge of the service being used in the first place if you are an intended recipient.
Very clever stuff.
Still waiting for last month's payslip, an Auto Express, a wad of music, my new driving licence, a birthday card, and I never quite worked out how nobody got fired over the parcel I got that had clearly been opened with a biro. Isn't tampering with the mail an offence?
Where else can you pay for a service with
a) no guarantee it will work
b) no comeback if it doesn't work
c) no knowledge of the service being used in the first place if you are an intended recipient.
Very clever stuff.
Still waiting for last month's payslip, an Auto Express, a wad of music, my new driving licence, a birthday card, and I never quite worked out how nobody got fired over the parcel I got that had clearly been opened with a biro. Isn't tampering with the mail an offence?
nicecupoftea said:Boysstuff can put in a claim for the lost products and get a credit, then reimburse you or send you the products. Our Company uses Royal Mail every single day and to be honest we have very little trouble. Sending out on average probably 40 packages a day.
Oh yes, I'm still waiting for that parcel from boysstuff that I ordered December 02 . They tried to deliver it when I wasn't in, insisted on delivering it the next day when I told them I wouldn't be in, and then "lost" it. Muppets.
moleamol said:
Our Company uses Royal Mail every single day and to be honest we have very little trouble. Sending out on average probably 40 packages a day.
Fine, you can get a service, but ONLY if you pay through the nose for it! I mean, £6.95, just to ensure than a letter reaches it's destination before 12PM the next day? Is this too much to ask? My Grandfather used to work on the mail trains just after the war and even they managed a decent delivery record, one would have thought/hoped (maybe I'm just naive) that with modern technology etc etc they could provide at least the same service as they could provide 50 years ago. But No!, too many middle f
ing managers swanning around introducing 'fleece the customer without doing anything' initiatives, the plague of our times, take 'em out in the street and shoot 'em! Deep breath...sigh!
PetrolTed said:
Can't you email it? 
Sadly Ted, I can't seem to find one of those gadgets from Tron in the local PCwurld.
Y'know a Physical to Digital converter, although in it's losest terms it could be confused with a fax machine.
>> Edited by TeamD on Friday 4th February 09:00
>> Edited by TeamD on Friday 4th February 09:02
You wonder why postal services don't work? This is only because one has mindless drones of bureaucrats working there. It's the same the world over!!!
To give you an example how these mindless eejits work (if one can use that word to describe their pitiful existance).
I used to work for a company in Mulhouse France, which is exactly 40km by road from where I live in Germany. They had to send me some stuff recorded and express. It took 3 weeks!
Why??? because the French post has to send express by air.. the route this letter took was Mulhouse to Basel Airport (less than 10km from where I live) then by air to Paris, then by air to Cologne (central air post office for express germany (700km form me) then by air to Frankfurt (350km from me), then by train to Basel Switzerland german train station (it was previously within 5km of there!), then to Lörrach, then to my village with an "express" delivery!!!!
As the mindless drones working for postoffices could not figure out it'd be quicker to drop it over the border 3km from the airport, it "got lost" and went on it's world tour........ And as they were flight tickets I'd had to travel full price (more than double the cost) and then no refund...and no possibility of getting a damages claim settled, all because of stupid mindless eejits in postoffice organisations!!!
To give you an example how these mindless eejits work (if one can use that word to describe their pitiful existance).
I used to work for a company in Mulhouse France, which is exactly 40km by road from where I live in Germany. They had to send me some stuff recorded and express. It took 3 weeks!
Why??? because the French post has to send express by air.. the route this letter took was Mulhouse to Basel Airport (less than 10km from where I live) then by air to Paris, then by air to Cologne (central air post office for express germany (700km form me) then by air to Frankfurt (350km from me), then by train to Basel Switzerland german train station (it was previously within 5km of there!), then to Lörrach, then to my village with an "express" delivery!!!!
As the mindless drones working for postoffices could not figure out it'd be quicker to drop it over the border 3km from the airport, it "got lost" and went on it's world tour........ And as they were flight tickets I'd had to travel full price (more than double the cost) and then no refund...and no possibility of getting a damages claim settled, all because of stupid mindless eejits in postoffice organisations!!!
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