Royal Mail one day Strike 19th December

frugallass

xdaisyx wrote: »

I could give you several reasons why they havent yet arrived but as you seem hell bent on calling everyone that works for RM thieves (me included) i wont bother.

as I have stated before, I have no problem with my regular postie, it just seems that this time of year when RM are taking on temporary workers more and more mail tends to go missing - I googled 'postman stealing' and there are numerous stories of other people having the same experience as me.

xdaisyx

frugallass wrote: »

as I have stated before, I have no problem with my regular postie, it just seems that this time of year when RM are taking on temporary workers more and more mail tends to go missing - I googled 'postman stealing' and there are numerous stories of other people having the same experience as me.

and those numerous stories are a tiny percentage of the mail that gets delivered every day...obviously people aren't going to write a story on the internet about every item that arrived in time, in one piece, only the bad things get reported.

frugallass

rosekitten wrote: »

Not much help to you I know but is
there a chance that your letter could
have been put through the wrong
letter box ?

Not really - there is one letter box for 3 flats - the neighbours are out at work every day, and the postman always arrives when hubby is home for his lunch between 12pm and 1pm

frugallass

xdaisyx wrote: »

and those numerous stories are a tiny percentage of the mail that gets delivered every day...obviously people aren't going to write a story on the internet about every item that arrived in time, in one piece, only the bad things get reported.

I appreciate that but these are on the larger scales

Investigators searched his home and found 76 sacks containing 27,625 postal packets.

Furness, 35, indulged his fetish for wearing sexy lingerie by intercepting items sent in the post, a court heard.
He aroused suspicions after a string of packages of a "female nature" disappeared while he was on duty.

took 20 items a week between October 2004 and May this year. He was jailed at York Crown Court.

a postman who stole cheques and birthday gifts worth thousands of pounds was sentenced to one year's imprisonment. He pleaded guilty to three charges of theft. Patel opened envelopes containing bank cards, pin numbers and sold on for £100. It is revealed that Patel had taken at least 106 giros, worth £14,462

Ianna

Staff steal anywhere whether it's office supplies or from the till, you will always get staff that steal. I'd guess people talk about it more in the post office because it's their stuff that gets stolen and not a companies.

I think royal mail are not a great service. Their opening hours haven't moved with the times and there is a noticeable amount of stuff that for whatever reason doesn't get to it's destination. They've also alienated a lot of people with their strike last time and I think they will with this one as well because it is a real hassle for everyone

wullie

A visit to the Returned Mail Branch in Belfast will show that the main problem with non delivery of mail is the public. They have thousands of items that have been badly packed, poor handwriting , not addressed correctly , i.e someone has moved house and not used a redirection service, wrong house number, no return address on pacakge to send back to when the person who was supposed to receive it was not in and didn't bother to pick it up from the office.
The trouble is , Joe Public is perfect and so he likes to blame the poor postman.

frugallass

Well - the Christmas card that was sent from the same relative, in the same handwriting to the same address with the same postcode managed to reach me

custardy

perhaps it got caught in a sorting machine and mangled/destroyed
perhaps it got left in a sack that was checked correctly to make sure it was empty
perhaps it got put into an iternational sack by mistake and will need returned from the destination country
etc etc

frugallass

custardy wrote: »

perhaps it got caught in a sorting machine and mangled/destroyed
perhaps it got left in a sack that was checked correctly to make sure it was empty
perhaps it got put into an iternational sack by mistake and will need returned from the destination country
etc etc

Destroyed to the point that they couldn't salvage any information to identify the intended recipient or their address or their postcode?

How can it be in a sack that was 'checked correctly to make sure it was empty'? If it was checked correctly it would be in the sack or not be in the sack

Why on earth would it get put in an 'international sack'?

custardy

:rolleyes:
yes they are big machines running at speed so it could get destroyed
2nd was a typo
well you may not believe thisbut theres not one lorry with one item delivered point to point
millions of items mean things can get put in the wrong box/sack

i posted to show what can and does happen but maybe easier if i said i was out spending £80 in vouchers today