Suing Royal Mail for breach of contract?

gromituk

The stuff that I was sending really wasn't that useful to your average PO thief, so if it met that fate I guess they just ripped the package open and disposed of it.

tempuscat

Slightly OT I realise, but thanks for those links re unfair contracts and exclusion clauses.

One of the places where I always see that kind of exclusion clause is a car wash, where they're never responsible for loss or damage to the vehicle.

An acquaintance of ours had his car extensively scratched in a car wash last year -- somehow, one of the spinning brushes must've picked up some grit or maybe even loose trim from the vehicle that preceded him -- but the site operator pointed out the exclusion clause and so he never contested it.:(

tempuscat

Soo: wasn't there a list published earlier this year of 'known sorting office / postcode / delivery route' hot-spots? (I.e., where 'losses' were too high to be regarded as mere accidents?) I read the darned thing somewhere and meant to keep it just in case I sold to an eBayer unfortunate enough to live in such a location.

soolin

tempuscat wrote:

Soo: wasn't there a list published earlier this year of 'known sorting office / postcode / delivery route' hot-spots? (I.e., where 'losses' were too high to be regarded as mere accidents?) I read the darned thing somewhere and meant to keep it just in case I sold to an eBayer unfortunate enough to live in such a location.

I have never seen a real list, but the RM themselves certainly know where the problems are. The TV expose last year seemd to indicate that a lot of the problems were in Central London depots where there is a huge turnover of casual staff, but the two sorting offices I have had major problems with have both been outside London but still in the South East.

There has also been a recorded problem with the international depot (somewhere in London but the name escapes me).

Soo