Royal Mail parcel - didnt even knock at the door grr

Dr.Rock

custardy wrote: »

strikes last year?
plenty come into the job,few stay........................

I think the strikes last year were over a different issue. If I remember correctly they were specifically to do with hours and weekends. The current ones are about cutting jobs and changing the pay structure.

custardy

Dr.Rock wrote: »

I think the strikes last year were over a different issue. If I remember correctly they were specifically to do with hours and weekends. The current ones are about cutting jobs and changing the pay structure.

the national strkes were in 07,as in the 2007 pay and modernisation agreement

heres a nice read reflecting some of the current climate

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html

I have posted before on the experiences in my own office when you go ahead and go with exactly what rm wants brought in

neil9313

Wadders wrote: »

I have had a few bad experiences in this situation with the postmen in our area. One time the postman did the same as others have described by posting a "sorry you were out" card without actually knocking or even having the parcel on him. I ran after him to ask why he hadn't knocked and he started saying he couldn't help me or speak to me as he has to deliver letters/parcels to the door and not to people in the street (even though we were ten feet from my house!) I told him that was fine but he had just posted the card without checking if anyone was in, he then sheepishly said he didn't even have the package with him!


The next problem lies with those postman who think it is ok to leave your parcels out in plain view or worse than that in a bin! I went round the back of my house one day to do a bit of a tidy up and found a parcel hidden underneath my gas meter box, on closer inspection I found it was a £50


DVD box set I had been waiting for and it had been sat there for 3 days! Another time I was waiting for a package to arrive, when it never showed up we eventually found out the postman had put it in our green recycling bin. Unfortunately for us the day he did that was the day before they were due to be emptied so our neighbor had put the bin out and it was emptied before we found out. Both of these times the postmen never left a "sorry you were out" note!


The final problem, which is the most recent is a postman who has forged my fiancees signature. We were expecting a parcel that was sent recorded delivery. A week after the person had sent it recorded delivery it still hadn't shown up. We queried this with our local sorting office who confirmed it had been signed for. We have found out that not only did the postman forge the signature he also left the parcel on the front door step in plain view of anyone who walks past our house and as it is not nowhere to be seen (I have checked all around the house, asked the neighbors etc) we have to assume it was stolen.

I really wish there was a competitive alternative to royal mail as I have had nothing but trouble from them (don't get me started on the bending of my daughters subscription magazine every month even after numourous words with them !)

Sorry for the extremely long post, I just needed to vent

Are you just making some of this up? :rolleyes:

neil9313

marleyboy wrote: »

Lol, no aside from the poor excuses ive read on here upto now "doorbell not working, letterbox too small, too much mail order catalogue items, no numbers on the doors" you have to remember the Postal strikes are an annual event for the postmen, it is after all coming up to xmas. I don't think I've seen a year in when they haven't striked.

They offer a !!!! poor service, then strike because they're not happy with the money, overtime, temp staff, or whatever new reasons they can think of.

I can think of thousands of people right now who are out of work, who not only would be too happy to do the job for them, for less pay and more hours, but also do a damn site better job in doing it, regardless of faulty doorbells, house numbers and sizes of letterboxes they encounter.

How very informed you are? Not, yet another poor post.:rolleyes:

neil9313

marleyboy wrote: »

Isnt it Ironic that I had took the day off work for the parcel, and as our round was lunch time, I was not in bed (I get up at 7am habitually) but of course you would know that

Laziness YES, the fact he could not be bothered to do what the sender PAID to be done, that job that he is paid to do yet somehow couldn't, is in my book is sheer laziness.

If its too much for him to do, management could quite easily get someone less lazy to do the job. Even so far as deliver the parcel in one of those red things they drive around in.....oh yes. a Royal Mail Delivery van.

Assuming as you say, management have given the postmen unrealistic targets (weak excuse IMO for a NON service), I can only suspect that Royal Mail are not trustworthy enough for ANYONE to pay them a service of delivering parcels to people or companies via the Royal Mail, so should always opt to go with an alternative delivery company with a more realistic target

At least that way there is a more realistic chance the postage paid will include a guaranteed delivery to its destination.

I bet Royal Mail were not even delivering your parcel (common mistake) :rolleyes:

marleyboy

neil9313 wrote: »

I bet Royal Mail were not even delivering your parcel (common mistake) :rolleyes:

Hmmm, maybe the clue was the Royal Mail card that was posted stating I was not in when I clearly was, or maybe the Royal Mail Postman who got caught out when he posted the said card, or maybe that it was at the Royal Mail depot that the parcel was stored at that might have give it away, or the fact it was posted from a Royal mail post Office.

It could be the Royal mail postage on the package that gave it away. But I am all for taking a bet with you that it WAS Royal Mail that were delivering it.

Of course I cant say its a common mistake, such clues could well be irrelevant when it comes to Royal Mail apportioning responsibility for someone posting a package in such a manner. Unless its a common mistake for Royal Mail really :rolleyes:

But how much do you wanna bet?

By deduction of your clueless mentality, I am guessing you work for the royal Mail

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Well my posties nice anyway...

And I dont mind him signing for recorded stuff if I'm not in - saves me a trip to the depot...

Dr.Rock

Just want to rant, but Sh!tty Link have given me yet another reason to. A parcel ordered on Monday from Amazon with guaranteed next day delivery hadn't arrived by yesterday. It was actually a camera case for the new camera I bought 3 weeks ago and haven't been able to take out cos I didn't have a case (Royal Mail are storing the one I originally bought at the same time). I've already missed getting photos of a wedding and really wanted it to arrive in time to take my camera to the Touring Cars on Sunday.
Anyway I went onto the website and using the tracking number was awfully surprised to see it had apparently been delivered on Tuesday. They'd gone and left it with my neighbour, told him they'd put a card through my door, and not done.
So if you do use them then bear in mind you have to track your parcel online, as they won't notify you if they leave it elsewhere or return it to the depot.

neil9313

marleyboy wrote: »

Hmmm, maybe the clue was the Royal Mail card that was posted stating I was not in when I clearly was, or maybe the Royal Mail Postman who got caught out when he posted the said card, or maybe that it was at the Royal Mail depot that the parcel was stored at that might have give it away, or the fact it was posted from a Royal mail post Office.

It could be the Royal mail postage on the package that gave it away. But I am all for taking a bet with you that it WAS Royal Mail that were delivering it.

Of course I cant say its a common mistake, such clues could well be irrelevant when it comes to Royal Mail apportioning responsibility for someone posting a package in such a manner. Unless its a common mistake for Royal Mail really :rolleyes:

But how much do you wanna bet?

By deduction of your clueless mentality, I am guessing you work for the royal Mail

Another clueless customer, who does not check his facts :rolleyes:

mazza111

Ok my own experience with red cards as a postie. Delivering to 16 blocks of flats at the time, got to the 15th block, when I was blocked coming down the stairs by a very large aggressive bloke, and the conversation went like this.

Customer: Oi YOU! you put this red card thru my door, where's my parcel?!?!
Me: No m8 it wasn't me.
Customer: Yes you effing did, I seen you!!!
Me: No m8 it wasn't me
Customer: Look, stop taking the p1$$ I seen you!!!
Me: Look m8, we don't carry parcels on this round, because of all the stairs (it's a starburst duty)
Customer: No cos ure all lazy b4st4rds.
Me: Let me see your card and I'll see what it says

Reads the card, points out to the customer that a delivery attempt was made at 9am, this was at 11:30, pointed out the duty number and gave him my duty number. Thanked him very much for his apology and told him to get the f*ck out of my way and stop delaying me on my duty. Sorry, but someone abuses me on my duty they get it right back!

However as a customer I have had an experience of the other sort too. Last christmas I was expecting a delivery from ebuyer, thought it would have been sent special delivery, and watched for it coming in. No sign of it. However a low cost item was left with a neighbour (in the loosest sense of the word) who lived at the other end of the street, the P739 card that was put through had the wrong name on it, no number of what house it was left at. Was only by questioning the postie in the office that I knew where my parcel was.

As I've been working in the call and collect office for the past few weeks, i see how many posties aren't filling out the cards correctly, which makes an easy job a lot more difficult. Some of them do make the job harder for the rest of us.

If a postie had admitted to leaving your parcel in his car, I would have made him go and get it, simple as. I know in our office, all packets are taken out daily, whether they leave them in their cars to deliver is doubtful, cos it would be spotted if they were bringing excessive packets back.