Royal Mail, "I'm alright Jack"

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've had a few things delivered to me by courier. & IMO their service is poor. I've had stuff just left outside the house, prominently, all day etc. There are firms who I've contacted & advised I will not order from them again because of their poor courier service.

Where as I much prefer it when couriers leave stuff than take it away again. We usually attach a number to deliveries, because people don't like walking through dogs and we don't know to pull the dogs in unles we know someone is coming/here. but when we are out I'd much rather the parcel was left. The alternative (if not rm/parcelforce) tends to be a collection place in a town half an hour or so away.

custardy

lostinrates wrote: »

Where as I much prefer it when couriers leave stuff than take it away again. We usually attach a number to deliveries, because people don't like walking through dogs and we don't know to pull the dogs in unles we know someone is coming/here. but when we are out I'd much rather the parcel was left. The alternative (if not rm/parcelforce) tends to be a collection place in a town half an hour or so away.

damned if you do,damned if you dont

lostinrates

custardy wrote: »

damned if you do,damned if you dont

You can always...take a customer perference at time of ordering. Many delivery people do that now, along with finer directions not gven on sat nav, like blue gate and cattlegrid, leave being the flower pot...

custardy

lostinrates wrote: »

You can always...take a customer perference at time of ordering. Many delivery people do that now, along with finer directions not gven on sat nav, like blue gate and cattlegrid, leave being the flower pot...

you can but (for RM) unless its a registered safeplace instruction we are meant to ignore it
BT are a regular with new modems etc with leave in a safe place instruction on the packet
a tenement stair doesnt have any form of safe place but we get regular complaints for not following instruction

baby_boomer

I spent an hour today transferring 8 of my family's utility bills online.

This will save my family a very useful amount of money pa.

It will also deprive the Royal Mail of 32 pieces of mail = £10+ of income in 2010.

Three of my building societies also asked if I'd like to receive AGM literature online. (These are big items.) Of course I said yes as it saves my societies, and therefore me, money.

In due course the building societies will also stop sending us endless booklets about account conditions / banking codes etc.

They'll just ask us all if it's OK to show them online.

I'll say "yes please" because these useless items go immediately from their envelope into my dustbin.

Are none of the Royal Mail Union leaders in the real world and reading the runes? Or are they unthinking dinosaurs?

Every crazy strike is like a meteorite signalling the Royal Mail Postie's destruction as a species, since such strikes drive business mail, which is their long term lifeline, into the hands of the more reliable private operators.

What happens when there is no income to fund the pension fund?

custardy

baby_boomer wrote: »

I spent an hour today transferring 8 of my family's utility bills online.

This will save my family a very useful amount of money pa.

It will also deprive the Royal Mail of 32 pieces of mail = £10+ of income.

Three of my building societies also asked if I'd like to receive AGM literature online. (These are big items.) Of course I said yes as it saves my societies, and therefore me, money.

In due course the building societies will also stop sending us endless booklets about account conditions / banking codes etc.

They'll just ask us all if it's OK to show them online.

I'll say "yes please" because these useless items go immediately from their envelope into my dustbin.

Are none of the Royal Mail Union leaders in the real world and reading the runes? Or are they unthinking dinosaurs?

Every crazy strike is like a meteorite signalling their destruction as a species.

how do you work that figure out?
how many items are handled point to point by RM?

baby_boomer

Someone else handles them? Who?

I'm just saying that there will be 35 fewer pieces of mail delivered to my door next year.

If you know better than me what the cost to Royal Mail will be, why don't you let us all know?

custardy

baby_boomer wrote: »

Someone else handles them? Who?

I'm just saying that there will be 35 fewer pieces of mail delivered to my door next year.

If you know better than me what the cost to Royal Mail will be, why don't you let us all know?

ah so you are here spouting about what should be done with little concept of what happens?
do a bit of research into downstream access and consider what those 35 items of mail entail

baby_boomer

Why not tell us to inform future discussions instead of playing the tease?

custardy

baby_boomer wrote: »

Why not tell us to inform future discussions instead of playing the tease?

im not playing any tease :rolleyes: you waded in with jack boots on
fully opinionated on how the union is destroying everything
obviously you made this informed decision without being informed
go forth and google