Cameron does a Gordon Brown...

ninky_2

bendix wrote: »

Good try, but I suspect that went right over his head.

true. but then s/he wasn't really my intended audience if i'm being totally honest. public forums are a modern marvel.


"my specialty is living said
a man (who could not earn his bread
because he would not sell his head)"
- e.e. cummings

chewmylegoff

ninky wrote: »

my local royal mail is only open 9-12 saturday morning over weekends. is this not usual? i wouldn't say my availability is that unusual.

completely normal. and there's always a massive queue (because everyone who has a job has to go at that time) which moves slower than a budget airport check-in line (because they only have one person rostered on, even though this is the busiest 3 hours of the week for collections). and then at 11.45 they slam the doors in your face.

FTBFun

chewmylegoff wrote: »

completely normal. and there's always a massive queue (because everyone who has a job has to go at that time) which moves slower than a budget airport check-in line (because they only have one person rostered on, even though this is the busiest 3 hours of the week for collections). and then at 11.45 they slam the doors in your face.

I'm a bit fortunate in that my one also opens to 8pm on a Wednesday so I can get there after work. One benefit of living in zone 2 in London I suspect.

ninky_2

Kennyboy66 wrote: »

I get anything delivered to work so not really a problem.

i don't know who you work for (maybe yourself) but if all my employees were getting their personal parcels delivered to work and expecting them received and distributed by the receptionist i'd start to get a bit !!!!ed off.

okay once in a blue moon but not on a regular basis. plus times like christmas are going to be a bit full on. it's not the job of your workplace to offer a free collection service.

also do you really want them to know what sort of movies you are into?

bendix

Public sector, most likely.

custardy

bendix wrote: »

Public sector, most likely.

its more likely to be private sector from my time in deliveries
it happens in public sector places but i would say more in private companies

custardy

jc808 wrote: »

To be fair, I know you like polishing 'em up (employee? ex employee in 'worship' mode) Parcelforce (and to a lesser extent Royal Mail) are shlte

In my time on MSE I have been accused of being.....

a disgruntled ex employee
a disgruntled ex employee with a problem with management
a covert RM customer service employee
an RM fan
and now a worshiper
I guess that shows I have a well rounded opinion

SingleSue wrote: »

We can only collect between the hours of 9-2 Monday to Friday.

must be a small office
As RM closes and amalgamates delivery offices it allows for longer opening hours
of course then people complain the office isnt local anymore

FTBFun wrote: »

I'm a bit fortunate in that my one also opens to 8pm on a Wednesday so I can get there after work. One benefit of living in zone 2 in London I suspect.

nothing to do with London,just as above,the larger offices open longer
opening the office longer is a pure cost with regards to staffing
theres no real revenue generated at the door

Thrugelmir

custardy wrote: »

isi it? wheres the figures for that?

Estimated that Ebay users send 650,000 parcels a week (34 million a year) through the postal system.

toby3000

bendix wrote: »

Public sector, most likely.

I worked in the public sector (HMRC) and there is absolutely no way you'd have been allowed to have a parcel sent to the office.

My friend worked for a smaller private company (maybe 30/40 employees) and regularly had parcels delivered there, for herself and friends with no problems, and I reckon smaller companies aren't bothered by it.

One of the easiet ways to reinvigorate the high-street is to wort out the parking issue, but I don't think it should be by making parking free in towns but by taxing it in out-of-town shopping centres. If you wanted to it could be ring-fenced and used to improve the environment in city-centres. I'm pretty sure that Labour was meant to introduce this in their first term but were lobbied out of it by the supermarkets.

ninky_2

toby3000 wrote: »

I worked in the public sector (HMRC) and there is absolutely no way you'd have been allowed to have a parcel sent to the office.

thanks for a bit of fact to counter the seething contempt some round here seem to have for anyone who is paid for by.....shock.....our taxes. i mean that might mean as a society we were actually cooperating to get something done and paid for and then where would we all be? oh yes, civilisation.