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Parcelforce 'Clearance fee'
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and yet every post you quote is right
you joined up specifically to post about it
yet another one incapable of taking care of their own business but more than capable of a whine
The point was not about people paying the fee themelves but postal companies deciding to impose it on the public and then keep your goods when they didn't have the authority to do so.0 -
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deary me. poor attempt
my pension is fine plus I have that RM one as well
Hm well, I suspect it won't be "fine" for very much longer once Call Me Dave shuts the old Royal Fail down for good, and sells off your pension "assets" to some middle eastern investor. How many billions do you owe to HM taxpayer, again?0 -
Hm well, I suspect it won't be "fine" for very much longer once Call Me Dave shuts the old Royal Fail down for good, and sells off your pension "assets" to some middle eastern investor. How many billions do you owe to HM taxpayer, again?
why are you questioning me on the RM pension fund
thats not what this thread is about
however if you want to go digging on who owes what
perhaps go and find out where the RM profits went as they took over a decade pension holiday0 -
well that point is moot now
however you still have the option to do it for free
so whats the issue?
The "issue" is that your opinion that is can be done "for free" is not the issue.
The fact is that, in many cases, goods cannot be "cleared by the importer." The procedures of the overseas vendor may not make it easy to write the appropriate statement on the customs declaration slip. Further, there's a good chance that RM/Customs will simply ignore it, "clear" it themselves, and charge their fees.
The fact is also that, while handling millions of packages makes the cost for RM to "clear" a single package very low, the cost to the individual to go through all the hassle is not low, in terms of risk and delay and time spent. So effectively, RM, by charging an inflated fee, are holding you to ransom to either pay their fee, or pay the costs of circumventing their fee (if that is at all possible in the individual case). A fine service from the personal mail monopoly holder, I think not.
What is certainly an issue, but ought not to be though, is you continually parroting "but, you can do it for free!" after every post on this topic. We all heard you the first time, and then the second, and now the .... umpteenth. Please, give it a rest.0 -
The "issue" is that your opinion that is can be done "for free" is not the issue.
The fact is that, in many cases, goods cannot be "cleared by the importer." The procedures of the overseas vendor may not make it easy to write the appropriate statement on the customs declaration slip. Further, there's a good chance that RM/Customs will simply ignore it, "clear" it themselves, and charge their fees.
The fact is also that, while handling millions of packages makes the cost for RM to "clear" a single package very low, the cost to the individual to go through all the hassle is not low, in terms of risk and delay and time spent. So effectively, RM, by charging an inflated fee, are holding you to ransom to either pay their fee, or pay the costs of circumventing their fee (if that is at all possible in the individual case). A fine service from the personal mail monopoly holder, I think not.
What is certainly an issue, but ought not to be though, is you continually parroting "but, you can do it for free!" after every post on this topic. We all heard you the first time, and then the second, and now the .... umpteenth. Please, give it a rest.
wheres the basis of that fact?
just because you state it doesn't make it so
whats your input?do you have a solution?
or is it just not fair?
monopoly? I must have missed that memo
when did that happen?0 -
wheres the basis of that fact?
just because you state it doesn't make it so
whats your input?do you have a solution?
or is it just not fair?
monopoly? I must have missed that memo
when did that happen?
The "basis of that fact" is simple arithmetic. If it costs $10.80 to ship something priority mail from the USA to the UK, including sorting it half a dozen times, loading it onto an aeroplane, flying it here, it hardly costs £8 (=$13) for Royal Fail to move it from one room to the next at Mount Pleasant. The simple fact is that the £8 fee is inflated to many times the cost of the actual administration involved. If you can't see that, well, short of having the head honcho of RM come on the radio and admit his company is ripping of the public, I don't know what would convince you.
And as for RM not being a monopoly, what planet are you from? What other UPU mail provider exists in this country? Who else can I get to deliver letter post on my behalf, and who else can I get to bring packages to me, when an overseas vendor sends me something through their national postal service?0
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