tiresome paypal postage

katchambers

QuackQuack wrote: »

On the plus side, if you do have to make the trip to a Post Office to pay, you will - at least - be able to send stuff *second class recorded* - just one of a number of services not provided by Paypal.

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I use both systems, paypal postage for 1st class and royal mail online postage for 2nd class, so there is no plus side to me since they are both down

QuackQuack_2

Perhaps if they privatised the Post Office - so they had shareholders to answer too - we'd not see these regular outages??

Can you imagine someone like Amazon going down for 4 or 5 days and unable to sell any of their goods or services ?!

This is utterly astounding both in terms of gross incompetence, and a awful customer service. It's going to be a tough Christmas for postmen if this carries on, they'll be much less in the system for them to pinch

custardy

QuackQuack wrote: »

Perhaps if they privatised the Post Office - so they had shareholders to answer too - we'd not see these regular outages??

Can you imagine someone like Amazon going down for 4 or 5 days and unable to sell any of their goods or services ?!

This is utterly astounding both in terms of gross incompetence, and a awful customer service. It's going to be a tough Christmas for postmen if this carries on, they'll be much less in the system for them to pinch

perhaps learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office before you go maligning and tarnishing the staff..............

QuackQuack_2

custardy wrote: »

perhaps learn the difference between Royal Mail and the Post Office before you go maligning and tarnishing the staff..............

Don't get your knickers in a twist old girl... I don't make much of a distinction as it works like this - you give it to the Post Office, it gets '''''lost'''''' either by them or Ali Baba (that's RM to me and you)

Nice to see they are going to work on tonight and 'try' to fix it LOL.

chancesare_2

QuackQuack wrote: »

Don't get your knickers in a twist old girl... I don't make much of a distinction as it works like this - you give it to the Post Office, it gets '''''lost'''''' either by them or Ali Baba (that's RM to me and you)

Nice to see they are going to work on tonight and 'try' to fix it LOL.

Like ordering from Tesco and returning to Asda.

katchambers

Still not working :mad:

tulsa3000

A bit of advice please, I always put first class on my postage details (no choice with stupid paypal postage anyway!!!)

Shall I email all 16 of the people that have bought from me, letting them know the problem or leave it, what have you all done???

P.S I can't afford to use the post office, if we were warned i would have transfered funds to my bank account so that i could, but of course no warning and not much from customer services either!!!

blue_monkey_2

tulsa3000 wrote: »

A bit of advice please, I always put first class on my postage details (no choice with stupid paypal postage anyway!!!)

Shall I email all 16 of the people that have bought from me, letting them know the problem or leave it, what have you all done???

P.S I can't afford to use the post office, if we were warned i would have transfered funds to my bank account so that i could, but of course no warning and not much from customer services either!!!

Transfer the money and wait a few days for the money to get to your account and then go to the Post Office and buy over the counter. But email your customers and tell them that the system has been down so you have to get into town to post them and you cannot do that until Friday. That will buy you a few days but at least you have been straight with them.

soolin

tulsa3000 wrote: »

A bit of advice please, I always put first class on my postage details (no choice with stupid paypal postage anyway!!!)

Shall I email all 16 of the people that have bought from me, letting them know the problem or leave it, what have you all done???

P.S I can't afford to use the post office, if we were warned i would have transfered funds to my bank account so that i could, but of course no warning and not much from customer services either!!!

Is there no chance at all you can find the money from somewhere and get these items posted? Buyers may well be expecting their parcels and be rather upset if they don't arrive in a timely fashion. It could seriously damage your despatch stars if you delay.

king-arthur

Well, guess what........................

"PayPal Postage is not available. We apologise for the inconvenience."

So now it's the end of day 4 - this is crazy. :rotfl: