HELP NEEDED recorded delivery problem

custardy

loopylass wrote: »

Christmas Hampers with drink do you think its acceptable that a child can sign for something like that
What if a younger child opened it too young to realise its someone elses parcel and thinks its safe to drink i know it probably wont ever happen but it could
I have paid the money so as far as im concerned its over with, all i really want to know the correct procedure a postman should do and i also think if this is the correct procedure more parents need to be aware in case it happens to them

parents? seriously
perhaps we shouldnt deliver items with staples in them incase someone has an eye out.
If it bothers you so much then go wild and moan to your MP.
however incase you are unclear.RM deliver to addresses,not people.If you cannot trust your kid not to rifle through a package and down the booze.
signatures are not the real issue.

merlot123

custardy wrote: »

no they couldn't
seems my posts aren't being read
the RD system doesn't link to addresses
also if the RD item was delivered with a card not a PDA,it may not have updated (at that point)even if the sender/recipient had tracked it.

How difficult can it be for Royal Mail to find out where the envelope was delivered too? for goodness sake no wonder RM are in the mess they are, they need to shape up or ship out.

Surely it would take a phone call to the local RM office and someone speak to the postie who delivers that round to find out where it has been delivered too. They should link addresses, especially if this trial thing takes off, I won't be a part of it, I have printed off a sticker thanks to the post earlier.

custardy

merlot123 wrote: »

How difficult can it be for Royal Mail to find out where the envelope was delivered too? for goodness sake no wonder RM are in the mess they are, they need to shape up or ship out.

I got this far and realised you had no clue and weren't worthy of the answers.
ask yourself where all the profits went when it wasn't being invested in IT and infrastructure.

Sambucus_Nigra

custardy wrote: »

parents? seriously
perhaps we shouldnt deliver items with staples in them incase someone has an eye out.
If it bothers you so much then go wild and moan to your MP.
however incase you are unclear.RM deliver to addresses,not people.If you cannot trust your kid not to rifle through a package and down the booze.
signatures are not the real issue.

Yes, and clearly they can't even do that.

What terms and conditions did the kid sign up to when they signed for this? I think it was just to say that delivery had been received; not to carry on doing the postie's job for them.

custardy

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Yes, and clearly they can't even do that.

What terms and conditions did the kid sign up to when they signed for this? I think it was just to say that delivery had been received; not to carry on doing the postie's job for them.

well you obviously havent read any posts so far
I suggest you go and do research of RMs procedures
what age did you sign your postal terms and conditions? since you raised it

loopylass

custardy wrote: »

parents? seriously
perhaps we shouldnt deliver items with staples in them incase someone has an eye out.
If it bothers you so much then go wild and moan to your MP.
however incase you are unclear.RM deliver to addresses,not people.If you cannot trust your kid not to rifle through a package and down the booze.
signatures are not the real issue.

Yes there are lots of things that can happen i agree with you

The point im trying to make is do the postman HAVE to let the people whose recorded delivery it is know where it is ..... posting a card through their door as it is the postmans responsibility to get that recorded delivery from A to B

There must be rules you have to follow as a postman

Sambucus_Nigra

custardy wrote: »

well you obviously havent read any posts so far
I suggest you go and do research of RMs procedures
what age did you sign your postal terms and conditions? since you raised it

What are you talking about in your final sentences, as they clearly make no sense? I've never signed postal terms and conditions [that's the point].

Why should an acceptor of someone else's post have to even look into RMs procedures? They are surely for the staff, and the sender and recipient?

The only person that is down £180 here is the OP through NO fault of their own.

merlot123

I've just been talking to my Postie.

I asked him what he does when he gets a neighbour to sign for a recorded delivery, he showed me his book, he puts the house number in brackets at the side of the signature who has signed for the letter.

19lottie82

saidan wrote: »

your childs own fault - if they have been told not to sign for things then he should not have done so.

then all he had to do was give the mail in his hand to you - and you could have then either made a complaint to PO, or hand-delivered it next door.

i'd be taking it out of your childs pocket money - then maybe he'd learn not to sign for something again.

:eek: lordy, im glad you're not my mum / dad!

merlot123

custardy wrote: »

I got this far and realised you had no clue and weren't worthy of the answers.
ask yourself where all the profits went when it wasn't being invested in IT and infrastructure.

I was talking about the letters division.


What profits?

According to the bbc news website, the operating losses for the letters and parcel division were £41m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/business-15820647