Miserable royal Mail

sillygoose

chunkychocky wrote: »

It would be handy though if they had some slots on the side of a postbox so we could just check that we had used the right stamp before popping it in the box. It wouldn't cost much for the Royal Mail to invent some way of us checking at the post box rather than everyone having to go into a post office each time, and would save a lot of these issues.

Yes and post offices are disappearing at quite a rate, the only ones left near me are in areas to be honest I avoid if I can! (most have a reserved parking space outside labelled 'getaway vehicles only')

sillygoose

I am booking my slot on Dragons Den! I will be marketing my amazing invention - the Royal Mail Postage Economiser! (TM) yes folks drastically cut your postage costs with this great device, JML and Ronco have already been on the phone!

Great for Christmas, you can even send your relatives some cake through the post and it won't cost a penny more..

Doshwaster

I'm getting sick to death of the Royal Mail recently.

It's a miracle if I get my post before 2pm and I'm less than a mile from the local sorting office.

Collections have been cut back to one a day. There used to be a Sunday collection from the main Post Office but that was stopped and the collection on a Saturday is at 11am. That means if you post something with a 1st class stamp at midday on a Saturday it won't be collected until 5pm on Monday and not delivered until Tuesday at the very earliest or more likely Wednesday.

Local Post Offices have all closed so if you need to visit one to post a parcel then you need to go to the town centre branch where there is no free parking anywhere near it.

shaun_from_Africa

sillygoose wrote: »

I have no issues with posties, just the business policy, perhaps if it were 8mm instead of 5mm a lot more things might get sent

If it was 8mm instead of 5mm, how long do you think it would be before posts started appearing on here:

"I sent my son/uncle/sister a DVD which was in its plastic case but the postie wouldn't deliver it because the evvelope was 10mm thick which is only 2mm over the limit.
They had to pay 30p extra as well as a £1 fee."

Whether it's 5mm, 8mm or 25mm, provided that the limits are advertised and there are procedures in place for checking the size before posting, I can't see what the problem is.

custardy

Doshwaster wrote: »

I'm getting sick to death of the Royal Mail recently.

It's a miracle if I get my post before 2pm and I'm less than a mile from the local sorting office.

Collections have been cut back to one a day. There used to be a Sunday collection from the main Post Office but that was stopped and the collection on a Saturday is at 11am. That means if you post something with a 1st class stamp at midday on a Saturday it won't be collected until 5pm on Monday and not delivered until Tuesday at the very earliest or more likely Wednesday.

Local Post Offices have all closed so if you need to visit one to post a parcel then you need to go to the town centre branch where there is no free parking anywhere near it.

whats your point?
RM have been cutting for years,what did you think would happen?
cut,cut,cut and everything stay the same?

Dave_C_2

And yet the greetings card companies knowingly sell these cards without any warning whatsover on the card/envelope/packaging. These are the real culprits.

Royal mail still have a birthday card addressed to me from years ago. I wonder what happened to it? Maybe a postie kept the "60" badge

What happens to undelivered mail?

Dave

Hermione_Granger

Dave_C wrote: »

And yet the greetings card companies knowingly sell these cards without any warning whatsover on the card/envelope/packaging. These are the real culprits.

Maybe they should also supply a full list of worldwide airmail costs just in case someone wants to send a card overseas.

Or here's a novel idea, why not just leave the postage costs to a responsible adult to work out for themselves?

custardy

Dave_C wrote: »

And yet the greetings card companies knowingly sell these cards without any warning whatsover on the card/envelope/packaging. These are the real culprits.

Royal mail still have a birthday card addressed to me from years ago. I wonder what happened to it? Maybe a postie kept the "60" badge

What happens to undelivered mail?

Dave

yes of course they do............

Azari

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Maybe they should also supply a full list of worldwide airmail costs just in case someone wants to send a card overseas.

That's just daft.

There's a great deal of difference between telling people which post size a product is when you know that a good proportion of your customers are going to need exactly that one piece of information and issuing a long list that few will need.

Doshwaster

Dave_C wrote: »

And yet the greetings card companies knowingly sell these cards without any warning whatsover on the card/envelope/packaging. These are the real culprits.

Actually, a lot of greetings cards do have a logo on the back to indicate whether it is a standard or large letter size. In fact, there is an industry standard: http://www.greetingcardassociation.org.uk/news/pricing-in-proportion