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Secrets of your missing mail - interesting for eBay buyers/sellers

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  • luvvlyjubbly
    luvvlyjubbly Posts: 2,440 Forumite
    Ooh...that'll be interesting to watch....will have a look when i get chance
    Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid doing altogether.:D
  • kalsha
    kalsha Posts: 1,153 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Just watched Monday's episode of "Dispatches". My blood is boiling! Now I know why our parcels go missing or get broken. All those involved at the Bournemouth depot should be fired straight away - and should not be paid unemployment benefit at all!
    Somewhere on these threads, I had read about people doing a "drop test" and I had laughed then - sorry for not taking you seriously. I now know why that is necessary.
  • reborndoll
    reborndoll Posts: 170 Forumite
    Yes it was a disgrace that undercover footage of those idiotic men booting things around the warehouse, and helping themselves to expensive bottles of wine and meat consignments from stores such as M and S as some dent was in a box and so that is the office perk, the men didnt care at the depot, someone elses problem, flinging tellies and laptops about like ragdolls. It will get ten times worse when Royal Mail is sold off.
  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,005 Forumite
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    Jeez, haven't seen it yet, but being that I've been treated quite aggresively taking metered post into the depot and have them throw my mail bags behind them, nothing suprises me.
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  • Mayday
    Mayday Posts: 614 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    Haven't watched it yet - but is about Couriers or the Royal Mail?
  • reborndoll
    reborndoll Posts: 170 Forumite
    edited 3 May 2013 at 10:38AM
    It is about couriers , the main one under the spotlight undercover recording was with Ukmail who will have a bigger hand in the mail system once RM is sold. These are the couriers who will be handling a lot of the UK consumers items.

    And there were some bits about TNT postmen caught simply ripping up mail and putting it in bins and the trolley the posties use not being closed and members of the public can dip a hand in when it was parked outside a high street shop left unattended.
  • sgh1976
    sgh1976 Posts: 424 Forumite
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    reborndoll wrote: »

    And there were some bits about RM postmen caught simply ripping up mail and putting it in bins and the trolley the posties use not being closed and members of the public can dip a hand in when it was parked outside a high street shop left unattended.

    The Postmen they covered were TNT rather than RM in London
  • yeslek
    yeslek Posts: 1,442 Forumite
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    meant to watch this t'other night

    gonna give it a go now :)
  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,005 Forumite
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    4od seems to be experiencing problems
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  • reborndoll
    reborndoll Posts: 170 Forumite
    Maybe TNT were delivering new broadband cable for Ch4? :P
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