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Post Office wanting to know all contents.

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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    Jamie_Carter wrote: »
    It is a security issue. But maybe there is a training need in teaching staff how to ask the question.

    Or maybe through experience they know that some people don't realise what exactly is in the parcel. For example, someone posting an iphone may not have even considered that it contains a lithium battery. So they have to ask what is inside the parcel, in order to actually deduct what is in it.

    spend a time on the eBay board and you will see a regular stream of people, who plonk valuable items in jiffy bags and a 2nd class stamp
    spend time working with the public and you wonder what hope is left for all of us ;)
  • Gary123456790
    Gary123456790 Posts: 638 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    posters where?

    In post offices would be a start. National newspaper adverts would be useful as well.

    Many people are unaware of these changes. Big posters in the post office would alert everyone in the queue.

    Gary.
  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,620 Forumite
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    Regarding carriers UPS, Fedex and the like clearly send international items by air. But within the UK I'm not sure they use airfreight at all. Looking at tracking for my Fedex parcels they go by road to a hub in the midlands and then onward by road. Parcels to the north of Scotland take a day longer even on their '24 hour' services. I've not seen anything being flown.

    If this is so they would not need to conform to air regulations.
  • custardy
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    Gary123456790 wrote: »
    In post offices would be a start. National newspaper adverts would be useful as well.

    Many people are unaware of these changes. Big posters in the post office would alert everyone in the queue.

    Gary.

    you mean like the posters already up in the Post Offices?
  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    custardy wrote: »
    you mean like the posters already up in the Post Offices?

    No, they need to have letters six foot tall :D
  • Strapped
    Strapped Posts: 8,158 Forumite
    Jamie_Carter wrote: »
    No, they need to have letters six foot tall :D

    With flashing neon lights and trumpet calls on approach...but people still wouldn't notice them :p
    They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato
  • ballisticbrian
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    Next week... I am going to be sending "Naked Twister" special edition *with Jello*
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  • Jamie_Carter
    Jamie_Carter Posts: 5,282 Forumite
    ballisticbrian wrote: »
    Next week... I am going to be sending "Naked Twister" special edition *with Jello*

    In that case, find a member of staff who looks like they will be most shocked when you describe the contents. :D
  • Strapped
    Strapped Posts: 8,158 Forumite
    "That one's the St Andrew's Cross...it comes flat-packed...yes, I don't mind explaining what a St Andrew's Cross is..."

    I'd have a field day :)
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  • BigSister2008
    BigSister2008 Posts: 4,811 Forumite
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    happening in NI too

    mum tried to post me hair dye in tenerife and was refused

    devastated as it C*** dye over here lol

    Obsessed with GAZZA

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