The UK Post Office is not to be trusted - they are a shell company

Pollycat

Azari wrote: »

There should be a 'Thank Ironically' button.

Or possibly a 'Thanks, you've just made me spray coffee all over my keyboard and screen' button......

lakes17

Pollycat wrote: »

I notice she is continuing to refer to her 62 year old mother as 'elderly'.

In which case I will be elderly in 6yrs time!!! But the Government thinks otherwise as they have moved my state retirement age from 60 to 66!!!!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I am calling stumps

yangptangkipperbang

robatwork wrote: »

I'm going to boycott people called Geoffrey.

How's that !

TurnUpForTheBooks_2

As I am the OP and I've been away and only just read the sum total of what looks like 3 days of limited overs, and scarcely a deep point but a backward or silly one or two, I am in a good position to suggest that the OP in fact had his own idea of what "a shell company" looks like. As like trusted institutions, language is changing all the time, I decided to use a bit of English in a way that for most readers first conjures images of a shell as opposed to images of a paragraph on a page of a dusty 40 year old dictionary even if it has been transposed into something you can Google

Ladies and gentlefolk, I give you a shell on the beach which is almost certainly where you saw your first unless you want to give eggshells or snails a run in this discussion ...

Said shell on the beach is most often empty other than a bit of unremarkable sand, a pretty pattern on the outside, and maybe just a faint smell of times past with a kind of imagined pleasant rushing sound.

The UK Post Office was once something substantial. Now the guts are gone and the hoped for rushing is a bit like you get with shells on the beach.


I can however confirm that the item was delivered in a Jiffy for ten quid uninsured just 4 days after posting, but the tracking was as I said earlier, non existent.

It was a signed for service ultimately. Nothing more. If it hadn't arrived courtesy of the foreign post office then with no route tracking, not even in the UK, and no delivery signed for, the fun for me would have started, would it not?

I don't subscribe to the apologies for the service based upon some 'Johnny Foreigner' interface not being compatible with the UK Post Offices' - we live in a world where business needs to be seen to be slick else it won't be tolerated for very long. That means if you offer an international service you need to provide a slick international interface not silly 20th century excuses.

The existing way is never going to create enough profit to pay the civil service type pensions of those still lucky enough to be members of the still government funded pension scheme. So we taxpayers end up paying twice and through the nose for a business masquerading as more than it is, i.e. a shell of its former self.