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MSE News: Royal Mail trials new parcel postboxes
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Royal Mail is trialling postboxes which are big enough for you to post parcels...
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I'd sooner do away with post boxes altogether and pass the savings from no longer needing to send people to empty them onto cheaper stamp and postage prices!
I bet usage of these has dropped a good 90% over the last 15 years. The only time I use post boxes is to return 'no longer at this address' mail. On the handful of times a year I actually want to post a letter where I'm bothered if it gets there or not, I'll always go to a Post Office to buy a stamp and get them to throw it in their collection bag.0 -
I can see kittens being posted... you can just about get one in a current postbox ... maybe it'll enable small puppies and larger cats to get the same treatment.0
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I'd sooner do away with post boxes altogether and pass the savings from no longer needing to send people to empty them onto cheaper stamp and postage prices!
I bet usage of these has dropped a good 90% over the last 15 years. The only time I use post boxes is to return 'no longer at this address' mail. On the handful of times a year I actually want to post a letter where I'm bothered if it gets there or not, I'll always go to a Post Office to buy a stamp and get them to throw it in their collection bag.
Which is why RM moved the mass majority of collections onto delivery staff.
Have a look at what Ofcom had to say about RMs requirement to provide post boxes.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/provision-post-boxes
also,I posted about this yesterday. Try and keep up MSE.0 -
I'd sooner do away with post boxes altogether and pass the savings from no longer needing to send people to empty them onto cheaper stamp and postage prices!
I bet usage of these has dropped a good 90% over the last 15 years. The only time I use post boxes is to return 'no longer at this address' mail. On the handful of times a year I actually want to post a letter where I'm bothered if it gets there or not, I'll always go to a Post Office to buy a stamp and get them to throw it in their collection bag.
I use it on average twice a week(end of my street
), to post back my postal DVD rentals. 0 -
Makes sense to me, as long as the opening is big enough.
At the moment CollectPlus get all my parcel business regardless of price, because I can drop them off at the corner shop down the road any time in the evening instead of carrying parcels into work and then spending half my lunchbreak waiting behind a queue of slow-moving pensioners at the Post Office. If Royal Mail want to compete then they need to offer evening drop-off, exactly as recognised by their spokesman at the end of the article.
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Just to mention that this is already being discussed on an earlier thread here started by custardy
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5881282/parcel-postboxes
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Makes sense to me, as long as the opening is big enough.
At the moment CollectPlus get all my parcel business regardless of price, because I can drop them off at the corner shop down the road any time in the evening instead of carrying parcels into work and then spending half my lunchbreak waiting behind a queue of slow-moving pensioners at the Post Office. If Royal Mail want to compete then they need to offer evening drop-off, exactly as recognised by their spokesman at the end of the article.
Pete
FYI RM offer and want you to drop them off at a delivery office. many open later now.
However keep in mind callers offices are a pure cost.
Post Office are not part of RM and as such,they have little control over their opening hours.0 -
Maybe you're not pushing hard enough. I'm sure puppies would fit if you pressed them down firmly.PasturesNew wrote: »I can see kittens being posted... you can just about get one in a current postbox ... maybe it'll enable small puppies and larger cats to get the same treatment.0
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