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Royal Mail parcels merry go round

letthegoodtimesrollletthegoodtimesroll
in Not Sports Related
It’s easy to see why somebody wanted to buy it, sack most of the numpties working there at the moment, collect and deliver a parcel once instead of wasting time and money shuffling it around and the business could be worth a lot more quite quickly. Good job this wasn’t a Christmas present or something perishable or needed urgently 





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  • fadgadgetfadgadget
    I Have had items ordered from China delivered quicker that things ordered from the other end of the Uk , and free postage .
  • letthegoodtimesrollletthegoodtimesroll
    And it’s been delivered…

    so the sorting office/depot that originally had it for 3 days before sending it to another depot, who then sent it to yet another depot, which sent it back to the first depot has now managed to deliver it within 24 hours of receiving it. There must be an old postie back from a week off who without thinking about it got the parcel and just chucked into the right pile/van for delivery.
  • SIDSID
    Royal Mail has been atrocious this year. The worst mistake has been to redirect my incoming parcels to a pick up point, the local post office in my case. Every time I’ve done that via the RM app the postman has tried to still deliver them to my house when obviously there’s no one in and I’ve spent up to 40 minutes on the phone trying to get an update on where the fuck they are. I’m sure I didn’t have the same problem this time last year. 
  • cafcfancafcfan
    Royal Mail are not alone in their ineptness.
    Here's a screenshot from Yodel. Everything on tracking is a lie from 10:55 on 10 December onwards.
    I mean, excuse me, the parcel is wine I have paid for why would I refuse delivery? Especially as there is a standing instruction to leave by the back gate if I am out.

  • cafcfancafcfan
    Meanwhile earlier this month we trotted up to our local post office only to find they had run out of stamps! You couldn't make it up. Notwithstanding the lack of stamps,  I read that if you had more than 70 Christmas Cards to post it would have been cheaper to fly to Portugal in early December, post your cards there, have a meal and fly back on the same day.  (I am assuming they haven't factored in the cost of parking at Stansted but it is clearly a ridiculous situation.) 
  • Kap10Kap10
    Yes the same issues with Evri, something my wife ordered for a pre XMas get together of "the girls" has been sitting in warehouse for over 10 days and missed the get together last week.

    Don't expect any improvement now RM has gone private, they will lose staff and reduce services.  Like many public services private or otherwise the RM is on a slippery downward slope!!
  • DRAddickDRAddick
    Should have had to change it's name when it was privatised.
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    Royal Mail is now owned by a Czech, as is the National Lottery, let's hope that RM deliveries don't become even more of dodgy lottery .. also begs the question, can the company still be called 'royal' and the lottery 'national' ?
  • fadgadgetfadgadget
    A few years back i checked the Royal Mail app to see where my parcel was and it was showing delivered and a screen shot of a signature that clearly wasn't me , tried phoning my local sorting office and got nowhere , a few hours later there's a knock at the door and would you believe it was my parcel that they said i had already had .
    I Read somewhere that the postie fill out the sorry you were not at home cards before they leave the depot . 
  • PrincessFionaPrincessFiona
    cafcfan said:
    Royal Mail are not alone in their ineptness.
    Here's a screenshot from Yodel. Everything on tracking is a lie from 10:55 on 10 December onwards.
    I mean, excuse me, the parcel is wine I have paid for why would I refuse delivery? Especially as there is a standing instruction to leave by the back gate if I am out.

    We've had the same with wine deliveries - by Yodel and Evri. Too many occasions saying they tried to deliver but we weren't in, when we were. As we have cameras, we prove they were never at the property. Fair play to the wine supplies who give us a £20 credit and then it gets delivered.
    We had a Royal Mail delivery the other day and the chap was really nice when I said it was good he actually rang the door bell, rather than leaving it by the door in the pouring rain, unbeknownst to us. Turns out he was a manager and stressed how important it is to report these things so they can weed out repeat offenders. And suppliers need to know too, so their reviews aren't adversely affected by the delivery method
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  • HuskarisHuskaris
    I'm not sure where they are on the merry go to round of nationalised therefore we must defend them or privatised and therefore we must hate them but as someone who has a side hustle on Etsy (Peep Show) I can safely say about 90% of stuff makes it through.

    That remaining 10% is quite an effort and costly. They're fucking useless. 
  • guinnessaddickguinnessaddick
    The other day I had a post person ring my doorbell when I was out, watch them on my phone, watched them write a card. When I got home, no card in the porch. Then thought it must have been for next door. Two days later the same parcel arrived at our house, which my daughter signed for. So had it not been re attempted I would never known about it.
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