Royal Fail Rant....

[Stuart]

Sometimes they get "contractors" in to deliver, and they arent obliged to return to the depot, so your stuff can be in their van overnight...

[Jack]

They do it all the time mate. To be fair to them though, it's impossible for them to carry everyone's parcels around, and obviously there aren't enough vans available, so they hit you with the 'Sorry we missed you' slip. Royal Fail indeed.

^ this. There was a big media hoo-haa about it a while back, although they've been doing it for donkeys years.

My local depot is pretty good, usually they deliver around 10am, then missed deliveries are available from the depot (5 mins down the road from me) around 4 hours afterwards, so ideal for me to pickup after work.

Couriers are useless though, I had one (possibly Citilink iirc, it was a while ago now) who left a note. Rang the number to arrange redelivery, they said they cannot do redelivery, I had to pick the parcel up from them. Fine. But the depot was in Bristol - 40 miles Norf. Now consider the parcel originally came from Taunton, 20 miles west of me.... I asked the bint on the phone to explain why I had basically paid them £20 to take the parcel 20 miles further away from me?! LMFAO (thankfully I called back the next day and spoke to someone else who re-arranged delivery!)

[Sloth]

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[ben doodar]

Ha ha I work in an autofactors and people are constantly saying "there miles cheaper on eBay" my boss allways calmly says buy it from eBay then. After a few regular customers had tried to buy parts from eBay And had hastle with the postie, or returning wrong items. Most have seemed to come bk to us.

P.s the royal mail have been ****e in our area recently. Xx

[Vausey_Nova_Knotla]

hmm i have good exsperience with postie normally they leave it in a said place unless its a volcano faced newbie then they just panic and run off like,

"Oh no's what shall i do no one answered"(1 sec thought)"ill leave an attempted"

[Sloth]

Ha ha I work in an autofactors and people are constantly saying "there miles cheaper on eBay" my boss allways calmly says buy it from eBay then. After a few regular customers had tried to buy parts from eBay And had hastle with the postie, or returning wrong items. Most have seemed to come bk to us.

P.s the royal mail have been ****e in our area recently. Xx

i can see the point there ben, but i aint a business. im only fixing the damn thing for him as he's skint and i owe him big time. no profit here.

[draper]

royal fail FTL

sent a letter recorded/signed for 20/8 and it still hasnt got there (actually youve just reminded me i need to put a claim in)

my postie is quite good, deliveries are about 1pm so when im on nights im up, since i have a few bits delivered they always have mine on the van but if i do miss the delivery the collection depot is 3mins away and next door to my work

[Pistol Pete]

*touching everything wooden*

I havent really had any bother with Royal Mail TBH. Even the couriers are pretty good. Guess i'm just lucky??!!

[ben doodar]

Explains it all. This ones from my area.

http://m.youtube.com:80/?client=mv-v...&v=yimvOk9VIfI