The Royal Mail

[Tazio]

Are bloody useless.

I have had 2 purchases this year go completely Pete Tong. From Mountainloz and Sithlord. Both top blokes with huge amounts of feedback on the site.

It is a complete pisser when you pay straight away and they post straight away only for it to get lost in their obviously useless system.

 

[spike3]

I had a birthday card arrive in January when it was posted in Novemeber so there's always hope. But in general i agree they can be pretty useless.

 

[azaro]

Are bloody useless.

I have had 2 purchases this year go completely Pete Tong. From Mountainloz and Sithlord. Both top blokes with huge amounts of feedback on the site.

It is a complete pisser when you pay straight away and they post straight away only for it to get lost in their obviously useless system.

What system?

Got a parcel to collect from out local sorting office. Always fills me with dread that. Queue for ages, be confronted by faceache miserable bastard, then wait for ever whilst he has a cup of tea, has a chat to another halfwit and eventually begrudgingly searches for my item in a disorganised pile of cardboard and envelopes.
It's not like he's not getting paid!!
Hands over the parcel (if he can find it) and grunts!

Service with a grimace - now there's a concept! Wonder if it will ever catch on?

Not tarring all PO employees with the same brush, as I have a couple of mates who are posties and they're sound, but it just seems that all the grumpy buggers work at my local sorting office!

OK. Rant over.
Whisky to sip and a powder coat chart to peruse!!

 

[highlandsflyer]

My wife complains about the public transport in London sometimes. She used to do it a lot more, until she came and lived up in the remote Highlands in a place reliant on the Post Bus.

The Royal Mail is ubiquitous.

It is in our nature not to consider the relative amount of problems with a given system.

I have had items go missing with DHL, Fedex and just about every other service I have used.

I would guess RM are no worse than the others, it is just that they have handled the majority of your mail, and thus the majority of your lost mail.

Just a hunch, based on thousands and thousands of happy experiences with them, along with a small number of bad ones for which I received compensation.

Of course I tend to know my neighbours well, and that is a factor.

If things are delivered to any of them by mistake, happens when you are up a driveway in the country, they generally drop it round, or tell me in the pub a few weeks later they got a good price for it on eBay.

 

[IDB1]

We've had no mail for 2 days.

Before we moved here a day without mail was a rarity. Here it's quite the norm.

I probably ought to buy more from the RB classifieds to redress the balance.....

 

[Harryburgundy]

I think they are pretty good to be honest...only thing I have ever had go missing over years was a parcel to Si funnily enough. Think you have been unlucky

 

[azaro]

I remember the days (sound like my dad!) when the mail used to arrive before I left for work. (OK, it's probably further back than that - before I left for school).
Nowadays it doesn't arrive 'til 3pm some days, even on Saturdays! What's happened?
Why can't we return to the halcyon days of posties getting up at sparrow's fart, particularly on a Saturday, so that they could finish their round and get to the pub for lunchtime, sink a few pints and then regale us with their well-informed opinion on all important matters of the day?
I really do sound like my dad now - going to bed!!

 

[Tazio]

More to the point I'm sure a lot of us can remember the first and second post. Now I get one in the middle of the afternoon.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Where I grew up the Postie would look in on the auld folks and put sheep back in the fields, etc.

They were integral to the community.

Part of something that is ebbing away in our society.

Sad.

 

[suburbanreuben]

I only ever send parcels recorded now, since losing three packets to various parts of the country. Coincidence? Or a wrong'un at my local sorting office?
My postie, Bob, of the last four years has been bleedin fantastic, even instilling in my Jack Russell her natural hatred of posties and their evil cargo...