Royal Mail :(

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ALL day I was looking forward to getting home from work and finding my photo's that I had ordered on the doormat.... (I'm a bit sad like that!!! ;) )
I had an e-mail yesterday saying that they had been posted FIRST CLASS, RECORDED DELIVERY. They even gave me the Tracking number.

Got home to find a letter asking if I wanted a loan... no photo's.... me sad :(

So... as I had the Tracker number, I thought I'd check!
Royal Mail website said that my parcel was delivered before 1pm today!!! WHERE TO I ask??!!!!!!!

MAYBE....just maybe, they left them with my neighbour.... but still... I'm rather disappointed. They should have left a card to say so I would have thought.. especially as it was "recorded delivery".
Even if they had taken it back to the sorting office, left a card to say so, then I could have gone and picked them up.

But there's nothing..... Royal Mail eh? :rant:

Hmm :/
I'm guessing the neighbours ain't got them then?

Last couple of weeks sent out two RMSD guaranteed next day before 12. One took four days, the other took three. I've been trying to get my cash back on postage ever since but they don't want to know. Tracker never seems to get updated until after the bloody things been delivered.

The postman should leave a card through your door if it was left with someone else to say where it was left. Although Barry seems to think that they're not supposed to do that if it's recorded delivery, but he's not 100% sure.

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Originally Posted by Hidden Spirit

The postman should leave a card through your door if it was left with someone else to say where it was left. Although Barry seems to think that they're not supposed to do that if it's recorded delivery, but he's not 100% sure.

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No they are ;) if its recorded and you aint in, then they should leave a card and they obviously havent :(

Had the postman knock on the door this morning, asking me how many parcels i had signed for yesterday. One i says (some fans from OcUK), although i'm expecting another (some AS5 from Kustom)...he grunts and goes on his way. Worried, i check the track and trace number for my parcel from Kustom and find that it was indeed delivered and signed for yesterday, but not by me or anyone in this house. Rang the local sorting office to have a moan, after spouting a pile of balls they said they would be in touch after talking to the postie, and hung up...without even taking down my phone number . So, i have all the parts i need my wifes PC here (apart from a new HDD!) and i ain't got no thermal compound so i can start putting it together...w*****s...

Hmm seems like Royal Mail have been going down hill on recent months :(. It was on the news the other night about delivery problems in London.

Although the postal service here is losing lots of money it still seems to worrk quite well :p .

Parcelforce = Scum

Ha, they actually made a profit this year.

Dabs used Parcelfarce to ship my x45.. *worried*

Oh and Royal Mail suck these days too, apparently their profits have gone up.. sure they have, they don't bother making half the deliveries anymore!

I think I remember receiving an official letter from explaining why their service has turned poo over the last 6 months. Suppsedly, they had a company merge, or something, and everything would be sorted out soon.

Yeah.
Right.

I receive my post usually after 1pm every day... What IS that?

Back in the day, not so long ago - few years, perhaps.. you could look forward to reading your post whilst eating your breakfast. Not anymore, though, of course. How are people expected to sign for a parcel/recorded delivery if they're AT WORK? Course you can pick it up the day after it was delivered, but that's not the point, and it's far more effort than it should be.

Really has gone ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by MAS

Ha, they actually made a profit this year.

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Maybe they've been selling the lost post on ebay??

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Originally Posted by MAS

Ha, they actually made a profit this year.

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Yup was on the news today that RM have made £220 m profit this year :eek: :shocked2:, but failed to meet any of their delivery targets!!

Which tbh doesn't suprise me as recently it has taken upto 4 days for things I have sent first class to arrive...

The post is getting later and later also, we used to get the post at around 7 7:30 and a second post around 12/1 now since they stopped the second post the post arrives around 12/1!!

They are also hopeless at using cards if you aren't in when they try to deliver a parcel, several times i have checked the tracking number and says they have tried to deliver but have not put a card through the door! Assuming of course that they tried to deliver to the correct address in the first place.

Bothe Royal Mail and Parcelforce have actually just dumped parcels (including RD) on our doorstep. We're lucky someone didn't just walk off with them. And I agree on the delivery times thing; what's the point of making deliveries to a domestic address during business hours? Assclowns.

That reminds me about a month ago I had a delivery sent RD, about £100 of components and good ole postie decided cause I didn't answer the door he would leave it outside the back door!!!! Living in a student house on a terraced street where eveyone within 5 houses of me will pass my back door on their way out....

Heh, this subject was just on the news, apparently my postal code is one of the worst in the UK.. *yay* :rolleyes:

Well ive ordered a steering wheel for my pc sent royal mail. I think it started 2-5 day delivery, but its gone 5 days now :(
Citylink are usually on time, but ive had £1000 worth of stuff "stolen from the van". And one time we waited in all day for him and it never came, when i rang up they said he had called and i wasnt in. Bull ****!

I was recently sent two motherboards, one I bought on the forums here, the other was very generously given to me by OiD. Anyway, OiD sent his first class and it took two weeks to arrive, then of course I had to go and pick it up. The other was sent Recorded and took 9 days. I woke up on a Saturday to find a card in the letterbox to say that they had tried to deliver it 7.35 that morning. I hadn't been boozing the night before and the buzzer to our flat is bloody loud, there is no way in hell he tried to get us out to sign for it before shoving the card through:rant:.

Since the government owns Royal Mail, that £220m or whatever should go straight back into improving the service; it's so poor that it'll start affecting the economy sooner or later I reckon. Seriously.

Rich :¬)

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Originally Posted by Rave

I hadn't been boozing the night before and the buzzer to our flat is bloody loud, there is no way in hell he tried to get us out to sign for it before shoving the card through:rant:.

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That happened to me once too... I SAW the man just walk up to the door and put the card through with no attempt at knocking... don't understand why they do that really.

(STILL don't know if neighbour has my delivery... they've not knocked! Hopefully tomorrow. Fingers crossed!!)

Royal Mail Royally suck, about 4 years ago I used to mail order a lot of Playstation games out of the 30 odd i own at least 6 were stolen in the post and had to be resent thats 20%!!!!

In my student house they leave parcels on the doorstep equipment worth hundreds of pounds, they leave things out in the rain the postman is a F***tard.

The postal prices are a joke too... shame I can't send my parcels with e-mail yet!