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Check in the Mail?
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Quite a revelation tonight on the Beeb, seems the Royal Mail is in deep doo doo. Losing £800K per day and a union almost split down the middle.
Any UK resident critics or apologists care to voice your views? Im quite curious what the impact to average people over there might be. Is there any noticeable decrease in quality of service at present? Horror stories?
Any UK resident critics or apologists care to voice your views? Im quite curious what the impact to average people over there might be. Is there any noticeable decrease in quality of service at present? Horror stories?
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The first one just never arrived and the second one arrived in sealed plastic envelope because it had been on fire and 3/4 was burnt!
A letter sent first class to another address in London that took 12 days to deliver.
At least two letters from banks and credit card companies that never arrived.
And loads and loads of 1st class letters sent from work that were received 3 days later instead of the following day.
In fact, the next-day delivery service you used to get from 1st class service has all but disappeared all of the sudden. This is not just to addresses in far-to-reach areas but even locally.
I know Royal Mail loses money- although being a public service profitability doesn't concern me- but the service provided has turned more unreliable than a Downing Street statement.
Royal Mail bosses must be to blame. One of the more "brilliant" ideas of recent was to ditch the overnight mail trains that served the country so well for a century, in favour of road distribution. WFT???
We're having to resort at work to sending all important letters by Special Delivery (cost: nearly £4) because we cannot trust any first class letter to arrive the next day.
It's a joke.
Does anyone share the view that such deterioration of classic mail services (not only UK but perhaps more universally) only bolsters the projection that such means of communication will eventually give way entirely to expanded electronic (cyber) communications?
You mean, like a fax?
Actually, going back to your "profit" comment earlier. That is what has caused this problem. The Royal Mail have apparently been investing in foreign companies and they just aren't "delivering" (sorry about the pun) and so it's costing us our normal service.
Another example of a wonderful Tory policy...
No, what I meant is electronic delivery of letters that cannot be forged easily. For instance, when a letter in company headed paper is needed. You cannot tell from a fax whether such letter is genuine or just a simple collage. Same goes for signatures.
the thing is it doesnt need to be made private, because its like privitising the railways in a way, because you dont get true choice, because if theres only one postbox of a company around, no way fair competiton, so it might as well jsut be royal mail since before it was a good service! only recently with increased privitisation its gone under
I do the post for where I work and a guy dropped off a letter and I asked him how he wanted it sent and came with a pertinent reply: "I'll send it second class, I don't want Royal Mail to get anymore of my money while their first class service is operating like a second class service." We send everything that is remotely important by DHL or Special Delivery.