I HATE the Royal Mail

Hedge said:
I just started as a postie. And i dont really see people stomping on mail and leaving it lying around in my office.

but one thing i can say is i underestimated how hard it is! :(

A postie only spends about 3-4hrs on the street walking and posting, ontop of that he/she spends a few hours actually having to sort through hundreds/thousands of letters.

Im in freakin agony today. Ive been walking since 10am. only got finished bout an hour ago :(
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Only in certain places does post get left lying around etc. The RM is usually quite reliable for me, but this time it's more annoying than anything. I need money and can't use an ATM, have to go into a branch to get money.
 
Could be worse could be FEDex, managed to get from american to the uk 2 days, and then to the depot 10 mins away and then they pretend to deliver it, absolute farce.

Going to take them to the bloomin cleaners paid $60 dollars for shipping they will be reinbursing it.
 
FatRakoon said:
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Surely it is common sense that you will need to supply some evidence of the market value/raw material value of something you send and not just what you sold it for. Otherwise what is there to stop me, for example, from buying a pool cue case for a tenner, selling it to my mate on ebay for a grand and then claiming a grands compensation saying it arrived damaged.
 
I love how the OP says that he put it in cardboard in another envelope to disguise it so it wouldn't feel like a bank card. As if postal workers feel each item they handle to check out whats worth pinching or not.

Seriously, I reckon your mother might've made the new envelope too thick to go as first class and it's been surcharged, thus explaining the delay. If you're in Uni halls you might not get the card advising you of the surcharge fee if it's been poorly written out. Maybe if the original envelope then gets returned to your mother you could start a thread on here say "I HATE my mum"!!!
 
Jeff Lynne said:
I love how the OP says that he put it in cardboard in another envelope to disguise it so it wouldn't feel like a bank card. As if postal workers feel each item they handle to check out whats worth pinching or not.

Seriously, I reckon your mother might've made the new envelope too thick to go as first class and it's been surcharged, thus explaining the delay. If you're in Uni halls you might not get the card advising you of the surcharge fee if it's been poorly written out. Maybe if the original envelope then gets returned to your mother you could start a thread on here say "I HATE my mum"!!!
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Believe me they do!

It's not too thick, it's just thick enough. Plus someone has tried to activate it, so someone obviously got to it.
 
Natwest are pretty annoying too...

I'm not going to get started on a massive rant about them, but they've done a few things lately which have been annoying (the card readers are one of them!).
 
Hedge said:
but one thing i can say is i underestimated how hard it is! :(

A postie only spends about 3-4hrs on the street walking and posting, ontop of that he/she spends a few hours actually having to sort through hundreds/thousands of letters.

Im in freakin agony today. Ive been walking since 10am. only got finished bout an hour ago :(
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Don't worry, your legs will get used to it. I used to wear Nike Airs to do my deliveries as they are much easier on your feet, now they are making us all wear those Magnums as part of the uniform, which actually aren't that bad. Anyway most new starts make the mistake of wearing "walking boots" which will kill your feet. After a couple of weeks you'll be fine, though. I remember hardly being able to walk for my first week or so, and that was on a part time round....

Plus if you finished at 3pm which I presume from the time of your post, and you think that's bad, I know of new starts at our mail centre finishing at 6:30....

You can get rid of the tedium of endless sorting by listening to an iPod or something like that. That's what I do.

Raikiri said:
I'm going to be in the main sorting office over christmas, going to be quite boring I imagine.
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You don't even know how boring it is. I did "Christmas Casual" a couple of years ago before I became a postie, it's 8 hours of sorting parcels over and over and over. You get long breaks, but like I said to Hedge, take an iPod or a mini radio with headphones or you will be suicidal with boredom.
 
EvilDreams said:
You don't even know how boring it is. I did "Christmas Casual" a couple of years ago before I became a postie, it's 8 hours of sorting parcels over and over and over. You get long breaks, but like I said to Hedge, take an iPod or a mini radio with headphones or you will be suicidal with boredom.
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7 hours due to it being it Gatwick, we get pay for the travel time up there :cool:

And don't worry, iPod Touch at the ready.
 
Hedge said:
Im not saying this because ive just started working for them, but I think you are wrong on this comment.

Royal mail deliver mail to something like 28Million destinations/houses.

There is bound to be things that mess up. And there is also gonna be****heads who work for them and dont have any respect for anything. Considering they employ so many thousands, you cant guarantee you aint gonna get scumbags in amongst em.

Being able to post a letter and have it arrive at the other end of the country the following morning isnt a "useless service"
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I see what you are saying, but ...

My brother is still trying to claim for hundreds of pounds worth of parcels that have become lost.

These parcels are 5 of 6 feet long and what... 4 inches wide & deep ?

Not quite just a letter or two, but a few of them.

The one that really annoyed him was that he took it himself to the local sorting office, and the guy at the other end was picking it up at his local depot, so it only had one journey and it still went awol.

My own personal disputes with Royal Mail are that I had gone through a fairly hefty dispute with Royal Mail over the fact that many of my official letters come months late... For example, I received letter on Aug 3 2008 that was posted out on FEB 12th... I have dozen that have done this, and thankfully, the inland revenue letter also went awol and I was dragged into court about it, and I have been able to prove that my letters from the I.R were ALL between 3 and 6 months late and I have a collection of 134 letters from this year alone that are at least a month late. I know this figure to be correct as thats the number we took proceedings against the Royal Mail for.

So, while I do accept that the number of letters that go awol is tiny compared to the number of letters that get delivered, its still an ammount that I personally cannot accept.
 
PhilthyPhil said:
Surely it is common sense that you will need to supply some evidence of the market value/raw material value of something you send and not just what you sold it for. Otherwise what is there to stop me, for example, from buying a pool cue case for a tenner, selling it to my mate on ebay for a grand and then claiming a grands compensation saying it arrived damaged.
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No, My brother runs a business designing and making pool and snooker cue cases.

He does have to prove how much he paid for the raw materials dont be so bloody ridiculous.

He designs the cases and builds each and everyone by hand, every little peice is built by hand and they take time. The price of the cases, since they are designed and built to every individual customer, is different for every customer.

The price does not only cover the materials but the time and craftsmanship that has gone into the thing.

They are not mass machine made piles of ****, these are extremely high quality cases that have been hand crafted.

Provide proof of raw materials??? Be serious.

The price that he sold them for alone is proof that they are worth it, because that how much they have cost my bother. Even if R.M do refund the sale price, my brother still has to go back and rebuilt a fresh new case, and they takes days of work to do. He does not claim those lost days back does he? - only the cost of the original case.
 
FatRakoon said:
I see what you are saying, but ...

My brother is still trying to claim for hundreds of pounds worth of parcels that have become lost.

These parcels are 5 of 6 feet long and what... 4 inches wide & deep ?

Not quite just a letter or two, but a few of them.
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So you took out postal insurance?

I sent a guitar (well, returned) and it got lost. Filled out some forms and a screenshot of the paypal receipt and they refunded me after a few weeks.

Didn't bother me because the money was all I wanted anyway, be it from the seller or from Royal Mail when the seller claimed he'd never seen it or some English postie fancied it for himself, but I had no problem claiming from them.
 
EvilDreams said:
So you took out postal insurance?

I sent a guitar (well, returned) and it got lost. Filled out some forms and a screenshot of the paypal receipt and they refunded me after a few weeks.

Didn't bother me because the money was all I wanted anyway, be it from the seller or from Royal Mail when the seller claimed he'd never seen it or some English postie fancied it for himself, but I had no problem claiming from them.
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My brother when sending the cases, had insured the cases of course.

Wioth regards to the letters etc, they were sent to me and so no, they were not insured.
 
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