rm fail. 2 years in a row.

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I received this (I'm in the UK)


We had exactly the same last year as well.

I guess the 'par avion' might be too subtle, but the larger AIR MAIL on a blue sticker (crap photo) should have been unmissable. Failing that, look at the post code? Or maybe the 'county' of w. AUSTRALIA? Nope, must be for Bucks :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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Been working there again this year. More likely another christmas casual just sticking it in the wrong tray as usual. Always correcting mistakes I see, like whole boxes for Ipswich on the Glasgow out etc.
 
This happened to my neighbour, except was it was meant to go to Barbados. She re-posted it, and it turned up again the next day. Noobs.
 
LOL!


I generally send stuff via email these days, or if I need to send a physical item, it's either by courier, or RM special delivery... the only thing RM is good at is delivering spam which goes directly from my letterbox into the recycle box.

RM special delivery seems quite reliable, but then I guess it has to be because its tracked and insured. I find the post office staff to be less than helpfull sometimes though...
 
What do you expect when you pay people min wage and tell them to work their arses off for a month.

I think you would get bored sort Christmas cards after a week.

My mate worked a sorting centre last year and he said they had all sorts of immigrants that could just about speak English and doing 12 hour on a Saturday shifts stood up sorting letters, he said people just mucked about and some chucked in as many in different sorting holes as they could.

How it got to a local sorting office and an actual postman still posted that is shocking.
 
cheets64 said:
What do you expect when you pay people min wage and tell them to work their arses off for a month.

I think you would get bored sort Christmas cards after a week.

My mate worked a sorting centre last year and he said they had all sorts of immigrants that could just about speak English and doing 12 hour on a Saturday shifts stood up sorting letters, he said people just mucked about and some chucked in as many in different sorting holes as they could.
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Totally this, should have typed it in my post but too tired from sorting post all day :D

Can be long hours, (13 hours on Saturday) only 30min break per 8 hours, 6 days a week and a serious lack of chairs....

Either sorting post which is mind numbing or throwing boxes onto correct outs which is shattering, all for min wage. Plus they messed the pay up so I haven't actually been paid yet.

cheets64 said:
How it got to a local sorting office and an actual postman still posted that is shocking.
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Could be a causal who got a round to do, if a full time then yeah pretty bad it wasn't picked up.
 
cheets64 said:
What do you expect when you pay people min wage and tell them to work their arses off for a month.
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The job they are paid for? It's no wonder people are turning away from RM, they are simply not very competetive as a company in terms of service standards and general reliability.
 
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The job they are paid for? It's no wonder people are turning away from RM, they are simply not very competetive as a company in terms of service standards and general reliability.
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But its crap work, min wage, standing up all day in one spot, why not pay an extra £1 or £2 make people work that bit harder, he said they where on your backs all the time, pushing and pushing, if they don't have post codes on he said you was ****** if you didn't know the town.

Look at all the postal company threads on here, they are all run by idiots, over work staff and pay peanuts.
 
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cheets64 said:
But its crap work, min wage, standing up all day in one spot, why not pay an extra £1 or £2 make people work that bit harder, he said they where on your backs all the time, pushing and pushing, if they don't have post codes on he said you was ****** if you didn't know the town.

Look at all the postal company threads on here, they are all run by idiots, over work staff and pay peanuts.
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I'm not saying it's a not a crappy job, it is, But it's no different to any factory work. The fact of the matter is, if they want to survive as a company they are going to have to start providing a reliable service.

I used to work 12 hour night shifts packing tomatoes from a conveyor belt, and I guess working in a sorting office is not a million miles away from that - it's unskilled work and it's always going to be minimum wage.

They can't afford to pay people more because (and I think they are starting to realise) that the company in question is very inefficient.

I would hazard a guess and say most of that inefficiency lies within middle and upper management, but that doesn't help the company image as a whole.

As a customer/end user, I would (and do) quite happily pay more to make sure my letter gets to where it's going to. And that is why royal mail are failing on a catastrophic level.
 
Yup, 46p for a stamp, it takes seconds to sort, post man a few hours to delivery, management has runied the company not the workers.

People say email has killed post but its not really, get junk mail and bills all the time via post.
 
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