eBay / Royal Mail packages not arriving

[Gazanimal]

Former Postie (13 years and left last year to work in the gaming industry) I know what poop they have to deal with day in day out.

Great job at times, but as with all privatisation, it's run for profit, not for sustainability nor service any longer. Workers are just a peg in a hole and it's getting worse for the frontline workers.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Royal Mail will be asset stripped and sucked dry in the next ten years. With all the money going out of the country.

Sadly you can see exactly this happening, and if course we will all be paying for it.

 

[arknor]

Former Postie (13 years and left last year to work in the gaming industry) I know what poop they have to deal with day in day out.

I've had the normal postie deliver me upto trainer box sized packages.

I know they don;t carry them the whole round and its a pair of them with a small van.

but it still strikes me as weird, postie should only deliver what fits through the letterbox surely.

 

[Mark A]

Royal Mail are almost as bad as Evri now sadly. I rely on pickups for selling on ebay and id say like 25% of the time they just don't turn up. I have to then re-book it and apologise to my buyers and hope they will turn up the next day. Also posting smaller items in a post box generally seems to add an extra 5 or so days onto the delivery time as it takes that long to even get scanned into the system. I wish there was a better alternative, but other couriers are either just as bad, or a lot more expensive.

 

[Gazanimal]

I've had the normal postie deliver me upto trainer box sized packages.

I know they don;t carry them the whole round and its a pair of them with a small van.

but it still strikes me as weird, postie should only deliver what fits through the letterbox surely.

Not now. If they can fit it in their bags, lightweight trolleys then you generally take them as it can alleviate the other person who's in a van share, especially if they are the one doing the parcels. RM are a designated parcel company now, so letters and smaller items are not their focus. But the staff are expected to deliver a larger item in the same time that it takes to deliver a letter. Throw in that you're expected to try 2-3 neighbours if the recipient is out and write a p739 card if they are out.... yeah, the time's aren't anywhere near close. Plus, the PDA's track your movements and so do the vans. The tracking isn't supposed to be used for any disciplinary action, but you bet it's a metric the bosses check.

Certainly when I did a van share, one of the pair was more often given less mail/walking delivery but more parcels that they deliver in the van. This time of the year that person will be out making early morning delivery runs (20-30 parcels) whilst their buddy mail sorts and preps their delivery. After that, then you're both out on delivery for the day.
It's a mental as well as physical challenge at this time of year for sure.

Loved the craic, loved the fitness, hated the ******** ideas and penny pinching.

 

[Malevolence]

Plus, the PDA's track your movements and so do the vans. The tracking isn't supposed to be used for any disciplinary action, but you bet it's a metric the bosses check.

They don't track you, they track the devices. That's what we were told when we switched from Motorola DP4800e 2-ways to Samsung mobiles with bespoke software.

 

[pepp77]

My posties (I have two regulars) are awesome. Been using RM recently for my Lego sales on Ebay and had no issues with the service, labels ordered on a Sunday evening, collected next day delivered by Thursday.

 

[Gazanimal]

They don't track you, they track the devices. That's what we were told when we switched from Motorola DP4800e 2-ways to Samsung mobiles with bespoke software.

If you have the device on you, then yep, they're tracking the device so by extension they are tracking you. Of course you can leave the PDA in the van, heck I even left one on top of a van and drove half a mile with it there

 

[Malevolence]

If you have the device on you, then yep, they're tracking tracking the device so by extension they are tracking you. Of course you can leave the PDA in the van, heck I even left one on top of a van and drove half a mile with it there

Oh yeah, I very nearly left mine on an air ambulance before, a Welsh one. That would've raised some eyebrows in control.

 

[khemist]

True..

Fined both years so far!

The fines are paltry compared to the money they are making lowering the quality of service, thousands of posties have left and the deliveries have been completely unachievable for years and getting worse, posties are treated very badly and there is a union only in name now, they have zero power.

Managers are given bonus money for going ahead with revisions increasing the workloads that already can't be done and managers under them are given bonuses for forcing posties to deliver tracked 24/48 and special delivery items over any letters or other parcels.

Royal mail want nothing to do with letters and want the USO gone, it has not been adhered to for years now since the first covid (unofficialy) and they want to be a parcel only company because of the profits, i'm so glad i got out after 16 years and have a stress free job along with loads of others from my office and thousand across the country.

60% of profits go to shareholder dividend payments when the offices and vehicles are an absolute disgrace and the wage for the amount of physical and mental stress is terrible, so there's that.

 

[Quartz]

Lastly ordered a HDMI 2.1 cable not via eBay, sent via Royal Mail 2nd class on Monday this week, its not showed up yet. I am convinced all these sellers did send the item and its not their fault they never arrived.

Porch piracy is a thing.

 

[nlel1975]

Well the HDMI 2.1 cable I was worried about arrived this morning. I think it helped that the sender completed a customs declaration showing its value. Anything under £60 is not taxable here. So a happy ending to this particular Royal Mail story.