Royal Mail rant incoming...

MeatLoaf said:
It was a genuine question as i work in a post office. Did you put stamps on them or did the post office print a lablel? Were your international cards less than 5mm thick and less than 30g? If not youve probably not put enough stamps on, especially the USA and canada ones as they are more than cards for europe.

Also the return address, you say it was 5cm x 2.5cm? So almost half the size of the letter? 5x5 inch square is 13cm approx. I wouldnt call that a small label?

Before you put them back in the post box id have taken them to a post office to get them checked for correct postage. Mistakes do happen and things do get returned to sender but having so many returned suggests a problem and that big returns label could be it but without seeing it its impossible to tell.
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Something is getting lost in translation here, probably my fault but I just measured the address labels by how many I could get from top to bottom of the envelope, one on top or above the other, it was six, then from one side to the other, it was two and a half, so I could get 6.5 labels high and 2.5 labels across.
So unless I’ve made another mistake I can get 14 labels on the reverse of the envelope, this hardly constitutes one being almost half the size of the envelope.
I’ve never uploaded a photo on this site, but I understand that I can do it via imgur, I’ll attempt this today, as it’s 02.20 now and I’m still unsteady after a few large vodkas.
I bought the stamps in a Post Office, where the guy measured and weighed the cards, especially the international ones, he said that they were all in need of £1.70 stamps as that was the price for mail 20g and under to Europe AND U.S. and Canada.
Nothing was mentioned about customs declaration, as they were regular Christmas cards only.
 
Jean-F said:
Something is getting lost in translation here, probably my fault but I just measured the address labels by how many I could get from top to bottom of the envelope, one on top or above the other, it was six, then from one side to the other, it was two and a half, so I could get 6.5 labels high and 2.5 labels across.
So unless I’ve made another mistake I can get 14 labels on the reverse of the envelope, this hardly constitutes one being almost half the size of the envelope.
I’ve never uploaded a photo on this site, but I understand that I can do it via imgur, I’ll attempt this today, as it’s 02.20 now and I’m still unsteady after a few large vodkas.
I bought the stamps in a Post Office, where the guy measured and weighed the cards, especially the international ones, he said that they were all in need of £1.70 stamps as that was the price for mail 20g and under to Europe AND U.S. and Canada.
Nothing was mentioned about customs declaration, as they were regular Christmas cards only.
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Brick wall time, I attempted to register with imgur but got a message saying “imgur is temporarily oversubscribed, please try later.”
Any other suggestions for uploading photos, if I’m too dumb to understand, the nutty redhead will come to my rescue.
 
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Jean-F said:
Something is getting lost in translation here, probably my fault but I just measured the address labels by how many I could get from top to bottom of the envelope, one on top or above the other, it was six, then from one side to the other, it was two and a half, so I could get 6.5 labels high and 2.5 labels across.
So unless I’ve made another mistake I can get 14 labels on the reverse of the envelope, this hardly constitutes one being almost half the size of the envelope.
I’ve never uploaded a photo on this site, but I understand that I can do it via imgur, I’ll attempt this today, as it’s 02.20 now and I’m still unsteady after a few large vodkas.
I bought the stamps in a Post Office, where the guy measured and weighed the cards, especially the international ones, he said that they were all in need of £1.70 stamps as that was the price for mail 20g and under to Europe AND U.S. and Canada.
Nothing was mentioned about customs declaration, as they were regular Christmas cards only.
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Got you. Given the items were checked and posted at the post office its odd they were returned. Im assuming the post office guy put the stamps on the front of the letter not the back?
 
MeatLoaf said:
Got you. Given the items were checked and posted at the post office its odd they were returned. Im assuming the post office guy put the stamps on the front of the letter not the back?
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Yes, the Post Office was unusually quiet, so he gave me half the stamps and he affixed the stamps himself to the others.
He then went through them all one by one checking the stamps, and put them in a mailbag.

Apex said:
Don't register. Just upload. Share.
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Was unaware that I could do that, presumably I have to be on the imgur site when I do, right?
The whacky redhead has gone to her nephew’s place to deliver his birthday present, I’ll enlist her aid later, thanks.
 
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dLockers said:
To be the devils advocate here Jean-F, I would say 5x2.5cm is quite large. I can see how the confusion arose. Put it down to experience and thank you for providing the lesson for us to learn from.
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dLockers said:
To be the devils advocate here Jean-F, I would say 5x2.5cm is quite large. I can see how the confusion arose. Put it down to experience and thank you for providing the lesson for us to learn from.
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dLockers said:
To be the devils advocate here Jean-F, I would say 5x2.5cm is quite large. I can see how the confusion arose. Put it down to experience and thank you for providing the lesson for us to learn from.
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This is driving me nuts, I’ve photographed the actual envelope size, with a measuring tape next to it, AND one of the sender’s address labels and tried all kind of ways to upload the photos to this thread in Overclockers site to no avail.
The whack job redhead has tried all manner of things to help, and was on the point of throwing my iPad over the first floor balcony until I grabbed her arm.
The only option left that I can see, is to let # 2 son try to work his magic, he inherited my intelligence, but more of it, and his mother’s, (my first wife), common sense.
We’re meeting him and his wife for dinner on the 22nd, I’ll throw myself on his mercy and see what he can come up with.



 
Jean-F said:
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This is driving me nuts, I’ve photographed the actual envelope size, with a measuring tape next to it, AND one of the sender’s address labels and tried all kind of ways to upload the photos to this thread in Overclockers site to no avail.
The whack job redhead has tried all manner of things to help, and was on the point of throwing my iPad over the first floor balcony until I grabbed her arm.
The only option left that I can see, is to let # 2 son try to work his magic, he inherited my intelligence, but more of it, and his mother’s, (my first wife), common sense.
We’re meeting him and his wife for dinner on the 22nd, I’ll throw myself on his mercy and see what he can come up with.
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Surveyor said:
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Thanks, I obviously got one right, Christ knows how I couldn’t get the second photo up, I feel like the class clown .
I’ll try to dredge up some patience and slowly repeat the process where I got the shot with the ruler to appear.
Give me a while to calm down and recharge my mental capacities, yeah I know, what mental capacities?
 
Jean-F said:
Thanks, I obviously got one right, Christ knows how I couldn’t get the second photo up, I feel like the class clown .
I’ll try to dredge up some patience and slowly repeat the process where I got the shot with the ruler to appear.
Give me a while to calm down and recharge my mental capacities, yeah I know, what mental capacities?
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Jean-F said:
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That’s it, I’ve tried a couple of times now, I have the photo with the tiny return address label in place, I copied and pasted the BB code, but no matter what I do I can’t get it to appear in the post, enough already, back to plan B, get the kid to see if he can fix it for me, do you think that I can get a dunce cap from eBay?
You went above and beyond surveyor, but some people are beyond help.
 
Jean-F said:
That’s it, I’ve tried a couple of times now, I have the photo with the tiny return address label in place, I copied and pasted the BB code, but no matter what I do I can’t get it to appear in the post, enough already, back to plan B, get the kid to see if he can fix it for me, do you think that I can get a dunce cap from eBay?
You went above and beyond surveyor, but some people are beyond help.
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We can't all be good at everything. I'm sure I'd get lost five minutes out of Euston Station.

If you can paste the link like "https://ibb.co/m98XfLN" to the photo with the label I'll post it.
 
So that's 5 days now. 2 RMSD parcels collected at the same time still not delivered both lost. I thought they where all accounted for and tracked and no one dares steal SD parcels. Both expensive networking gear. Each time you try Phone your on hold for an hour. What a total shambles I guess RMSD is no longer what it was and I'm now going to have the joy of testing the claims process.
 
Dave85 said:
What a total shambles I guess RMSD is no longer what it was
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Agreed. I've all but given up with my issue now.

Royal mail are imo the worst out of them all with regards to getting anything sent and having actual proof. At least other couriers take photos and have a trial to prove, rather than their own staff signing as proof of signed for delivery. I don't even mind their own staff signing, but they should then also take a photo to show its been received.
 
Apparently Royal fail tried to deliver (flowers) Wednesday and today 4 times I've been in all day checked cctv and nothing , now due friday cant wait to see those fresh flowers now :rolleyes:
 
get my ebay items of any value delivered to Argos in Sainsburys ,its a shame i need to do this and defeats the object slightly but things never go missing this way
 
Apparently they have went missing from between Getting scanned on collection and supposedly scanned at the Office to then goto the main distro hub in Edinburgh and that the depot manager is looking into it along with escalated complaints. I won't hold my breath :p
 
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