When did Royal Mail become so useless?

Streeteh

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I've not actually needed to post a letter in years, these days I can manage most things via email or phone. However upon finally taking the plunge and getting into the property market I have needed to post quite a few legal documents. My previous memories of Royal Mail were poor, but nowhere near as bad as the past few weeks have been.

Out of the four letters I've had to post in the past month, two have gone missing. Both of these are to different addresses so the recipient isn't to blame. My handwriting is more than legible and I've been certain to put on the correct number of stamps to cover costs. I find this utterly shocking tbh, it has turned what should have been a rather simple transaction into a very stressful ordeal as documents that have been posted with more than sufficient time have not arrived.

Unfortunately I do have to blame my solicitor for one part, who was told to expect a letter on the 17th of this month but didn't inform me of it not arriving until today. :mad:

Is this standard or is there something very wrong with my local sorting office?
 
They move a lot of mail for next to no money, pay poorly at all levels bar management and have a heavily unionised workforce.

What do you expect?
 
Stelly said:
When were they not useless?

Stelly
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touché

atpbx said:
They move a lot of mail for next to no money, pay poorly at all levels bar management and have a heavily unionised workforce.

What do you expect?
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I'd argue that the postage system is actually rather expensive. One document I sent required two 1st class stamps due to being in an A4 envelope, it was just two sheets of paper that couldn't be folded. £1.20 to move two sheets of A4 paper to the other side of London in 24 hours seems pretty steep to me, especially considering it never actually got there.
 
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Being as big as they are, Royal Mail is bound to have things go wrong.

I think having so many troubles for yourself is isolated though, as I certainly don't have so many issues. Infact, the only trouble I've had in years is from my Grandad trying to send me some cash in the post, which was just plain silly, that of course never turned up.
 
I have a lot of trouble with them. At one point around a quarter of the stuff i was sending ended up lost or damaged. I try hard to avoid this with excessive packaging and recorded delivery, but they are still not great.
 
They're miserable *******s. I've had arguments with two postmen who refused to go one floor up to delivery a parcel to the signatory.

I also hate the fact that one of parcels I had recently delivered, in spite of having 'fragile' written over it in big letters, had a large dent in it on delivery.
 
Lysander said:
I also hate the fact that one of parcels I had recently delivered, in spite of having 'fragile' written over it in big letters, had a large dent in it on delivery.
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If you put fragile visible on the box, they'll just lob it around at the warehouse.

It's like when you have a sign that says no parking infront of this driveway. Someone will.
 
feriso said:
TBH this is where you should have used RD or SD; thats what I did when I moved and never had this issue.
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Problem there is that I'd need to get to a post office, I work in hours that mean i'd never get a chance to get to one during unless at the weekend. My lunch break is non existent so no way of nipping out then either. It was a matter in those four cases of posting it midweek to get the docs there as quickly as possible, or waiting until the weekend for security. Seeing as i've gone from putting in an offer to completion in under a month, speed was key.

I've learnt my lesson though!
 
Streeteh said:
touché



I'd argue that the postage system is actually rather expensive. One document I sent required two 1st class stamps due to being in an A4 envelope, it was just two sheets of paper that couldn't be folded. £1.20 to move two sheets of A4 paper to the other side of London in 24 hours seems pretty steep to me, especially considering it never actually got there.
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Its another thing where a sense of perspective is needed.

It looks a small and insignificant job, you want an A4 envelope dropped off to somewhere they are probably going to anyway, picking it up from somewhere they were probably going to have to pick up from anyway and in the middle have it sorted by a machine and people who are doing it anyway.


You couldnt have it moved by any other means, carrier pigeon, push bike, parcel delivery, walking, what ever, for £1.20.

There is a not insignificant amount of man power and machinery required to move your £1.20 letter across london in 24 hrs, and they offer to do it for next to nothing.
 
Streeteh said:
I'd argue that the postage system is actually rather expensive. One document I sent required two 1st class stamps due to being in an A4 envelope, it was just two sheets of paper that couldn't be folded. £1.20 to move two sheets of A4 paper to the other side of London in 24 hours seems pretty steep to me, especially considering it never actually got there.
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Brilliant. :D
 
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