royal mail

[threaded]

Mailman: You are quite correct. I kept getting them so I set up some spare HDTV cameras to watch as the guy got out of his van, just put the note through the door, went back to the van and drove off. He never made any attempt to deliver and certainly did not ring the door bell.

IIRC I sold the video to Central TV and it got on the local news. Which was nice.

Didn't get any mail at all for a few days after that, until they swapped the posties around.

[janey]

[Bagpuss]

Having sent thousand of parcels overseas..If you ever need to send a parcel overseas, or internal for that matter, never ever send them through 'Royal Mail', always use parcel force (which goes a totally different way). 9 times out of ten it will be quicker, cheaper and trackable.

Problem is most people go into the post office and ask the numpty behind the counter which way to send it.

[janey]

Having sent thousand of parcels overseas..If you ever need to send a parcel overseas, or internal for that matter, never ever send them through 'Royal Mail', always use parcel force (which goes a totally different way). 9 times out of ten it will be quicker, cheaper and trackable.

Yes, after this experience I will never use royal mail for anything important ever again!

just as an update - I rang the skills assessment people in Oz last night and they HAVE received my parcel... in fact they received it only about 5 days after I posted it.

Does change the fact that RM's tracking software doesn't work and they weren't able to tell me whether they had delivered it.

[Bagpuss]

Yes, after this experience I will never use royal mail for anything important ever again!

just as an update - I rang the skills assessment people in Oz last night and they HAVE received my parcel... in fact they received it only about 5 days after I posted it.

Does change the fact that RM's tracking software doesn't work and they weren't able to tell me whether they had delivered it.

To get it in 5 days is pretty good, IMHO Parcel Force are second only to UPS in terms of service. The royal mail is very good if you know how to use it. People complain about the service but a lot of the independants are worse or vastly most expensive.

Tip for the day: Recorded post goes in the stream with special delivery, so you get the premium service for 50p.