Royal Mail apologies over Everton ticket shambles

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 22 Sep 2007, 10:48

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/eve ... -19830734/

Sep 22 2007 By Deborah James

THE Royal Mail last night apologised to thousands of Everton fans whose tickets went missing before Thursday nightâ€™s UEFA cup tie.

The club last night estimated at least 3,500 tickets never arrived at the homes of fans, out of a batch of a batch of 5,000 that was posted out on Monday.

Kick-off had to be delayed by 25 minutes after around 2,000 fans arrived to collect replacement tickets at the Goodison Park gates before the match against Ukrainian side Metalist Kharkiv.

Everton officials yesterday held talks with Royal Mail, which has launched an investigation to find out what went wrong.

A spokesman for the club said a batch of 5,000 match tickets was collected by Royal Mail from the Goodison Park box office on Monday.

All tickets bore first-class postage and should have been delivered the next morning.

A spokesman for Royal Mail refused to say whether rumours the tickets had been stolen were being investigated. But he said it was impossible to trace the tickets.

He said: â€œWe apologise to fans for any inconvenience caused. We are working closely with Everton Football Club and investigating this issue. As the items were sent by normal First Class post and not by Special Delivery, it is not possible to track the posted items.

â€œWe continue to work closely with the club to ensure that we provide them the best possible service.â€

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 22 Sep 2007, 12:32

So, they've finally apologised. Up until yesterday afternoon, no one from Royal Mail was available for comment when the Liverpool Echo contacted them.

Carla · Post by **Carla** » 22 Sep 2007, 13:14

RM probably be crapping themselves over this cause of the money that will have to be paid out another fine example of cost cutting

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 22 Sep 2007, 14:20

I'm a Queen's Park Rangers fan , and I don't ever recall RM doing me favours like that!

lovejoy · Post by **lovejoy** » 22 Sep 2007, 15:07

DirtyHarry wrote:I'm a Queen's Park Rangers fan , and I don't ever recall RM doing me favours like that!

I went to Loftus Rd on Tues.

mrlovepantsuk · Post by **mrlovepantsuk** » 22 Sep 2007, 20:27

not the first time tickets for a liverpool football club of gone missing is it?

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 22 Sep 2007, 20:32

mrlovepantsuk wrote:not the first time tickets for a liverpool football club of gone missing is it?

No. I do belive Royal Mail managed to lose quite a few for a Liverpool European game a couple of years ago.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 22 Sep 2007, 22:59

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 982170.stm

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 22 Sep 2007, 23:07

POSTMAN wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 982170.stm

That's it. I also remember some Rugby League tickets for the Super League Grand Final going missing after being posted from Leeds in 2005. I can see the time coming when tickets for games will be downloaded when they're paid for on the internet.

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 23 Sep 2007, 17:46

lovejoy wrote:
DirtyHarry wrote:I'm a Queen's Park Rangers fan , and I don't ever recall RM doing me favours like that!
I went to Loftus Rd on Tues. Good win for the greens!!

See what I mean? If ever I needed the disappointment of tickets getting lost in the post, it was tues / last saturday / the tuesday before / the
sat before that / etc,etc,etc...........

mrlovepantsuk · Post by **mrlovepantsuk** » 23 Sep 2007, 19:14

i bet the scousers wish they had lost their tickets for todays game :)

jacko · Post by **jacko** » 23 Sep 2007, 19:58

mrlovepantsuk wrote:i bet the scousers wish they had lost their tickets for todays game :)

LEAVE IT......