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UK Mail. sorry you were out cards

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Debbie
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UK Mail. sorry you were out cards

Post by Debbie »

Knocked on a customers door today with a couple of parcels. she said that today a card was left by uk mail for her to collect a parcel. ( guess where from ? yes the other side of the world) well nottingham actually. but a little different than five minutes up the road. I wonder how long it will be before customers get fed up with that arrangement.
Oh and by the way, I have a safe place to leave any parcels with this customer, after all I have been delivering her mail for 18years. :roll:
Pat Ostman
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Post by Pat Ostman »

Little things like that will be missed Debbie yes!
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Post by tailfly12 »

That's what Royal Mail want to get shot of the Regular postman/women f**k the customer. :cfo :mfo
Spedley
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Post by Spedley »

Yeah, it may be a little thing to the postman but it is a very big thing to the customer.
Business customer
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Post by Business customer »

My Post Lady is very considerate and helpful and always makes the effort to leave any parcels with neighbours. Thats very welcome and you wouldnt
get that service from a private courier. Trouble is the residential customers cant spend enough to keep Royal Mail afloat. Only high volume business customers can do that, but they are fleeing the post office in droves because it is unable to deliver their business customers goods reliably. Every time theres industrial ction by the CWU, the post office loses another 10% of its business customers, who will never return. Not because they are bloody minded but because postal strikes make it impossible for them to carry on supplying their customers and running their businesses. They are not idiots and they also have workers and their workers jobs and welfare to consider. Before you finally push the post office into bankruptcy and the inevitable enforced privatisation which will follow, you might want to give some thought to what other jobs are out there waiting for you. Right now there arent any.
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Business customer wrote:My Post Lady is very considerate and helpful and always makes the effort to leave any parcels with neighbours. Thats very welcome and you wouldnt
get that service from a private courier. Trouble is the residential customers cant spend enough to keep Royal Mail afloat. Only high volume business customers can do that, but they are fleeing the post office in droves because it is unable to deliver their business customers goods reliably. Every time theres industrial ction by the CWU, the post office loses another 10% of its business customers, who will never return. Not because they are bloody minded but because postal strikes make it impossible for them to carry on supplying their customers and running their businesses. They are not idiots and they also have workers and their workers jobs and welfare to consider. Before you finally push the post office into bankruptcy and the inevitable enforced privatisation which will follow, you might want to give some thought to what other jobs are out there waiting for you. Right now there arent any.
You are quite wrong.
Only high volume business customers can do that, but they are fleeing the post office in droves because it is unable to deliver their business customers goods reliably.

Who do you think deliveres it ??????




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chunk
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Post by chunk »

I had a slightly odd experience today.
posted a handful of letters through a door,they hardly hit the floor and the door opened this guy justs looks at me.
i just give a nod.. he might be on his way out or anything but none of my business,
but its apparent he,s scowling at me!
"you didn't ring"
I had to think about this for a second.
" you only had letters today i don't generally ring".
He bends down and picks up a surcharge notice and says wheres my parcel? :d'oh!
penny drops! for me anyway
I says "thats not a parcel but a letter that didn't have anough stamps on it".
he says if i pay you the cash now can i have it now. :arrrghhh .

I'm quite offended! this guy has been reading the recent "notice left" articles in the press and thought he'd caught me failing to deliver a parcel.
I'm a postman-and i know where you live.....
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

chunk wrote:I had a slightly odd experience today.
posted a handful of letters through a door,they hardly hit the floor and the door opened this guy justs looks at me.
i just give a nod.. he might be on his way out or anything but none of my business,
but its apparent he,s scowling at me!
"you didn't ring"
I had to think about this for a second.
" you only had letters today i don't generally ring".
He bends down and picks up a surcharge notice and says wheres my parcel? :d'oh!
penny drops! for me anyway
I says "thats not a parcel but a letter that didn't have anough stamps on it".
he says if i pay you the cash now can i have it now. :arrrghhh .

I'm quite offended! this guy has been reading the recent "notice left" articles in the press and thought he'd caught me failing to deliver a parcel.
Too which you reply are you trying too bribe me do you think i am ADAM CROZIER!.
Business customer
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Post by Business customer »

You are quite wrong.
Only high volume business customers can do that, but they are fleeing the post office in droves because it is unable to deliver their business customers goods reliably.

Who do you think deliveres it ??????




Moved to blue shirts foum.

Well it isn't you or the post office. I use UPS and DHL who shift 65-70 % of the UK courier traffic between them and they dont rely on anybody else to deliver it for them (or not).
mandelsons_toenail
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Post by mandelsons_toenail »

Business customer wrote:Well it isn't you or the post office. I use UPS and DHL who shift 65-70 % of the UK courier traffic between them and they dont rely on anybody else to deliver it for them (or not).
yawn

UPS and DHL ah yes, the same two firms of numpties who stopped me this week on my round. One to ask where a residential address was, one a business

I told him I didnt lnow

I did.

Point? I had to learn to find it. He will too, im sick of these " poachers" taking our mail and then USING our knowledge.
to find it

:mfo
venger
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Post by venger »

Business customer wrote:You are quite wrong.
Only high volume business customers can do that, but they are fleeing the post office in droves because it is unable to deliver their business customers goods reliably.

Who do you think deliveres it ??????




Moved to blue shirts foum.

Well it isn't you or the post office. I use UPS and DHL who shift 65-70 % of the UK courier traffic between them and they dont rely on anybody else to deliver it for them (or not).
Bwahaha. Where did you pull that figure from?
not me
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Post by not me »

recently had a packet via citylink
had i missed it,i would have needed to do a 50 mile round trip to collect