Lies and Propaganda

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Link now dead will - add again if the site becomes live:

Parcel Delivery Services Offer Safe Delivery

A parcel in UK can be in a sorry state, unless of course you are using private reputed courier services. As reported on February 15, 2011, last, Post Office workers will be deciding between February 18 and March 4 on whether or not to go on strike over pay.

The Communications Workers Union supports this latest unrest in the Royal Mail service. Moreover, if all goes like it did last time in 2007 before Christmas, postal worker strikes can leave your parcel in UK frozen and crippled, unless you are using other parcel delivery services that offer safe delivery and are not deadlocked by union issues.

So, to send a parcel from UK to anywhere in the world, or within the country, it is much safer to use major private couriers. Loss of important documents and other materials can often be irreparable, and even if you have insurance, monetary compensation may scarcely suffice. While that goes for sending, even in the case of receiving a parcel in UK, for example online purchases, it is better to make sure that the parcel is shipped through a company of your choice or a reputed courier services.

Almost all major online retailers offer a choice of service providers to customers for shipping their parcel to UK, and that includes the Crown postal services, sometimes. However, where the retailer does not offer a choice of shipping provider to the customer, almost always that parcel to UK is shipped through couriers and not mail. Even in the third world, this is common practice now with online retailers.

Of course, with a parcel in UK, if you are the sender and not the receiver, courier services are the best option for parcel delivery. This is attested not by mere conjecture, but by the rapid growth of courier industries worldwide over the last decades, growth that would have been impossible if the public did not endorse their services to be better, safer, and more punctual.

This is not an isolated case of the Royal mail or a parcel in UK. In every country of the world, government postal systems are bloated and ridden with unnecessary overheads and sloppy employees. The major work culture in these departments stifle and suffocate the occasional hard worker, who often leaves for private companies. Private couriers entice better workers with better compensation, and clients with better and safer service. So, if you place your parcel in UK in the hands of any major courier, you know it is in safer hands than being caught in the middle of a worker strike.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

......... and I thought that the Parcel2Go one was bad, unfortunately unless you want to out yourself on Facebook, or join this sorry site, you can't leave a comment.

[RedBagMan]

...unless of course you are using private reputed courier services...

... make sure that the parcel is shipped through a company of your choice or a reputed courier services...

Definition of "reputed" - supposed or alleged; so they recommend using "alleged courier services" then ... "reputable" doesn't come into it then

[Royal_Fail]

Hmm the links dead

[30+YEARMAN]

Why is it then we have to deliver packets with DHL ,CITY LINK and TNT written on them If these courier companys are so good why don,t they deliver all their own packets and while they are at it they can do their own letters aswell which we deliver at a loss.They are just parasites :dcfo

[POSTMAN]

It's a blog site...
http://www.blogher.com/parcel-delivery- ... rumb=32391" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Was going to spam them tonight,do you think someone complained?

[George door to dawes]

So, if you place your parcel in UK in the hands of any major courier, you know it is in safer hands than being caught in the middle of a worker strike.

I had a parcel sent by city link a little while back which was expensive music equipment. The driver reported leaving a card when he didnt even turn up (i was waiting at home all day especially for this item excited like a child before xmas :VeryHappy ) the item was then returned to the sorting office and then 'lost'

My friend ended up working at the same citylink deport as a temp driver and he said he witnessed people throwing parcels to each other and laughing if they were dropped. These wernt small knick knacks iam talking about tvs, monitors, computers etc expensive equipment.

So basically saying this blog is so full of sh** lol

[kingofmcr]

Why is it then we have to deliver packets with DHL ,CITY LINK and TNT written on them If these courier companys are so good why don,t they deliver all their own packets and while they are at it they can do their own letters aswell which we deliver at a loss.They are just parasites :dcfo

too right