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Royal Mail Lost Parcel Investigation Process?

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Business15
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Royal Mail Lost Parcel Investigation Process?

Post by Business15 »

Hi there,

Can any postie tell us the customers what is the exact process of investigation when the customers parcel is lost?

Thank you.
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Re: Royal Mail Lost Parcel Investigation Process?

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*bump*
Snaggletooth
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Re: Royal Mail Lost Parcel Investigation Process?

Post by Snaggletooth »

I have never worked in Royal Mail, but as someone with experience of the system I suspect you are barking up the wrong tree. When you submit a lost parcel form, I expect that Royal Mail use it for the following:

1. To allow items in the National Returns Centre to be matched with their owners.
2. To collect data on trends in lost mail, which in turn helps Royal Mail find wrong 'uns both inside & outside the system.
3. As an audit trail for claims.

They don't as a rule get posties doing a search every time an item goes missing. Apart from the practical issues, if they did that every time they would fail their regulator-set delivery targets.