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# recorded delivery - giving you piece of mind so you know they know you know they've lost it

19 days and counting, lazy fuckers
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:12, archived)
# if you call them you'll most likely get a far more informative reply
unless it's disappeared in p&e land in which case you're stuffed
(I helped save b3ta! sock more tea vicar?, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:17, archived)
# the seller has sent a replacement that'll probably arrive tomorrow
and said to refuse the first package so it gets returned to sender

I wonder how long it'll take to arrive
*rings up bookies for betting odds*
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:21, archived)
# A long time ago when I worked in the transport industry
I visited a CityLink depot when they were touting for business. I found it somewhat interesting the sales rep didn't bat an eyelid or look awkward when their employees kicked boxes about the loading bay in front of us.

Needless to say, they didn't get the contract..
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:23, archived)
# ah yes
ShittyLink, a company I don't like seeing arriving at my door
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:41, archived)
# Pah! I can beat that!
I put in a tracking number the other day and got this reply........

(I helped save b3ta! Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:32, archived)
# surely it must be this next
(Mehitabel_Itrang, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:38, archived)
# royal mail's service has diminished immensly over the past decade
but surely with the immense increase of online shopping over the past decade they'd be getting more money for the increase of packages they're delivering to keep the service good?
nope, I remember posting stuff 1st class at 6:14pm and it arriving before 9am halfway across the country, now it's a couple of days, if you're lucky, and the local sorting depot closes at 2pm instead of 6pm, meaning if you miss a package you have to go in the next day instead of later that day - how's that for convenience

although saying that, they've lost very little of my things over the years, oddest was posting a record to someone in ireland I think it was and it ended up somewhere in europe! (this was years before the currency changes)
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Tue 25 Jan 2011, 19:48, archived)
# Its strange, they do seem to be falling apart rather than flourishing.
I think it is a real shame and I also believe that it shoudl be renationalised completely (I think that with most thinsg to be fair) If DHL/Shitty link/TNT can all make a profit, why ca't Royal mail and have that money back in the coffers?

Gah, when I sweep to power, there'll be changes, I tell ya!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 20:12, archived)
# Agree
And I worked for them 20 years ago and it was terrible then seeing it from the inside out. The amount of thieving in front of managers and dumping of mail rather than delivering it was outstanding. It's amazing that anything arrived. Union reps acted like the Mafia and did nothing apart from sit around in their Union room all day. Managers terrified to take them on. Saying that the management were inept and fequently drunk. A world class service dragged down by weak, greedy and lazy people.
(I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 20:32, archived)
# Hooray!
I had a recorded delivery last week, but I wasn't in, so he just posted it through my door without botherin to get a signature.

(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 20:44, archived)