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Have you ever noticed how much Royal Mail sucks?

Why does Royal Mail suck so much? They just seem to always lose or have late delivery times for all my important packages! What the hell are they getting paid £4.99 for?!

Reply 1

Mustard-man

18

A monopoly, what do you expect? :p:

Reply 2

blissy

15

Most days

Reply 3

Bis

1

Indeed.

Reply 4

Louenn

I can't agree... But that's because I don't want to get kicked out of my home! I'm lodging with some friends, and he works for Royal Mail's Mail Centre in Chester. But then, they're very efficient in terms of sending out the post. It's just waiting for the stuff that comes to the door that's a ball-ache.

And they're probably still catching up after Christmas.

Reply 5

hannah_dru

2

Yep. It annoys me when people blame it on the Post Office though because they're not the same thing! One of my family members works there and she hates it when people say that.

Reply 6

Tyrannosaurus Cal

15

They take a letter from Dundee to my house for 26p. I can't really complain about that, I wouldn't do it.....

Reply 7

Alexander

12

Tonic

Why does Royal Mail suck so much?

They don't, in fact I think they're pretty damned good. Over 94% of first class mail arrives the next day, and fewer than one in a thousand items get lost. And those are independently-collected statistics. The fact is that most lost, delayed or damaged mail is caused at least partially a fault of the sender e.g. incomplete or inaccurate addresses, inadequate packaging.

Reply 8

paperclip

18

Alexander

They don't, in fact I think they're pretty damned good. Over 94% of first class mail arrives the next day, and fewer than one in a thousand items get lost. And those are independently-collected statistics. The fact is that most lost, delayed or damaged mail is caused at least partially a fault of the sender e.g. incomplete or inaccurate addresses, inadequate packaging.

i couldnt agree more, royal mail's briliant, fast and cheap
havent had any problems with them...
and i used to sell quite a few things on ebay

Reply 9

Fleece

15

If you feel you can get a letter to anywhere in the UK for 26p then good luck.

Reply 10

Alexander

12

Fleece

If you feel you can get a letter to anywhere in the UK for 26p then good luck.

23p actually, for second class. Even cheaper :smile:

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Reply 11

tanusha-tomsk

18

mynameiscal

They take a letter from Dundee to my house for 26p. I can't really complain about that, I wouldn't do it.....

Finally, some sense! Spot on.

Reply 12

Loulee

i once got a parcel that was soaked through, completely wet :s-smilie:

wonder what happened to that...it certainly wasnt just rain

Reply 13

Tonic

OP

1

Alexander

They don't, in fact I think they're pretty damned good. Over 94% of first class mail arrives the next day, and fewer than one in a thousand items get lost. And those are independently-collected statistics. The fact is that most lost, delayed or damaged mail is caused at least partially a fault of the sender e.g. incomplete or inaccurate addresses, inadequate packaging.

I've ordered things from the Internet and twice been lost by Royal Mail. After waiting for the company to send the item for a second time it's been from a different company. I guess my family are really unlucky with Royal Mail.

Reply 14

Alexander

12

Tonic

I've ordered things from the Internet and twice been lost by Royal Mail. After waiting for the company to send the item for a second time it's been from a different company. I guess my family are really unlucky with Royal Mail.

Are you absolutely sure that the company did actually post it? Sometimes the blame is unfairly put on Royal Mail -- for example my dad runs his own business, and whenever he is late sending out a letter he will backdate it a few days, hoping that they get the blame for the delay.

Reply 15

Zinc11

1

I think royal mail first class/special delivery is excellent. So far, I've received 95% of my stuff the next day/things I've sent out arrived next day as well.

Christmas time is a little different so I'm not gonna comment.

Reply 16

SyncMaster710

Yeah the royal mail is amazing and well cheap, i get alot of old deleted cd's from ebay and sell the odd thing too, royal mail in every case have been fast delivering the package.

Compared to private courier services they are much cheaper!

Reply 17

edd8990

Never had a problem with Royal Mail, and also vehmently oppose privatisation of the postal service.

Reply 18

paperclip

18

i've posted 2nd class for a few ebay things in the past and they've arrived in a day which was nice
it's probably at a sorting office or somthing, they process 1st class first

Reply 19

vector

15

I've sent just over 1200 eBay items with them, and they've lost 2 and got about 20 late. That's not TOO bad really...

Have you ever noticed how much Royal Mail sucks?

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