this weeks royal mail strike

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

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A this hacks me off as this so called competiton only want do deal with mail in citys, if you live in far northen scotland in a remote place they dont want to deal with you, RM still honours its ONE PRICE anywhere EVERYDAY to every uk address, a stamp costing 36p in this situation actully costs royal mail to take that letter there for you (yes we loose!) money is in big towns and citys and thats the only thing the other companys want to deal with they are in affect "cherry picking the work"

see that what ***** me of with other companies - you get a surcharge because although you are a G postcode you are not actually in Glasgow!

The company I work for fly the Royal Mail around the country at night we are penalised if we are late, defined by RM as being more than 4 minutes after the scheduled time. As consumers we should be in a position to fine RM if they are late delivering our mail.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

its not handsorted its sorted using IMP's, LSM's, I LSM's and FSM's and the like, walk sequencers sort mail in delivery offices and our LSM's sort our deliverys in our mail centre, its only manual mail thats hand sorted.

I've been to many many delivery offices and never seen a walk sort machine. They're not common.

I had a payment into my bank account fail, followed by a letter by the bank. However that letter hasnt arrived yet and i only found out it failed when 6 direct debits failed. Thats given me £48 of fines from my bank.

Thanks a lot royal mail.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

by law? postcom has done nothing to help royal mail in the open market, the other companys dealing with mail TNT,CITY POST ect use a system called DSA (down stream access) where as they take your money then drop the mail off at the nearest RM depot.

A this hacks me off as this so called competiton only want do deal with mail in citys, if you live in far northen scotland in a remote place they dont want to deal with you, RM still honours its ONE PRICE anywhere EVERYDAY to every uk address, a stamp costing 36p in this situation actully costs royal mail to take that letter there for you (yes we loose!) money is in big towns and citys and thats the only thing the other companys want to deal with they are in affect "cherry picking the work"

RM would already be dead if not for postcom. The fact that the RM do deliver to everywhere for a flat price is great, but that does not defend their archaic practices.

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

I've been to many many delivery offices and never seen a walk sort machine. They're not common.

Thats because they dont, they will and can sort the walks but the postman then has to sort it to the house or business numbers

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

this shouldnt happen.

Damn right it shouldn't.

Long version: It was my preorder copy of Fallout 3, because it wouldn't fit through the mail slot they just chucked it over my gate on the side of the house and didn't leave a card or anything. I ended up accusing Gamestation of failing to deliver and they claimed back from RM and gave me a refund (I, in a rage, had stormed down to Blockbuster and bought another copy). It was only by chance that I spotted a strange brown object a month later... it had been lying in the November rain waiting to be found where Postman Tw*t had thrown it!

Originally Posted by metalangel

Damn right it shouldn't.

Long version: It was my preorder copy of Fallout 3, because it wouldn't fit through the mail slot they just chucked it over my gate on the side of the house and didn't leave a card or anything. I ended up accusing Gamestation of failing to deliver and they claimed back from RM and gave me a refund (I, in a rage, had stormed down to Blockbuster and bought another copy). It was only by chance that I spotted a strange brown object a month later... it had been lying in the November rain waiting to be found where Postman Tw*t had thrown it!

Our postman posted a "this item was too big for your letterbox" slip through the door. I had to go to the depot to collect the item and it turned out that it was the Tesco DVD rental. The same rental that I have had popping through my letterbox for the past 2 years! That annoyed me. I have also seen a postie drop a "you weren't in" card whilst I was in, I saw him walk past the window and me and 3 other mates didn't hear any bell or knock! I heard on radio 4 that one postie said that sometimes he doesn't get all the sorting done se he just leaves the parcels in the depot. Really annoys me! If you can't be bothered to properly ddeliver my parcel and I have to come and collect it then I should get the postage fee, not the Royal Mail!

I once had something that was meant to be signed for worth several hundered pounds left under the hedge in front of the house for the whole world to see. Useless c**** I'm so glad I paid for postage insurance

Is it any wonder there is lack of care for the strike? The vast majority of people I know if they went on strike would be sacked, so whats different about them?

Originally Posted by suzijax

Thats because they dont, they will and can sort the walks but the postman then has to sort it to the house or business numbers

sequencing sorts in walk order and the walk bundle goes to the delivery postman already in number sequence