Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Following on from another poster mentioning they received their Wanderers third kit top with inspection holes ripped in the parcel, I today received what must be the twenty fifth parcel in nine months that has had holes ripped into it - obviously made to check the contents. I've therefore come to the conclusion that this company, which some of you will have shares in, or have made a butty buying and selling the shares of, has now in their employ, legion(s) of thieving shithouses... There is of course, the slight chance they have an infestation of very large and curious mice at their depots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) Ripped open/inspected parcels before privatisation/'streamlining' - zero. Ripped open/inspected parcels after privatisation/'streamlining' - approximately twenty five. Thieving wankers - you pay wages and have conditions to suit smackheads who couldn't give less of a fuck, you get smackheads who couldn't give less of a fuck. Edited October 20, 2014 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 My Mum sent me a letter the other week with a tiny pebble in it (don't ask). It was miniscule, maybe 3mm x 3mm x 3mm. I had to go and pick it up from the depot and pay £1.70 because it was an 'oversize letter'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 My Mum sent me a letter the other week with a tiny pebble in it (don't ask). .....how can we not ask? Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_white Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 .....how can we not ask? Why? My Mum is a bit 'wooooo'. She into spiritualist church and having readings done and auras and all that. On the day my nephew was born, she went down the the beach and found a stone for him which she plans to give to him as a keepsake. I jokingly complained that I didn't get a pebble despite being her firstborn - so she sent me a tiny one through the post. I told you not to ask! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankietheman Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 On the other hand I get a decent service off mine, 3 or 4 posties and all leave oversized packages in the shed with a note through the letterbox rather than taking stuff back to depot. Consequently give them a good tip at Christmas. more than happy with them and no deterioration in service since privatisation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted October 20, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 20, 2014 i'd take youris rants more seriously if the service had been owt better than shite before privatisation for balance, i tracked down my postman on saturday morning as my brum tickets hadn't arrived he kindly went back to the van and sorted through to find the bag for my house looked through the post and still no tickets, but at least he tried supposedly posted first class on thursday and i dunno if theyve arrived yet as our post doesnt come til around dinner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 (edited) On the other hand I get a decent service off mine, 3 or 4 posties and all leave oversized packages in the shed with a note through the letterbox rather than taking stuff back to depot. Consequently give them a good tip at Christmas. more than happy with them and no deterioration in service since privatisation. My postmen are good (they mainly work in pairs, don't you know), it never seems to have happened when it's them - however, I get loads of parcels and they don't work six days a week, so subsequently I seem to get a good number where some thieving (and, thankfully, clueless, I might add) c*nts have had their mitts all over it. Folk will probably counter ''why should the taxpayer subsidize the service?'', to which I'd ask, ''why should the taxpayer keep the shite end of the stick when it was sold off?" Edited October 20, 2014 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Regarding Casino, previously, if you were an occasional customer then yes, the service was often perceived to be shite... Regular customers, they'd think differently, it was generally good. I wish I could say the service hadn't deteriorated since privatisation - it's no bonus for me being able to say ''I told you so..." whilst being made to suffer a poorer service. I'm dreading to think what the run-up to Christmas will be like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I'm dreading to think what the run-up to Christmas will be like. Cold and wet, I'd imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankietheman Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 luck of the draw I suppose. probably an amount of "parcel fiddling" going on in the sorting office at your end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andydee Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Letters sent through UKMail, obviously delivered by RM, no idea whether they are sent 1st, 2nd or business class but they invariably arrive about 3 weeks after the letter is dated. Is this UKMail's inefficiency or RM holding them back to make them look bad?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalcolmW Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Letters sent through UKMail, obviously delivered by RM, no idea whether they are sent 1st, 2nd or business class but they invariably arrive about 3 weeks after the letter is dated. Is this UKMail's inefficiency or RM holding them back to make them look bad?? I suspect that UKMail gets a large discount for being prepared to have their letters held for up to 14 days, and filtered into the sorting at quiet periods. When I was a student I was on parcel sorting and delivery at Warrington. Greenalls sent bottles to all their shareholders and distributors, spread over 2 weeks. Generally the sorting involved flinging parcels into a frame of sacks. The key points were not to throw bottles, and to place parcels into sacks containing bottles rather than flinging them. Of course sometimes sorters forgot which sacks contained bottles, or a flung parcel landed in a wrong sack (containing a bottle). Suffice to say that every day at least one bottle got broken and the place stank of gin. This was 1968 and Green Shield stamps were very popular. Each day, just as the room was almost cleared of items waiting to be sorted a pantec very large lorry stuffed with Green shield gifts would arrive from Newton-Le-Willows, and we would suddenly be knee deep in new items. My job was cushy, as the regular driver began at 6.30 with a security delivery to ICI Runcorn, with no temps allowed in, so I did not start until 8am. The round began with the indoor market stalls and later went on to Tetley-Walkers brewery. The commissionnaire was authorised to issue chits to all business visitors redeemable in the canteen for a half of bitter or a pint of mild. We never delivered the parcels in a single trip from the van in case he was busy and unable to issue largesse on the first arrival. I was told that on one New Years Day, when trains were severely delayed by conditions further south, there was an announcement at Bank Quay that the train now due from London (which they were waiting to collect parcels from) was running 2 hours late and had just reached Rugby. The two waitning posties promptly boarded the RL special for Wigan, watched the annual Wigan v Warrington match, and caught the special back in time for their parcels arriving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 The round began with the indoor market stalls and later went on to Tetley-Walkers brewery. The commissionnaire was authorised to issue chits to all business visitors redeemable in the canteen for a half of bitter or a pint of mild. We never delivered the parcels in a single trip from the van in case he was busy and unable to issue largesse on the first arrival. The things some folk will do for a half pint of bitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Shit bitter at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 My Dexys stuff hasn't arrived. Bloody posties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Winchester White Posted October 20, 2014 Site Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2014 I am loving the description of Kent's mum as a bit wooooo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewman Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Pat out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter only1swanny Posted October 21, 2014 Site Supporter Share Posted October 21, 2014 Never going to get perfect service from a company without competition.. Tnt don't count as they can't fully compete.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whites man Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Never going to get perfect service from a company without competition.. Tnt don't count as they can't fully compete.. Doesn't help when the staff are off their heads on free halves of bitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted October 21, 2014 Members Share Posted October 21, 2014 My Mum is a bit 'wooooo'. She into spiritualist church and having readings done and auras and all that. On the day my nephew was born, she went down the the beach and found a stone for him which she plans to give to him as a keepsake. I jokingly complained that I didn't get a pebble despite being her firstborn - so she sent me a tiny one through the post. I told you not to ask! :-) Aha! This explains so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted October 21, 2014 Author Share Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) Never going to get perfect service from a company without competition.. Tnt don't count as they can't fully compete.. They're finally competing I'll give you that, competing to be as shit as Yodel, DHL etc. Their (Royal Mail) main selling point was reliability and trustworthiness - they may have been more expensive, but, as a rule, they didn't lose parcels - if they did they found them, stuff didn't get damaged in transit and people along the chain didn't open your parcels to see if there was owt worth nicking (in their eyes, like I mentioned before, I'm glad of their ignorance)...Now that's gone, they've 'streamlined' because of their new responsibility to shareholders - and the service is going to pot. Many reputable traders, whose main business involves mail order, in countries like Russia and Italy struggle to attract new custom, in no small part due to their postal carriers' notorious reputations for theft and unreliability, we in the UK didn't have that problem, if you sent with Royal Mail delivery was assured, now, well, it isn't... Another case of flogging the family silver (arguably the best piece) for a short-term beano. (and that is my final word on the subject ). Edited October 21, 2014 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no balls Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Aha! This explains so much. my mother is fucking barking & put some of my nuances down to genes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted October 21, 2014 Moderators Share Posted October 21, 2014 my brum tickets still havent arrived apc get my work stuff (pretty much) anywhere in the country next day pre noon guaranteed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalcolmW Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Doesn't help when the staff are off their heads on free halves of bitter. When I was a student the local pub charged 1s/10d for bitter and 1s/11d for best bitter. In order to ensure not being overcharged students used to ask for a pint of worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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