richard thomas
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Royal Mail.....
....must be populated mainly by gypsies, tramps and thieves these days
Sick of having things like birthday cards etc delivered having first being opened and any monies removed! Regularly.
Have had to resort to sending things in brown envelopes to disguise the contents - rest of my family doing the same thing now...luckily everyone has
wised up and no longer sends money.
Not sure it deserves the 'Royal' in the title any more - full of pikies if you ask me!!
Makes me a lot less sympathetic to the cause of small branches that get shut down.
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Bigheppy
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 08:22 AM |
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I had several parcels that never arrived, when I claimed for them I was fobbed off for quite a while, and then advised that the person sending the
item had to claim. A local post office worker was found to have stolen 'thousands' of parcels and letters, found in his house, never did
hear what sentence he got, after this was in the press I got instant refund on a book without any problems or stalling. I have not had anything go
missing since
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Werner Van Loock
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 08:25 AM |
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At least you still received, international it's a real pain in the *ss, can't count the lost packages anymore.
If it's valuable I only use DHL or something otherwise only signed for and still it gets lost from time to time.
http://www.clubstylus.be
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Danozeman
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 08:30 AM |
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Thres alsorts of stuff goes on. I actually cant believe people still send money in cards which are obviously cards!! 8 times out of 10 theres gonna
be money in it. They charge you for postal orders now aswell.
Trouble is they employ anyone.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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BenB
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 09:43 AM |
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I had 9 parcels go missing in 18 months and RM said they wouldn't investigate it at the sorting office because it "wasn't a
significant number of events".
I also got a card from the local sorting office saying they had a parcel for me, when I went to collect it they said they hadn't got it and
"maybe it hadn't reached them in the first place". WTF! Are they telepathic or something- do they now send out a card when
they're about to have a parcel to give you?....
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/9/09 at 10:32 AM |
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We send a lot of accounting and legal documents by mail we never send anything by recorded delivery unless we can avoid it as in some English big
city postal areas the odds are better than evens it will go missing.
Sending recorded mail to London is like sending it to a black hole.
North of the border addresses tend to be fine we never had any problems.
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morcus
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| posted on 14/9/09 at 12:42 AM |
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The worst thing is, If you've got someone stealing from your mail, Chances are they'll be at your end so it'll happen alot. We had a
problem with it a few years ago and we were getting mail that had been opened almost every day.
The worst though is when you pay extra for recorded or what have you ans then when it goes missing find the only point that it was processed propperly
was the post office you sent it at and the form with it has just your signiture and the chashiers with empty spaces where about 7 other stages should
have been checked (And the last time it happened they just posted it through the door even though it said in big letters that it had to be signed
for).
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Alex.
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| posted on 14/9/09 at 08:36 AM |
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Recorded delivery is only a signature at the receiving end.
If something is valuable (either money or information) then send it Special Delivery. This is signed for at all stages of the delivery process and is
much less likely to go astray.
Alex.
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Jasper
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| posted on 14/9/09 at 11:04 AM |
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Why would anybody send cash in the post without sending it Signed For or Special? Your just asking for trouble.....
If you're not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room.
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Rob Palin
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| posted on 14/9/09 at 12:01 PM |
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For months I had my autosport magazine subscription go missing and several sets of racing event tickets go missing. I complained and was told
they'd investigate.
A month later I got a letter saying that a staff member had been disciplined and they enclosed a book of 6 1st class stamps as
"compensation". It didn't make me happy.
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