F&%king Royal Mail
Ben_Copeland - 6/6/12 at 05:31 PM
Right, i've had it with Royal Mail. Ive had 2 throttle linkage springs stolen from packages.
2 separate packages, lsdweb and neilp1 have both kindly donated GSXR throttle linkage springs to me after i lost one and both times they've been
removed from their packages.
The first one had a convenient tear in one corner and the spring removed (ok, it could possibly be an accident but didnt look like it was)
The second one had the envelope opened, spring removed from a plastic bag within and then the envelope sealed again 
didnt
know till i opened it to find nothing inside 
WTF do they want with a tiny little spring? its crazy, now i'm going to have to wait till i can get down to suzuki and hope the parts man can
help!
GRRRRRR
PSpirine - 6/6/12 at 05:39 PM
Have you complained to your local office etc.? I don't know what the protocol is but sounds like it'll keep happening if your postie's
on to the fact that you receive car bits!
I can't complain about Royal Mail where I am - not a single screw up so far!
Peteff - 6/6/12 at 05:43 PM
I think it's people thinking you might be sending jewellery. My wife sent some beans to a friend for her to plant and when the envelope got to
where it was going it had been slit and the inner packet slit in exactly the same place and the contents removed. Her friend reported it to the
sorting office even though the contents were not valuable. The second lot my wife sent here were not touched.
Ben_Copeland - 6/6/12 at 05:43 PM
I'll look into complaining etc.
I've had loads of car stuff delivered recently (having a big push on getting the car finished) but all of that arrived fine, half of it sent
unrecorded etc.
Just cant understand what they want with a tiny spring, its not worth anything to anyone except me
PSpirine - 6/6/12 at 05:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
I think it's people thinking you might be sending jewellery. My wife sent some beans to a friend for her to plant and when the envelope got to
where it was going it had been slit and the inner packet slit in exactly the same place and the contents removed. Her friend reported it to the
sorting office even though the contents were not valuable. The second lot my wife sent here were not touched.
You know you can get a whole tin of beans for the price of a 1st class stamp at most Tesco's! 
macc man - 6/6/12 at 05:47 PM
Royal Mail is rife with tealeaves. In our area several have been aprehended after going throuh the mail for valuables.
Not much you can do but complain. Sometimes they leave parcels as a honey trap to catch them out.
morcus - 6/6/12 at 05:56 PM
We had the same problem a few years ago, which resulted in a few people being sacked (My Uncle is a postman in out town so told us about the outcome).
Unfortunalty there isn't that much you can do apart from complain, but you deffintily should as mail theft is a serious crime and it's the
only way they'll get caught.
Aparantly they're very good at spotting honey traps from the real deal from what I've heard. The best solution is to have what we had in the
first house I grew up in and be related to the postie.
dlatch - 6/6/12 at 06:09 PM
thankfully no problems here with our postie but it certainly seem's to be the luck of the draw
r1_pete - 6/6/12 at 06:10 PM
Royal Mail are becoming more and more of a joke, I worked there 10 years ago, in IT not delivery, but the stories which circulated were amazing, e.g.
front line delivery and sorting staff who couldn't read English!!!!
Got a pic, I've a few TB springs in the drawer, and will happily send you another if its a match.
Ben_Copeland - 6/6/12 at 06:26 PM
quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
Royal Mail are becoming more and more of a joke, I worked there 10 years ago, in IT not delivery, but the stories which circulated were amazing, e.g.
front line delivery and sorting staff who couldn't read English!!!!
Got a pic, I've a few TB springs in the drawer, and will happily send you another if its a match.
Thanks Pete, U2U
Peteff - 6/6/12 at 07:01 PM
quote:
Originally posted by PSpirineYou know you can get a whole tin of beans for the price of a 1st class stamp at most Tesco's!
Yes but these were magic beans in exchange for a cow (actually they were runner bean and Siberian pole bean seed)
stevegough - 6/6/12 at 07:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by morcus
The best solution is to have what we had in the first house I grew up in and be related to the postie.
Sorry, Morcus but I just gotta take you up on this one...... HOW were you related to the your postie?
morcus - 6/6/12 at 07:31 PM
He's my Uncle, but my brother looks just like my cousin so me and my dad think he might be my brothers real dad. My brother doesn't like
this joke though.
mangogrooveworkshop - 6/6/12 at 09:06 PM
It's not people stealing them !!!!!
Royal mail use a lot of auto sorting machines that tear the packs open.
It's a problem that I encounter with my gear change adapters when sold
On the bay. The way we found round the problem is to tape the item to a bit of
Cardboard and sandwich it before putting it in the padded envelope.
I've lost about 7 or 8 before we worked out the problem.
It's small so it's getting in the auto sorter pile which does paper well but not springs which tear the envelopes
So that is the problem.... Royal mail might have losses to theft but it's still better than the african lucky dip postal service.
It's so bad amazon won't sell to that part of the world
Ben_Copeland - 6/6/12 at 09:12 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
It's not people stealing them !!!!!
Royal mail use a lot of auto sorting machines that tear the packs open.
It's a problem that I encounter with my gear change adapters when sold
On the bay. The way we found round the problem is to tape the item to a bit of
Cardboard and sandwich it before putting it in the padded envelope.
I've lost about 7 or 8 before we worked out the problem.
It's small so it's getting in the auto sorter pile which does paper well but not springs which tear the envelopes
So that is the problem.... Royal mail might have losses to theft but it's still better than the african lucky dip postal service.
It's so bad amazon won't sell to that part of the world
Maybe on the first one, but the second one the envelope was undamaged... it had been opened spring removed from bag inside and stuck back down, no
chance it just came out.
mangogrooveworkshop - 6/6/12 at 11:33 PM
The mail machines poped the top off my envelopes cause I got one sent back to me.
It was empty and undamged but the gear adapter was gone