Golf stuff in the post - Royal Mail strikes...

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Anyone else sitting waiting and hoping for their latest purchase to turn up?

I "won" a Cleveland Launcher 3 wood on ebay at the weekend and the sender has posted it with the Royal Mail...

I want it and i want it now! Just hope it arrives in time for the weekend so i can get out and use it in anger :)

Doubt it though :(
 
Tell you what though, it amazes me. The Royal Mail is struggling and Parcel Force basically leaves a lot to be desired and jobs are threatened. So what do they do, go on strike. Companies then start using other courier companies and probably won't go back to them just making things worse.
All the other couriers bend over backwards to get your parcel to you, and if you are not in they re-deliver to suit you or even go to another address. What do Parcel force do, thay make you go to some depot in the middle of nowhere during working hours so you have to have time off work. When they do come to your address they drive over your front lawn (twice) because they are too lazy to turn around properly then deny it.
 
My Gokart umbrella holder arrived today, much to my amazement, as I figured it would take a while to appear what with all the strike action and backed-up mail.
 
I used to work for Royal Mail and am backing them over the strike action. The way many of the workers are being treated over this 'modernisation' is ridiculous.

People may moan about the service, but I have no complaints. I cannot stand these courier companies, delivering every other day and so if I'm not in, I have to phone, tell them to deliver it in 2 days and make sure someone is in. There is one courier, can't remember their name, and their card says, please come and collect it from our local office. Their local office is in Oakhampton, over 100 miles away! Royal Mail / Parcelforce on the other hand, either chuck it in my recycling bin (my request) or leave it with a neighbour.

The peanuts Royal Mail staff get paid and the work the majority of them do is highly unfair - my solution to combat this, and promote modernisation, is to crank postal prices up dramatically for small items. The UK is currently about the cheapest place in the western world to post things - AND, they don't charge extra to deliver to Northern Ireland or Scotland's Highlands and islands, a concept these rip off couriers cannot grasp.
 
I have some sympathy with the Royal Mail workers, but I always prefer UPS or FedEx deliveries to Parcelforce, especially incoming international ones.

A golf club sent from the US via USPS, received by Parcelforce, has higher charges than UPS or FedEx for customs handling,l yet it takes a week with Parcelforce and 10 minutes with UPS. The Parcelforce customs office in Coventry is completely and utterly useless, and deliberately make it impossible to contact them, and they takes ages to resolve disputes caused by cock-ups they make.
 
- AND, they don't charge extra to deliver to Northern Ireland or Scotland's Highlands and islands, a concept these rip off couriers cannot grasp.
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:D Why should they? Do folk in Ireland, or the Highlands and Islands have to pay extra to post to the South of England?
 
I got a jumper through the post ordered last week and they just dumped it in a gardem waste bin with no note through our letter box, I was playing blue murder with the Ebay seller :o
 
- AND, they don't charge extra to deliver to Northern Ireland or Scotland's Highlands and islands, a concept these rip off couriers cannot grasp.
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:D Why should they? Do folk in Ireland, or the Highlands and Islands have to pay extra to post to the South of England?
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It's totaly unfair that these other compaines get away with charging extra for delivering to these parts. I was going to buy 2 dozen prov's from a comapny for £55 new, they were charging me £9x 2 = £18 to deliver them to me. Yeah right, I phoned them told them what I thought of them. The guy said he would do the delivery for £9, but it was to late I had given up on them. £18 to get 2 boxes of Prov's delivered. Joke.
 
I've just 'won' the travel cover I'll need for Scotland so I'll be in waiting mode for a while.

The advantage with ParcelForce is that they will leave it at the town office. When I got the GM shirts I had to trek to Chatteris to collect from the courier.
 
they don't charge extra to deliver to Northern Ireland or Scotland's Highlands and islands, a concept these rip off couriers cannot grasp.
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The last time i checked Northen Ireland and the Scottish highlands and islands were still part of the UK,why should they pay more??
 
Coming back to the Highlands and N.I. debate.

We get charged up to three times as much to send goods to these locations than to anywhere else in the UK. I can't see how it's justified but it is something that bugs me. Which is why improvemygolf charges the same rate for the whole of the UK, regardless if the package is going to Surrey or N.I.

This came about because of a similar debate on here a few months ago. Yes, I am out of pocket because of the extra charges, but I felt that I should accomodate those from the Highlands and N.I.
 
I think they justify it in saying that these places are further away from their distribution centres, take longer to get to , use more fuel and therefore cost them more to take things there than to a few miles up the road in Englandshire...
 
I've just 'won' the travel cover I'll need for Scotland so I'll be in waiting mode for a while.
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What one did you go for Vis? As this is something I need to get.
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I got one of these one on ebay - 'used once' (sorry the pic's a bit big)
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In my opinion, couriers are a massive con. If you send something with a courier to Orkney or Shetland Isles, they will charge you an insane amount - AND the item will eventually be delivered, either by a local shipping company (not the courier) or, more often than not, Royal Mail posties. Essentially they're charging a fortune to drive something to Aberdeen and stick it on a boat.

To all those in NI, Highlands, islands and Scilly - use Parcelforce and Royal Mail. The original and best
 
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