I'm not going back there again Rant

[Pants]

Anyone still bung the postman a few quid at Xmas?

I am not one btw!

What? Postman or bunger?

When the posties (including sorters) can learn to read and deliver the correctly addressed mail to the correct address, then I might be tempted again to reward good service as I did in the (ahem) old days.

At least once a week I deliver mail to our neighbours that was incorrectly put through my door (as they also do), or use a highlighter on the address/post code before reposting the envelope. I had the same envelope delivered 3 times this Christmas that had Leeds in the address and a Leeds postcode. The road wasn't even the same as mine ffs. That one ended up going back in the postbox with a lot of large writing in a black sharpie and 3 different highlighter colours.

grrrrrr....








And breathe 2 3 4 .....

 

[A1ex]

The Royal Mail and BBC are two companies I have no time for.

Royal Mail have failed to deliver an iPod 4S I sold on ebay before Christmas. Looking like it's gone missing, meaning I've got to refund the buyer and then wait 3-4 months before my claim goes through Royal Mail, leaving me £500 short untill then.

:angry:

 

[Region3]

Another vote for online car taxing, so easy.

The thing that winds me up about the PO is that pretty much every time I receive a golf club through the post, the label is Special Delivery (the silver coloured label).
If I then use that box to send another club out in, they won't let me send it special delivery because they say the box is too long, even though they can see that's how it came to me. :angry:

 

[rosecott]

Thanks Bob - your post reminded me that my tax expired today. I immediately went online and job done in less time than it took to read half way down your rant.

 

[RGDave]

I remember (a long time back) going into a P.O. with MOT cert and insurance for my car tax disk

Back in those days, the VIN number for the car was written by hand on the MOT.

My MOT garage had made a mistake with one letter, something like writing B instead of 8.

The lady absolutely refused to tax my car.......

a week later, after two trips to the DVLA and one to the garage (to re-issue, I guess) I got my tax disk.

You can imagine how it all "went down" in that post office that day.....

- - - -

Oh, there have been one or two worse incidents. Midland Bank (now HSBC) charged me £20 for being overdrawn plus 2 lots of £10 per day for not sorting it out and 26p interest. That's £40.26.

I was £1.60 overdrawn for 3 days after a cheque had gone through. I had to be removed by 2 security guards.

I got my £40.26 back after 4 months of wrangling.....
It was NOT a pretty sight

 

[Iaing]

Well, our local post office is great. Helpful, friendly staff who go out of their way to provide good service.

 

[Eejit]

And theres me thinking Bob wasnt going back to the Bar.... ;0) X

 

[Imurg]

Well, our local post office is great. Helpful, friendly staff who go out of their way to provide good service.

Same here
The extraordinarily lovely Debs "looks after me" every time...
He he he...:thup:

 

[alnecosse]

Got a card thru the door the other day to say i had to pick something up from depot, when i got there i was informed it was a card i was due money on sender hadn't payed enough postage, when i saw what it was i didn't know whether to laugh or get angry it was a thankyou card for a wedding gift. It was about 2" inches square
but had a little bow on the card which stopped it going thru there little slot and i had to pay extra pound to the postage rip off Britain or laughable Britain not to sure.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Another thumbs up for online car taxing. Another massive thumbs down for the Post Office. Archaic, disorganised and still a monopoly. It needs a radical shake down from the top to the bottome but you can guarantee there will be fewer post offices especially in rural areas who need the services the most, and it'll be delivery and sorting personnel and none of these endless layers of upper and middle management that will be given the boot.

 

[thecraw]

I've posted 3 things in December (early on in the month) which have not yet arrived or been lost by the useless beggars!

 

[viscount17]

Yes to taxing the car online, though whether my tax disc has arrived I have no idea as I haven't been home since.

tipping Posties - what posties? g knows when I last saw one. I can still remember two deliveries a day, and the first was around breakfast time.

I hate this pay extra postage plus a £1 racket that the PO runs. Got a card through the door, says to pay a fine to collect what I know to be a card - but of course the office where I have to collect said card has been shut since I got it.

. . . and I have a collection of misdirected mail building up. they're all cards so obviously no return address

 

[Mattyboy]

Dunno what the fss is about! Irish Mick down the pub does my rod tax. Dosnt require evidence of insurnce or MOT and under cuts the PO by lots! And I get a smile!

 

[sev112]

Here's a tip
When it's tiem for car insurance renewal, see if you can take your car off the road for the day that the insurance is due - i.e. let it lapse a day ; then call your insurance company. They wont be able to renew, so they will have to offer you a new quote, which will miraculaoulsy be about 50% of the renewal quote.

Happenend to me this year when i missed the renewal and so phoned up the next morning, i was happy to pay teh renewal but "the computer said no". so they had to requote - saving of over £130

I guess that's probably illegal ? if so, can someone tell me before i do it next year

 

[AuburnWarrior]

It's time the Post Office was shut down - it's simply not fit for purpose anymore.

Just before Christmas I received an 'excess postage to be paid' card through the door. £1.22 I owed.

I went to the Post Office to pick it up and it turned out to be a Christmas card that had been posted with a 2nd class stamp on it. I handed over the £1.22 and then asked the man why I was being charged the excess. He produced a bit of acrylic with a hole in the middle of it. My card wouldn't fit throw the hole. Now, if it was massively too big then fair enough. But, if the card had been bent a tiny fraction it would have slipped through the hole!
To compound my misery, he then said that £1 of the £1.22 was a handling charge! Why?? The sender has already paid you to handle the item for postage - why do we have to pay again??
I then stated that it's no surprise that the Royal Mail is in such trouble and I wished his employers a speedy demise!!
From now on, I shan't be using the Royal Mail and I will be recommending everyone else follows suit. Hopefully, then, it'll go out of business. There are plenty of other companies that offer a far better service.