Privatise the Royal Mail

[mikeyscott]

Maybe they'll then deliver the service they are suppose to....

[sosidge]

What, the kind of service the privatised railways and utilities provide?

Royal Mail do a very good job.

[Southwell]

Like i wanna pay even more for having my mail delivered, no thanks!

[mikeyscott]

I'd pay them more to have a reliable service etc.

[Southwell]

They've been fine 99% of the time i have used them, i mainly use recorded though.

[DCM]

Royal Mail is good, it is how it is run thats bad....

Post, Water, Gas, Electricity should all be run by non-profit organisations, to bring you the best service at a reasonable cost. The reason that Royal Mail is struggling, is due to it's hands being tied on what services it can offer.

I for one, wouldn't want to have to go 'collect' my post.

[Nige55]

Originally Posted by sosidge

Royal Mail do a very good job.

No they don't !!

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by Nige55

No they don't !!

Well the first time i used DHL they lost the parcel and it took months to get any compo. Like i say Royal Mail have never lost any of my parcels, they just charge too much for small boxes.

[Nige55]

I, family and freinds have had nothing but bad experiences with Royal Mail. Having had a lot of experience with postal services around the world, they have proven themselves to be lazy and incompetent. They are poorly regarded abroad too. LOL.

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by Nige55

I, family and freinds have had nothing but bad experiences with Royal Mail. Having had a lot of experience with postal services around the world, they have proven themselves to be lazy and incompetent. They are poorly regarded abroad too. LOL.

Yup couldn't agree more with that statement. Useless and I was glad to see my old company moving their post / billing to UK Mail - circa 8 million customers.

It's just another piss poor company with links to a piss poor government.

[Welshy40]

Unfortunately the bigger the company the bigger the problem. I doubt it will make any change, possibly make it more stream lined and less people as they dont need as many but its still going to a nightmare to run.

[Si Coe]

A few months back I was at home during the day (teacher on school hols) waiting for a few car bits to be delivered.
I'm working out in the garage, postie (a woman, not our normal postie) comes up to the front door, starts having a chat apparently she lived in my house a few years back and was surprised by all the changes I'd made.
Anyhow, she hands me the post directly and in there is a 'Sorry you were out' card for one of my parcels, already filled out.
So I point out that clearly I'm not out, and I'd like my parcel instead of just a note. At this point she admits she left all the parcels at the depot because they made her bag too heavy! But she points out that since it never left the depot I could go collect it right away.
So I hop in my car off to the Depot, hand over the note and they say 'Not today, you have to leave it 24hrs'. I ask why, and am told it won't be at the depot because its out with the postie. Except of course it isn't. But they don't know where she left it. So I still have to wait till the next day.
At this point I insist they redeliver tomorrow rather than me have to drive off to the depot. 'Ok sir, there will be a small fee though.......' I remind them that its not a really redelivery as they never tried to deliver it in the first place, and they finally agree to deliver.
All this means my parcel finally arrives 2 days after the card. And what was this incredibly heavy, impossible to carry around parcel? A Lipo pack for a Micro T, no bigger than a fag packet and probably light!