Royal mail rant - postman

[DUFFEMS]

Yesterday I went into my Post Office with a card for Australia, the assistant weighed it, stuck the £1.45 stamp on it plus the sticker stating "By Air Mail par avion Royal Mail".

My name and address was on the reverse marked "Sender". 

The assistant took the card and placed it in their relevant compartment.

This morning, I received the card with no frank marking whatever.

I now have to go back down to the Post Office to have it re-sent.

 

[olilew]

18 hours ago, DUFFEMS said:

Yesterday I went into my Post Office with a card for Australia, the assistant weighed it, stuck the £1.45 stamp on it plus the sticker stating "By Air Mail par avion Royal Mail".

My name and address was on the reverse marked "Sender". 

The assistant took the card and placed it in their relevant compartment.

This morning, I received the card with no frank marking whatever.

I now have to go back down to the Post Office to have it re-sent.

 

Just to clarify, this is a Royal Mail bashing thread. The Post Office are an entirely different company.

[boysheff]

On ‎11‎/‎24‎/‎2018 at 3:26 PM, Dggsheffield said:

did he give you the parcel ? I would also send the cctv  footage to the area manager of royal mail.

I got the parcel of him. I was very tempted to report him, but am too soft

[DerbyTup]

On 11/24/2018 at 5:06 PM, zach said:

Yes, DPD do have the tracking so you know when to expect them. I find them the best overall, apart from the couple of times the drivers just lied. I did complain but you get the usual excuses and refund on the delivery.

 

I did once have a "tracked" package via Royal Mail. I logged onto RM to track my parcel and the message was "We can only track your parcel after its been delivered"  I'm sure it's changed now as that was a few years ago but that has to go down as the worst tracking I've ever seen.

Ah yes.  The DPD tracking device.  I was waiting for a parcel and I used this.  It showed me that my driver, "Stuart", was on delivery number 83 and I was number 85.  Great! I thought.  And it even showed me where he was at that point in time.  He was just 2 miles away, in a cul-de-sac in Bradway.  

 

About an hour passed and Stuart hadn't turned up yet.  I went back on the app and it showed me that my driver, Stuart was still on delivery number 83 and parked up in the same cul-de-sac in Bradway.  

 

Stuart actually never turned up that day.  There was obviously something happening in that little cul-de-sac in Bradway that distracted and detained him.  A song by Benny Hill, about "Ernie the fastest milkman in the west", sprang to mind.  

[tinfoilhat]

To be fair to DPD that's very much the exception rather than the rule. I send out loads with them and seldom have a problem.