Why do so many letters and parcels go missing. Why isnt anything being done about it
2006-10-11 03:34:31 · 18 answers · asked by muffin 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
The postal service is rubbish in the area I live and work in.
As the owner a small training business, I often spend all day teaching, then drive back home, and then do paper-work, somethimes I'm busy producing invoices etc until the early hours.
Then when I want a post office ... they are closed. You can print stamps online but they charge small business £4.99 per month - individuals can print stamps for free.
The delivery and collections service is even worse.
Post boxes emptied in the middle of the day and the last collection on a Saturday is 10:00am from the main post office, other postices do not have weekend collections, on a Sunday it is 11:00am (from one post box in town only).
If I want to post something on a Sunday to get there on a Monday, I usually end up driving 15 miles to Doncaster and then 15 miles back.
Deliveries are also a joke. I pay £112 to have a PO Box number and to have the post addressed to the PO Box delivered to me at home. If I want this by 9am during the week, it will cost me a further £300.
I've even had special delivery items take longer than they should, it takes three months to get the money back (then it's only the amount for the Special delivery minus the cost of first class postage).
Hardly a servcie that supports the small businesses of our country.
2006-10-11 03:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by thebigtombs 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm sure glad I don't live in the UK, it sure sounds like a mess, but then that's what you get when you sell off your Postal services to the highest bidder. US customers should take note because that's what bigwigs in Washington want to do to your mail. What's wrong? Its called an "HCR" (Highway contract route). Its a money savings idea and its starting to take hold in the US. The mail is being bidded off to anybody with a truck and a truckload of illegals. That's exactly where all your letters and parcels are going! What can be done? Big business has crushed postal reform this year but keep an eye out for Congressional bills S. 662 and H.R. 22. You can receive email updates by signing up at www.nalc.org
2006-10-13 16:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by MJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you dare listen to anyone who tells you they don't help because they do. My Dad is mailman who works extremely hard especially during the holiday season. So for all you jerks who the postal service doesn't help you all obviously have worked like a mailman. Do you know how you get all your selfish gifts and packages from a mailman. Also mailmen do many more things. So there's your answer.
2015-02-09 14:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda Mandala 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think they do an stunning job, getting the mail from one place to a diverse thinking how lots mail that there is! this is picked up and introduced and must be definitely misplaced! i can purely bear in recommendations a million time in all my years some thing not being introduced and replaced into misplaced! To me it particularly is an exceptionally stable music checklist! enjoyed your poetry and factors out the rarity of writting letters, now that the information superhighway has made its way into maximum residences! We now the two e mail or IM our recommendations! of course, we nevertheless do use often happening mail yet sometime i think which will which will shrink lots! Cheers!!
2016-10-19 05:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - dont trust the postal service unless you want to pay the extra for special delivery and insurance. Any other method and te stuff goes missing. Customer services of royal mail are useless.
2006-10-11 03:36:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Postal services all over Europe are crap! I have been waiting 15 days now for several small packages and letters from the UK, I have post go missing sent from Spain to the UK and it takes eons to get post sent to me, yet they all cost a bloody fortune to use!
2006-10-11 03:37:47 · answer #6 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Royal Mail?Theft ?You get the odd one thats so lazy they stock pile their bag of letters in their house and get caught when their house fills up! On the whole I have had a positive experience with the Royal Snail but parcelfarce are just that! A farce!!!!
2006-10-11 03:39:18 · answer #7 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. I've never lost any mail.
2. Things are being done about it.
Customer Satisfaction
Residential customers rating the USPS excellent, very good or good: 93-94%
Business customers rating the USPS excellent, very good or good: 92-94%
On-Time Delivery Performance
Percentage of overnight First-Class Mail delivered on time: 95%
Percentage of Two-Day First-Class Mail delivered on time: 92%
Percentage of Three-Day First-Class Mail delivered on time: 91%
Public Opinion
Rank of USPS among federal agencies in public approval: 1st
2006-10-11 03:40:09 · answer #8 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
my things go to the places I send them. If you're worried about parcels getting to their destination send them via confirmation. That way you can track them and if anything happens, they repay any costs that have come up including the cost of what was in the package. But it's known that they scan everything in the US... so no i don't trust them.
2006-10-11 03:38:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do we have a choice not to trust them?
Who else has an idea of how to get mail to the otherside of england within a day. It maybe crap sometimes, but we couldnt live without the service.
2006-10-11 04:03:34 · answer #10 · answered by london lady 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋