[UK-CONTEST] Postal Service

Tue Mar 30 23:16:33 PDT 2010

Let me assure anyone who has had mail tampered with or stolen that Royal
Mail takes any such incidence VERY seriously.

With a workforce of 160,000 people handling over 80 million items a day
there are always going to be a very few bad apples / mistakes, but since
joining the Company last December I have been surprised (and impressed) at
the constant reminders we receive about getting it right first time.
(The Group has some ingenious methods of weeding out the bad apples and
they are soon identified).

The other issue is security; the US postal service is in a constant state
of jitters about suspicious mail - this has a knock-on effect on RM and
other national postal services receiving mail from the States. (We too are
very security conscious nowadays).

Chris VDP is correct in saying that we get good value from the postal
service, but I would say that wouldn't I?!.

73 Cris
GM4FAM

> As this is looking like a cross group posting I will send to all groups.
>
> A couple of years ago I was expecting a parcel being sent through Royal
> Mail almost a month before Christmas.It was only a cd for mum that was
> sent as a small packet rather than a parcel. I knew the date it had been
> despatched as the company I was buying from advised me on this on the day
> of posting, which as I say it was around a month before Christmas. 2 weeks
> later from despatch date there was no parcel, but as I worked at the time
> for a well known courier I was friends with the posties and Parcel Force
> lads on my round, so I asked them about this delay.
>
> They advised me that at the Coventry airport depot they had 3 40ft
> trailers full of small packets, parcels, and various other items that were
> not going to be delivered due to the lack of staff. So I put in a formal
> complaint to Royal Mail and within 3 days the package was wth me, and
> within 1 week 2 of the 3 trailers had been emptied and the last one
> delivered before Christmas. It had to be sorted by managers from around
> the area, with some of them working almost 24 hours to deliver them as
> well as sort.
>
> So a complaint to the right people will get action. But what we now have
> to look forward to with Royal Mail is our mail being delivered at 4pm in
> the after noon, as opposed to early morning as it used to be. But the
> media are not reporting on this, they are saying the posties are turning
> down a £2500.00 bonus and pay rise and will be going out on strike again
> for more money. If any of yu do see your local postman ask him what his
> new hours will be in a couple of months, and would he rather start at
> silly O'clock in the morning and be done by lunchtime so us, the general
> public, can have our mail at a time when we can act upon the bill that
> needs paying, an appointment we need to change, etc.
>
> As for mail being opened it is a criminal offence as it is an act against
> the crown - Royal Mail is still a government owned company - and is almost
> as bad as what Ronnie Biggs and his boys did! Go to the Royal Mail website
> and have a look on there for details.
>
> This does look like I am bashing Royal Mail, but as a service I think we
> get good value as I know I couldn't deliver a QSL card to the other side
> of the world for less than a pound any other way.
>
> Cheers and beers.
>
>
> Chris Colclough
> G1VDP
> http://www.g1vdp.com
> http://www.mc0shl.com
> 30M digi Group Member #1432
>
> Tel: 024 7673 5940
> Mob: 07505 359709
> QTHR
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Parkins <kvp at bigfoot.com>
> To: Roger G3SXW <g3sxw at btinternet.com>
> Cc: tom wylie <thomaswylie at sky.com>; CDXC <CDXC at yahoogroups.com>;
> GMDX at yahoogroups.co.uk; UK Contest Reflector <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 March, 2010 19:43:44
> Subject: Re: [CDXC] Postal Service
>
> Hello Roger,
>
> The 'problem' has been complained about for the past 3 years and each
> time we have been fobbed off with promises that it would be looked
> into and something would be done, it hasn't.
>
> At the same sorting office one of our daughters friends applied for a
> student job over the Christmas period. On the first day he was there
> they opened up the overflow area in the office that hadn't been used
> since the year before, he told us there were several baskets of mail
> that hadn't been delivered the previous year. He spent his first
> morning at work dumping the old mail into a skip!
>
> I have to say that absolutely nothing of any importance gets sent from
> this house by Royal Mail anymore.
>
> Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:11:29 PM, you wrote:
>
> RG> John - this sounds like a local problem. I have NEVER had mail
> RG> tampered with. Maybe P.O. took action when you complained.
> RG> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> John G8KVP                            mailto:kvp at bigfoot.com
>
>
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