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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Do you know if it is being handled by Royal Mail, [i]or some other courier?[/i]
A lot of mail-order sales retailers now use other firms they choose, with very mixed standards of service, including that if you miss the delivery, re-arranging it can be difficult.
At least Royal Mail still has a sensible re-delivery service including offering you collecting from a local sorting-office if you were not at home when they tried to deliver.
I use a forum dedicated to one of my hobbies, whose suppliers are nearly all by mail-order (post and Internet). Of the complaints about wrong, delayed, lost or sloppily-made deliveries, almost all are about private companies who tend to use self-employed drivers on poor pay and conditions, and over-tight schedules.
Not Royal Mail. I find them very reliable, in fact. Of the purchases I have made, the most prompt deliveries were by Royal Mail.
No I do not work for it!
A lot of mail-order sales retailers now use other firms they choose, with very mixed standards of service, including that if you miss the delivery, re-arranging it can be difficult.
At least Royal Mail still has a sensible re-delivery service including offering you collecting from a local sorting-office if you were not at home when they tried to deliver.
I use a forum dedicated to one of my hobbies, whose suppliers are nearly all by mail-order (post and Internet). Of the complaints about wrong, delayed, lost or sloppily-made deliveries, almost all are about private companies who tend to use self-employed drivers on poor pay and conditions, and over-tight schedules.
Not Royal Mail. I find them very reliable, in fact. Of the purchases I have made, the most prompt deliveries were by Royal Mail.
No I do not work for it!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Patientlywaiting Yes it was sold by a Conservative government but with Labour support: Tony Blair's government had wanted to give it to the Dutch company TNT, which like most of the Royal Mail's competitors is just not made for domestic deliveries.
No we had not owned it since Tudor times. The service we know, based on delivering irrespective of distance for a fixed and actually remarkably low fee given that distance-free aspect, was established by Roland Hill in the 19C,
Prior to that there was a Royal Mail of sorts, but limited and expensive; and obviously very slow as was all transport before the development of the railways.
No we had not owned it since Tudor times. The service we know, based on delivering irrespective of distance for a fixed and actually remarkably low fee given that distance-free aspect, was established by Roland Hill in the 19C,
Prior to that there was a Royal Mail of sorts, but limited and expensive; and obviously very slow as was all transport before the development of the railways.
Iwantout · 26-30, M
They call it snail mail for a reason