I'm pissed off with Royal Mail too. I wouldn't mind strikes in theory, if they actually performed a good service consistently. Here's a wee run down of the things that have happened in the last two months... 1)We've had the post delivered on Sunday mornings for the past three weeks (what? Too fucking lazy/hungover to finish your rounds on Sat were you????) 2)We received a letter two weeks ago that was stamp-dated 8th Aug!!! 3)We sent a birthday card a distance of 20miles across London. IT TOOK TEN FUCKING DAYS! 4)Mail arrives having been opened on a regular basis. 5)A parcel was sent to Sweden. It arrived there opened, minus the birthday gift. Since we had no proof of sending the item, we were essentially told to piss off by the "Royal" Mail. As far as I am concerned, this is far too many things happening in too short a time for them all to be one-off cock-ups. The service in and around London is shite. And our local MP's have stuck their oar in as well due to the massive number of complaints that they're getting. |
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StaticKing 300 posts
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HiddenAway 15,147 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIMadeThis wrote:
Are there any decent games out this Friday where pre-orders are gonna be delayed? I don't think I've got any ordered.
Final Fantasy Tactics. Just my blooming luck. Been looking forward to that for ages. Now I've got to wait an extra week!
Also, done the lost mail claim for Jeanne d'Arc so either they won't receive the form in time (unlikely as I sent it last Tuesday) or the package will get stuck in the system.
Thank goodness for Rogue Galaxy.
/Wonders what the reaction would be if this happened on Halo 3 week
Oh, and the latest details here:
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Dougs 98,122 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHiddenAway wrote:
/Wonders what the reaction would be if this happened on Halo 3 week
Actually, I'd have paid good money for that! -
HiddenAway 15,147 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'll start the guesswork:
Eurogamer - 60 threads saying the same sort of thing as this title. Everyone else will be saying "Not another Royal Mail thread...". -
david78 829 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah and the stockpile of mail will take ages to clear and a lot of it'll get lost no doubt!.
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toy_brain 1,255 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'll be down the postal depot on Wednesday morning to pick up a parcel.
Guess I'd better ask them if they are joining in the strikes too, as I have a fair bit of stuff on order from various places around t'internet.
Annoying I guess, but videogames and anime figures are hardly critical for me to get by every day, so as long as they dont loose the damn things under the weeks-worth of built-up mail I wont really care that much. -
FixedInfinity 1,682 posts
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Registered 14 years agoStill waiting for my Quake Wars from Play...
It better turn up before this next strike, grrr. -
DaisyD 11,816 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAs the title says. We've not had any post delivered for 2 days now! -
DaisyD 11,816 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHarry's usually a great postie. He must be off sick. -
JayeM 3,384 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSame here. No post for the last 3 working days. -
DaisyD 11,816 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI spoke too soon! He just delivered it! 3 christmas cards for me! \o/ -
Animal 425 posts
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Registered 15 years ago/is still waiting for Far Cry 2 from Play. Posted on 2/12. =( -
vDoll 2,380 posts
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Registered 13 years agoAnimal wrote:
/is still waiting for Far Cry 2 from Play. Posted on 2/12. =(
The only time anything has ever gone AWOL in the post at Xmas, for us, has been stuff from Play.
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 19 years agoWell it doesn't help that the stupid cunts practically advertise the fact that there are PLAY goodies inside by whacking a sodding great big PLAY ad on the outside of the PLAY envelope
Might as well just change it to "PLAY ME POSTIE! YOUR KIDS WILL LOVE YOU!" -
MMMarmite 1,643 posts
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Registered 14 years agoAnimal wrote:
/is still waiting for Far Cry 2 from Play. Posted on 2/12. =(
Same here, mine was apparently sent on the 5th though -
rudedudejude 2,372 posts
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Registered 15 years agonope they don't - laast post date was yesterday and that was special next day only of which i posted 2.
You can post your stuff but depending on the payment it might not arrive for a good while. -
FHUTA 878 posts
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Registered 13 years agopost is collected today - but as a saturday collection instead of a regular weekday.
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FixedInfinity 1,682 posts
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Registered 14 years agoNope, not today. At least that's what I found on their site -
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Got an e-mail from future publishing today informing me that due to the strikes..
you may find your monthly subscription copy delayed by several weeks.
several weeks? seriously? what on earth are Royal Mail playing at. I'm still waiting for tons of post to arrive and the post man just pretty much skips our entire street out. Last time I heard they tried to ballot about a strike, but due to strikes the ballot cards didn't turn up in time. But 'several weeks' delay?
/face palms.
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Royail mail can suck my left nut, delivering to work is spot on, he's never late and always polite, however the personal home deliveries are getting rediculous. Sometimes im not getting post till 2pm! How the hell is someone going to sign for that when no fucker is in at that time, i think they should just do their rounds at 5pm when everyone's home from work.
Everytime i go to the depot with one of those red cards, the que is always out the door.
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