Parcelforce/Royal Mail is a feckin' joke

What's in the box?

Tamiflu

:-)

My next project*. It's a frame and forks.

*that one's for Skully.

*this one's for Andy.

Apparently no-one buys prams these days, you get a pushchair/pram hybrid. :-)

Italian titanium I bet.

Good luck, no matter what's in your secret box!

It's not Italian. For once.

I may use their sister organisation to deliver a freshly laid turd afterwards too.

It may be freshly laid your end (!) but it'll be all stale and powdery by the the time Parcelfarce/RM have delivered it.

Does anyone know of a way to specifically request that parcelforce stay the fuck away from your package?
I want to order some stuff from Japan, but I know they are going to bleed me dry with "handling fees" and "clearance fees". Last time I ordered something the total inc shipping was just shy of 200, they charged me £50 in handling and clearance fees on top of the £20 customs!!!!!!!
So is there a way to request that another courier handle your package in the UK?

^Cant pay import duty in advance with parcelforce, they pay it for you then charge you for the privilege, thats one of their scams.

just had a conversation about a card i was just left with incorrect time and date on it, tried to arrange a redelivery but it was hard work. He then forgot to hang up at the end of the conversation, he laid the phone on the counter and preceded to call me all the names under the sun, it was incredible.

what a horrible, spiteful person. They (sounded like between 3-5 people) went on to discuss various other customers they had in this morning, they came to a unanimous decision that tomorrow they would 'fuck up the post'. This was at 48 East Bank N16 5QB sorting office.

just tell the fucker that send you the package to state the conents of the package of something like £5.50 value then it won't be such a big charge.

I love my online shopping, me, but it seems today is the second day without Royal Fail. Is there a strike going on currently? I googled it but I can only find articles from July or August...

Deliveries should be on again today, Strikes scheduled for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

There is definitely something up - been no mail this week at work and at home. I put in a complaint with them and they said they were going to track everything. My mate who hasnt had anything for 2 weeks now, was told that they had a re-org and changed the way they delivered mail - and it's gone very wrong so there is a massive backlog now.
Royal Epic Fail

they are wankers and i hate them.

I ordered a few bits from SJS cycles (support the sponsor!) on Monday, still no sign.

Phoned them up and they said that the postal strike had locked down all deliveries/collections for them all week.

Hopefully my stuff should arrive earlyish next week.

Well, we just had the postman bring some stuff. Still no sign of the fucking Snow Leopard disk! Shoulda gone to the Apple store.

Not a voice of authority on it, but I'd heard a lot of the issue was around the fact that new laws on distance lorries can travel meant that the deliveries to the sorting office were arriving 1 hour later. For a while they still brought the posties in at the same time, but obviously they had nought to do (truck's not arrived, = no post to sort). The management wanted to change this BUT the hour later start would mean that the posties lose their unsociable hours bonus...

From my understanding the strike isn't just about delivery drivers, but job losses, pay cuts, the Royal Mail reneging on terms and conditions of employment and securing workers pensions. All seems pretty reasonable to me. It seems like these attacks on the workers are designed to destabilise the CWU in order so that Mandelson can push through with his aim of privatising the Royal Mail, even though it could prove to be a politically suicidal move for Labour.

Shit bastards, I wasn't in to recieve my package, I went down the next day and it was shut because it was lunch time, I went down the day after that and they were on strike, with no warning the previous day. I went down the day after that, on the 7th and final day they said they would keep it for, to be told it has been sent back

'but that would mean you hold it for SIX days, not seven as it says on the card, in fact if you go from the day after you tried to deliver it's only 5 days including a sunday and a strike day' I said

'yeah, but, today's the seventh day, so we sent it back'

can't argue with that kind of logic

I was pissed off as I just queued for half an hour, but not as pissed off as the woman behind me who queued for half an hour just to get some free lighbulbs from nPower

this made me chuckle

Royal fail/Parcelfarce is fucking jokes. We use them at my work and more and more stuff appears to go missing or be late.

I know someone who works as a postie and he said he's seen people steal things from parcels, some posties won't even try to deliver a parcel if they can't be bothered to carry it, they just fill out one of those "we tried to deliver" cards and slip that through your door and leave the parcel at the depot.

Lazy work shy cunts....

I'm still waiting for the new set of wheels. It's a bloody week now! And why my postman always turns up at 12.30?! I know there's a large unemployment in this country, but for fcuk's sake! And next one's the DHL - bastards didn't leave any card the last time and simply sent the parcel back to Germany :-/

posties=cuntz
i used to work near mt pleasant sorting office and they were all pissed or stoned(smoking in their parked cars outside) before they went into work.

oh yeah but this would all be so much worse if you were in Tasmania, or Chad or Poland.

you wouldn't even get mail, you'd just get some mud pushed through the door, twice a year.

Anybody seen The Dispatches on ch4 some time ago on Royal Mail/Parcelforce? One of the young Black journalists (I think to have more street cred) went as a temp to the sorting office in Birmingham. That scene were they're playing football with parcels was priceless. Also they were robbing letters, dumping post in the gutter and all that malarky. All young temps who went to work for Royal Mail to have some fun. Quite a watch.