Royal Mail

...with a few pointers on Royal Mail and its staff from someone that works in the network. First of all a day in the life of a postman: A postman starts his day at half five in the morning when he arrives at work the goes onto whats called group sorting where he sorts all mail for his delivery area into various walks. This can be anywhere between 15 and 40 different walks. He completes this in about 30-45 minutes depending on the amount of mail that ...
...Now a few services that Royal Mial provides: 1st or 2nd class: Standard and most popular sort of posting. 1ST class should arrive the next day if sent in uk and 2nd class the day after. In my time at royal mail 2nd class items do not take the extra day to get there and now i send all my post 2nd class and about 95% of the time its there the next day. Some destinations in the UK though can not be reached the next day so an extra day is needed. Not ...

ste031082 01.11.2005 (02.11.2005) · Read full review
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...and sound to their destination. Royal Mail provides this service - but not 100% of the time. WHEN DID ROYAL MAIL START? In 1635, King Charles I opened Royal Mail to the public. Letters would be delivered to the recipient by a post-boy on a horse back and fore across the country and the recipient would have to pay the delivery charge (at the time 2d = 0.8p). In 1661 the first postal stamps were invented, to stop the post-boys delaying the mail. ...
...WHAT IS ROYAL MAIL? The Royal Mail is a brand of The Royal Mail Group Plc. They deliver 82 million items each day to 27 million addresses across the UK. With the rise of people internet shopping, I'm sure this figure will rise in years to come. WHAT SERVICES DO THEY OFFER? The most frequently used service they provide will probably be First Class Delivery. At the moment it costs just 30p to send a letter or parcel weighing up to 60g in the UK, ...

welshgal17 18.09.2005 · Read full review
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...to have a go at Royal Mail, the daily newspapers do it constantly but to be honest they do manage to deliver my mail most days in rain, snow & sunshine. However two little true stories do make you look at Royal Mail through a different light. This time last year over a period of six weeks, six different items sent to my home went missing. Two replacement credit cards, one cheque book, £30 of gift vouchers & two items from work all went missing. ...
...problem more seriously, they sent Royal mail a letter (copied to me) demanding to know why these particular items had gone missing, asked Royal Mail to monitor all my mail for 2 months & do an internal enquiry. About three months later Royal mail concluded that no one had stolen my mail, it must have went missing & apologised. As far as I know nothing else has went missing since but I am still suspicious all the same. No sooner had that little concern ...

ScottishWestie 18.12.2007 · Read full review
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...If you mention the words Royal and Mail in the same sentence to the average Briton, you will be sure of a vociferous reply along the lines of, “Don’t talk to me about them!” Personally, I find much of this criticism to be unfair – my experiences of the postal service in the UK have been nothing but positive and I firmly believe that you still get excellent value for money, given that you can send a standard letter for 27p. ...
...which I have used the Royal Mail extensively to handle payments and products bought and sold on www.ebay.com. I’ve learnt a few things along the way too, so hopefully there’ll be some useful advice there too. I’ve also had a few thoughts on the whole “efficiency” debate that seems to surround the postal service in this country. POSTING AND DELIVERY First Class postage will send a letter up to 60g to any UK destination ...

LostWitness 28.12.2002 · Read full review
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...how much we rely on Royal Mail as one of our primary communication tools. Yes I have Internet access, multiple email accounts, a home telephone, a work telephone and a mobile phone but still I often communicate by post, always using the Royal Mail. Why? Because its an easy to use reliable service which charges little considering what you get for your money. ~~~ Deliveries ~~~ Every day I actually look forward to the postman delivering my mail. I ...
...an ordinary home user of Royal Mail, you don't have your mail collected from home, you need to pop your mail in the post box. These are easy to find, they are big red things which are situated near shops or on pavements in residential areas. The collection times on the Post boxes for your information . If you want more than a standard service on your mail, you need to pop along to your nearest post office or sub-post office. Businesses can have their ...

KathrynE 10.04.2001 · Read full review
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Royal Mail is the UK's number one postal service, infact many people aren't even aware that other postal companies even exist. So you'd expect them to be pretty good at what they do, to fight of all the competition? Well actually no, there service is pretty poor at times. Unfortunately we are stuck in a position now whereby Royal Mail is so well established that it would be hard for any other companies to compete. In this review I will only talk ...
...experiences. So what does Royal Mail offer? Royal Mail offers a whole range of services. For standard mail (mainly letters and small items) they offer a first and second class service. First class should take 1 working day adn second class 2-3 working days. Costs start at 24p for second class mail and 32p for First class mail, please visit RoyalMail's website for most recent pricing as postal costs are ever increasing. These services are actually ...

taylora-2006 07.08.2007 · Read full review
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...have always sent them by royal mail registered post or by their special delivery service. Until recently there have been very few problems but over the past few months the deterioration in both of these services has been startling and as a result I have been forced to consider alternative despatch methods, something which just 12 months ago would have been unthinkable. I have decided to write this review because I wonder if any other ciao readers ...
...a little bit about the royal mail but for those of you that are not familiar with their recorded delivery service or their special delivery service I will begin by explaining what they are, and what the differences between these two services are. Recorded Delivery This method of despatch provides you with an automated receipt as proof of posting and when the package arrives at its destination a signature is required. The cost of this service for ...

micksheff 01.10.2004 · Read full review
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...6 Special Delivery items by Royal Mail every week. Not one has gone astray or failed to reach it`s destination by the specified guaranteed delivery date! I know that many people have had problems with the post but in our experience we have absolutely no complaints over this particular service. It has proved invaluable in our estimation. I really have no knowledge as to why some customers of this service have experienced problems but it might be ...
...10kg. Why? I know that Royal Mail Special Delivery loses out to other carriers for those intermediate weights as the business next door to us can testify. Why is there not for example, say a 5kg and 10kg weight –price? Strange. It’s a big jump from 2kg to 10kg. What else? Never lost an item nor had one delayed so can`t comment on the process of submitting a claim but the procedure is there in the little leaflet. Pick one up if at all ...

bwanamdevu 20.07.2002 · Read full review
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...I have complained to the Royal Mail customer services on two occasions.I have to say that the people who handle such calls were very polite and I did receive a letter(together with a free book of first class stamps)very promptly both times. On the first occasion I complained,they were very apolagetic and took the time to explain to me the severe staffing problems they were experiencing.However the misdirected mail continued to arrive and so when ...
...that I think this is the beginning of the end for the Royal Mail.Now that competition is allowed I do not think it will be long before customer support starts to drain away.I was one of their biggest fans but I am now left with a different point of view. ...

murky5 04.04.2001 · Read full review
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...too happy to slate the Royal Mail and its services and how those service let you down from time to time, but hang on a cotton pickin' moment ..spare a thought for those good folk at the end of the service, or the front line depending on your point of view....Yup the good old Postie.... They have it cushy don't they..or I couldn't get up that time of the morning...or i wouldn't mind finishing at 1100 in the morning..these are the sort of comments ...
...have a go about the Royal Mail make sure you moan about it to the management, remember the Postie can only deliver what he is given to deliver, its not his fault your letter or pacrcel has got lost or damaged in the post, he only gets the end result....make an effort to at least find out your regular postmans first name..and at Christmas I always give our postman a bottle of something, because as a Councillor I get a lot more mail than most folk, ...

Dalesman 10.08.2001 · Read full review
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...Along with the form from Royal Mail, there was another birthday card, this time with a deliberately torn corner – just enough to see there was nothing worth stealing! This time, it was from my Aunt and thankfully was only a card, as she is sending a present next week. The postwoman had noticed this and was very sympathetic. The card was in a see-through Royal Mail bag this time, apologising for it being damaged in transit. But it wasn't done ...
...a child myself, I adored Royal Mail. I got into penpalling big time and at one point, had 250 penpals all over the world! Since growing up and having my own kids, I don’t have the time or money for writing and posting so many letters, but I do my fair share of stamp buying and parcel sending. Let’s face it, there’s nothing quite like receiving a wonderful letter or a lovely gift in the post! So I’m not saying Royal Mail is ...

KarenUK 21.04.2001 · Read full review
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...people who dont know who royal mail are ad even fewer who have never sent or recieved a letter. Perhaps its the recent drop in service levels that has caused the latest uproar but its about time something was done. THE SERVICE: The post office delivers letters to any destination in the UK and abroad. It has 100% UK coverage and will ship it to another country providing you use an airmail stamp. The theory states that if you buy a first class stamp ...
...need our mail, and our Royal Mail should provide it to us, ON TIME. THE COST: The Royal Mail is the only company that can deliver packages under 10g for less than £1 (see the next section on monopoly) and so enjoys almost all the business in this market. It's currently 27p for a 1st class stamp and 19p for a second class one. A good value considering what has to be done to get your mail to its destination. There are extra costs if you fail to put ...

leahslad 24.05.2001 · Read full review
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...the run up to Christmas, Royal Mail were having delivery problems in the Bristol area, returning items to it's depot due to not being able to deliver items due to the fact that they were unable to get answers at the relevant addresses to be able to deliver signed for letters and packages. This caused big queues at the delivery offices, and huge backlogs. Just after Christmas, Royal Mail indicated that the problems had been sorted out. Unfortunately, ...
...Royal Mail have indicated that the problems have been resolved, they are still ongoing. On a recent Saturday, our local postman posted our letters, and within 30 seconds I had gone to the front door to pick up the mail. On going through it, I noticed a "sorry, you were out" card, indicating that he or she had attempted to contact us to post an item that was too big for our letter box, but having received no response was having to return it to our ...

JAVER1967 22.03.2008 · Read full review
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The Royal Mail is well known to all of us as the main company for delivering letters in the UK. You have two types of normal post known as first and second class. First class post is expected to be delivered the next day (if you post it before 9am!) and second class will take two to three days to arrive. What is not so well known about Royal Mail is that they actually have a government enforced monopoly on letter delivery here in the UK. By law ...
...But how well is the Royal Mail working? Having known some people who have worked for them I can tell you that their job is incredibly difficult and hard work, but they do normally get the letter to you on time. I have only witnessed one instance of a late letter that I have sent (it took 5 days to arrive) but that was because I failed to put a postcode on the bottom of the address. Oooops. Every other time it has arrived on time, and sometimes second ...

robsgirl 11.09.2001 · Read full review
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...-hiding under the banner of Royal (how much longer will her Majesty approve?) Mail. Last December I was fortunate enough to have acquired enough points on my credit card to cash them in for £165's worth of travel vouchers - redeemable at a selection of travel companies. Now at the same time my other half was thinking about booking a holiday in Wales early to take advantage of the half price deals. When we worked it out it would be possible for us ...
...holiday booking reference - by Royal Mail Special Delivery. I took the package to the local Post Office and checked with the assistant that it was ok to send the vouchers through the post - she assured me it was no problem - they would be signed for at their destination the next day and were insured for up to £250. That, I thought, was the end of it. I put the holiday out of my mind and prepared for Christmas. By the second week of January - our ...

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