Royal Mail

Royal Mail

This is to help you 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 ... Read review

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A posties view on Royal Mail!!!

Advantages: Deliver to most Destinations in uk the next day (if first class)
Disadvantages: Some mail lost or tampered with!!!

...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 ...
...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. ... more

ste031082 01.11.2005 (02.11.2005)
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Ebays best friend

Advantages: fast delivery times, friendly postmen
Disadvantages: items get lost/stolen

...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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What would I do without Postwatch?

Advantages: My sweet young postgirl, they deliver most days
Disadvantages: Lost mail, customer services

...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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THE ONLINE AUCTIONEER'S BEST FRIEND

Advantages: Cheap, wide range of services, national coverage
Disadvantages: Lack of support for online retailers - big difference between standard and recorded mail

...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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The Original And Still The Best

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

...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 - Currently In A Strike Period!

Advantages: Print Postage Online
Disadvantages: Currently On Strike

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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AIRSURE IS A BLATANT LIE BY ROYAL MAIL! I wanted to ship some important documents to the USA from England, really it was two sheets of A4 documents. I was quoted £42 , which was a rip-off for Parcel force(Uk courier). The lady at the Royal Mail office recommended Airsure and insiste dthat it had tracking(which is what i wanted). Well guess what! There is no tracking because Royal mail has said that the item left 10days ago and that the USPS website is not updated. USPS only had information that item ws being prepared to leave originating destination. There is no day to day tracking. It has been two weeks and the package has not arrived. This is FALSE advertising by royal Mail. they stated that eta was 5 working days to USA> This is not what one calls tracking.! either A friend of mine use dthe service in December. It took three weeks ...

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, Royal Mail have been dodging the golden bullet of liquidation for a while, so it isn?t a good day or month to talk about their ?special delivery, next day service?; because it isn?t happening. I can also claim it doesn?t surprise me, due to the fact it is state owned and like all Governmental Divisions they?re not effective as a business to business service. Your better off with ?pigeon mail? today, at least the post-code lottery doesn?t determine whether your postal service is effective by pigeon. They get the pecks by exercise and without Sat Nav; very green I might add. This is what happened in the mid 17th Century when it was only used by the Monarch before opening up to the public later on. It is remarkable how long this establishment has survived for and even with the digital age, the way the UK does business especially paper written ...

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Advantages: good for important packages
Disadvantages: pricey, not always reliable

I use Royal Mail's special delivery service both personally and professionally, with items that need to be received within a certain time frame. It's not a great time to be reviewing this, with ongoing post strikes, but I'll disregard these when giving my opinion. what is special delivery? Special delivery is a service offered by Royal Mail to guarantee delivery of your item by 1pm the next day. They guarantee that this will occur, or your money will be refunded. At an extra cost, it can also be used to guarantee a delivery on a saturday too. Costs The cheapest price for a special delivery service is £4.95, which is quite expensive. This allows for up to £500 compensation if the package is lost or damaged, to increase the compensation cover for a package of the same size, the price increases up to £7.40 for £2500 ...

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