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Not if they never deliver the letters you send it isnt.
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And following on from the price rise for letters, the Royal Fail will do the same with parcels by the end of this month:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...end-parcels--just-week-leap-stamp-prices.html
Expect postage costs to magically rise in eBay when sellers try to recoup the extra costs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...end-parcels--just-week-leap-stamp-prices.html
Expect postage costs to magically rise in eBay when sellers try to recoup the extra costs.
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Whilst I could understand why you would like it to be so I find it unlikely that eBay sellers would be charging for posting at a loss, there's really nothing magic about it
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I already make a loss on postage, so I'll be buggered if I make any more. I've just closed my eBay shop. Can't be bothered with the hassle and RM. have pretty much priced me out of the game.
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Regarding the Royal Fail, I rest my case: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=398192
Tomorrow I'll be posting three items and all of them will be recorded delivery. Since my confidence for the Royal Fail is low as it were, I wonder how that will go. Bear in mind that the last four lost items as already mentioned by me two months ago were all recorded delivery - and they still show up on the tracking system as "delivery in progress".
Trying to get compensation for the loss is like trying to get blood out of a stone!
Tomorrow I'll be posting three items and all of them will be recorded delivery. Since my confidence for the Royal Fail is low as it were, I wonder how that will go. Bear in mind that the last four lost items as already mentioned by me two months ago were all recorded delivery - and they still show up on the tracking system as "delivery in progress".
Trying to get compensation for the loss is like trying to get blood out of a stone!
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just got my rate change letter from Pitney Bowes for the franking machine i have. I will be saving 16p on 1st class and 19p on 2nd class post from 30th April. So, not all bad for businesses using franking machines then :shrug:
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It's me again.
Well, amazingly the three parcels have all arrived at their destination safely! Now, if they could find the other four that went missing two months ago (had to refund the two ebay buyers on account of that, and still trying to claim compensation on an artwork sent to a client but all I got back from them is a book of first class stamps - cheers!) then perhaps, just perhaps the Royal Mail may return back into my good books.
But, I still think there's plenty room for improvements.
Well, amazingly the three parcels have all arrived at their destination safely! Now, if they could find the other four that went missing two months ago (had to refund the two ebay buyers on account of that, and still trying to claim compensation on an artwork sent to a client but all I got back from them is a book of first class stamps - cheers!) then perhaps, just perhaps the Royal Mail may return back into my good books.
But, I still think there's plenty room for improvements.
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Holy thread revival Batman . . . but I am now convinced that the Royal Fail has lost all what remaining commonsense they have got left.
Earlier on this morning, I stepped outdoors to get the newspapers and noticed two envelopes sitting on the doorstep fluttering about in the wind. One contained the monthly bank statement and the other one containing details of a follow up doctor's appointment for my mother.
Why hadn't he bothered to post them through the letterbox? Anyone could have pinched those envelopes and steal the details on them. Not very impressed and will catch the postman when he does his rounds on Monday about his laziness - not to mention his ignorance of the Data Protection Act.
Then there was that occasion last week when one of the letters posted to me was meant for next door. I now know their surname (never knew that before).
Earlier on this morning, I stepped outdoors to get the newspapers and noticed two envelopes sitting on the doorstep fluttering about in the wind. One contained the monthly bank statement and the other one containing details of a follow up doctor's appointment for my mother.
Why hadn't he bothered to post them through the letterbox? Anyone could have pinched those envelopes and steal the details on them. Not very impressed and will catch the postman when he does his rounds on Monday about his laziness - not to mention his ignorance of the Data Protection Act.
Then there was that occasion last week when one of the letters posted to me was meant for next door. I now know their surname (never knew that before).
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Hehehe. That could well be true!
Although I don't own a dog, next door does have the two most annoying snappy Jack Russells . . . so you might have a point there.
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Would have thought it'd be obvious. Both envelopes were addressed to me (one with a nice big Santander logo on it), and leaving them lying on the doorstep mean anyone could have just taken them. It might have contained a cheque.
It still smacks of carelessness to me. Thought the average postman would be more aware of how valuable letters are in this day and age of information thief.
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Maybe the postie dropped them by accident but whatever the scenario of them not being delivered, I fail to see what it has to do with the data protection act.
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Like I said, they should take more care when doing their job (have amended my last comment with that to mind).
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But now all my posts look disjointed.
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Terrible habit of mine - altering my posts once I've put them up. :bonk: Sorry 'bout that.
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The front door is under a porch so it is sheltered from the wind. I was upstairs and saw the postie leave the house so I went downstairs but couldn't see anything on the mat or even in the letterbox itself. I thought that was strange so I opened the door and there were the letters, just laying on the steps outside. For something that has been "accidently" dropped, it is well placed.
Maybe he did actually post them through the box and it fell back out but it's still the result of carelessness.
What would happen if I wasn't indoors or I was busy doing stuff around the house? Then those letters would have been blown away and then someone'd come along and think "Oo, I'll have some of that". One was a bank statement and the other was notice of a doctor's appointment for my elderly mother. Both could have got lost to the elements if I hadn't thought of looking through the door.
Looks like the postie was in a hurry to finish his round . . . as my latest cartoon shows.
Bear in mind that this is the latest let down after two commisioned cartoon artwork sent to someone had got lost in the post and had to issue refunds as a result (yes, both were recorded delivery so I was able to track them - both ended up as "processing in system" and remained that way for months since then).
Trying to claim the cost of those two items was like trying to get blood out of a stone. Did get compensated in the end . . . a free book of six first class stamps. Thanks a bleedin' bunch, Royal Mail. If you must push prices up, at least improve the sevice to make up for it.
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