Piggin' Royal Mail

[sewer rat]

It is Iona's birthday tomorrow (she'll be 9) and we ordered some stuff on-line and got the e mail from the company confirming dispatch the following day - this was 11 days ago - still not appeared - the courier / delivery service is guess who - Royal Mail - who apparently give themselves 14 days for a standard delivery and who do not offer a tracking service!! I know we stay in the Highlands but we also pay considerably more for deliveries up here so we should expect the same service as the rest of the UK. Not a happy daddy

[piskieinboots]

Disgraceful! They (RM) appear to me to be hell-bent on getting rid of the company one way or another!

Fingers crossed your parcel gets there today for Iona's birthday!!

Happy Birthday Iona

[jackie j]

Happy birthday Iona. If the parcel doesnt arrive just think you will have a suprise on another day. Have a lovely birthday.

[Florence Fennel]

Fingers crossed your delivery arrives today. What a shocking service. Happy Birthday to the Birthday Girl.

[Flummery]

That's a pathetic service. They have so many competitors they can't afford to be so lax.

Happy birthday Iona. Your Dad has lots of friends here who hope you have a super day.

[northepaul]

Yes Terrible service, unfortunately for mere mortals like us, we dont really have any alternatives.
Still its a disgrace!
I hope Iona has a lovely birthday anyway

[bramble]

Hope you have a great birthday Iona.
Just think, when your pressie DOES arrive you'll have another birthday celebration.
Hope you had a great day.

[Jeanied]

Happy Birthday Iona, from me and Maisie the cat. And the postman will be along eventually!!!!

[coreopsis]

Oh,dear.Hope your (not so little anymore)girl will have a good birthday.Happy Birthday Iona.
As for the RM-I can understand your disappointment-just as you mentioned before,Scotland for most people ends around Perth.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Fingers crossed you get the parcel today and a happy birthday to Iona (SR did you name your wee girl after Iona the island? (Stunning island))

[bobleponge]

Shocking service, hope the young lady's big day was great though, nonetheless.

[StephenH]

It is Iona's birthday tomorrow (she'll be 9) and we ordered some stuff on-line and got the e mail from the company confirming dispatch the following day - this was 11 days ago - still not appeared - the courier / delivery service is guess who - Royal Mail - who apparently give themselves 14 days for a standard delivery and who do not offer a tracking service!! I know we stay in the Highlands but we also pay considerably more for deliveries up here so we should expect the same service as the rest of the UK. Not a happy daddy

I work for RM, and I thoroughly agree: we're a disgrace. Apologies on RM's behalf. Top management and governments between them seem to want to kill RM altogether, and now we've got the ConDem coalition, which is really just a Tory government shored up by a bunch of supine, lickspittle Lib Dem traitors, it'll get worse (as will everything else).

[HeyWayne]

Happy 9th birthday Iona - you have a very special daddy.

I can't comment on Royal Mail - not without any bias anyway. I've made my feelings about them known before now.

[Topcat36]

My partner has worked for RM for 31 years . The posties want to provide a better service but their hands are tied , the unions sold them out and now the only mail RM are interested in getting to you on time is the junk mail. And it is going to get worse, before the latest deal went through there was a limit on the number of leaflets they could deliver , not any more it's as many as RM want , so brace yourselves. But do remember it is not the walkmans fault when your parcel arrives late, they can only deliver to you when it comes into their sorting office. Yes sometimes they do put things through the wrong door but when it's p***** down with rain and you are trying not to get the letters soaked it can be a wee bit difficult to read the mail correctly , It's not all bad service tho, my partner rescued some gig tickets the other week , a private courier had posted then through the wrong door not even bothered to get them signed for , the lady asked him if he knew where they should have gone , yep he did, so young lad got his tickets and was none the wiser that he very nearly didn't get them .
Big bossses who sit behind desks but know F*** all about the actual job have ruined this company.