OT Royal Mail

[Mike Clarke]

Are you sure that email really was from Royal Mail. the wording looks typical of a scam. I'd be wary of following any links in it.

[charles]

Ours arrives at lunchtime. but not every day

[David]

I stand corrected.

I was thinking that RM had some involvement in the Post Office but apparently it is wholly owned by the government (BEIS).

[alan_m]

No scam.

The email was basically advertising and if I wanted to send a letter or package rather than me going to the post box or post office they would pick it up from my house. It's a service that for a (trial??) period they are offering for free when paying for postage on-line.

With their record of delivery why would I want to stay in 3 days on the off chance that someone may turn up to collect what I want to post?

[Peter Able]

Ah! just that "e" missed. My apologies.

Said very much tongue-in-cheek, but the only thing that seems to be rounded up here is the Council Tax. As for RM there is only 1 collection - at 9am - and the occasional clumps of letters delivered two or three times a week.

You're obviously way more into postal matters than I, but I was very much involved in government-to-local finances across Great Britain and in those days (pre-2015) money was hosed all over the North of England, in particular.

I don't know about difficulty in getting staff, but when I recently tried to collect a parcel from the local RM site they had plenty of staff, said staff conducting a demolition derby with their vans. There must have been hundreds of damage done. Just one site, on one day.

PA

[alan_m]

Albeit perhaps 10 years ago the worst case of that I witnessed was at the City Link warehouse. At the end of my working day I went to collect a package where I had been carded because I wasn't in. This coincided with a number of drivers turning up at the end of their shift/round. All the undelivered packages were pushed out of the back of the van to drop to the concrete warehouse floor.

[alan_m]

Yep, my Amazon Sunday delivery is now going to be today (Saturday) as informed by email and Alexa.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Am 07/10/2023 um 10:24 schrieb Mike Clarke:

I bet he does.

[Davey]

I love the concept of Just In Time. I once saw a signpost near a parking area at a US Ford Assembly Plant, the sign read: "JIT Truck Waiting Area".

[charles]

maybe, once they've unloaded, the driver needs a break?