Royal Mail Strikes 🤷‍♂️……….🚚

Exige

Exige

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They have so far had a few 1 day strikes and one 2 day strike which was a Friday/Saturday.

After the 2 day strike I had two packages go missing for 3 weeks before they moved in the system! Clearly not clearing backlogs on a FIFO basis just to be Guinnesss.

There were about half a dozen 1 day strikes set for November which just changed two days ago to striking next Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday and then the same the week after rendering their service totally unusable for business.

I have used Royal Mail through convenience for 8 years with my business - but have been forced to use Evri today for the first time - booked through Ebay the process was simple, drop off shop is my local little Tesco which is open until 10pm every night.

Price for 2 to 3 day fully tracked for this package £1.75 Vs the current Royal Mail Price of £4.35. I spend over £10K a year with Royal Mail.

Ebay also offer DPD which I will be trying for my international orders which are approx 1/3 of my business.

I think they have just fooked themselves over big style and they will be needing many more redundancies than already announced 👀



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Noobie said:
Evri is just Hermes who rebranded themselves
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Yes indeed, but with much better systems and tracking / delivery info like DPD's and a Main Supermarket Drop off Partner.
My local Evri delivery fella is the best of all of them - but depends on where you are I guess and very much luck of the draw as they are all independent I think.
 
Markduc said:
Evri coming here is just shite
dpd is good because they use iom independent carriers
Strangely stuff coming through Royal Mail via Manx post office has been getting better 🤷‍♂️
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I will probably still use Royal Mail for offshore UK outside of the strikes.
 
Used Hermes / Evri for ages only ever had one issue with a parcel that looked like an elephant had sat on - I live right next door to a post office and to Evri and much prefer Evri
 
I support the Royal Mail workers, but I got something bought off a bent eBay seller that's gone missing.

Truth is that Royal Mail is a mis-managed gala of shit. Paying staff properly will not solve their problems. Getting a proper management might.

And the country needs to wake up from this slumber of think ng that a letter to anywhere should be a penny. It needs to go on distance and so it should not cost the same to send a letter to your neighbour as sending it to a different country that is hundreds of miles away. The Post Office should treat its customers as adults who know that Northern Ireland is much further away than Oxford, if you live in London. Time to wake the fck up!

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Exige said:
They have so far had a few 1 day strikes and one 2 day strike which was a Friday/Saturday.

After the 2 day strike I had two packages go missing for 3 weeks before they moved in the system! Clearly not clearing backlogs on a FIFO basis just to be Guinnesss.

There were about half a dozen 1 day strikes set for November which just changed two days ago to striking next Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday and then the same the week after rendering their service totally unusable for business.

I have used Royal Mail through convenience for 8 years with my business - but have been forced to use Evri today for the first time - booked through Ebay the process was simple, drop off shop is my local little Tesco which is open until 10pm every night.

Price for 2 to 3 day fully tracked for this package £1.75 Vs the current Royal Mail Price of £4.35. I spend over £10K a year with Royal Mail.

Ebay also offer DPD which I will be trying for my international orders which are approx 1/3 of my business.

I think they have just fooked themselves over big style and they will be needing many more redundancies than already announced 👀



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Those RM workers who voted to strike may as well be sending account application forms from Evri, DPD etc to their own customers. Idiots.
 
I haven't checked my bank account, but eBay claim to have refunded me for the stuff I bought from one of its sellers. Either way, I am done with eBay sellers. If the cheap-arse says "free postage", I've learnt that it is code for shove it in the postbox with no tracking or guarantees, so it is tough shit on the customer if it never turns up. eBay have to sub this by returning people's money. Not really a winning , long-term solution, I feel!
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Exige said:
Do you know, I thought that when I posted it and was going to look for an old one - but then I thought, no, let him has his day :ROFLMAO: 🐮
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You're getting good at this new 'thinking' thing. Times have changed!
 
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