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Royal Mail warning
A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory stick. I
carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. Ronald |
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"Ronald" decided it would be mildly amusing to
write: Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. You can get proof of postage free from your local post office. You give them your letter/package and they will stamp a form which shows the destination and time of posting. If the item doesn't arrive you can claim for up to £28, which is exactly the same amount you can claim for with recorded post(!) -- Lots of love, Rich crapola - http://www.brushtastic.f2s.com gamertag - sausagelord / ph33r my ****e gaming skillz!!! |
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In message , Ronald
writes A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory stick. I carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. This is an Idiot Warning I am afraid - you sent it uninsured and didn't get a free certificate of postage. OK Royal Snail shouldn't have lost it - but ya should have known the risk ya took.!! -- njc AKA (Fastpay, Paypal & nochex e-mail) |
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nigel. carron wrote:
|| In message , Ronald || writes ||| A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory ||| stick. I carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a ||| couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was ||| on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail ||| basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will ||| use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. || || This is an Idiot Warning I am afraid - you sent it uninsured and didn't || get a free certificate of postage. OK Royal Snail shouldn't have lost it || - but ya should have known the risk ya took.!! || || Hear hear You are sending goods of value. Get a certificate at least! Sheesh...! |
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A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory stick. I
carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. You can get a certificate I believe, to say you've posted it. Avoid RM full stop - the our local depot (Coventry) had a strike and we've *lost* almost two weeks of mail, including some important stuff - I assume they've slung it all away because they can't be bothered to sort out the backlog. Why they didn't fire the lot of them is beyond me. |
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"Ronald" wrote:
A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory stick. I carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. What did you expect them to say? "Oh, sure Ronald, you may never of posted it but here's a bucket load of cash because you seem like a decent bloke"? At the end of the day if you can't prove you posted it you may well never of done. I'm not suggesting for one minute you didn't, but you can't really expect Royal Mail to take responsibility unless you have some documentary evidence that a) proves you posted it and b) gives them some information to give them at least a fighting chance of investigating the loss. You don't even need to use registered post - just take it to the post office and ask for a proof of posting, which is completely FREE and gives is similar to sending via recorded delivery, with the exception you don't get a signature on delivery. -- iv Paul iv [ Mail: ] [ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ] |
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In article , malev@
1ccms.com, a.k.a Malev says... =20 Please, how do you send small items of small value? Get a certificate of posting. 'Insurance' cover is then up to =A328 AIUI |
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I'm a bit fed up at moment as I've not received some expected deliveries -
but I got some of our neighbours! Maybe one of 'em has mine? It's an appalling service at present. Can it get worse? Chris "Paul Hopwood" wrote in message ... "Ronald" wrote: A word of warning if you are returning a small item like a memory stick. I carefully parcelled up a memory stick in a jiffy bag, put a couple of first class stamps on it and put it in the post box. That was on the 5th November. The company has never received it. Royal Mail basically said tough, can you prove you posted it? Next time I will use registered post. However I will be hand delivering my Christmas cards. What did you expect them to say? "Oh, sure Ronald, you may never of posted it but here's a bucket load of cash because you seem like a decent bloke"? At the end of the day if you can't prove you posted it you may well never of done. I'm not suggesting for one minute you didn't, but you can't really expect Royal Mail to take responsibility unless you have some documentary evidence that a) proves you posted it and b) gives them some information to give them at least a fighting chance of investigating the loss. You don't even need to use registered post - just take it to the post office and ask for a proof of posting, which is completely FREE and gives is similar to sending via recorded delivery, with the exception you don't get a signature on delivery. -- iv Paul iv [ Mail: ] [ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ] |
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Paul Hopwood wrote:
At the end of the day if you can't prove you posted it you may well never of done. I'm not suggesting for one minute you didn't, but you .... or even "... never have done." can't really expect Royal Mail to take responsibility unless you have some documentary evidence that a) proves you posted it and b) gives them some information to give them at least a fighting chance of investigating the loss. You don't even need to use registered post - just take it to the post office and ask for a proof of posting, which is completely FREE and gives is similar to sending via recorded delivery, with the exception you don't get a signature on delivery. I totally agree with what you're saying though. -- Chris Green ) |
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Avoid RM full stop
Please, how do you send small items of small value? In small envelopes of small value |
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