[Humour] Have Amazon just given up?

[Grassman]

Not forgetting "Turkish Barbers"

There’s so many of them, in so many out of the way places, you’d almost be forgiven for thinking they’re fronts for laundering dodgy Turkish/Albanian money.

 

[Peteinblack]

Last year the postmen went on strike, because their pay offer was very conditional on all their terms and conditions were altered. They lost which meant the postmen just left and haven't been replaced.

A few months ago, my husband was expecting an important letter and it was just a few days to go to my birthday, so we knew post was incoming. He went to the sorting office at 8am on a Saturday morning to pick up the mail for us, otherwise it wouldn't have been delivered for another week or so.
He was told there are 14 rounds in Newhaven, and, at the time, only 6 posties to do it. Everyone else had left.

This is why it is important to look at why people are striking and not accuse them of being greedy in wanting to be able to pay their bills.

Another example of how privatisation has led to a reduced service for ordinary people:

First-class post no longer fastest as Royal Mail prioritise parcels, claim staff

First-class letters are unlikely to arrive the next working day, despite the cost of stamps rising from 95p last December to £1.25 this year

inews.co.uk

 

[Peteinblack]

My gripe with Amazon is leaving a parcel or packet outside the front door - having not bothered knocking or ringing the doorbell - so that any would-be burglar can either nick it, or think "Ah, house with no-one at home."

 

[Peteinblack]

I tell you who have given up - Royal Mail. I could just about put the lack of Christmas Cards down to being an unpopular arse but no post at all for several days? A year ago I was sat on tenterhooks waiting for my Charlton tickets. Those arrived in January. In the summer they failed to deliver our parking permit and we had to go to the council for a replacement after getting a ticket, and now no post at all for days on end this close to Christmas and with bills, statements and two polling cards all due.

I know there are some posties on here and I'm sure none of you are MY postie. Nor am I blaming you particularly. But what gives chaps? WTF gives?

First-class post no longer fastest as Royal Mail prioritise parcels, claim staff

First-class letters are unlikely to arrive the next working day, despite the cost of stamps rising from 95p last December to £1.25 this year

inews.co.uk

 

[Eeyore]

I wish Amazon would give up, l want my hight street back.

Not that Cowfold exactly has a high street, but you get my drift.

I like the Co-op (which probably has an Amazon collection point)

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

There’s so many of them, in so many out of the way places, you’d almost be forgiven for thinking they’re fronts for laundering dodgy Turkish/Albanian money.

Really, that is a scurrilous accusation

 

[studio150]

I tell you who have given up - Royal Mail. I could just about put the lack of Christmas Cards down to being an unpopular arse but no post at all for several days? A year ago I was sat on tenterhooks waiting for my Charlton tickets. Those arrived in January. In the summer they failed to deliver our parking permit and we had to go to the council for a replacement after getting a ticket, and now no post at all for days on end this close to Christmas and with bills, statements and two polling cards all due.

I know there are some posties on here and I'm sure none of you are MY postie. Nor am I blaming you particularly. But what gives chaps? WTF gives?

But the Post Office have confirmed to Local Labour Councillors that they deliver 6 days a week.

They may well deliver six days a week, but not 6 successive days to the same road.

I received some post today, only the second delivery in December, so still basically once every 2 weeks.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Really, that is a scurrilous accusation

No, no, I'm sure if there was any hint of that, Sussex OB would be all over it like a rash.

 

[hart's shirt]

I could just about put the lack of Christmas Cards down to being an unpopular arse but no post at all for several days?

That's what happens when people use the wrong stationary.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

That's what happens when people use the wrong stationary.

Nothing says stationary like the Royal Mail service nowadays

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Amazon, and other similar services, are great. I use them all the time. Equally, I hate what they're doing to the high street. I can’t find a way through this paradox. It's like drinking. I enjoy doing it while also knowing that it’s harming me.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The high street is let down by landlords charging atrocious rents for shops, council commercial taxes, and people just not wanting to work in retail any longer.
The supermarkets are more to blame than Amazon, in my opinion, as we've lost greengrocers, butchers and bakeries.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Amazon Prime, Netflix and Preston Park Wines saw me safely through the ravages of lockdown. I owe them my life

 

[Peteinblack]

But the Post Office have confirmed to Local Labour Councillors that they deliver 6 days a week.

They may well deliver six days a week, but not 6 successive days to the same road.

I received some post today, only the second delivery in December, so still basically once every 2 weeks.

Parcels 6 days a week; letters and cards 1 or 2 days a week!

 

[dazzer6666]

I tell you who have given up - Royal Mail. I could just about put the lack of Christmas Cards down to being an unpopular arse but no post at all for several days? A year ago I was sat on tenterhooks waiting for my Charlton tickets. Those arrived in January. In the summer they failed to deliver our parking permit and we had to go to the council for a replacement after getting a ticket, and now no post at all for days on end this close to Christmas and with bills, statements and two polling cards all due.

I know there are some posties on here and I'm sure none of you are MY postie. Nor am I blaming you particularly. But what gives chaps? WTF gives?

Bills in the post these days ? Who from ? Your Chimney sweep or spice merchant ?

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I tell you who have given up - Royal Mail. I could just about put the lack of Christmas Cards down to being an unpopular arse but no post at all for several days? A year ago I was sat on tenterhooks waiting for my Charlton tickets. Those arrived in January. In the summer they failed to deliver our parking permit and we had to go to the council for a replacement after getting a ticket, and now no post at all for days on end this close to Christmas and with bills, statements and two polling cards all due.

I know there are some posties on here and I'm sure none of you are MY postie. Nor am I blaming you particularly. But what gives chaps? WTF gives?

Royal Mail is SHIT at the minute. Anything and everything ordered via the them is late, (should have collected Stoke tickets) stuck in the warehouse or god knows where. This illustrator I follow on Twitter is about to explode. Took a load of packages to the post office, paid what they asked and loads didn't get delivered with excess postage to pay even though the post office weighed and agreed them all. Dead business within 5 years the way they are carrying on.

 

[mile oak]

Amazon are as useless as the overpaid lazy postmen, chuck it on your doormat if you are lucky drop (literally) and go if lucky they knock ya door/ring the bell must be useless if you live on a busy rd lots passer bys opportunities to pick up a free surprise parcel

 

[Guinness Boy]

Bills in the post these days ? Who from ? Your Chimney sweep or spice merchant ?

Council tax bill is still paper, get interest statements from credit cards on paper and paper pension statements. The Virgin mobile account I didn’t want sent paper bills and paper chase ups, even after I cancelled it.

 

[dazzer6666]

Council tax bill is still paper, get interest statements from credit cards on paper and paper pension statements. The Virgin mobile account I didn’t want sent paper bills and paper chase ups, even after I cancelled it.

Don’t you trust technology?

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Nothing says stationary like the Royal Mail service nowadays

RM is far from stationary. I'm a postie working long hours out on delivery 5 days out of 6. There are just too few of us to deliver the volume of work and tracked parcels and special deliveries are prioritised over everything else. Both of these - the under staffing and the down grading of letters and untracked parcels - are senior management decisions. RM has a senior management team that has publicly stated that it needs to become a '100% parcels facing business' and that RM 'must not let the universal service obligation stand in its way'. What's happening to the postal service is neither unexpected nor accidendtal; it's RM business policy.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice