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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to expect a reply?

11 replies

littleoscarsmama · 31/05/2011 23:31

I know many people complain about public transport services, especially buses, but the service in my area is wonderful and the drivers are brilliant. They are friendly, helpful and genuinely care about the job in hand and this is not some little country village, it's tough inner-city where this thing doesn't come regularly.

I emailed the bus company to let them know what a great job they were doing, and how well trained the staff are etc, etc and it's been months now and no reply. AIBU just to expect a reply just to say 'thanks, we've got your email?'

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basingstoke · 31/05/2011 23:34

Really?

Yes.

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littleoscarsmama · 31/05/2011 23:46

Lol, go on, tell me to get a life...

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Bogeyface · 31/05/2011 23:49

Well you would expect a reply if it was a complaint and I dont think it is U to expect an acknowledgement atleast.

SuchProspects · 01/06/2011 00:24

The problem is they don't have a compliments department the way they do a complaints department, so there's no one tasked to respond. You should complain to them about the lack of response so they can allocate your communication to someone trained in doublespeak and avoidance customer service.

Seriously, it's great that they have good bus drivers. Maybe they concentrate more on that than their back office operations.

QueenCatherine · 01/06/2011 00:41

Ahem. Get a life.

Dolcegusto · 01/06/2011 08:36

I run a bus company and we probably wouldn't have replied, but we would have printed it out and put it in the staff room.

CadleCrap · 01/06/2011 08:43

I sent a compliment about a young chap in my local Tesco who went above and beyond helping me. I didn't know who to send it to so I emailed the central "contact us" . I think they were so surprised at getting a compliment, we had a phonecall and an email telling me they had passed the compliment onto the store.

TheOriginalFAB · 01/06/2011 08:53

YANBU. You took the time to praise them, it would have been nice if you had got a thank you.

LRDTheFeministDragon · 01/06/2011 09:25

Surely expecting a response rather takes the shine off whatever nice things you said?

kreecherlivesupstairs · 01/06/2011 09:30

I complimented a teacher recently on the behaviour of his group of students. He was shocked. He expected me to be wanting a moan, but they were astonishingly well mannered and polite. Especially considering they had been travelling all night on a coach from Nottingham to Ypres.

kingbeat23 · 01/06/2011 09:38

thank you for your letter dated above. we are writing to say thank you for thanking us and as a gesture of goodwill we are going to say thank you.

thank you

bus comapny.

then you reply...

thank you for the letter thanking me for thanking you. i anted to write to you to say thank you for the letter thanking me for thanking you, it was nice to get a response.

Is that how you would like it to go?

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