To suggest some different wording for the Royal Mail advert?

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

Id replace "All you need is love" with "All you need is luck"... and a postage receipt for the most expensive delivery option which involves guaranteed delivery and a signature from the recipient!

I can't help continuing with the Moulin Rouge version.

The only way to love me baby is to pay a lovely fee.......

Apparently they love parcels! so much they keep them

or step on them

Oi Saggy - I love my postie. I even have my own tame postie who follows me around the town in his van asking me if I am still married.....(bit stalkerish)

(It's you Ducky loving friend btw - NC'd)

Yanbu. Its called the royal Fail in this house. What their adverts should actually say is "come to the post office and we will charge you an extortionate amount of money, and in return we promise to [maybe] deliver your parcel at some point in the not too distant future, probably next week, but definately not tomorrow, you will need a second mortgage for that. On the other hand, we might just lose it altogether, deliver it to the wrong house, or play warehouse football with it until its broken beyond repair"

hmm in general I'm not impressed with RM, but I once had to post some walking boots to DH (don't ask) - was quoted £70 min by any courier but the RM did it for £11(and in fact if I'd paid £15 I could have got it next day but didn't think of that). As it was they were 2 days.

Well they sometimes manage to deliver! Its like that analogy with the infinite number of monkeys and an infinite number of typewriters...
Eventually something will happen!

They wouldn't do it for £11 now stealth, I posted a parasol for a buggy I sold on eBay last week and it cost me £12 first recorded. I told the bloke behind the counter it ought to arrive in a gold plated carriage at that price. Bloody postage cost me more than the parasol was worth!

At least your post office would accept parcels! One of my local ones had a sign up saying this is not an "eBay posting office". The office in question got cpo'd and pulled down recently. Good.

so your post office didnt accept post??!!!

That is in fact correct! I actually sent my mum down to double check I wasn't having some sort of hallucinogenic attack and there was indeed a poster up saying it was not an eBay office and they didn't accept parcels!

I think the eBay thing is to do with them not getting a cut on the parcels they send, I know of people who turn up with 30 odd parcels a day and stand there for half an hour getting them all posted off, and the post office doesn't see a penny of the postage fee from what I gather. 2 different post offices have told me this.

Whuhh wouldn't they profit from eBay parcels as opposed to other non eBay parcels? Surely the increase in parcel posting over the last ten years has benefited them?

It costs a mint to send a parcel! Who does get the money then?

It hasn't benefited the post offices though clearly, otherwise they wouldnt be closing left right and centre. As I understand it they don't receive any of the postage costs at the post office itself, its not just eBay parcels, but generally the people who are doing the large volume posting are ebay volume sellers. If you had say half a dozen people posting 20-30 parcels a day you could quite easily employ someone full time just to process the parcels as each one needs the postcode inputting and the label printing off and sticking on, but even though you have a full time employee, you don't get any of the postage money to pay them with.

But surely that's the nature of the beast? If I worked on the checkouts in Tesco and had huge loads of shopping non stop one day and only 5 the next, I get paid the same. If the first scenario happens continually then store profits go up, over time more staff might be hired, improvements to the store, overtime etc.

If I only have 5 punters a day, hours will be cut, staff laid off , stores closed.

It's not an instant commission set up.

What I do think is that now the company has been sold, and most of its shares will eventually be bought up by foreign companies as happened with many of out other public utilities, it should no longer be called Royal Mail.

Royal Mail have been fine for me for years. The letters I have posted gave been delivered and do have the parcels, the post man knows everyone one his round and has helped a couple of oap's in trouble in the last few years.
I can't fault them.
That ad pissed me off as it reminds me that they have sold it off.

Considering how the PO treated some friends who ran the local shop, I can actually understand the no parcel thingy. They dont seem to have much regard for their staff!
Heres hoping privatisation improves them!