Post in Collection point for Royal Mail parcels

Jun 28 08:03 UTC

I have to collect a parcel from Sandy Lane this morning. Can I offer
anyone a lift?

David Clover
01865 765881

Stephanie Jenkins wrote:
> When the Lime Walk office closed in 2005, we were promised a super new
delivery service from the Royal Mail, but I don't see we are getting it. Our
former city councillor Stephen Tall quoted the letter from the Royal Mail
boasting about its new service at Ledgers Close on his website:
>
http://stephentall.org.uk/news/000113/headington_sorting_office_the_royal_mails_version.html
>
> The sentence that will cause most hollow laughter is:
> "Mail that cannot be delivered, because no one is at home to receive it, will
be available for collection from the delivery office which has easier access to
a better standard enquiry office."
> Try telling that to someone who has no car and can't get through on the
telephone, or who gets a card giving old opening times.
>
> I suspect that what Julia meant with regard to auctions is that because the
Royal Mail does not have undeliverable parcels with no return address heaped
all around it but is able to take the easy option of sending them off to be
auctioned, there is no incentive to make the extra effort after the expiry of
the set time to re-deliver items or establish where the recipient actually
lives.  I have been in the queue at Ledger's Close and seen someone's shock to
discover that a parcel that arrived during their absence abroad for a few
months no longer existed.  I was shocked too: I didn't realize that they got
rid of parcels so quickly.  The moral of this tale is: Always include a return
address.
>
> Those of us who have had bad experiences with Royal Mail tend to have our
general view coloured by them -- and I am in this group: I take for granted all
the items that have arrived safely, but still feel annoyed at having had the
unpleasant experience of cycling the six-mile round trip to Ledger's Close on
three days running before they managed to find a "signed for" item they had
mislaid  there -- naturally it was impossible to telephone to ask if they had
found it.  (Nor do we get any indication of which member of our family
undelivered items are addressed to, so we can't begin to imagine what is
missing, and we always tend to assume it is something of huge and urgent
importance for "JENKINS".)
>
> My views of our postal service will be inflenced very much by what happens
this morning: I have paid extra to get guaranteed Saturday delivery of six
freshly fertilized hens' eggs from eBay, and if they don't come my broody hen
and I will be furious.  (I fancy a new fascinator for my avatar picture.)
>
>
> Stephanie Jenkins
> Headington, Oxford
> Info about Stephanie Jenkins:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/stephaniejenkins
>
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