During the Postal strike I wonder how you stand when posting special next day. I have been sent a watch and have also posted a watch both packages have been posted on non strike days but are now held up in the system with little chance of seeing them for another couple of days.
It’s null and void. I asked this week.
But are they still charging the full amount for this service, even though it's no longer guaranteed, but still advertised as guaranteed?
Yes exactly.Originally Posted by Dangermouse64
Thats a bit naughty.
My local post office tells me that it might be delayed but still covered for any loss...however i haven't sent a LV bag to find out.
Just to hack Paul off even more: sent a parcel Monday morning by RMSD which wasn’t delivered until today - so another £15 odd compensation claim submitted tonight. This is three out of the last four watches I have sold.
It’s not about the money, you agree a sale on here, post the parcel nice and early (in this case 09:10) and the buyer makes arrangements for someone to be around Tuesday morning. I register the parcel on the App. At about 19:00 I get a message that they have it at the Chester mail centre and it will be delivered tomorrow (Tue). Shortly after I get a message that the parcel has been dispatched to the Edinburgh mail centre - all good so far.
Next morning absolutely sod all, in fact no update for 24 hours until Wed morning that it will be delivered today, which it was. This has hacked me off, messed the buyer around and a failure of the conditions of the service used.
I would urge everyone on here to claim. I must be up to 7 or 8 cheques this year.
I asked the same at my post office. I had to sign the receipt to say I understood it was not guaranteed to arrive tomorrow and I would not be entitled to compensation.
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I understood that they had suspended the guarantee until someone on here told me otherwise, each time one of my parcels is late I fill in the on-line claim form and they have sent me a cheque each time. The last one being a couple of weeks ago.
I sort of regard it as a free service now and hope the parcel is delayed so that I can claim.
I haven’t had one caught up in a strike day yet, but I would still do the on-line claim and see what they say.
There a big notice on the RMSD section of the RM website saying anything posted Thurs/Fri/Sat 29th/30th/1st will not be subject to 1pm next working day delivery.
I had an SC item I needed to post RMSD on Friday, and my local PO counter in Budgens was closed because of the strike.
I will post on Monday and it probably won’t take any longer to get to its destination.
I've recently claimed and am waiting to see the result. The website said compensation wasn't available between certain dates but I posted outside of those.
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I have just submitted a claim, nothing about certain dates so we will see. The day it was posted was not a strike day.
The girl in the post office did say management to we’re going to deliver SD on Friday obviously not enough of them to cope, or they delivered the more expensive postage costing parcels.
Last edited by hilly10; 1st October 2022 at 10:26.
Unless you were misinformed when posting (i.e. told that next day delivery was still guaranteed), you have no basis for a claim. RM strike days are well publicised, as is the fact that RM will deliver as many RMSD and Tracked24 parcels as possible on these days (i.e. the normal guarantee does not apply).
They are guaranteeing nothing, however the managers have been delivering special delivery mail as a priority, so most have still been getting there.
To update this I received a cheque this morning from RM for the full amount of the postage cost. They have listed dates on their website when the RMSD guarantee isn't valid. If you post outside of those dates and it is valid and they are paying out. Obviously just my recent experience.
I just got confirmation that they turned down my compensation request, even though they were not on strike, they called it off, I wouldn't mind but they charged me for a Saturday delivery with no intent to deliver
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Never pay extra for a Saturday delivery, they deliver on Saturdays regardless.
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This (usually).
Not guaranteed- if I was up against it on a Saturday with no chance of delivery of all SD items if need be id hold some non Saturday SD’s - only very occasionally
It is pretty clear;
https://www.royalmail.com/business/s...ery-guaranteed
Then scroll down a little way.
I get the 'price paid for a service I didn't get' argument but I wouldn't expect next day delivery involving a strike day or claim for late delivery in those circumstances. I think RMSD is great value and support the staff striking so a claim just seems wrong.
Here’s an hypothetical question.
You sell something that gets posted RMSD for say £250. It gets lost in the post, or stolen for example. You get your £250 reimbursed from Royal Mail as compensation, as the seller. You then give the buyer his £250 back as he hasn’t received the goods. However you’re still down £250 as the goods had have gone missing. Obviously we can be talking of much higher amounts of money. How does this work, am I missing a simple outcome for both parties? I can only see that as a seller, you’d be out of pocket.
Last edited by oiljam; 5th October 2022 at 08:58.
I presume the buyer paid you £250 initially?
Yes but your goods have still gone missing
You’ve got the £250 from the buyer( in place of the goods)
Go back to bed
Suggest you never buy/sell anything.
Buyer sends £250 to seller. Seller now has £250
Seller sends item. Item gets lost.
Seller refunds £250 to buyer. Seller now has £0.
Seller claims from RM
RM give seller £250. Seller now has £250.
Both buyer and seller have £250
I’m having a tough day.
Read that and was suddenly shocked at the risk in selling anything. I then came to my senses and had a quiet word with myself before I got to the explanation I’m happy to say!
I haven't used in a long time, but I recently ask. Was told delivery dates no longer guaranteed.
Basically buying for insurance and tracking.
This in Canada
DON
This made me chuckle
I sent a parcel the day after a strike, it took two days so on-line claim form duly submitted. Cheque for £15.45 received this morning.
If your parcel is not delivered in time, claim…
Mine was declined, posted day before a strike date. It just makes more determined only use them as a last resort.
Apart from giving you the satisfaction of having your item delivered free, what does this achieve? The current dispute is well-documented, it's unrealistic to expect the same level of service at the moment and considering the excellent service RMSD has provided for me over the years (literally 100s of watches posted without problems) I feel more inclined to cut them some slack.
My worry in future is that the RMSD service will cease to exist and we'll all be in the hands of the other clowns.
I'm as pissed off as anyone at the moment, I`ve ordered parts for watches that would normally arrive after 1-2 days and given the strike situation I don`t know when they'll arrive, I've literally got watches in pieces that I can`t complete. That's grounds for being pissed off, not making claiming money back for a service you've received, albeit slightly later than you liked!
I agree with you to an extent, Paul, but if Royal Mail are guaranteeing a next day delivery and it isn't delivered next day I think people should be encouraged to make a claim. If for no other reason than Royal Mail use the number of claims as an indication of how the service is working.
There were some days when strike action (either that day or the next day) would mean next day delivery of Special Delivery items wasn't guaranteed, and Post Office staff were told to make that clear when customers were posting. But there were some strike days when, because of the union striking, Special delivery was still guaranteed to be next day delivery. It really depended on which union was striking and whether the item was posted on the strike day or the day before. Part of the public's confusion is a result of three different unions, each responsible for a different aspect of RM (collection, sorting & delivery) were striking independently on different days. Even Post Office staff were confused at times.
Get a grip, if their business model is flawed then they have no one else to blame but themselves. They advertise a guaranteed next day delivery and offer you your postage back if they fail to deliver. That’s the terms and conditions when I go into the PO. If they are mismanaged and in a lot of cases fail to deliver then why should I accept that. If you are happy with that then great, but I am not.
They could easily change the terms and conditions and give themselves a bit more slack, but they don’t.
Since covid many businesses are being poorly run and are providing a dreadful service and using a never ending series of pathetic excuses.
Royal Mail won’t exist in 5 to 10 years, it is a wounded dinosaur and endless strikes will just speed up their demise.
Royal Mail is a failing business with shareholders who receive dividends and directors who are paid obscene amounts of money. They are not a charity.
The sooner it's renationalised the better.
This, absolutely.
I agree. A company that has a widespread and inherently costly geographical universal service obligation that no competitor is required to match and could not economically match should probably not have been privatised. It did not make sense to privatise such a service.
N.B. I am in favour of privatisation where there can be a legitimate real time competitive marketplace but that did not apply to postal deliveries with a universal service obligation.
In my opinion, based on 100s of transactions, RMSD is an excellent service. I accept tge Royal Mail are struggling at the moment but I shall continue to use them. I’m primarily concerned with security and I can accept a package arriving a little late. I don’t see fit to claim my money back if an item arrives a day late during the current difficulties, to do so is petty in my view.
I get far more annoyed about bus and train cancellations which are rife at the moment, that’s inexcusable and I’ve had a couple of nights out spoiled this way over the past couple of weeks. A RMSD package arriving a day late pales into insignificance by comparison.
Why is that different and inexcusable, surely you can just catch the next bus or train?
No No No!
Unlike London public transport in many areas is very limited, especially in the evenings. My niece lives in North London and she doesn’t get it either, if the one bus or train per hour doesn’t turn up you’re struggling big- style. A £2 bus ride becomes a £12 taxi........not funny! Trans- Pennine trains have just been announced as the worst performing company in the country owing to ‘staffing issues’, Arriva buses are short if drivers..........trust me a RMSD package arriving a day late is nothing to moan about.
The buses and trains are another example of failed privatisation.
I agree. Transport is a strategic national necessity and shouldn't be in the hands of companies who are duty bound to make profits.
The problems have reached crisis point, train and bus services getting cancelled was a rarity until recently. It’s reached the stage where I’m reluctant to go anywhere on public transport. The companies don’t get penalised for cancelling services; as for the buses maybe some of the management should get off their sorry arses and drive the buses themselves!
It needs sorting out, and quickly.
Well I banked my cheque today, the counter (the end bit of the long counter in a local food store and newsagents) was closed for PO activity due to more strike action, but open to banking services, so they were happy to take the cheque.
Our main PO is now a Thornton’s Chocolates shop with a single boxed in booth for PO activities.
Anyone still got a PO that actually looks like an old school PO?
Thinking back, the old POs were pretty grim places.
Ours is in WHSmith now, a chain that time seems to have passed by.
Kind of - still has the traditional counter at the back, but they have filled the floor with 'retail stuff' over and above the cards/envelopes etc.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
But there was no strike
The strike was only called off at the last minute (due to legal action by Royal Mail, I understand). It seems likely to me (just guessing) that not all Post Offices got the message in time.
Last edited by markrlondon; 11th November 2022 at 00:52.
Not sure about that I definitely knew the night before
Our local one is now in the Spar, at the end of the counter. Bloody good thing too. I can post from 8am until 11pm seven days a week, and the miserable, unhelpfull, sarcastic, lazy, obstructive tub of lard that used to run the adjacent post office didn't want to make the move into the Spar where he may have had to do a bit of work.
When I have sold something and RMSD is included in the sales price, any refund I have received from Royal Mail for late delivery I have credited to the buyer.
After all, they paid the RMSD in my selling price, so it is only fair that they receive the refund (even though I have to claim the refund first).
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