Postal strike stopping you buying ?

[GoldDiggerDave]

38 minutes ago, Anteater said:

I can really imagine that taking off and growing over time once it gets past a critical mass. Of course at some point we'd be noticed and all simultaneously arrested by armed police thinking we were organised criminals moving drugs.

I can tell you of a police investigation that cost 1/2 million quid, full on surveillance top level police involved into them getting a tip off about a smuggling ring.  There was a guy who regally drove down the M6 to hand off parcels to another car, this went on for a while.. The police busted them one run and guess what they got for their 1/2 million quid surveillance?..........Fishing bate 🤣🤣🤣.....It turns out these guys were keen anglers and the guy down south sore by the bate his mate got from up north..........I know the news reporter who first reported the story.  

[James32]

3 minutes ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

I can tell you of a police investigation that cost 1/2 million quid, full on surveillance top level police involved into them getting a tip off about a smuggling ring.  There was a guy who regally drove down the M6 to hand off parcels to another car, this went on for a while.. The police busted them one run and guess what they got for their 1/2 million quid surveillance?..........Fishing bate 🤣🤣🤣.....It turns out these guys were keen anglers and the guy down south sore by the bate his mate got from up north..........I know the news reporter who first reported the story.  

So we should hide our metal inside fish?

[SiCole]

We'd be the worst courier service ever.

"i accidently opened it and realised it was one that i wanted..." Feedback scores would go to c**p overnight.

[GoldDiggerDave]

4 minutes ago, James32 said:

So we should hide our metal inside fish?

No have it up front and centre...............These make you invisible. 

[Fenlander1]

I like to see him cycle with a certain man's gold collection.

[SiCole]

1 minute ago, Fenlander1 said:

I like to see him cycle with a certain man's gold collection.

[GoldDiggerDave]

2 minutes ago, Fenlander1 said:

I like to see him cycle with a certain man's gold collection.

Thing is my bike is worth more than some peoples stack 🤣

[AaaGee]

1 hour ago, GoldDiggerDave said:

We should have our own TSF postage.   I'm sure we live the full length of the country we could drive a few junctions up and had off at the next motorway service station like a big game of pass the parcel. 

Theres a section on a car forum i go on called movers and shakers. To move car parts and even cars around the country. It works well. Not an impossible thing to do. As long as the buyer and seller know the parts wont get there in a day or so.

[AaaGee]

Shame i dont still do general haulage. Regular drops, london, essex, leeds,south wales, bristol, bath, Plymouth and Torquay and exmouth.

May have been some help to someone 😄

[Mtaybar]

1 hour ago, AaaGee said:

Shame i dont still do general haulage. Regular drops, london, essex, leeds,south wales, bristol, bath, Plymouth and Torquay and exmouth.

May have been some help to someone 😄

Would've been a help for me lol

[MonkeysUncle]

On 16/12/2022 at 20:29, GoldDiggerDave said:

Yeh @James32 will be doing the final leg on his swan pedalo 

A boating incident related insurance claim waiting to happen...

I crashed my swan into a duck house and my Sovs sank without trace!

[HillWalkerDundee]

Four out of five large parcels have been delivered so far (£93 in postage). Not one delivered on time and one still in the wilderness.

[Petra]

14 minutes ago, HillWalkerDundee said:

Four out of five large parcels have been delivered so far (£93 in postage). Not one delivered on time and one still in the wilderness.

You surely don’t do free postage do you?🤔😁 They have only been prioritising special delivery 🤔😮🎄

[HillWalkerDundee]

16 minutes ago, Petra said:

You surely don’t do free postage do you?🤔😁 They have only been prioritising special delivery 🤔😮🎄

I have been praying for them to get lost in the post so I can claim postage and compensation. I once had a box of Christmas presents returned to me about six months after I sent them.

[Petra]

5 minutes ago, HillWalkerDundee said:

I have been praying for them to get lost in the post so I can claim postage and compensation. I once had a box of Christmas presents returned to me about six months after I sent them.

A fiend had a Christmas cake in a tin go down to the Falklands, back to Germany and then back to England as by the time he got it he had done the Falklands, gone back to Germany and got posted back to the UK. Yes the cake was edible!

[Anteater]

3 minutes ago, Petra said:

A fiend had a Christmas cake in a tin go down to the Falklands, back to Germany and then back to England as by the time he got it he had done the Falklands, gone back to Germany and got posted back to the UK. Yes the cake was edible!

Doesn't seem that fiendish.

[Petra]

3 minutes ago, Anteater said:

Doesn't seem that fiendish.

Oh he was!🫢🎄

[MrStacker]

Now I’m slowly regretting placing several orders. Nothing has arrived and Royal Mint tracking states it should’ve arrived on the 12th. 😳
 

Royal Fail tracking states it’s on the way and their are severe delays...

Pointless strikes and pointless temporary traffic lights galore all over our cities and towns that only cause an inconvenience for the masses. With nothing ever resolved year on year. Any improvements?
 

Absolutely not just gets worse. 

[Fenlander1]

On 16/12/2022 at 20:51, James32 said:

So we should hide our metal inside fish?

Thanks James now everyone knows my secret.

[Anteater]

I've just received the last outstanding item that was in transit to me. Not expecting anything else until the new year.

[Petra]

In the post office just now, still telling people that special delivery posted today will get there tomorrow!🤔

last day for special delivery posting for Christmas is now the 21st!🤔🫢😮

[James32]

5 minutes ago, Petra said:

In the post office just now, still telling people that special delivery posted today will get there tomorrow!🤔

last day for special delivery posting for Christmas is now the 21st!🤔🫢😮

They shouldn't be making false promises ( and yes they are factually false)

 

Edited December 19, 2022 by James32
Missing word

[Tortoise]

2 hours ago, James32 said:

They shouldn't be making false promises ( and yes they are factually false)

 

Agreed.

I posted an ordinary letter on 7th, by 1st class signed for at my local post office, costing £2.35. The delivery aim was apparently the next working day according to the receipt they gave me.

Tracking shows it only as being received by my local post office.  Ithasgotten no further thant hat.

At least it was just paperwork and not PM's.  🙄

Not sure how long to wait before contacting royal mail about it.  I thought I would give them another couple of days so they have had 2 weeks.

[Barbielovesgold]

Is Royal Mail the only delivery service that everyone uses on the trade section ? X

[CaptCaveMan]

RMSD is pretty much the only service with insurance.