Royal mail sell lost parcels on ebay

[GP1]

Well i have had a few items go missing never to be seen again and now i read this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462606/Royal-Mail-set-sell-lost-post-items-Ebay--pocket-profits.html

 

 

[aris]

Never use Royal Fail for anything of value.

[Browning GTS]

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Each year 500,000 parcels are undeliverable because they are either incorrectly addressed or have no address or the intended recipient has moved.

What about the ones that are correctly addressed, and the intended recipient has not moved. But the idiots still manage to lose? I know its happened more than once.

[probuck]

This is a sore subject for me as my ex was a post ladie and the storys she use to tell me where terrible...Even the boss at our local depo was robbing mail and in the end he got cought and sacked..I got a red card to pick up a small parcel and when i took it to the office to pick it up it wasnt there..It was my drving license..passport..and birth cert. Id sent it to an incuranse company as they asked for identification..never saw it again. Discrimination and sexual harrasment is rife in the places..Most the junk mail gets binned by them..but if you've paid £2000 for royal mail to deliver them..you lose BigTime.!! No good scumbags in my eyes..i dont have a decent thing to say about them..Just theiving weirdo scumbags.!!

[Vince Green]

A friend of our's son worked in the big postal hub at Greenford while he was waiting to go in the RAF. Like Probuck's ex he had some horrific stories to tell. Most of the staff were temps, taken on with no background checks. An old chestnut I know but many were of dubious immigration status, if you get my drift.

 

The story he told was of overlabelling. Workers would bring in made out sticky address labels to a "safe" address of their own. Then if they saw a parcel they thought looked interesting they would just stick their own label over the real address label.

 

He said sometimes when he turned in for work his bin would be full of the peeled off backings from labels but nobody did anything about it.

 

Not the post office but the same sort of thing, theres a place in Tooting South London where they auction off 'lost' luggage from Heathrow Airport. Thousands and thousands of suitcases full of peoples clothes and things. Today with computerised bar codes on the labels when you check in there is no such thing as lost luggage. Every one could be identified if they were bothered.

 

On of the birthday cards for my son's recent birthday had quite obviously been opened before it got to us but there had not been any money in it so no problem. Thats what they were looking for no doubt.

Edited April 20, 2013 by Vince Green

[bruno22rf]

I've had several items go "missing" over the years,if I buy anything online now I try and warn the seller but the situation seems a bit better since the MK sorting office closed and moved to Northampton.Whenever I rang the complaints line I got the same answer-"If it happens again then ring and tell us"-well thats what I've bin doing you pond scum.

[Bry-M]

That story is from 2007?

[Gordon R]

Vince - you could not be more accurate.

 

I am sure that Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have worked for Royal Mail at some point. I would challenge them to say honestly if they have any genuine idea of who exactly they employ. If someone could answer, I would need to see a polygraph strapped to their arm, to be replaced by another if it failed to spot any porkies. They do not check identity.

 

Some people join the Royal Mail purely to steal. I would never send anything of real value through the Royal Mail, nor anything that had to pass through a London sorting office.

[Paddy Galore!]

i hope 955i gets his kite i sent him then