So this whole Royal Mail thing about not being able to give you any idea what time or

[Monty91]

sometimes even what day a package will be arriving - how many hundreds and thousands of wasted courier trips are made every year only for packages to be sent back to the depot and at what cost to the environment?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Given that you for example would presumably be workign Mon-Fri so unless the parcel is to be delivered on a saturday you wouldn't be there anyway.

[Pat Vegas]

[Monty91]

It's not so bad when they just send the package to your local post office depot, but in the case of a passport, it simply gets sent straight back to the Passport Office, meaning an utterly wasted courier journey. That must happen the vast majority of the time. Surely that is utterly mental?

[Pat Vegas]

indoors :furious:

[Curly]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It being such an important document I would understand a person perhaps making arrangements to be at home. You wouldn't however arrange to be at home to collect an Amazon parcel would you?

Here the postman just doesn't bother and instead puts a note through your door telling you to collect from the local DSU.

Private courier companies leave your parcel with a neighbour, or on occasion down the side of your house where you keep your wheely bin.

[Monty91]

[Pat Vegas]

left in the shed.

I don't have a shed :shrug: found it under the bit where the bins go :furious:

[Maravilloso Marvo]

They just give the regular postman a card to put through saying they attempted but there was no answer...

Then we have to collect it from the sorting office. The queues there are amazing.

[Curly]