Royal Mail

[Alex]

Royal Mail has been cleared to be taken into foreign ownership for the first time in its 508-year history.

Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has been given the the green light to buy Royal Mail's parents company International Distributions Services (IDS) by ministers after providing undertaking about its future, it was confirmed today.

Will they never learn ! I mean is there anything left in this country that is British owned ?

[klondike]

Royal Mail can hardly be held up as a dazzling success. You have to apply for a mortgage to buy a book of stamps. Pointless expecting simple letters to ever arrive on time.

[JBR]

I'm not sure about Royal Snail's future, whether or not foreign owned.

More and more people are using internet communications rather than posting letters, especially as an email is much quicker than a letter, instantaneous in fact.  There are online Christmas cards as well.  We have just sent one to America because we forgot to post a real one early enough.

As for parcels, courier companies (even Herpes) seem to be quicker and probably cheaper than RM.  I use Amazon a lot and it is not only reliable but also very often delivered the next day after ordering.

[klondike]

I think they blew parcels for business a while back. Too unreliable and too expensive. I recall the days not so long back when you could get a usb lead delivered for 99p on eBay. Those days must surely be long gone for UK sellers but you can get stuff from China for peanuts anyway in only a week.

December 16, 2024, 01:19:48 PM
Different business but related. My local post office now acts as a parcel shop open til 8. For convenience and to support them. I started using them as an Amazon pickup and for any returns. The postmaster is such a miserable sod though I think I'll go back to using the Londis shop which is a little further away.

[Mups]

Will the post offices close, do we know?

If we don't like cash machines in the street,  how will we draw money out without the post office?

[klondike]

No. Post Office and Royal Mail are different businesses.

Post Office are the he ones that are unfortunately owned by us such that when they steal money from their employees we, the taxpayers, are the ones that have to pay compensation when they get found out.

Royal Mail are the ones that rob their customers by charging an ever increasing fortune for their services which get progressively worse as time goes by.

HTH

[JBR]

Royal Mail are the ones that rob their customers by charging an ever increasing fortune for their services which get progressively worse as time goes by.

The thing is that letters are becoming less popular.  Online communications are quicker and easier.
Of course, such places as the Tax Office and other government organisations still send letters, so I don't think they will disappear overnight.  In addition, not everyone (especially we old gimmers - er, not me) don't know how to use computers or smartphones.

[Mups]

The thing is that letters are becoming less popular.  Online communications are quicker and easier.
Of course, such places as the Tax Office and other government organisations still send letters, so I don't think they will disappear overnight.  In addition, not everyone (especially we old gimmers - er, not me) don't know how to use computers or smartphones.

That's very true JBR.

There are loads of things I don't understand about mobiles and p.c's.  
I am just not technically minded,  never have been and there is a mental block with anything complicated.

My GP practice is one.  When I have just had an appointment with them,  I do wish they wouldn't send me texts afterwards  asking me how I got on, and would I review my appointment. 
My dental practice does the same.  

 I don't use my mobile for anything like that, so don't know how,  and just have to delete it.

[muddy]

Me too Mups 
My especial bear bug is those QR things that you have to scan everywhere.

[Mups]

Me too Mups
My especial bear bug is those QR things that you have to scan everywhere.

Yes, I'd forgotten about those awful things.  
 
I have never scanned one yet.  Don't see the point of them.  I've managed fine all these years without all these damn silly gadgets.

[dextrous63]

Gotta be careful of QR codes in car parks.  There's a recent scam of false ones being stuck over legit ones, so when you think you're sending payment to the actual car park operator, in fact you're sending all sorts of banking details to one of those extremely useful chaps (who Labour are gagging for) splashed their way across the Channel in a dinghy to gain meaningful employment here.

[Mups]

Gotta be careful of QR codes in car parks.  There's a recent scam of false ones being stuck over legit ones, so when you think you're sending payment to the actual car park operator, in fact you're sending all sorts of banking details to one of those extremely useful chaps (who Labour are gagging for) splashed their way across the Channel in a dinghy to gain meaningful employment here.

Yes,  I've heard about this before.

The  more uneccessary technology we invent,  the more scams arrive to access it.