Don't get me started on Royal Mail .....Damn.....too late!
the last thing I got through Royal Fail parcels was a parcel 3ft x 1ft x 1ft marked all over with "fragile" "delicate" "keep dry" etc, it had a boot print on the crushed end, and somebody had run it through with a bloody sword or something, there was a hole in one side and an "exit wound" on the other, amazingly, despite their best efforts, the contents where undamaged, I wouldn't trust em to deliver anvils intact...
thought...maybe the fragile labels provoke their sub standard staff to "do your worst" or something?, there was a TV program ("Dispatches" or "Newsnight", can`t recall) where it was said a music reviewer was only getting 30% of the CD's sent to him for review, the rest where "lost in the post", Royal Mail where asked and trotted out "well we move a lot of letters a day, some are bound to get lost" argument, yeah, like only the high value parcels or ones that look like CD's get lost, going to the same guy, over a period of months, yeah, right,
in the same program they said ex-staff who had been sacked or left after complaining about other staff stealing where just "bitter, ex workers with an axe to grind", even those that quit when the management did nothing where "bitter....", well, yes, they might have been, for a reason?
apparently, they also "lose" credit cards, recorded parcels, above normal amounts of parcels from websites who sell mobiles and small high tech/high value stuff etc, etc, but they still have the same "nothing wrong here" attitude, at one time the one organisation who could be trusted with your goods was Royal Mail, they even used to mail diamonds from Dutch dealers to London Jewellers, being a postman was a serious job, they even took an oath to protect and deliver the mail (now discontinued afaik, it's "unreasonable" apparently), now days we have nutters hoarding peoples mail rather than bother to deliver it, people reading their neighbours mail, stupid amounts of inexplicable and massive parcel damage and rife stealing from sorting offices that's ignored by the management, about the only thing going for them WAS they where cheap, now they are not even that.