Posts by Methchild Dildrop 4 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2007
Anyone who has licenced PAF has been able ,if they so wished, to extract the information from the CD that royal mail provide, there is even an export function on the one I used, I am surprised no one has done it before. An export that I made some time ago had nothing in it to identify the origin so no one would have known where it came from .
I am with Newnet and they suit my needs perfectly
from their pages
"Uncapped service - No traffic shaping or port blocking
NewNet does not operate a policy of managing traffic and traffic types on our broadband network. Many other ISPs introduce packet shaping and other measures to limit the available bandwidth so you do not experience your full broadband potential."
packages are from a tenner and if you are in the portsmouth area they do 'up to 24meg' but are 8meg everywhere else plus they are so confident that you will be happy that they have a tie in of only 1 month so you can try them without fear of being stuck with them and if you do go with them and they do something crap then you can bail out pretty quickly.
I have been with them for about a year and have had zero problems with them so have no hesitation in recommending them.
" If they revised their practices and allowed the option of "deliver to nearest post office (or one chosen by customer for their convenince) for collection by customer" most users in rural areas would use more internet based delivery, (hopefully not to the detriment of local shops), and this could also be good in the cities for busy working types."
well this actually exists as a service, although there is a 50p surcharge.
If a card is dropped through your letter box because an item cannot be delivered then there are a number of options available to you for re-delivery or collection, one of these is 'Local Collect' where you can have your package delivered to a post office of your choosing, this does not have to be the nearest post office to your house, it could be the nearest one to your workplace. Not quite as convenient as getting it delivered to your work but a close second I think.
I see the situation from both sides, as a postman and also a customer. While I agree wholeheartedly that there are many things that my employer should do to better service the needs of the customer, small and large alike, providing an infrastructure that aims to deliver to every UK address 6 days a week does not come cheap and whereas Royal Mail's contract obliges them to do this, the same rules do not apply to their competitors. It also occurs to me that the competitors, given the opportunity, would not have their own post boxes as they require emptying at least once every day, there are few companies who would be willing or able to carry out such a task.
In general when Royal Mail delivery staff go out they are expected to at least attempt to deliver any packet / parcel that is approximately shoe box size or smaller along with all the other letters, bills and unwanted leaflets that you routinely get to 500-800 addresses. Where I worked you weren't allowed to leave the office to start your delivery round before 07:30, this meant that the vast majority of the customers would have already left for work, and even if you knew that they would not be there you still had to take the item with you 'just in case'.
Times have changed and provision needs to be made that will accommodate the more typical scenario where there is no one at home during the day to accept signed for items or those that are too large for the letterbox. One suggestion I heard was to double the number of delivery staff and halve the hours so that more could be delivered earlier and catch more people before they left for work, I wonder where all these delivery staff will come from that are willing to get up at 4am for 4 hours work .
Fortunately for everyone there is a solution however, buy things in shops, that way you avoid all the things that are poor about delivery services, the downside is that you then have the problem of surly and poorly trained shop staff instead of a surly and poorly trained postie
:p
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