Price hike + compensation decrease.

[comeracing]

I think royal mail have shot themselves in the foot with this ,I buy silver and gold a fair bit ,I know people who are going absolute nuts about special delivery price increases, not to mention compensation on tracked going down to £75 from £150 , absolutely putting a gun to there own head ,people moaned about the price of a general stamp going up, but this is on another level .
I know guys who post gold items in the region of 2k a pop , there definitely taking there business elsewhere, and who could blame them .

[smok3y666]

Good?

[ted_e_bear]

Good?

I know, how ridiculous is it to hope the company we work for lose business, I never ever thought like that in previous jobs for obvious reasons but I agree, I started to think that way years ago when they piled on extra work but neglected to allocate extra time to do it

[A2B]

I think royal mail have shot themselves in the foot with this ,I buy silver and gold a fair bit ,I know people who are going absolute nuts about special delivery price increases, not to mention compensation on tracked going down to £75 from £150 , absolutely putting a gun to there own head ,people moaned about the price of a general stamp going up, but this is on another level .
I know guys who post gold items in the region of 2k a pop , there definitely taking there business elsewhere, and who could blame them .

I think RM are just happy to have the big corporate tracked contracts, are there any bulk senders of Special Delivery these days?

Special Delivery is a hindrance for RM as it's a product they can't plan into our working day

[yellowbelly]

I think royal mail have shot themselves in the foot with this ,I buy silver and gold a fair bit ,I know people who are going absolute nuts about special delivery price increases, not to mention compensation on tracked going down to £75 from £150 , absolutely putting a gun to there own head ,people moaned about the price of a general stamp going up, but this is on another level .
I know guys who post gold items in the region of 2k a pop , there definitely taking there business elsewhere, and who could blame them .

Yodel won't take 'bullion of any precious metal' and EVRI exclude precious metals from compensation.

Neither do UPS according to their T&C's.

DPD - no gold and silver over £250

DHL won't unless you've got some sort of special account, same as Fedex.

[TopperGas]

I think royal mail have shot themselves in the foot with this ,I buy silver and gold a fair bit ,I know people who are going absolute nuts about special delivery price increases, not to mention compensation on tracked going down to £75 from £150 , absolutely putting a gun to there own head ,people moaned about the price of a general stamp going up, but this is on another level .
I know guys who post gold items in the region of 2k a pop , there definitely taking there business elsewhere, and who could blame them .

I think RM are just happy to have the big corporate tracked contracts, are there any bulk senders of Special Delivery these days?

Special Delivery is a hindrance for RM as it's a product they can't plan into our working day

Plus they have no real control over an agency etc postie just dumping it on a doorstep or posting it without a signature and so leaving them open for a big compensation claim. Then having to spend more money training their replacement have they've been dismissed!

[enskied]

I think royal mail have shot themselves in the foot with this ,I buy silver and gold a fair bit ,I know people who are going absolute nuts about special delivery price increases, not to mention compensation on tracked going down to £75 from £150 , absolutely putting a gun to there own head ,people moaned about the price of a general stamp going up, but this is on another level .
I know guys who post gold items in the region of 2k a pop , there definitely taking there business elsewhere, and who could blame them .

Yet parcel collect can be as little as 3p per item as my customer informed me yesterday with 26 pick ups. Then additionals.

[TopperGas]

But we also charge postage costs to deliver the item once it's been collected?