royal mail

[paul fleming]

I don't put fragile stickers on my packages. Just an excuse for them to play football with it if you ask me

What makes you think they won't play football with it anyway
Seriously though,never had a problem with any package with a "fragile" sticker on but each to their own and all that.
The way I pack 'em,they could play baseball with it and spidy would still be ok.....I hope

[Phil Rea]

Phil, don't be such a pessimist

LOL, I've seen it happen with my own eyes Linda, particularly where either disgruntled or temporary staff are concerned, so I'm more of a realist than a pessimist I even saw a postie in Chester dragging a box along the pavement by one handle and drop it off the edge (containing 2.5k worth of kit by the way). It was covered in Fragile stickers

Also, having been an almost daily visitor to our sorting office for the last >10 years, I know the posties there very well, and I've been told on several occasions not to use Fragile stickers because some people will make a point of throwing them about.

We send a few thousand packages a year by Royal Mail from work with no stickers and they get through OK. Also having personally sent a fair few spider packages to date, I have never lost any spiders in transit either, so I'm going to stick to what I know.

However, if Fragile stickers work for you or anyone else, then excellent. I'm not telling anyone not to use them, just that I don't.

On the whole Royal Mail are pretty good really. Our daughter used to work in the office of a courier company, and believe me you don't even want to know some of the stuff that goes on with those!

[Mark Harrison]

Phil i totally agree i work for an unnamed large courier company and boy do i have some horror stories lol

[Phil Rea]

Phil i totally agree i work for an unnamed large courier company and boy do i have some horror stories lol

Some good stories too though. Like the one where the courier company she worked for having to assign a driver to personally drive a stuffed bee to a TV studio in London

[matthew spooner]

Phil i totally agree i work for an unnamed large courier company and boy do i have some horror stories lol

i have to agree with you mark, i used to work for a large courier company who's name i shall not mention and the stuff they used to do with parcels covered in fragile stickers was horrific, they soon learned their lesson though when they kicked about a fragile parcel that was on its way to a laborotory though lol, men in white suits had to come and clean the warehouse for us lol

[Mark Harrison]

haha luckily?? thats not happened yet matthew, i think you will find the upcoming undercover program of Royal mail most enlightening.. i believe its is being aired on Monday 8th Feb on CH4 at 8pm. I know ill be watching for sure

[chris carter]

thats what we need here lol, might have to find out where nearets one is n do that

Nearest sorting office to you Matt will be Maidstone located at the top end of Week street.



Chris

[matthew spooner]

Nearest sorting office to you Matt will be Maidstone located at the top end of Week street.



Chris

cheers chris, much appreciated, although a lil bit out me way to send the odd parcel, might be worth a run up there if i got multiple parcels to send though

[chris carter]

cheers chris, much appreciated, although a lil bit out me way to send the odd parcel, might be worth a run up there if i got multiple parcels to send though

Wheres your sense of adventure its only 15 miles down Detlin hill

[paul fleming]

If he was really adventurous ,he would give it to the old lady behind the PO counter and tell it exactly what was in it

[Yvonne Woolley]

Scares me to death!!!!!

I visited a sorting place many years ago and I scares me to death at the thought of Ts getting thrown around like that, I will have to get to grips with something if I am to send any of my new spiderling off to new homes, I have received things through the post in the past and things have been fine, even though I have been worried to death about them. I think I need some lessons on how to pack them etc.

[paul fleming]

Robc does good tutorials on youtube Yvonne
With your experience,I very much doubt you need any help though

[Martin Huber]

Hello Paul,

Robc does good tutorials on youtube Yvonne

like the one, where he is throwing the Hysterocrates male in the water?

hmmm....
Martin

[Martin Huber]

Dear Paul,

Because they are nosey when the package is so light,I always tell them,if they ask, it is a small glass model and that is why I want fragile labels attached.....always works for me.

don't know if the royal mail works different than the german snail mail, but I have talked to some which worked there: stickers like "fragile" seems to encourage (temporary) personnel to have more "fun" with the parcles, like playing basketball or soccer with them.

=> I never use any stickers. If you want to put stickers on your pracel, better use lables like "honey". If a glass with honey in the parcel breaks, the honey will stick on the conveyor band and they have to clean it => extra work for them, why they will be more careful with such "dangerous" content.

all the best,
Martin

[Mark Harrison]

Robc does good tutorials on youtube Yvonne

Paul are you refering to Tarantulaguy1976 on youtube?

Hello Paul,

like the one, where he is throwing the Hysterocrates male in the water?

hmmm....
Martin

Martin, although i have not seen the video in question (so cannot comment on it) if paul is refering to said person...i have been in contact with tarantulaguy1976 for a while and some of his video's have been eductaional and some less so (personal opinion as i operate a "hands-off" policy with my T's). If he believes "throwing" a Hysterocrates male into water to make packaging easier then more shame on him.