Taking card payments over the phone? Putting card on file for hotel/bar tabs?
The bank can still give you a card number even if you don't have a physical card. You can have single use card numbers, for example.
So not really any more convenient than a piece of plastic with the number written on it.
Send a letter from Penzance to Inverness and it arrives the next morning for just over a pound.
Routinely late to deliver - it failed to meet its own deadlines at Christmas, for example, and I've waited weeks for items sent first class to arrive (currently at one month and counting for an item I know was sent). This isn't just occasional - it is routine. They're making TPE look like an efficient, punctual operation.
Horizon was the Post Office, not Royal Mail. I realise many people still think they're the same organisation but the scandal is not taking up any Royal Mail management time, and I doubt if anyone avoids using RM because of it.
You're quite right, and thank you for correcting me, but the public perception of "value" is that it's the same organisation that sells you stamps over a counter as the one which collects your (stamped) letters from the letter box and delivers them to your front door.
Placing all the liabilities (eg any pension fund shortfalls) in the rump and the assets (landholdings) in the juicy bit. Wonder if the Royal Mail bit has to lease it's operational properties from another part of the same group at excessive amounts?
Yes. Tends to happen at all the less busy / little-used collection boxes. The collection time might not be exactly 9.00 a.m. during the week, it could be then, or possibly a little later. Would be useful if the day of the next collection (metal plate) was always in use at such post boxes. (It's seemingly missing from the one in the pic).
Something like this has been the case for a number of years now for my nearest post box. I'd say ten or more.
Over the years more and more near me have exactly the same times on (used to be the nearest, on the estate; it is now the next nearest four at least). The post box is emptied when the postman (driver) passes it to deliver the mail. The times are 'not before' times so our mail is usually delivered sometime between 11:00 and 12:30, if I can put the post in by 10:00 it gets a 'soft landing' so there is quite a bit of post inside (ie not collected).
almost every postbox in my area has these collection times. I think it means that they collect it while delivering post, which seems fair enough to me.
Bingo, it allows them to merge emptying the boxes into delivery rounds rather than having to send people around again in the afternoon/evening.
Yes, most people in cities and towns will have that option. Certainly in Glasgow most of the street boxes out of the city centre have gone to 9 am clearances, but post offices still accept same-day post up to 5 pm, a handful of pillar boxes in the city centre are cleared between 6 and 6.15 pm, and for people who're very desperate you can take it to the mail centre yourself where there's a pillar box with a 7 pm clearance.
This is being done on extremely busy pillar boxes in the middle of Epsom as well... I think it's a national standard they're rolling out. I'd regard it as a national sub-standard, personally...
It's better to have collection once a day in the morning, than no collection at all.
See posts 402, 403 & 404 above; the point has already been made and acknowledged.
