Royal Mail’s latest Quality of Service report reveals that it has beaten its regulatory First Class and Second Class delivery targets for the first half of the 2016-17 financial year.
93.4% of First Class mail was delivered the next working day by Royal Mail against a target of 93% and they beat their Second Class mail target of 98.5%, delivering 98.9% within three working days. However Royal Mail did miss their Special Delivery target delivering 98.6& of Special Delivery items on time against a target of 99%.
Sue Whalley, Chief Operations Officer at Royal Mail said pf the results: “Our postmen and women work extremely hard to deliver to some of the most demanding Quality of Service standards in the whole of Europe. We remain the only UK delivery company to publish our Quality of Service and we are proud to do so“.
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I wonder how accurate Royal Mail’s figures are. I assume that they include claims for items “lost” in the post in their figures for late deliveries.
I am sure that I am not the only one who does not bother to claim for items lost in the post (due to all the obstacles they put in the way and their general reluctance to pay out appropriate compensation, as well as the time it all takes). Therefore, I would imagine that their real figures for on time deliveries may not be quite as rosy as they make out.
I’ll second that BFT! Royal Mail customer support are an extremely rude & arrogant bunch. If you catch them out they just hang up on you. The claims process is designed to make your hair fall out. It’s just not worth the aggro. I have not made a claim for years. The last time I did claim I was promised a measly book of stamps which never actually arrived. Possibly the worst Customer Service ever.
At present I would not consider using another service, we post around 6-800 items a month and our customers are very impressed with how quick the items arrive.
We currently lose 1/200 (0.5%) packages we send in the post by RM, which is not too bad.
RM claims do not provide the service they used to, but we put our claims in once a month and whilst they may take a while to process, we do get paid.
Make sure you use the bulk claim form and send in all documentation by email:
1. Claim form in xls format
2. Proof of posting
3. Invoice of sold item
4. Customer communication for lost item
5. Invoice from supplier showing your cost
Then wait…. In time you get a credit note to your account.
Post 10 items back to yourself from the next town by first class post.
You will get between 5 and 7 delivered next day, the rest arriving over the follwing three days.
Try it for yourself.
There must be a lot of massaging of these figures.
In any case, even if the RM target is met, it still wouldn’t meet Ebay’s crackpot on-time delivery metric.
we have nothing lost using royalmail in the last 12 month
now 3 items missing in action this week,
is it the start of the Christmas cock up season ?
Personally I did not think that the loss of 1/200 was that bad a service and do not find it causes too much extra admin or hassle, of course, I would rather it did not happen.
The loss could possibly be less, if one or two people are not just saying the item did not arrive.
So everybody else has a perfect courier service they use that never lose or damages a single packet and always delivers on time.
Who are these magnificent courier / mail service companies? Be proud to name who you use if they are so great…
Delivery times: We only use 2nd class and sometimes find that people have given us feedback before we expected the item to arrive.
Ebay: We do not have a problem with Ebay’s on-time delivery metric.
we ship about 200-250 orders a day via eBay and about 50 via amazon mostly large letter non tracked
we find that at least 5 a week claim to have “not received”
not sure why its such a high number if any one could maybe enlighten makes you wonder if your not using the 2D barcode then they seemed to be “misplaced”
I’ve said it before – the % of items not received varies according to which platform they were sold on.
As a % of sold items, ten times more items are not received on Ebay than via our website or any other channel we sell through.
For sixteen years, reported losses are 2% on Ebay, compared to 0.2% anywhere else.
Same items.
Same postal service.
Even many of the customers are the same.
The encouragement to claim refunds on Ebay is to entirely to blame.
Interesting to note Ebay don’t even count it as a defect now, if you refund a claim without intervention.
Keep quiet and pay up and Ebay will leave you alone is the message they want you to get.
I don’t believe RM’s figures for one minute, and I would call to question just how independent this is. When are they going to report on the amount of Signed-for services that actually arrive on time, and get a signature? that service is tantamount to fraud.
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