Good job their reputation is so utterly flawless or this might seem like a monumentally dumb bit of PR right now.
It's not mentioned in this article but here there's a statement from RM where they blame postmasters, again, when there's a serious possibility a lot of this is a computer bug, again.
They were willing till prosecute, jail, and drive their postmasters to suicide, what's a $5 fine?
That was the Post Office. Not Royal Mail.
Ah, my bad. And yet they managed to be equally shit.
Theres a difference? The uk has two public postal services?
Post office basically sells stamps and hands stuff over to Royal Mail who delivers them.
They are separate entities, they have been since Royal Mail was privatised. Post Office Limited runs the offices where postal and other services are provided/sold, including those of Royal Mail. Royal Mail Limited runs the postal service which moves and delivers the letters and parcels.
What a completely unnecessary division of labour and commerce.
Privatisation sucks.
I'm not sure I agree with this statement.
Our post office allows you to post packages with several different postal networks, including Royal Mail and Evri.
By decoupling the shop from the network, they can now do more without the conflict of interest from Royal Mail.
I wouldn't say having a shop front is a conflict of interest and postal agents exist as is so I only see it as removing a piece of a public utility in favour of privatisation.
Generally speaking, privatising public infrastrucure causes issues and added expense for consumers, less stable jobs and removes the benefit of the public investment.
I wasn't referring to the privatisation, you said
What an unnecessary division of labour.
The labour overlap of a parcel network and a storefront are completely different.
It didnt need to be privatised, but separating the two isnt a bad thing.
Ok so I receive a letter with a fake stamp which I did not purchase, and I'm gonna be fined for it? How the fuck does that work?
Tell you what, I'll buy a fuck load of them for 4p each and send a bunch of mail to people I don't like to bankrupt them with fines.
Oh and the "Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract" but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I've sent mail to gets fined?
Ah, email, where none of this matters.
Yes, next week the police reveal that they will put YOU in prison if you get robbed.
Be more than they do now
I see those who grew up with Zero Tolerance are finally learning to apply it elsewhere.
If you receive a letter with a fake stamp I think you can refuse the fine but don't then get the letter. Same as if someone hasn't put enough stamps on something.
Oh and the “Buy your stamps from the Post Office and you can claim they breached contract” but means I have to keep receipts for all my stamp purchases in case someone I’ve sent mail to gets fined?
As far as I know stamps and stamps books aren't paired to a receipt, so it wouldn't be possible to trace which stamps related to which purchase.
Lol, rude
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