barclaycon
Well-known member
After my rant about soaring component prices, the next object of my disdain is the cost of sending AND receiving things through the mail.
I ordered some meters from Bryan in Canada in May and he sent me an email to say that they had been dispatched on the 3rd. June. I've been waiting for them to finish some projects for a while.
Today I receive a card saying that I have to go down to the sorting office to pay £17.06 and pick up the package myself.
Now I checked on the label and it actually arrived in London on 9th. June and has therefore sat at Royal Mail for 13 days while they take their time and charge me for the priviledge of having to collect it myself.
The actual VAT added was £9.06 and then they added £8 handling charge. Bastards!
What a useless bunch of tossers. I didn't think they could get any worse, but they have excelled themselves.
Royal Mail used to be a reliable, trusted British institution. Take my advice, if you can use an alternative - do so!
I could have spent the £17 on a courier to get it over to me in a few days.
Not much point in declaring the value, if it had got stolen then they wouldn't have done anything anyway.
It's like when you see something on eBay or Amazon and think 'that's a good price', then by the time you've worked out the mail costs and possibly VAT it's not so good after all.
I ordered some meters from Bryan in Canada in May and he sent me an email to say that they had been dispatched on the 3rd. June. I've been waiting for them to finish some projects for a while.
Today I receive a card saying that I have to go down to the sorting office to pay £17.06 and pick up the package myself.
Now I checked on the label and it actually arrived in London on 9th. June and has therefore sat at Royal Mail for 13 days while they take their time and charge me for the priviledge of having to collect it myself.
The actual VAT added was £9.06 and then they added £8 handling charge. Bastards!
What a useless bunch of tossers. I didn't think they could get any worse, but they have excelled themselves.
Royal Mail used to be a reliable, trusted British institution. Take my advice, if you can use an alternative - do so!
I could have spent the £17 on a courier to get it over to me in a few days.
Not much point in declaring the value, if it had got stolen then they wouldn't have done anything anyway.
It's like when you see something on eBay or Amazon and think 'that's a good price', then by the time you've worked out the mail costs and possibly VAT it's not so good after all.