Royal Mail cant keep their employees happy…

[Fordy]

But they can spend a fortune on pointless marketing campaigns.

Today in work we received 3 large parcels 355mm x 270mm x 40mm. Inside were a 1 cm deep slab of milk chocolate engraved with a letter selling their services to us. Each letter was hand personalised in dark chocolate.

I cannot begin to imagine how much this has cost them as a marketing exercise. The postage alone (admittedly they wont have paid for it) would about £3. God knows how many hundreds of thousands of these they have had produced and how much each one has cost.

What a ridicuous waste of money at a time when they are charging more to deliver simple items, cutting back services and causing their workers to strike.

[PoochJD]

Hi,

Don't forget, folks, that the Royal Mail are going to surcharge the addressed recipient by £1 (plus the excess unpaid delivery fee) for any card or parcel that is not correctly stamped!

This means, if a friend, relative or whomever sends you a particularly weird shaped Christmas card, and they only put a regular 1st Class Stamp on it, and it should have been weighed and charged at 38p, your recipient will have to a) pay the £1 surcharge, and the extra 7p, before they will be allowed to receive your card!

So, here's my suggestion:

Start sending odd-shaped and very heavy items directly to Adam Crozier, without using the right postage, and let's see how he likes it, the !


Pooch

P.S. I am not advocating that anyone breaks the law, so you follow this posting, at your own peril! I am not responsible, if you foul-up, and get a visit from the Rozzers!

[Fordy]

Would that be Adam "£1 million bonus" crozier?
or
Adam, "lets close some more post offices" crozier?

[BandWidthJunkie]

Remember, no matter how bad things are within any large company there is always a heathly budget for the marketing department

Originally Posted by Fordy

But they can spend a fortune on pointless marketing campaigns.

Today in work we received 3 large parcels 355mm x 270mm x 40mm. Inside were a 1 cm deep slab of milk chocolate engraved with a letter selling their services to us. Each letter was hand personalised in dark chocolate.

I cannot begin to imagine how much this has cost them as a marketing exercise. The postage alone (admittedly they wont have paid for it) would about £3. God knows how many hundreds of thousands of these they have had produced and how much each one has cost.

What a ridicuous waste of money at a time when they are charging more to deliver simple items, cutting back services and causing their workers to strike.