one of those sort of "complaints and grievances" sort of posts, look you see, or just a general whine if you would prefer to see it as such. up to you really, i can just write it all as it is.
in very general - broad, indeed - terms, if you did a survey of what makes verk across the UK good, it would be how the unions fight and defend rights whilst protecting us, the simple, honest workers coming out with a hig score. conversely, if you were to survey the worst of verk across our nation, it would be how the unions make it difficult, if not impossible, to go ahead and fire any staff member that is incompetent, generally inept and not up to the job or is plainly a thief.
the more essential or nationwide a service is, the more the latter is true. like, for instance, with the "jobs for the boys", once you are in you are in for life, no way will anyone ever get disciplined let alone fired world of royal mail.
yes, oh yes indeed, this is exactly how a letter arrived for me not so long ago. well, not exactly, i have taken the trouble of removing my address. doesn't that top corner look like someone has torn it open to have a look? maybe see what's inside, on the off chance that it was worth stealing? that was my thoughts. so, as i saw it being delivered like this, and knowing that tampering with mail is a very serious offence, i wrote to complain to royal mail, offering to send them pictures and/or the envelope.
without ever even seeing the pictures, this is how royal mail elected to reply. yes, i have indeed copied and pasted the response, as that is clearly what they have done -
Although we take care with all items sent with us, there are rare occasions when things get damaged during their journey. We use machines during the processing of mail and, if an item is bulky or not sealed correctly, it can become trapped or damaged. We do our best to remove items that are too big before they get into the sorting machines, but sometimes things are missed. I’m sorry, this may be the cause of damage to your item.
When we discover a damaged item, it should be re-sealed in one of our official plastic bags. This keeps the item and its contents, if located, secure for the remainder of its journey. I understand your item wasn’t enclosed inside one of these plastic bags, so please accept my apologies for this.
i am not sure which is the most extraordinary part of that. whilst it could be that they totes know how the envelope got damaged without seeing it, perhaps it is the claim that a machine did it itself which takes that title. although i am no expert, i am pretty sure that if a machine did that to this, a quite standard envelope, then it would do the same to all envelopes which passed through it. which, this being royal mail, i would assume is a lot.
making this claim is at first lazy, but secondly saves royal mail doing anything pesky or time consuming like find and weed out any opportunistic thieves they employ. to do so would involve hearings, as well as involve the unions. that is simply too much time and effort for them.
what was in the envelope that someone in the employ of royal mail wanted to see if was worth stealing? no less than two free tickets to some scientology presentation or film or similar that Spiros thought i would be interested in. well, there were two in the envelope, perhaps there was more but off goes some royal mail employee to see what it is all about.
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