Ebay sellers can cause big delays
It's great that selling from home can provide people with extra sources of income and also that buying and selling online is keeping our post offices in business.
However, could the growing number of online home entrepreneurs please consider others before bringing 30-plus packets into the post office to be individually weighed and priced?
I've encountered this hold up the past three times I've been to my post office and the queue has been stretching out of the door.
Royal Mail provides an online buy and print postal service and a person who is savvy enough to sell online is savvy enough to use this straightforward service.
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All that then has to be done at the post office is the act of handing the parcels over the counter.
Personally, I would like to see every post offices put a strict cap on the number of parcels that can be weighed and labelled at any one time, so online sellers have to move to this underused service Royal Mail offers.
It's not fair other customers are at a standstill for long periods of time, particularly elderly customers who have only one or two items to post.
I'm getting to the point where don't want to us use my post office because I can no longer face these long delays.
VH Sheppard, Leicester.
So Leicester is bidding to become the next city of culture. What will swing it for us, the increasing number of Eastern European shops, the endless trail of dope smoke that engulfs the city air, perhaps, or the Gothic splendour of the Haymarket? I don't think so.
It's nostalgia that will get us the title. Where else can stir such images of 1944 as Charles Street, Humberstone Gate, Church Gate, Braunstone Gate, Melton Road, Lee Circle, Wharf Street, Sanvey Gate, Woodgate, Frog Island and so on?
Stroll down these no-go areas and relive those times of deprivation.
Do Soulsby and his bunch honestly think a few bones and a new bus station will make a difference?
Get real, Leicester is a trash-can thanks to the ludicrous council.
You don't have to be a Southend MP to know that.
Clive Boden, Glenfield.
3 Comments
by SarahLeic
Sunday, March 24 2013, 9:46PM
“I sympathise with the letter writer as I've been in the same situation a several times, it's even worse when the only time you can make it to the post office is your lunch break and all of a sudden there is a guy with 50 parcels in his rucksack ahead of you! Most people expect every customer in a Q to be at the counter for a few minutes each, but 15+minutes for one customer! The letter is not just a rant either, there is a rather sensible suggestion put forward, that would keep everyone happy and would still keep post offices open... but alas it seems some people here are not open to sensible suggestions.”
by CGLee
Friday, March 22 2013, 9:42AM
“Think yourself lucky you've got a P.O. Mine closed years ago. It's thanks to the people who use the local offices that are left that they're able to stay open, and if e-bay users are holding you up for a few minutes, just remember that those same users may well be keeping your office open.”
by zygote3
Thursday, March 21 2013, 7:44PM
“Good god what a miserable pair of so and so's!
My sympathies are with those showing a bit of initiative, waiting ages in a queue because the Post Office is understaffed, and then some miserable pensioner moaning about it being their fault for wanting to send some parcels at the same time as their visit the PO. Guess what? We all have an equal right to use the Post Office - try and be a bit more tolerant of other people who are experiencing the same frustrations as you are.
Your attitude reminds me of the sort of person on the motorway, in heavy bumper to bumper traffic, who seems to blame the driver immediately in front of them for holding them up!”