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Edge:

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2.7mb with BT, although they led me to believe i'd be getting close to 8mb when i signed up to a 12mth contract.

Welshbreed:
currently getting 623kb per second (just over quarter what Im paying for)

SteveGoodz:

--- Quote from: "wingman" ---It's annoying they have a monopoly, because if they were forced to compete with somebody who did door-to-door deliveries as a properly run business, their customers would last 5 minutes.  I can't think of many services where customers have to put up with shoddy service with no choice whatsoever of taking their business elsewhere, apart from maybe NTL Broadband.
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I agree that monopolies tend to lead to poor service. You only have to look at BT to see what effect real competition does to business practices.

However, door to door mail deliver is not something that any of the (so called) competitors to Royal Mail are interested in. Indeed, when they were negotiating the terms of the operating licenses the regulator had to remove that element of the business to get any of them to actually make a bid. Setting up a rival delivery service would cost so much that the postal charge even for a letter would be between £2.50 and £3.00, next day delivery would be limited to large cities and towns and deliveries to remote areas (e.g. Highlands of Scotland) would be 3 to 5 days (figures provided to the regulator by both DHL and TNT).

If your business uses TNT, DHL, Business Post or any of the other alternative mail companies you should know that final delivery to private households and about 98% of business addresses is still done by Royal Mail.

Instead of complaining that they don't deserve more money because the odd postie doesn't perform the way you expect consider that if they were paid more they'd be able to recruit more conscientious personnel and the service would improve. And one final shot; why is it that the regulator only regulates Royal Mail and not all of the mail companies?

Just a thought  :D

Ja1983:
2 and a half words...

mud-club express!! :lol:

barnhill4x4:
No problems with ours at all and cant say there ever has been in the 10 odd years we have lived here.
  The guys in the sorting office are good too, they see the Disco or Range rover pulling in and get my parcels ready so when I walk through the door they are on the counter waiting for me! If they have not seen me driving in they apologise for not having the parcels ready!!!!

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