Gaaaaaargh!!! The object of today’s rant is none other than that best of British institutions, Royal Mail. Over the past few weeks, Royal mail have apparently managed to not deliver, or fail to deliver, several items. Now, it’s not the losing things that bothers me, really, what really bothers me is the attitude other companies have toward the Royal Mail service. Now, for a little backdrop to this rant then the story goes thus… Once upon a time there was a sleepy little country called England. The people paid their taxes to the government there, and in return got a state postal service. They paid their money for a stamp, which didn’t cost much, and they could be reasonable safe in the knowledge that their mail would get where it was going. So reliable was this service that companies, law firms and state departments and such would assume that if they posted something, then you received it.

Somewhere along the way, this all went horribly wrong. (continue reading…)