Graeme Wall wrote:

I'd rather cut deliveries down to three or even two a week if it would
cut the
cost of postage.

Sadly it probably wouldn't. And with online shopping such a key part of
the
Royal Mail's business there'd be fierce opposition to reducing the speed
of
delivery or else a decamp to incompetent couriers.

Why use incompetent couriers when there are plenty of competent ones
available.

Cost and the buyer rather than the sender is the one who experiences the
problems. For me the main annoyances are the need to put yourself under
virtual house arrest when expecting a delivery and it still doesn't come,
the inability to put together a decent flat delivery service (some of them
don't even know how to buzz the reception or phone the number supplied), the
failure to come at the times stated, the remote depots that are hard to
reach on public transport and have terrible opening hours, the ludicrously
excessive requirements for ID and proof of address when you can get in, the
premium rate phone numbers and the fines sent to senders because the firm is
incompetent.

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