Yesterday I went to my local post office, the staff that serve at my local post office are awful, they didn’t used to be too bad, but over the past few years their attitude towards their jobs and the people they are supposed to be helping has changed.
Due to the bank holiday I had quite a few bearing kits to post, so obviously I went to my post office, after having watched someone ask for some address labels and listening as the person serving me said to the other member of staff, I wouldn’t even give her any labels, it wasn’t a big surprise when the other member of staff bumbled off and came back and said, sorry we don’t have enough to give you any 😯
Then the person serving me starts mucking about with the machine and spends a good 10 to 15 mins fixing it, after that they asked if they could service some people at the lottery while serving me, so I said why not seems fine, as I was writing on the back of my reciepts .
So after all of the faffing with the equipment and serving other people, the guy then tears of 30+ first class labels taking ages to do so, I only have 2 first class packets left there is no reason to tear of 30, he then turns to me and says this taking far too long, I’m going to have to talk to my manager and see about you rejoining the cue and then getting served after everyone else.
At this point he was told in no uncertain terms, that would not be happening, so I have decided after seeing these individuals taking the piss out of countless people, that I’ve had enough, I want to complain.
There is lies the problem, you can’t actually get through to the royalfail, in effect they are holding our country to ransom. We need a mail service and so they have to stay, but their incompetence and belligerent incompetence at that, means that they have to go!
For me it’s quite simple what is happening at the post office, the post mistress is not hiring enough staff, if she saves between £250 to say £400 each week, then how much extra does she earn a year? there are 5 tills, it is a peak time and only 2 staff to serve customers ❓
I think that post offices should be evaluated on how long the waiting times are for people, in relation to how much profit is being made, that way they are not open to greedy unscrupulous individuals abusing their positions and making money from other people losing out!
Something has to be done and yet how do we fix such a complexed problem ❓