I am shocked.
The postal system in the Netherlands has collapsed since its privatisation.
We don't have full time or part time postmen and women anymore.
We have mainly students who are recruited to deliver mail for 2-3 hours per day as and when they like it. So some days they are too busy or too tired and you don't get your mail or it is all dumped on one address in a nearby street whose occupants may take it on them to deliver the mail themselves or just bin it. (We get approx once a month the mail for 5 or more addresses in the square here). Lots of stuff gets damaged, because if it doesn't fit through the letterbox it is just forced through (result ripped magazines, damaged books, broken frame) Or left out in the rain or left with somebody else in the square with no note, so you have no idea somebody else has your stuff. Result? Most online sellers refuce to use them and insist on expensive couriers.
To complain is not easy either. We don't have any post offices any more, they are counters in shops, staffed by the shop's staff, who often don't havea clue and no interest in providing postal services like for example registering a car in new owner's name or other duties like that.
Prices have increased. Formally we have a five day a week service but in practice you are lucky to get your mail in whatever time frame suits the delivery person.
IT IS AN UTTER NIGHTMARE
and it will only get worse as not surprisingly fewer and fewer people use this non-service.
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LoveSewingBee · 10/07/2013 09:03
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