Royal Mail fails to deliver Olympic service

You just wait its going to be far worse than you think. I went to one of the Equestrian days at Greenwich Park. Those 'test the system days'. It was a total shambles. Tube was appallingly squashed. They ran out of free drinking water for the public! And the food and drink vendors only had sweet sugary drinks left. My friend whom i went with has diabetes, we ended up having to beg and plead for water at the First Aid Tent Oh and we were not supposed to take our own food or drink into the venue.

As for Royal Mail - none of my courier companies I use on a daily basis, because they are cheaper AND they pick up from my home are going to surcharge. Wake up Royal Mail you need to shape up or you are going to be shipped out by customers choosing the cheaper option.
I really feel for you guys in London..

it seems all the royal males are the same,

We are paying more in Council tax to support the Games and get nothing for it except increased expense and inconvenience. I have been paying Rates/Council tax in London since 1965. None of the services have got any better, just more expensive.

Henry

The Olympics is turning out to be a nightmare for Londoners. We have just heard that for six weeks with theOlympics and Paraolympics, they are to allow late-night delieries. We will be getting lorries, juggernauts, vans and the rest, delivering to shops and large stores to the front and rear of our houses, throughout the night when we are trying to sleep.
For Londoners, not so much an Olympics as an undemocratic prgamsation which makes decisions which take away people's rights.

why doesnt royal mail just close down and do us a favour

Sorry I am totally fed up with the Olympic Games and the way it is being rammed down our throats commercially. It has totally lost the original ethos of the Olympic Games where it was ' TAKING PART ' was the emphasis. It has been completely highjacked by commercialism where lots of hangers on will profit by hiking up the prices during games. I do not buy the argument that the games will be a benefit to everybody in this country, in fact it will be exactly the opposite. The billions of pounds spent from our tax money on the games already plus being over budget from the original figure quoted, is far from common sense in a time we the country is in financial difficulties. All of us particularly the lower paid, unemployed, elderly and even the disabled are being targeted by our government by taking away the vital income. The legacy of the Olympic games will not help anybody in this country other than than those who will take advantage of making a quick buck. But then, I doubt that Lord Coe cares one iota that his pride and joy " Commercialised Olympic Games " will deny our tax money going to the needy in this country, it will generate employment, it will not give homes to the homeless. Our government have totally lost there way in looking after the tax payers and those in need in this country. We won the bid for the olympic Games with other countries laughing behind our back and thanking there lucky stars that they aren't running such an expensive games made up of a lot of over paid, egoistic committee members who couldn't care less how much they can impose big bills on any country under what was a world wide sporting occasion where ' TAKING PART ' was more important than the commercial political way it is being flouted now.

Royal mail doesn't start and finish in London, this story makes me laugh.

Another nail in the coffin of a once proud and efficient service !

This Journalist hasn't a clue, of course more congestion is going to delay the mail to some extent, postmen and women will be going about their regular routines and people will still be getting their daily deliveries, so I cant see what the problem is. Royal Mail has always had the best performance targets in Europe and at the best price of postage in comparison too. People will regret the day Royal Mail is privatised, prices will soar, the universal service will end, Saturday deliveries will be gone and people in remote rural area's will have to collect their mail or pay extra for deliveries.

The Royal Mail, a name synonymous with efficiency and pride throughout the world has through its own inability to adapt pushed itself so far down the quality list many supporters, people like me no longer care if it survives, they or their management have consistantly through restrictive practices and stupid pricing regimes taken them selves off the top shelf and under the bottom one, post offices getted chopped stamps rise in price, deliveries take for ever. Time to close up shop, and I say that with the utmost reluctance. It is not the postmans fault it is a case of lions led by donkeys.

In 2007 Trade Secretary Alistair Darling said he wanted to guarantee "reasonable access" throughout the country but the current network was "unsustainable". He said 4m fewer customers were using post offices every week than two years ago and they were losing £4m a week. Opposition parties say further closures will devastate local communities, particularly in rural areas.

More than 4,000 post offices have shut in the past eight years since Labour came to power..