New Royal Mail doorstep pick up service starts Wednesday

[Mike]

 

Reported in the papers today

Royal Mail postal workers will for the first time collect parcels on the doorstep, in one of the biggest changes to the service as it adapts to the decline in letters and rapid growth in online shopping.

From Wednesday customers across the UK will be able to pay a fee of 72p on top of standard postage costs for every package under the new “parcel collect” service. Pre-paid return items will cost 60p per item.

Postal workers will collect up to five items per customer per day between Monday and Saturday, subject to limits of 61cm x 46cm x 46cm in volume and 20kg in weight. Items will be collected from the door or from a safe place on the property chosen by the customer.

Customers will be able to make bookings only via Royal Mail’s “click and drop” online service up to five days in advance until midnight on the day before collection. The service will provide collection slots of between two and four hours.

full news article here

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/21/postal-workers-to-collect-from-the-doorstep-as-royal-mail-shakes-up-service

72p to save a trip to the local PO and all that involves nowadays, sounds good to me

how about out there members,  will ya use?

[Modernsoulsucks]

No. 

If someone buys something off me I feel it's my responsibility to make sure it gets to the PO and that I get a receipt showing recorded delivery # when I hand the package over.