"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On 2006-09-20 16:47:11 +0100, "Clive George"
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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Good grief

What a palaver.

This is why professional delivery organisations supply little plastic
stick on envelopes to take the label and any other documents.

I shouldn't need to worry about their logistics issues. It should be
possible to read their specs. for delivery requirements (e.g. weight,
dims, value, origin) write it on the address label, call them and that's
it.

How much do you expect such a service to cost?

It's very competitive in comparison to the cost of me going to the post
office, waiting in a queue, dealing with incompetent morons behind the
counter who don't understand the meaning of the word "service"

You don't half make life complicated for yourself! What proportion of RM's
traffic requires that? The majority of our posting needs are handled by
'take stamp out of little booklet obtained from the supermarket, apply to
envelope, stick in postbox'. No queueing, not even any need for interaction
with people. Cheap too.

(Ok, I'll admit I'm not best pleased with courier companies at the moment,
one of them just having taken three days to find my house on a 'next day'
delivery. On the third day he actually made the effort to find out where it
was rather than just fail to find it in his map book and then give up.)

clive