{"id":145,"date":"2004-09-08T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/royal-mail-again\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:27:36","slug":"royal-mail-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/royal-mail-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail &#8211; Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class='alignright' src='\/blog\/wp-content\/RoyalMail.gif' alt='Royal Mail' \/>Order from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photobox.co.uk\" target=\"NewWindow\">photobox.co.uk <\/a> sent by Royal Mail &#8216;First Class&#8217; on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It was daft to expect it on Tuesday I suppose, but it&#8217;s still not arrived today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>Royal Mail shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to call their service &#8216;First Class&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m sure it contravenes the Trades Description Act.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: it is now Thursday and still no sign.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Friday, and still no photos. This means that if they actually do turn up on Monday, it&#8217;ll be a week for supposed &#8216;First Class&#8217; &#8211; watch this space.<br \/>\nRoyal Mail are you listening? &#8211; <b>You do not deserve to run a monopoly.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Not surprisingly, the photos didn&#8217;t arrive on Monday. I emailed Photobox, who apologised, and said they would reprint the order and despatch the same day.<br \/>\n<b>Photobox shouldn&#8217;t have to apologise for Royal Mail.<\/b> The reprinted order arrived today (Wednesday). The original order still hasn&#8217;t shown up.<\/p>\n<p>Top marks for Photobox.<br \/>\nMinus 100 for Royal Mail.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The original order finally arrived on 1st October, almost a month late!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order from photobox.co.uk sent by Royal Mail &#8216;First Class&#8217; on Monday afternoon. It was daft to expect it on Tuesday I suppose, but it&#8217;s still not arrived today (Wednesday). Royal Mail shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to call their service &#8216;First Class&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m sure it contravenes the Trades Description Act. UPDATE: it is now Thursday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,8,70],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photobox","tag-poor-service","tag-royal-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}