Alternative to Royal Mail

[mco6215]

Due to widespread discontent with Royal Mail (late, delayed and disappearing post), a local consortium of businesspersons is starting a competing service for local mail in the London area.

Starting 1 April and for a trial period of 2 weeks any mail posted to an address in Greater London, will be delivered free of charge providing CITY MAIL is written in the top right corner of the envelope. In East Dulwich, please post in the GREEN postbox outside William Rose at 126, Lordship Lane.

After this period stamps will be available to prepay postage at approximately half the rate of Royal Mail stamps

Contact City Mail (London) at [email protected] for more information.

[Jenijenjen]

This is interesting and I wish the service well.  But the biggest problem appears mostly to be with incoming mail which gets as far as the sorting office and then appears to be only randomly delivered to final destinations in East Dulwich.  Is City Mail able to help with this?

[Penguin68]

Agreed that there has been little evidence of problems with collection, the problem lies with the ED Delivery Office and its removal to Peckham. This is the office which is tragically under-staffed and poorly managed. Very few of the letters sent to me seem to originate in Central London, and this service will thus not benefit me that much. 

[sunbob]

Ha ha. Is there any colour post box outside William Rose, or is the starting date the most relevant thing here?

[Jenijenjen]

9 minutes ago, sunbob said:

Ha ha. Is there any colour post box outside William Rose, or is the starting date the most relevant thing here?

Hmmm ...

[Penguin68]

Despite the date (and the fact that starting up such a service would likely be illegal) an earlier post, in March, and thus presumably not date related, suggested problems with collection as well as delivery. I had thought to discount this whatever the seasonal intention of the OP.

[Jenijenjen]

Oh dear, OP's forum history shows 1 April to be their preferred posting date

[Sue]

🤣🤣🤣

[Spartacus]

It was a first class delivery of an April fools joke 

Almost as good as spaghetti trees 

[malumbu]

What's wrong with spaghetti trees?  I understand that the conditions are ideal for a good harvest.  When I was younger I'd spend a couple of weeks in Italy helping with the harvest before moving onto pick grapes in vineyards.  I'd urge youngsters to do similar, for example during the school and university summer holidays