If, I have blinkered tunnel-vision, as far as my most trusted courier, Evri, are concerned, it is because, my local guy, having served my area for the last eight years, has NEVER, I repeat, NEVER, lost one of my parcels. He always delivers on time, with a smile; he's mad-busy but will share a joke or a moan with me; these parcels he delivers to me are in pristine, unmolested condition; he follows instructions, to the letter; he respects my property. By stark contrast, the person that delivers parcels in my area for Royal Mail, is a rampant kleptomaniac, who likes to pretend that transit damage happens all the time; he tears the packaging, takes what he wants & delivers the remains, in a Royal Mail "apology" bag. Trust me when I say, he is not sorry. Tracked, or not tracked, it doesn't matter to him. In the 18 months before I figured out his game, I never had a successful perfume delivery via Royal Mail (the sticker they insist on, for flammable materials declaration, let him know before he tore it open, he had something snazzy, to either sell, or butter his missus up with). He took various items of clothing (one parcel, he took the Under Armour top, that I won for four quid, but was sixty quid new, and delivered the three remaining 'no-name' garments, along with the torn packaging, in yet another "I'm not sorry, thanks for all the presents" bag). He took CDs from bundles I won, DVDs from bundles I won - I got to know his tastes, by what he allowed me to keep. He took Rick & Morty things I bought for my nephew. He took a cool pad in the height of summer that I needed to go under my pillow. He even took items from a haberdashery kit - the scissors, safety pins and needle-threader - he let me keep the rest! I had no choice in the courier for my reading glasses from Opulize - he tore the entire corner off the box, he must have taken every pair of the +1.50 glasses out, decided he didn't want/ like/ need/ couldn't sell them, stuffed them back in the box, then jammed the thing wonky in my letterbox, no doubt in an attempt to make it look like the damage had happened at that particular point of delivery. The box is considerably less shallow and wide than the letterbox, it would have easily slid through it & plopped onto the mat. If I didn't have such difficult issues in dealing with stress, I'd have reported him, not to Royal Mail, but to the Police. I still have three, of these tattered & torn items of packaging, in their "apology" bags - I kept the ones I envisaged most likely to have his fingerprints on the INSIDE of them. I realised, all this would prove, is he had his hand in there, not that he stole from me. My only other choice, was to stop using sellers that use Royal Mail. I have since, suffered zero thefts, from any courier - Evri, Yodel, DPD and DHL, in my area, are gods to me. With Evri being the usual, regular one, I have gotten to know Simon, I have gotten to rely on Simon, I have gotten to TRUST in Simon, based entirely on how he behaves towards things that don't belong to him. In fact, his utterly trustworthy nature, earned him a twenty-pound-note in his Christmas card. Now, I cannot trust Royal Mail as far as I could spit, but I'm not going to go around insulting people for using them, when, in their respective areas, they CAN trust Royal Mail. I could accuse them of having blinkered tunnel-vision, for singing their praises. But, I won't, because I am a rational, respectful adult, who accepts, that in the free-world, we all have a choice.
