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Here are a few of the issues our customers and we have faced:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next Day Delivery <\/span><b>NOT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being next day<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracking just shows it&#8217;s been received by Royal Mail (one customer&#8217;s order was two weeks in the system) but nothing else<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Package received empty (contents missing)<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Royal Mail insurance not paying for lost order amounts, too much administrative bureaucracy to claim.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unhelpful customer service when customers have rung in to track orders.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could go on!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needless to say, our shipping is our responsibility, so we have decided to ring the death knell for Royal Mail. 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