IT JUST GOT BETTER BUT They thought it was my job to sort out their problems!!
UPDATE - 20/10/25 - My goodness, I actually got my lost item back through the post so I've uprated my review to four stars! See below for the rest of the story and why the review started off as 'No Stars'...
UPDATE - 14/10/25 THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER! Went to their website this morning and my package that was missing the other day at Stansted has 'magically' now appeared on their system!
Problem now is that I'm not at Stansted, but have paid to have the item delivered to me at home, and paid an excess insurance for non delivery just in case the system is mistaken.
How the missing item suddenly turned up in the system several days late I'll leave to your imagination - if it's pro-active management on site then thanks!
I'll bump my stars to 4 or 5 if the item arrives at my home with no further issues.....
THIS REVIEW STARTED HERE - 13/10/25
'Jury's out' for the moment, but suspect they'll return with a 'Guilty as Charged' verdict soon - here's why.....
I stupidly went through security at Stansted on Thursday 9th Oct with a Victorinox Multitool in my bag (I'd been camping the week before and had forgotten it was in there).
The security agent helpfully bagged it in a 'Post & Fly' bag and gave me the numbered tear-off strip to redeem at the Post & Fly desk on my return to Stansted two days later (the desk is less than 100Metres from the security section in the same terminal!). What a GOOD IDEA!
When I arrived to pick up the item with my numbered slip the assistant (a courteous young lady) could find no entry in their systems for the number on the slip, and nothing in their storerooms matching my item.
Then the even worse news was that they apparently expected me to contact security at Stansted (try doing that then!!) to ask them where it went!!!!!
After 20 minutes discussing the topic of 'responsibilities' the assistant summoned her supervisor who told me all I could do was "contact security" (Aaaaaaaargh!).
I suggested forcefully that their business model meant they had a business relationship with security at Stansted and that it was, without doubt, their responsibility to chase up items (their 'stock-in-trade) that had gone missing in what is part of their own business process. In essence, the moment the item is put in one of their bags it becomes their responsibility to track, collect and return it when requested. There should be a part of their process that monitors which numbered bags have been issued to security, and audits which have been used and entered to their system and which ones remains unused at security. This way they can tell if items have 'gone missing'. It is patently NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY to contact their 'supplier' (in this case, Stansted Airport security).
I saw the Item being bagged and put by security in a box in a cupboard for collection by Post & Fly later. Post & Fly claim, with no justification, that they must have never have received it from security, yet refuse to follow it up with security despite my being able to identify precisely which security desk took it from me and bagged it.
The suspicious amongst us would suspect that it has been stolen rather than lost, at which stage I would have expected Post & Fly to be anxious to talk to Security and review their own processes as each time this happens, if it was never handed over by security, Post and Fly lose revenue and get bad press like this. For whatever reason and at whatever stage it failed to get entered to the Post & Fly system, it is in their interest to investigate who seems to think that the items entrusted to their safe keeping (which is what their service amounts to) can be 'lifted' at will as if from some God given smörgåsbord provided by hapless travellers. (it might pay them to ask themselves at which part of the process all goods go through a single part of the handling process (i.e. - probably retrieval and entry to their own systems) and are thus more 'vulnerable...
To demonstrate how important this is to them, the ticket with my number on it was returned to me along with a manager's scribbled illegible email address (to get rid of me) so I can waste another hour in half-duplex email communications, and to give you an idea of how much is going to be done following my visit to the desk they didn't even ask for my contact details (!!!) so even if they were to look and find my item (ha!) they can't contact me to tell me they have it!
Any guesses as to what happens next?
11 de outubro de 2025
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