Rejected petition Stop Royal Mail using the phrase First class

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The petition is to stop Royal Mail describing its main postal service as First Class.
The description First Class is miss leading and only rarely complies with Royal Mails claim that 1st class items arrive within 1 working day. They do not,the majority of 1st class items mailed only arrive on the 2nd working day and in many many cases up to 5 days.

It is therefore not right that Royal Mail should be allowed to describe this service as 1st class when it clearly is not.
It is a miss leading description and could also be classed as false advertising due to Royal Mail continually failing (in some cases purposely) to deliver mail within the specified 24 hrs.

I would like the Government to stop Royal Mail using the description 1st class for its mail services.

Standard service better suits their description of this mail service.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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Date submitted 24 April 2014
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