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Unreceived and Undeliverable Mail - Breakdown of Cost UK
Detailed research fails to uncover the major reasons for total mail loss for both individuals and businesses. There is an insufficient amount of data available to the public pertaining to the percentage of mail that's lost due to outdated addresses for both individual mail and business mail in the United Kingdom. About 5.6% of all e-commerce orders placed in the United Kingdom will never arrive at their destination while the average cost of a failed delivery to retailers is €16.4. Four out of every five retailers (about 80%) revealed that most failed deliveries are due to "mistyped" addresses by customers. Detailed research for the percentage of mail in the United Kingdom lost due to outdated address does not uncover national data.
TOTAL LOSS OF MAIL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: REASONS & COST
- According to a United Kingdom Express web report, one of the reasons for the total loss of mail/parcels in the United Kingdom is that various issues as well as faults can occur within the several stages of delivery.
- A survey conducted across the e-commerce sector of the United Kingdom reveals that an average of one in every 20 orders made online does not reach the customer during the first attempt.
- About 5.6% of orders placed in the United Kingdom do not arrive at their destination while the average cost of a failed delivery toe retailers is €16.4, four out of every five retailers (about 80%) revealed that most failed deliveries are due to "mistyped" addresses by customers.
- A United Kingdom based widower was stunned to receive a lost mail through Royal Mail on behalf of his "dead wife EIGHT YEARS late." Royal mail has failed to reveal the major reason for this and other lost mail, claiming the circumstances are being investigated.
PERCENTAGE OF MAIL LOST DUE TO ADDRESS ISSUES
- Detailed research for the portion of mail in the United Kingdom lost due to outdated address does not return any helpful insights.
- A Post and Parcel Info web report on the real cost implications of failed deliveries in the United Kingdom reveals that about 73% of UK based shoppers suffer disproportionately from late as well as failed mailed parcel deliveries. The report further reveals that "incorrect address data" is the cause of most failed parcel delivery issues across the United Kingdom.
- About 5.6% of e-commerce packages mailed to customer across the United Kingdom end up undelivered (are lost). E-commerce retailers believe a significant number of the 5.6% of mail lost across the United Kingdom are due to wrongly supplied addresses by customers.
- Unfortunately, non of the uncovered reports specifies the percentage of mail loss due to outdated addresses for both individual and business organizations across the United Kingdom.
METHODOLOGY
Detailed research through surveys, reports from postal agencies in the United Kingdom such as Post and Parcel Info among other precompiled resources for the significant reasons for total mail loss for both individuals and businesses fails to return any of insights on the percentage of mail lost due to outdated addresses for both individual and businesses across the United Kingdom. Insights obtained from a Post & Parcel Info wen publication could not revealed total mail loss for both individuals and businesses or the percentage of mail that's lost due to outdated addresses for both individual mail and business mail but majored on the true cost implications of failed deliveries in the United Kingdom.
Research through scholarly journals such as JSTOR, Oxford Academic Journals among other scholarly journals for research reports regarding the major reasons for total mail loss for both individuals and businesses in the United Kingdom failed to uncover any research reports that specified the percentage of mail that's lost due to outdated addresses for both individual and business mail across the United Kingdom. There was also no report pertaining the major reasons that lead to total mail loss for both individuals and businesses in the UK. We assumed such a study is yet to be conducted or made public as several cases are under investigation.
Research through news/trade journals like the UK Express, the UK Mirror, etc., failed to uncover the percentage of mail lost across the UK due to outdated addresses or the major reasons that lead to total mail loss for both individuals and businesses in the UK. Insights obtained from the UK Mirror only revealed that a UK based widower was stunned to receive a lost mail through Royal Mail on behalf of his dead wife several years late.
An attempt to triangulate the reason for several lost Royal Mail packages across the United Kingdom was futile. All efforts to uncover from multiple sources the qualitative insights into the causes (reasons) and the quantity of such lost mail recently delivered by Royal Mail long after the addressees were deceased or had relocated proved abortive as Royal Mail apologized and revealed that several cases had just recently come to light and are undergoing "an internal investigation."
Due to the limited information available to the public, we have included some helpful findings slightly older than the usual 4-month credibility range as well as a few cases of notable lost mail delivered several years after the addressees have died or relocated.