[Update on Jan. 12 1.21pm: SingPost said that they will be giving the business owner a full refund.]

SingPost didn’t manage to end the year 2018 right.

And it seems like they’re having trouble starting 2019 well too, unfortunately.

Printing and distribution service

A massage parlour owner in Singapore alleges that he engaged a service from SingPost that prints and distributes flyers, getting them to print and deliver 65,000 copies for S$7,000, only for the mail company to fail to fulfil their end of the commercial agreement.

To make matters worse, 32-year-old Chen Rong Sheng claims that SingPost tried to dupe him into thinking that the task had indeed been carried out.

The incident was reported by Lianhe Wanbao on Jan. 10, 2019.

This is the service in question, according to the Chinese daily:

Did not receive any flyers

The entire fiasco, Wanbao reports, started on Nov. 19, 2018, when Chen placed his order with SingPost.

Punggol and Sengkang were among the estates where the flyers were supposed to be distributed.

The date of the distribution was set for Nov. 26 to Dec. 4, 2019.

However, Chen, who lives in Sengkang, was reportedly puzzled when he did not receive any flyers that day.

When the business owner then asked two of his staff who lived in Punggol if they had received any flyers, both said they had not.

Replied with photos of the flyers in letterboxes

Chen then reportedly got in touch with SingPost via email on Dec. 7, and the latter replied him on Dec. 12 and Dec. 14 with photos of the flyers in letterboxes, as proof that they were distributed.

Seeing the photos, Chen’s doubts were initially allayed.

That is, until another of his relative, who also lives in Sengkang, told Chen that he, too, never saw his flyer.

Chen reportedly then re-looked at the photos that SingPost has sent him. He told Wanbao,

Increasingly suspicious, Chen decided to enquire with SingPost again, but did not get a response.

He has since made a police report over the matter.

The police confirmed with Wanbao that they did indeed receive Chen’s report.

Wants a full refund

Naturally, Wanbao reports, Chen is unhappy with the way things have turned out.

The business owner initially wanted his friend to handle the project, but said friend was no longer in the same trade — hence his decision to engage SingPost’s services.

After this incident, Chen reportedly said he will be looking for another way to distribute his flyers in the future. He was quoted saying,

Full story at https://mothership.sg/2019/01/singpost-complaints-flyer-distribution/