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once upon a time you could sit and have your breakfast and know the latest effect that you ordered was going to be delivered before you left the house in the morning. But yeh that was once upon o time. Don't you just hate it now that the postie in Britain has all day to decide when he will deliver your mail. You just cant stay in all day wondering when he will drop that item thru your door. Also you dont know how it will be packaged.
I was hanging about all morning waiting for my most recent purchase, but 12 oclock came and still no postie, so i went out. On my return there it was.... a bit of card to say he had been with a package and to go collect it at the sorting office ON MONDAY. how frustrating is the postal service now.
I now have to wait till I get home from work on monday. aaarrggghh.
Anyone else had this experience?

Sealed envelope prediction of what time the postie will actually turn up.

That will keep you occupied whilst you rage about the incompetence of the Royal Mail

I hear you. We're quite fortunate where we are in that we at least have the same postman; other people are not so lucky. He tends to come between 11am and midday on most days, so it's no too bad. But it was definitely better in the good old days when they used to deliver the post in the morning. Royal Mail is getting worse.

Sometimes if we're out the postie just leaves anything that won't go through the letter box sitting on the front step! Which is not good if it's raining. Or if you've just gone away on holiday. BAH!

I struggle to see where it all went wrong for the Postal Service. Surely cars are faster these days, things are streamlined and improved, yet it all keeps getting later and later.

I had a theory though, as i sold my Prodigy tickets to a lucky chap on ebay and posted them Special Delivery.

I thought, Special Delivery is a guaranteed by noon next day. Most of the post used to be that anyway. Not guaranteed but as good as. And you used to get that for less than twenty pence. Now it costs you the best part of a fiver. So thats their sneaky plan. Make the rest of the service so terrible you pay huge amounts of cash for the priviledge of getting a letter the next day.

I think our postie is a master of disguise. His face changes every day. He should consider a career in MI5 or something.

Yeah I'm sick of paying for next day delivery to then not get it for 2 or 3 days due to the postman not turning up before I leave the house

Monday to Friday when they're getting paid overtime the post arrives around 1pm. Saturday when they go home when they finish we get the post at 10am. Funny that.

And you know why it takes so long for undelivered mail to get back to the sorting office so you can collect it? Because they have to post it back!!! The sorting office closes at midday, which is before the postmen have completed their rounds. So they have to take undelivered mail to the nearest post office to be posted back to the sorting office. Bloody brilliant. In this 24/7 global village that we now live in, where information is exchanged in the blink of an eye, your local sorting office shuts a noon. 11am on a Saturday.

Royal Mail are an embarrassment to this country.

Replicant wrote:Royal Mail are an embarrassment to this country.

and the Tube!

both are absolute disgraces...

i just hate the fact that when something is sent, and the royal mail are in charge of "their bit", its somehow NOT their responsibility! If they lose it, its still the senders fault...cant work that one out at all...rubbish...

I spoke to my postman about this card leaving business and he said that if an item can't be delivered on Monday then a card will be left of the Tuesday. Why can't he leave the card on the day? Bloody useless.

IAIN wrote:

Replicant wrote:Royal Mail are an embarrassment to this country.

and the Tube!

both are absolute disgraces...

In the Tube's defence (and I never used to defend them!) they have improved considerably in the last 18 months or so. Yes, fares continue to go up every year, but the service itself, at least on the Northern line, has improved markedly with the introduction of the new timetable. Overall, the Tube is much more reliable than it was this time two years ago. As a customer/passenger, you may not notice it as much (depending on how often you travel) but as a tube driver, I can assure you things are actually getting better in terms of reliability and shortening journey times. Not worse.

There was once a time not too long ago that slagging off the Tube was the in thing to do, and justifiably so; in fact, I would probably would have joined in! But not now. Just thought I'd clear that one up!

mindpaul wrote:once upon a time you could sit and have your breakfast and know the latest effect that you ordered was going to be delivered before you left the house in the morning. But yeh that was once upon o time. Don't you just hate it now that the postie in Britain has all day to decide when he will deliver your mail. You just cant stay in all day wondering when he will drop that item thru your door. Also you dont know how it will be packaged.
I was hanging about all morning waiting for my most recent purchase, but 12 oclock came and still no postie, so i went out. On my return there it was.... a bit of card to say he had been with a package and to go collect it at the sorting office ON MONDAY. how frustrating is the postal service now.
I now have to wait till I get home from work on monday. aaarrggghh.
Anyone else had this experience?

Ours used to arrive at around 8am, but now regularly ours turns up in the middle of the afternoon. I know why it happens. A mate of mine is also a postie. The management have cut back and insisted they become more efficient. They're subjet to insane standing orders about deliveries, and seem to be on the verge of striking all the time. And they're regularly slowed down by having to deliver all tghat junk 'to the occupier' mail that the law says they're not allowed to just dump in a bin - the householder must throw it away unread.

Support the posties, condemn the management, otherwise you're shooting the messenger.

Tomo wrote:Support the posties, condemn the management, otherwise you're shooting the messenger.

Well said. Same goes for just about any industry you care to mention.

Our delivery times went shockingly downhill when our "walk" (postman's route) was downgraded to a part-time post. We still tend to have the same postman for long stretches of time, so at least I get to strike up some sort of personal relationship with them. (No, not like that.) Very useful since my job is conducted almost entirely by post.

But it used to come around 9 am, and now it's more like 1 pm.

The reason you get the post so much earlier on Saturdays is because the postmen are allowed to go home as soon as they've finished deliveries on Saturday.

Don't get me started!! I ordered some dvd's from Magicbox (who's service was impeccable as always I hasten to add). Royal mail either couldn't be bothered to try and deliver it (I was off work and in the house all week) or put a card through the letterbox, so by the time I realised I has a parcel it had already been punted to the postal graveyard in Belfast!! (via the Panama Canal apparently, as it'll take 2 wks to get there...). I've spent hours on the phone to customer services listening to a computer voice drone on an on, waiting to talk to a real, live human being.... before being cut off umpteen times (in order that the post office can say 'nobody waits longer than 10 mins in a phone queue'... aaaaaargh!) Apparently nothing else can be done now apart from waiting for the parcel to eke it's way back to Magicbox.... by osmosis probably... I now lie awake at night smiling at the thought of going to my local post office and poking the manager in the eye with a sharp stick.... is that wrong??