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Stargazing246 · 14/02/2025 23:21

Hello everyone,
in a nutshell I order medications online. I divert to post offices as my partner doesn’t believe in medication so I have to keep secret. Royal Mail has said they have my parcel but there’s no option to divert my parcel!!
will I have to stay up all night and wait for that option?
im now so worried it will be delivered to my house and he will see. Just wondered if anyone knows at which stage Royal Mail tracked 24 will offer me the usual divert option. It’s awful living like this. I usually get offered the divert option as soon as they’ve received my parcel.

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Thirteenblackcat · 16/02/2025 22:01

are these meds that are likely to need refrigeration as soon as they arrive?

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 16/02/2025 21:59

Yet another MN thread disintegrates into a dispute about quoting the whole OP and the alleged presumption about the sex and marital status of the partner.

Grin
pinkstripeycat · 16/02/2025 07:37

BigCheese24 · 14/02/2025 23:34

I've got a new phone and I don't know how to just reply haha! I can't see the button

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There isn’t a button. Just don’t press “quote”. Just type in the empty text box

ProudDada · 16/02/2025 07:34

Tracked 24 is just first class with a delivery scan.

TimeForATerf · 16/02/2025 05:06

I’m guessing it’s Mounjaro. One of my deliveries had no opportunity to divert the parcel, the rest all did, no idea why. That was Med Express.

ApolloandDaphne · 16/02/2025 05:00

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 16/02/2025 04:11

Fascinating everyone assumes male.

OP. I order mine online under repeat prescription. The script is sent to my chemist. I get a text to collect. Extremely handy like a poster above says.

Keep yourself safe, it doesn't sound healthy.

OP says he so there is no presumption.

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 16/02/2025 04:11

Fascinating everyone assumes male.

OP. I order mine online under repeat prescription. The script is sent to my chemist. I get a text to collect. Extremely handy like a poster above says.

Keep yourself safe, it doesn't sound healthy.

TruthThatsHardAsSteel · 16/02/2025 04:07

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 14/02/2025 23:29

It's none of your husband's business if you take medication.

Spouse would have been less presumptuous.

litup · 16/02/2025 03:38

Is it weight loss injections? Because I think you can pick them up yourself at Asda and possibly Superdrug. I think other bricks and mortar pharmacy's would have it too.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 15/02/2025 12:37

OP are we talking about sleeping pills?
Or weight loss injections?
Or painkillers like codeine?

JudgeBread · 15/02/2025 11:18

Hey I work for royal mail so might be able to help. Putting aside your obvious relationship issues as I'm sure you're aware that's not normal or ok.

Can you access the tracking currently and see if it's a Signed For rather than Tracked 24 or Tracked 48? Regular tracked can be diverted but the Signed For ones can't until after the first delivery attempt, so if whoever has sent it has chosen that option on this occasion you won't be able to divert unfortunately.

IsTheOffDutyDoneYet · 15/02/2025 11:13

Is it all medication or just some medication?

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 15/02/2025 11:08

BigCheese24 · 14/02/2025 23:34

I've got a new phone and I don't know how to just reply haha! I can't see the button

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Eh?
There isn't a button.
You just write a reply, then click "post".

stresspl · 15/02/2025 08:06

I could be way off here of course, but my DP developed an addiction to OTC medication containing codine and would repeatedly order online.

I noticed it after the 2nd delivery and he said it was nothing he was just in a lot of pain. I thought he knocked it on the head but for the following 6 months he would divert the parcels or ask for them to be dropped with neighbours to hide them.

I, of course, could be way off here but he once got painkillers from MIL and said 'don't tell stresspl she doesn't believe in medication' which is absolute rubbish, but it rang alarm bells when I read your post OP. He got help from the GP and has been doing well since.

Laserwho · 15/02/2025 07:56

I need medication to stay alive. If someone expected me not to get medication I would tell them exactly where to shove it. He shouldn't be controlling you like this

liveforsummer · 15/02/2025 07:43

What will happen if it does get delivered and he sees it? I'd probably allow that to happen if it's safe for you to do so then use the reaction as the catalyst to get rid of this controlling arse! Have someone with you when it arrives if you can if you are worried

BlueSilverCats · 15/02/2025 07:38

It is awful living like this , you're right. So why are you still doing it, especially with a boyfriend and not a husband.

What would happen if he found out? You actually sound afraid. This is not normal or healthy.

Autumn1990 · 15/02/2025 07:18

Can’t you intercept the postie a few doors up and they’ll give you your parcel? If you have a regular postie that will work or leave a note outside asking it to be taken back to depot

MrsClatterbuck · 15/02/2025 06:25

Is it prescription medication. I order my repeat prescriptions online and have the script go to my chosen pharmacy. They then text me when it's ready to pick up. Is this an option.

Kedece · 15/02/2025 02:56

mondaytosunday · 15/02/2025 02:51

Can't you go to the distribution office and collect it? I've gone with just my name and address and they've got it. We don't get a card left anymore gig missed deliveries so I just go if Anne if red parcel hasn't turned up. In future you should have it delivered to a drop off place.

That's no use if they haven't tried to deliver it. She wants it diverted so it doesn't come to her house. You can only go to collect it after a failed delivery

mondaytosunday · 15/02/2025 02:51

Can't you go to the distribution office and collect it? I've gone with just my name and address and they've got it. We don't get a card left anymore gig missed deliveries so I just go if Anne if red parcel hasn't turned up. In future you should have it delivered to a drop off place.

Fencehedge · 15/02/2025 00:56

I hope you are making plans to leave this abusive idiot. Coercive control is a crime.

5foot5 · 15/02/2025 00:24

So it sounds like you have a condition that requires regular repeat prescriptions, and you are having to hide this from your partner?

I know your post is asking about Royal Mail Tracking but, seriously, you must see this isn't the main issue. What would happen if you just told him to back off, you need this prescription and he has no right to interfere? You know you are living with a loon, right?

Quinlan · 15/02/2025 00:16

@BigCheese24

What do you mean that you don’t know how to just reply? You just write a reply to the thread. You don’t need to quote the OP or even @ the OP. It’s a new thread, there were no other replies. You just had to type in the box and click “post” without quoting the OP.

CountryMumof4 · 15/02/2025 00:12

I think you've got a bigger problem there .. a) why would he monitor your parcels anyway and b) why can't you have medication?? Unless there's a back story of drug dependence, I really don't see why he would.