Just had a text from Royal Mail...

[SapphireSeptember]

They said they tried to deliver my parcel but it didn't seem like there was anybody in! I have been waiting for that damn thing all morning. Did I hear a knock? No, nada. Now I'm going to have to schelp up to the sorting office or arrange another delivery. (I'll try the latter, the reason I wanted it delivered in the first place was because I didn't want to lug it all home!)

I think half the time they don't even take the parcels out on the van. We've had cards through the door "sorry we missed you " when we were in and no-one knocked. Really bloody annoying.

Lol, you don't honestly believe they don't take them out bloodybridget
I'm a postie. People don't hear me knock, don't realise that the batteries have gone in the doorbell or are in the bathroom, shower, garden etc when we call.
It is a pain, standing there being ignored whilst writing red cards, often in the rain/gale force wind/hailstorm for people who follow you down the road 10 minutes later with some excuse as to why they didn't answer the door.
Seriously, posties are busy enough without wasting 5 minutes on your doorstep, just to get a bollocking when they get back to the office for bringing parcels back.
Am sure your time is very important, so is everybody else's

Our regularly post lady is excellent. Some of her colleagues who cover her holidays not so much. I do believe some Royal Mail employees don't even attempt to deliver parcels. Like the lazy sods who shove everything through our letterbox instead of also walking round to our neighbours' front door. Two separate addresses and different names, but no - some of them seem to think we live in a commune.

Well, I chased after the postman one morning, waving the “while you were out” card he’d just stuffed through the letterbox without knocking; and guess what?
It wasn’t in the van... He made a big show of rooting through some boxes and failed to find it, and couldn’t explain how he’d known to knock at my door when there wasn’t anything to deliver 🤪
He had a fucking stack of prewritten cards in his sweaty paw

Well apparently, I've had a parcel floating around our city delivery offices for two weeks. I'd forgotten about it until today and I've just done the online tracking and these are the results:

2019-04-12 05:30
City Mail Centre, ITEM SCAN

2019-04-10 07:16
Local town DO, SORTED FOR DELIVERY

2019-04-10 05:08
City Mail Centre, ITEM SCAN

2019-04-09 13:33
City Mail Centre, ITEM SCAN

2019-04-03 09:59
Local town DO, ITEM REROUTED

2019-04-03 07:21
Local town DO, SORTED FOR DELIVERY

2019-04-03 03:10
City Mail Centre, ITEM SCAN

When I looked earlier, it said it was supposed to be delivered between 9 and 2 today, but that seems to have disappeared now .

It looks like they've tried not very hard to deliver it for the last 3 Wednesdays, but not bothered to put a card through my letterbox, despite receiving several other parcels in the last couple of weeks.

Will contact them later to ask them what they're playing at.