@ArnoldBee
Chase it up but....I wish folks would stop sending it via recorded delivery. Basically a random post office worker signs for it and it is sorted in a different way and less likely to make it where it should go. So in short case it up but send forms using the normal way in the normal envelope. And yes massive huge amount of cases to be processed.
You wish folks would stop sending it via Signed For?
Fuck me.
I wish I didn't have to send it via Signed For. I wish I could just drop it in the nearby postbox instead of paying for a taxi into town to the Post Office and losing the rest of the day lying down to recover.
Unfortunately, after over a decade of the pleasure of dealing with the DWP, I now photocopy everything, send everything Signed For and record all conversations.
It's enormous hassle and expense to me to do this. But it is less hassle than yet again going through the charade of the DWP stopping benefits with zero notice (letter arrives more than a week after payment is missed); me waiting more than a year for the reconsideration/appeal/re-assessment, whichever it is this time; me winning and having benefits restored. Rinse and repeat.
Please don't tell me I'm being unfair on the nice people at the DWP.
Enough of your colleagues are liars or self-serving leeches who think the disability care budget exists to be an employment opportunity for them, rather than to support, you know, disabled people, that those of us who may die from their behaviour have to spend what little strength and money we do have protecting ourselves from them.
I'm sorry if you feel hurt by that, and I recognise your name as a helpful poster: you may even have helped me. But that's the reality for those of us at the sharp end. We have to use Signed For because the DWP lose shit and lie.