How often do you get post?

[LeahCariad]

About 10 days ago, my DM and DSis posted birthday cards for DD, both live in different areas - one is in Warwickshire, the other in Derbyshire and we live in Bucks. DD's Birthday was on Thursday. Cards were posted first class.

I know that our post delivery is erratic but we haven't had any post for nearly two weeks (not that we get a great deal)

DMum rang this morning, and she asked if DD's cards had arrived, - I said that when I see her next I'm giving her all the cards for the next year so she'll get them 😊.

It made me wonder whether it's just our post that's a bit slow, or if yours is too!

Bank statements, Pension notices, birthday cards, Christmas cards, that’s about all I get.

About once a week or 10 days or so.

I think it is a combination of very few people, business, or organisations are actually sending us any, and then, due to the lack of letters being posted the Post Office / Royal Mail can no longer employ enough people to walk every route every day, so we then generally get deliveries quite infrequently.

I posted my nephew's birthday card the day before his birthday. 1st class stamp. I expected it would get there on time as it was put in the box well before collection time (9.15am at the box I posted it in). It didn't arrive for 9 days! This was at the beginning of October.

As for how often we receive post to our address.... I don't know. We don't get any post - no bills or bank statements, birthday/xmas cards given almost exclusively when we see people. I see our postie every morning though, so I know someone is still delivering to our street daily (we live on a street with many elderly people so perhaps that is why if they're still getting a lot of post?).

I read recently that 2nd class post is only delivered in our area once a week. I think there is no difference with 1st class post to be honest. Since reading that, I've noticed we only get letters put through our door once a week. Things sometimes arrive up to 2 weeks after they were posted. Parcels are different. They seem to be delivered whichever day they arrive at the post office but letters are definitely saved up and delivered on one day. It is a shameful disgrace.

Around every 10 days and I'll get a pile in one go. Rarely see a postie these days.

Once or twice a week at most.
It’s DD’s birthday tomorrow, and she’s got no cards.

Twice a week
A bit rubbish to be honest ….

About once a week to ten days, and then it's several in an elastic band.

I think you're right - less posties since people use post less. When we do get post it's generally junk addressed to the occupier or something very boring like the water bill. We don't get much nowadays.

We're a first-class stamp family; my Gran was always most put out if she had personal post sent second class - but I'm not sure it makes any difference, the colour of the stamp doesn't seem to make much of an impact on delivery speed 😊

I agree.
I never bother with a first class stamp these days, and, on the odd occasion I send a birthday card, I always send it at least a week ahead.

I think it would make a lot of sense if it were just a bit more transparent.

'Due to the fact there are now only 1/10th of the letters we saw posted 20 years ago, we can not sustain daily deliveries, so, instead of people expecting daily deliveries as used to happen in the 20th Century, we will now use our posties more efficiently and each postie will get 10 different (1996 size) routes, and manage that by delivering to each address once every 10 days'

(Number made up but you get the point).

It manages people's expectations, and is a much fairer way for householders to receive their post than some getting very regular deliveries and others - whose postie is off sick or on holiday getting none - and a much more efficient way than having posties walking the same road every day when they only have letters for 2 houses out of the 100 or so on the road.

It really is about managing expectations and getting huge organisations like the NHS to default to on-line communication EXCEPT where people opt out, rather than the current way of automatically sending paper letters when it is so inefficient. Before people pile on, just to be clear, I think for the next 15 - 20 years there should still be the option to ask for paper letters should you need them.

Actual post that isn't junk mail? Once a month? Everything is email or app other than the NHS and the incredibly annoying 'no it must be a physical copy' annual mortgage statement.

I've been commenting on this lately. We hardly ever get post delivered - less than once a week and when we do it's got a variety of dates on it.

I have most things set as paperless now including all utility bills and bank/credit card statements.

I think they save it until they have a wadge to deliver, then put a bunch of letters in my box with an elastic band around them. They often don't even come around until very late in the day. 5pm isn't unusual at all.

It's a useless and unreliable service. I doubt it will improve though as so few of us use the postal service these days. Most deliveries are by private courier companies, and email or other paperless means.

The postal service needs to adapt or die out.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and every second Saturday. Small, rural village. Only 4 deliveries a week, (and collections.) If someone's birthday (for example) is on a Thursday, I will post the card a full week before. Just to make sure they get it in time for their birthday!

Earlier this year I received two birthday cards two weeks after my birthday. They’d been posted a week before it, both with 2nd class stamps.

We don’t seem to get many regular deliveries (once or twice a week at most it feels like) but I had some health issues earlier this year and had many hospital appointments and thankfully all my letters for those arrived really quickly so I didn’t miss anything. I did get phone calls about a couple of short notice ones just in case but the letters still arrived in time.