Not a single family member has sent my DD a birthday card

[NAB3]

She is 4 today.
Admittedly I don't know if the post is just late but they are so rubbish at sending my kids cards and we send to everyone.

Isn't there a delivery strike today ?

You are joking????

everything going awol in the post recently. we havent had any for days!

they probably have NAB, there is a post strike, I haven't had any post in days.

Yes unfortunately I think there is a 2 day strike.

Limited deliveries today , sorry

The strike is today. We have had no post at work today. Surely your relatives could have accounted for this.

Don't know where you live NAB23 but I vaguely remember hearing on the radio yesterday that us Scots were advised not to post anything for 24 hours as there was an impromptu strike announced for Glasgow & Edinburgh sorting offices - maybe the strike has snowballed?

Your poor DD - tell her happy birthday from the GW household.

we had a strike yesterday, back to normal today

my sister had a birthday last week, my card turned up 2 days late, my mums has been lost

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Surely you can tell from the OP that everyone isn't on top of the news all the time, Oblomov

I didn't know either

No links are working for me today. We live in Kent.

I live in Ireland NAB3 so don't know re postal strike but happy birthday to your dd. I told my ds 6 and he said "poor girl" and wants to wish her a happy birthday too, oh and can he come to her party?

No party but thank you all for the lovely wishes!!

From Liz's link, NAB:

so they probably have sent stuff

Hope your DD enjoys her birthday anyway!

Thanks for that. I wouldn't mind but my kids get such few family cards anyway.........

Nab3 - I live in Kent too and our post is very sporadic. Haven't had anything for about 3 days now and we normally get something every day!

Hope your lovely DD had a great birthday!

Well, we have had post today and no one in my husbands family has sent a card. Her grand parents and great grandma brought one to the party.

Don't give up hope yet, NAB - the post is very unreliable at the moment, and stuff is going missing too (twinset started a thread about it a few days ago, I'll link to it in a minute).

In fact given that, why not ring and ask? Say you're worried that something they sent may have gone astray with the disruption.

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Mine all arrived about three days late in the middle of last month -- and I know they were posted in plenty of time, and we had had some post on the intervening days. I think the strikes in various areas have just messed things up.

I would ask my MIL but I doubt she would know if anyone has sent a card. Plus I complained that hardly any family sent my son a card which caused her to cry. And she's not talking to me. Wish I'd known. Would have bought her loads of cards myself.

We seem to get nothing for days and loads at once. And it was extremely late today - it's normally late morning but this was 2pm!!

Mr Inferior - who is 42 today - has received precisely one card, a week ago, from his Organised Aunty Yvonne. Admittedly I have no idea if his brothers have sent him cards, but the box of handmade chocolates from the Inferiorettes - which left its makers on Wednesday - hasn't arrived.

Oh, god bless organised aunties - I used to have one of those

One year her postman nicked all her birthday cards ; she had no hesitation in asking us if we'd sent her something, and then beetled off to the PO to make a complaint about him.

If it makes you feel any better NAB3, most of my husband's family don't send birthday cards and those that do tend to send them several days late and without a stamp so that I have to go and pay for the privelege of picking up a late birthday card

I hope your dd had a lovely day anyway.