To Expect The Postman To Deliver To The Right Flippin’ House?

[EternalOptimist7]

We have a few different postmen but this particular one is always delivering our immediate neighbours’ post to us. Not so much vice versa but it has happened. Our addresses are in a Close but both houses are actually on the main road, which does cause confusion, but this guy has been doing the round for ages now. Plus the house numbers are very clearly marked. I know it’s not far to redeliver it but it still really annoys me that he’s just not bothering to look properly!

Anyone?

Yes this happens quite regularly to us too. I think a lot of them are not very literate, or just can't be bothered.

Sometimes it is due to temporary workers.

We had this. House next door is say White House whereas ours is White Cottage. It’s natural to assume that as theirs is the first house on the road then they would be number one but no, ours is.
I raised a complaint with the post office and the manager dealt with it and we’ve not had a problem since. The postman have engaged with us and it is now ingrained in his memory and I’m sure he thinks twice.
Both houses are clearly labelled btw.
Don’t get me started on DPD or Hermes though.

On more than one ocassion, ours has handed me a parcel and stood there sifting though the letters in his hand before plonking a few on top of my parcel. Thank yous and bye bye. Shut the door and got letters with three different addresses on on. It's an apartment block, the other two were on my floor. The doors are clearly numbered. I don't mind though, just post through neighbours letterbox immediately, not sure if my neighbours would mind if they knew though, privacy and all that.

We've had post today for number 56 Greentree Rd, and we live at 56 Greenhill Rd. I'll drop it round later - it's not too far, but I wonder how much else has been delivered to the wrong street. It's not the first time its happened.
I'd like to think post generally ends up through the right letterbox!

Does your house have door number clearly displayed?

We regularly get post for a house with the same number as ours but a completely different street name. I mean, we have the actual street name sign outside our house!

We had one that consistently delivered our post to a number 21A, instead of 21, despite us complaining in writing over and over again. The houses were correctly numbered and the Mail was correctly numbered.

Problem was 21A was uninhabited for 6 months, and Royal Mail said there was nothing they could do. Our Mail was simply stuck behind the door for 6 months and counting!

Good luck with complaining to Royal Mail - got us nowhere!

Even our local postie seema to sometimes give up on reading beyond the number we regularly get post for the same number house for streets surrounding ours.

E.g we are number1 Grey Street and we get mail for number 1 Red Street, number 1 Yellow Road and number 1 Blue Drive.

I initially thought it was because a different postie had been covering but since going on mat leave I've regularly seen our normal postman delivering letters to the wrong street.

This kept happening to me. It wasn't so much that I minded delivering post to other houses (sometimes 3 in one day), but what I minded was the postman would just apologise and then do exactly the same thing.

So I started rushing straight to the door when I heard the letters coming through and rushing out to hand them back.

The trouble was he often had headphones in and couldn't hear me calling, so I'd often have to run down the road in my pyjamas. I felt bad but in the end I had to complain to Royal Mail and it hasn't happened since.

I used to get several previous tenants post. I threw them away, until I got 16 of the same letter in one day. I wrote "not known at this address" on every single one and reposted. Then I got letters from Italy, which I did the same, but in Italian.
I used to regularly get stuff for someone of the same address but different village/postcode. I actually went to my local postoffice to have a moan. I only get other people's mail when we have a new postie.
Had a delivery from a hermes driver, the other day. He parked the parcel outside my door, said someone else's name and started walking off, until I said "uh, no. And its the wrong postcode", he was most surprised when he looked at the large postcode on the parcel and said "so it is".
Whats the point of a postcode if its not even looked at.

Write "DELIVERED TO WRONG ADDRESS. PLEASE TRY AGAIN!" on them and drop in a post box. Then everyone in the chain knows what's going on

My postman delivers to the right house except if it's a parcel, he knows I use a walking frame and he obviously can't be bothered to wait for me to shuffle to the front door, so he puts the parcel in my outside cupboard round the side of the house and then puts a card through the postbox saying I was out when he called, which is a total lie as he doesn't even ring the doorbell.

I then have to leave the house, shuffle round to the cupboard and drag parcel back into the house which takes about half an hour and It drives me mad!

My Mothers Day present was delivered half a mile away, to an address with the last four letters the same. To add insult to injury it was down on the tracking as being delivered

Luckily the lady who it was delivered to bought it round though she didnt know it was chocolates

We're forever getting the post for people who live at the same house number in a very similar-sounding road nearby, e.g 34 Clover Drive / 34 Clover Close.
I don't mind getting their post as I can pop it through their letterbox on my way to do the school run but I rather object when the courier companies do the same by just dumping the parcel in my porch and I have to carry an enormous box round the corner as the occupant of the other house is an elderly widow who can't drive / collect it herself.

stackemhigh yes - number & street name on a plaque