to think the post service is full of lazy incompetent f***wits?

[madamez]

WHY can't I have my post at a resonable time of day or even a consistent one? SO much of my life is spent waiting for cheques to be sent to me, often in a panic because if they don't arrive more direct debits etc will bounce and yet I can't ring up the people who should have sent them and shout because the POST HASN'T COME YET AND IT@S F LUNCTHIME!

Same here, waiting for something to be delivered, post gets here anytime between about 7am and 3pm

Sometimes, we don't get our post at all, for a week.

Oh no, please dont get me started. I had to send off an important document just after xmas, this included mine and dp's bank statements and his wage slips.

I recieved a letter yesterday telling me none of this stuff has arrived, DP calls Royal Mail just to see if they maybe have it at their depot, if perhaps it is in lost mail or the stamps have come off, anything, and got some rather shirty woman telling him it should have been sent recorded delivery.

Ok fine, we know that if we wanted to be 100% sure it arrived we should have, and have kicked ourselves ever since, but surely they should be more careful about losing things??????

And why in God's name is the postal system so flipping crap they cant even take a letter from a post box properly.

Oh, and my post comes at noon, every day.

Last NIGHT mine came after 5 o'clock {shock}.

Mine comes at about 2 o/c every day

mine's great, he comes at 10.30 every day (which is fine for me because I'm usually in), if something's recorded and I'm out he'll sign for it and push through the letter box, parcels that don't need signing for he'll hide on the back step too.

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no post here yet

am also still waiting for parcels from canada my mum posted at the beginning of november!

WWe had no post between the 22nd december and the 3rd January. then got lots of cards and vouchers dleivered that day. 3 times I have set up a keepsafe service and 3 times the idiot postman delivered the mail anyway. he is often at ours between 11.30 and 1pm, except this week when there is a different postie who gets lost so it was 4.30 when the mail arrived. I ahve had mail never arrive, I ahve had mail that I ahve posted never delivered, adn when I phoned to complain that 3 letters (nothing in them, just thank you letters) hadn't arrived I was told "if you want to make sure a letter gets to it's destination, then we recommend sending it Special delivery". Why should I ahve to though?

with your attitude and generalisations i'm glad you get the postal service that you do.

Who, me?

no to the op.

You need to watch Lark Rise to Candleford. Splendid post office action in idyllic rural setting.

much of the service can be blamed on the chairmen, don't blame the workers.

I don't see the problem -sorry. Cheques take a few days to clear don't they? So even if they arrive at 9am and you pay them in at 10am they are not going to stop anything bouncing for about a week.

Post taking days and days to reach you though - that is a boiling in oil matter

southeastastra, who loses the post though? The chairman? or the workers?

the chairman is responsible for hiring casual workers who end up mis-delivering the stuff so yes they should be blamed. .

wb -- I think madamez's point is that if the post (in general) arrives at 9am then madamez will know whether the post has included the cheque she is waiting for, and if it hasn't arrived can chase up the people who owe her money. While if the post doesn't arrive until 5pm then she can't.

Thats a ridiculous argument if I ever heard one. I'll blame the chairman of every company in the world next time anything goes wrong with any of them shall I?
Because the workers aren;t at fault, they are just not doing their job properly.....

argh i am not getting involved with this conversation. it is a deeper more complicated situation. which has involved strikes and my family.

parp.

NO YANBU!!
We never had any problems with our mail unitl we moved here. Now every single card that gets posted here are opened by someone in the post office - we have had vouchers, cheques, etc stolen. The post office do not see themselves as responsible.

*post service

But ultimately it IS the chairman who is responsible for the runnign of the company. thats what they get paid wacking great sums for isnt it? if the workers arent doing their jobs properly its because of poor management and bad management decisions. How can post being delivered at 5pm be the fault fo the guy delivering it? Do you seriously think that the workers decide what time THEY want to deliver the mail at?

It's not just UK. Same here in Hungary.

Our address is 1 F St and we get mail for our address and some neighbours whose address is 23 V*** Lane. Sigh. How dumb do you have to be to post mail for 2 totally separate streets and numbers into one mail box?

And I was just pulling up to a friend's house the other day as her postman was delivering her post. She lives nearby so I asked the guy did he deliver to my street. He didn't but he gave me my friend's mail. All he was carrying was envelopes and he had a little pull along trolley thing with envelopes in. When I gave it to her she found a note saying that they tried to deliver a parcel but he def didn't have a parcel - when my friend went to collect the parcel they said it was out with the postman who "tried to deliver it" and it wouldn't be back till 5!

it annoys me when i get a card through the door, and it says 'tried to deliver at 9:30am, please leave 4-5 hours before collection' the bloodly PO closes at 1pm, so have to wait till the following day..

Grrr. We got a card through the door saying a package needed to be redelivered, so dh arranged for it to happen on a Monday and it didn't come.
He rings up
"well, the postman says he delivered it"
dh: "Well, he didn't."
"Well, the postman says he did."
Dh: "Are you saying i'm a liar."
"No, but we did deliver it."
There's no way of recompense, since we dont' know who sent the parcel so we cant' fill in a complaint. I know what happened our feckin' lazy postman did what he always did which is to put the parcel on the doorstep and not ring the bill (we are always in) and probably someone nicked it. Or he did.
Plus we only get a delivery about once a week and never on a Monday which is clearly the day he chooses to take sick
I HATE THE POST OFFICE
With an attitude like that no wonder other companies are taking over all the important deliveries. And the poor and weak as usual will be penalised by having to fork out a fortune to use them