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To expect that my children's passports are delivered to my house, not someone 1 mile away with a similar sounding street.

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islandofsodor · 27/02/2008 23:10

For the past 4 years, ever since we moved in here I have been having problems with post going astray. The problem is that I live on the border of 2 coucils, my council decided to name our street a very similar sounding name than a street with the same postcode pre-fix but in the next council area, less that a mile away.

On odd occasions we get their post and they get mine.

In addition to this the house on the corner which is part of the main road that our street goes off has the same house number as mine. He often gets our post and sometimes it has been quite important stuff, applications forms from parents of children who want to come to dh's classes. Luckily the local vicar lives there and always redelivers.

Today there was a knock on the doo and the woman from similar street name handed me two envelopes saying I think these look like they might be passports. Sure enough they were. Addressed correctly with full postcode but deliverd to Beach Way instead of Beech Crescent (example names)

Sureley the postmen/sorting office should know the difference by now. I rang and complained and was given a reference number for my complaint.

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2GIRLS · 27/02/2008 23:20

I had the same thing with my passport. Dc's were delivered to my house but mine wasn't, called the passport office got sent forms ect ect load of hassle, then a man knocked at the door and gave me the passport, had been delivered to him, I wasn't in so don't know address.
Luckily he was a nice person who was bothered to walk round to my house and give me my post and not some con man who could have used my passport in identity theft.

BTW the passport office use couriers to deliver passports not royal mail, so you can complain to them and they will know who delivered them. When I called I had to give description of the outside of my house, which side the doorbell and handle was on, that kind of thing.

Emprexia · 27/02/2008 23:21

We have that happen, we're Joeblogg Terrace, but there is a Joeblogg Lane just around the corner.. we get their post and they get ours all the damn time.

tyaca · 28/02/2008 00:39

ooohh.... we would be happy to get our mail on a daily basis. deliveries vary from daily to weekly... we'll hear nothing for 6 or 7 days then get a couple of dozen envelopes thru the door at 9pm on a saturday night . we get all valuables delivered to work cause cards dont arrive and parcels will take a month plus.

we live in a block of flats and just after xmas, a guy from the ground floor buzzed through to say he had some of our mail. DH went to collect and found the whole of the block there --- the postie had shoved the mail for all the flats thru the door of this one guy ....

ok - rant over... i hate the postal services. i really do,

tyaca · 28/02/2008 00:41

sry, you've got me started now. you cant walk for more than ten minutes round here and not see one of those post offive delivery trolley things just abandoned....

Califrau · 28/02/2008 02:21

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