To be fucked off with the postman!

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Waited in today for a delivery, I chose Next Day (for £6!) as I need to wear what I’ve ordered to a wedding reception tonight because nothing else fits me at 6 months pregnant 😤

Received an email at 3pm saying that nobody was in but I was in the kitchen at the time, so right by the door! Nobody knocked or rang the bell (they didn’t even come through the gate!) and the dog didn’t bark either, so I know nobody attempted delivery. Now my parcel won’t be delivered until Monday and I’ve now got two hours to find something in my wardrobe that’s going to fit around my belly and not make me look like a sack of spuds 😭

I’m having a shit time of things atm and was looking forward to wearing something pretty 😫 not the end of the world in the grand scheme of things but I just wanted a wee rant!

Our Evri driver is brilliant, he has never missed a delivery! We get him a Christmas card and some nice beers now

The postie is getting coal this year

I've had this happen 3 times this week with RM. There has been at least one person at home every single time so I think they just ran out of time and didn't even come to the house.

Does the email not have a photo on of delivery?

Maybe at different house it's happened to me before and it was my neighbours front door

No, because they didn’t deliver it?

They haven’t left a card either so I know they were never at my door!

Ah I've read it wrong sorry!

Royal mail have gone down the pan , they mark as delivered but been no where near and turns up with royal mail a day later, think they do it as they get fines from large companies that use them if they don't deliver within time frame set.Its wrong and I refuse as much as I can use them . Hope you manage to find something OP .

Usual postie! I’ve filled in an online complaints form, I don’t normally like to complain about trivial stuff but this has really inconvenienced me 😫 I’d ordered comfy wedges to wear too.

Will be wearing a bin bag and Converse at this rate!

This happened years ago. I was standing at my front window waiting for a taxi and I watched the post,an walk down the path to deliver out mail. When I went through to get it it was one of those we tried to deliver but you were out cards. Clearly he didn’t even take the parcel out with him, just the attempted delivery card. I went out to ask him about it but the bugger had disappeared. He must have hid because he was nowhere on the street…

That's bloody annoying, I'm pissed off on your behalf.

Royal Mail seem to be becoming a law unto themselves these days. We only ever seem to get deliveries on a Tuesday and Saturday, and often a pile of stuff, so it seems quite unlikely that none of it would ever have come through for delivery on a Monday or Wed/Thurs/Fri.

A few weeks back, we had mail for six different households stuffed through our door - none of the other five were particularly close to our address and one was for a different street.

I've also noticed that they've been bringing the 'last' collection time for virtually every postbox in our medium-sized town forward to 9am. Effectively, this is changing first-class post to a 2-day service rather than next (working) day, unless you can make sure to get it there very early.

Now that Amazon is on the scene, we've all got used to a (mainly) top-drawer delivery service (yes, I know Amazon is problematic in a number of aspects). It makes my heart sink when I spot that they're sending something by RM instead of bringing it themselves. Amazon seem to deliver for YOUR convenience; RM deliver for THEIRS.

Ours do the thing where if it’s guaranteed next day delivery before 12, I get a “sorry you weren’t in/house was inaccessible/other bullshit made up excuse” before 12, and then they sometimes come later at 3pm, but it’s incredibly hit and miss. It’s completely pointless, I’m sorry OP (and in solidarity, as I’m 9m pregnant and I know how difficult it is to dress atm!)

So RM are sending emails instead of leaving cards now? I'd be complaining too.

Had all sorts of shit with RM back in the day they used to deliver (and collect!!) Covid tests. I've never relied on them since 2020.

Has anybody tried to pin them down to the time when delivery was (supposedly) attempted, so that they can check their doorbell/cam - and clearly see that no attempt was ever made?

Probably pointless, as they'd likely just insist that your cam must have malfunctioned or something. Even so, they must realise that, with common modern tech, it's becoming much more difficult for them to get away with lying about trying to deliver when you never actually darkened the doors of the property at all.

I wonder if RM actually understand (or care) just how little they are respected or trusted these days?

This happened to me last Saturday...the post woman who delivered it on Tuesday admitted that it was because the Saturday delivery staff ran out of time.

Hmm, that's an interesting excuse from her. So even if that would fly with you, were the Monday delivery staff ALL in Benidorm on holiday?

You should have have had a card through the door

I didn’t, because they never came to my house!

I expect they’ll say something like the letterbox was stuck, or they ran out of cards rather than admit they were never actually there at all.

Bank holiday Monday. So they didn't deliver on Saturday knowing that they weren't going to deliver until Tuesday either!

Ours are pretty good although sometimes they don't appear until 3pm now. But "pretty good" is relative I think and we often get a pile of post after nothing for a couple of days.

I still prefer them to Evri.

I once hunted down the postman around my estate because, even though I was in, he shoved one of those "you were out cards" through the door. There was no way I was going to be without my Love Honey goodies 😂

We also had a card through the door a few weeks back, telling us that an item had insufficient postage, so we had to go online and pay a £1.50 fee before they would deliver it - it was an anniversary card.

It had been sent using a first-class stamp, but according to their rules, it was a 'large letter'. It was a small, square card - 5mm too wide in one direction (although 75mm less than the limit in the other direction).

I know they were technically justified to do this - and I can't believe that card manufacturers wouldn't have adjusted their sizing with this in mind - but when somebody is counting on them as a reliable service, and then they get their card to the recipient a week after the event it's to celebrate and charge them £1.50 for the privilege, you have to ask if this is how most people really want the service to serve them.

I remember when they first brought in the size limits for parcels. They made the (very reasonable) point that, by only charging by weight, they were open to people sending something like a gigantic foam shape and only paying the same as for a small package with a couple of hardbacks in it, when it cost them a lot more in resources to handle it, had to send a special large van for it etc.

However, if you measure out 165mm square - I can't imagine anybody at all would honestly look at it and consider it in any way 'outsized'; it looks tiny!

Ah, of course; how soon I forget!

It does rather underline their own opinion of the lack of importance in their service, doesn't it? It does scream that they're only really there for the minor, trivial stuff; but if you have something where the (agreed and paid-for) timing is important, you need to use a proper, serious delivery service instead.

Our regular postman is excellent. Knows we can't aways get to the door quickly so gives us time to answer. One of the true, oldfashioned sort.

Maybe it's a postcode thing, because I have a 'safe place' delivery with both Royal Mail & Evri - they are wonderful. They always knock to deliver and if I'm out & about they deliver to the safe place.