What's wrong with the ****ing post?

[simpo two]

It seems to have gound to a halt round here.

The Victorians managed it far better - and only had horses!

[Podie]

simpo two said:

It seems to have gound to a halt round here. The Victorians managed it far better - and only had horses!

For some reason people seem to send more stuff at this time of year…

Added to the Christmas "work" ethos, it's hardly surprising…

Here, have a humbug on me..

[wedg1e]

Aye, I'm waiting for a car kit I bought off Ebay; bloody mobile phones will have been replaced by telepathy by the time it gets here...

[Plotloss]

Its administered by the ***ing Post Office fundamentally...

[GregE240]

Plotloss said:

Its administered by the ***ing Post Office fundamentally...

[pesty]

Two cheques I posted last week have not made it

[pdV6]

pesty said:

Two cheques I posted last week have not made it

Yeah, right!

[PetrolTed]

..and I keep getting registered mail that requires a signature just shoved through the door.

[cotty]

PetrolTed said:

..and I keep getting registered mail that requires a signature just shoved through the door.

package requiring signature giver to next door with note put through my door, at least it saves me the trip to the post office to pick it up

[Podie]

PetrolTed said:

..and I keep getting registered mail that requires a signature just shoved through the door.

… well contact the post office and say it's never arrived…

Claim the insurance… could be a nice little earner!

[birdbrain]

You're lucky, I had a cat trying to get through my letterbox this morning.

[wolves_wanderer]

birdbrain said:

You're lucky, I had a cat trying to get through my letterbox this morning.

Did you have to sign for it?

[birdbrain]

wolves_wanderer said:

birdbrain said: You're lucky, I had a cat trying to get through my letterbox this morning. Did you have to sign for it?

[john_p]

PetrolTed said:

..and I keep getting registered mail that requires a signature just shoved through the door.

A postman did that at our old house when I was younger. Letter was quite important I think, and was 'delivered' while we were away on holiday.

Dad drove down to the local sorting office and 'went postal'

We got a new postman after that ..

[judas]

Our neighbours keep bringing us our post. Apparently, being able to read or count is no longer a necessary skill for posties these days

[birdbrain]

In my old block of flats the posties used to regularly chuck the post for all flats through the nearest door because they couldn't be bothered to deliver it individually.

[ATG]

I managed to leave the headlight beam adjuster (which had fallen out) at home when I took the car over to David Batty to have a few jobs done. I shoved the damn thing in the post 1st class on Tuesday night before the 5:30pm pickup at a post office ... hadn't arrived by Thursday when I picked the car up. For the next few weeks will have to live with the bent piece of wire holding the reflector in place at the moment and then waste several hours, plus train fares taking the car down to Guilford again.

I do not understand how such a simple business can be got so badly wrong. It can't be hard to estimate what it costs to have an efficient mail delivery service. It amazes me how much time is spent wittering on about one delivery or two deliveries per day, blah, blah, blah when the most basic part of the service doesn't work. Reliability is EVERYTHING. If 1st class is a lottery btwn 1 day and two week delivery, then I would happily pay more and let them abandon the attempt at overnight delivery if in return I could be given a really reliable 2 day delivery service. Wouldn't be surprised if their regulator has set unrealistic targets. Wish someone with some balls would get involved.

[crankedup]

Our postie is a top bloke, lives up the road in our village. Always leaves my parcels in the greenhouse, always has time for a natter (cars). usually late in delivering but can't worry about every detail in life like that.

[turbobloke]

crankedup said:

Our postie is a top bloke, lives up the road in our village. Always leaves my parcels in the greenhouse, always has time for a natter (cars). usually late in delivering but can't worry about every detail in life like that.

Benefits make it OK overall then. I get the same service - lack of - as other PHers here. Still waiting for business mail posted long ago, thought it was just round here things were going pear shaped. Got next door's post today and that's a regular occurrence too. Friend just left the Post Office says they take anybody and everybody these days and morale is rock bottom with the regulars...many of them also treat the job as a joke. He's a decent bloke and glad to be out of it.

[pdV6]

Our postie's a star. Often goes above & beyond the call of duty. So much so that we tried to ring the PO to put in a good word. Couldn't believe the run-around we were given!

I tell you what's annoying: if you have a good postie and feel the urge to leave them a little something for a Christmas drink, odds on that the Xmas temp from the job centre will end up delivering on that day...