A word of advice when dealing with royal mail

Whilst I agree that it's always best to just go to the sorting office itself, there have been occasions where my packages have been sent to the office in the Jewelry Quarter, about 45 mins from my house, as opposed to the one that I could hit with a stone from my front door.

 

postal regulators targets, people on foot cant leave until between 9-10 then they are paid until 2pm. drivers cant go out till about 7, then have to go back and do firms and special deliveries, then do large packets after that, again until 2pm. everything cant be delivered before 9am it just isnt feasible when you have a van full of parcels plus a load of firms to deliver to, never mind 40 special deliveries that must be done by 1pm. you may think whatever you have ordered is really important but so does everyone else

 

Im guessing you work for/have worked for Royal Mail then?

So basically a combination of new regulations and cutbacks? I honestly remember getting parcels at 7:30am 2 years ago

 

I also used to get parcels early in the morning.
I've never had too many issues as I drive on over to the sorting office (10 mins max) and pick my stuff up.
What REALLY rubs my nipples the wrong way though is when they stick a note through your door when you know you were there and that your door bell works, they just couldn't be bothered to ring the bell/bring the item/open the van door.

 

^^^THIS!^^^
I found a 'sorry, you were out, and this needs your scrawl on it' card in the box with the rest of the letters and junk the other day *and there were three of us in at the time!


There was no knock, as the dog would have... noticed.

 

Gah! I take it all back, same thing happened this week except that my item didn't turn up!
The post was delivered by some kid on a bike with a newspaper satchel.

 

The best way to deal with RM, in my experience, is with a wrench and a ten by ten foot plastic tarpaulin.

Nothing drives the point home like a wrench in the ear.

I've never, EVER, had an RM delivery before 2pm, ever. Not even once. Not even Special Deliveries. I've had to go to the sorting office to collect standard size LETTERS because apparently they 'didn't fit through the letterbox' which is, comically, big enough to get a ****ing Sapphire 3870 box through, I know, I have tried.

They are useless around here, and they will have to give me free blowjobs for a year, along with delivering my damned mail within a reasonable time frame, before I even begin to consider changing my mind.

Oh, and the fact that the delivery people got pissed off that they were requested to go back to the sorting office if they finished their round before 2pm to carry on working for the time they were paid to work? They can all eat a big, fat, dick sandwich.

 

My mum once got back to a postman posting a red slip through her door. She told him she lived there and she asked for the parcel. Turns out that the royal mail will issue a red slip even if they don't have the parcel with them, as trainees are not allowed to carry insured items. What a load of crap. Needless to say I was on the phone with them instanty, and in short they told us to go to the sorting office (about 5 miles away) the next day. Un-****ing believable.

 

Not had a problem with the online redelivery system before and I've used it a few times. Though I have had a problem where a weeks worth of mail disappeared which included my copy of Halo 3.

 

Received a RM delivery just after 7.00am around 2-3 weeks ago, no problems with them at all.

 

clearly your dog must be ill, that or its postie sensing organ isn't fully developed yet. I dunno how but my dog always knows when there's a postie within a mile radius and goes nuts accordingly... Bit of a pain now though that she's about 85 miles away at the parents home I miss my smeg... (yes thats her name, well almost its meg but c'mon!)

 

Yep, I've never had a problem with re-delivery after phoning the sorting office and arranging it.

 

Take your red slip and go to the sorting office Cheesecake.

 

or take the red slip and show them where they shove it

 

Almost exactly the same as me.

My only problem with Royal Mail is that Ive managed to beat them back to the sorting office with the sorry you were out card a few times. That and my postman can't tell the difference between 112A,112B 112 Flat 1 etc (either than or he just plain lazy)

(They didnt leave a time on the card when to collect incase you wondering how I managed that)

 

I always collect the next day instead of wait for redelivery.