Postal delivery service

[SimonM]

What is it like where you are?

I’ve not seen any post for over a week. I’m expecting a 24hr delivery packet from 3 days ago, and also a standard letter from a company to send me some colour samples.

While out walking miss Molly earlier I met our usual postman doing a van delivery and stopped to have a chat and so Molly could say hello to him too.

I asked what was happening, no post etc. and he says they have all sorts of problems at the depot and they are prioritising Tracked 24, Tracked 48, official letterheads, Government , NHS etc. and our ‘normal’ letters will be dealt with asap.

are you experiencing the same delivery wait times?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I used to work there Simon, VERY briefly, less than a week. They were/are in total disarray, managers have zero control, so the postmen jsut do as they please, 5 years ago, they got brand new vans for half the local fleet; they have yet to be washed, theother half of the fleet has so much crap on them they're green, they have to be a somesort of health hazard, no pride at all in the job and most are as surly as a very surly, surly thing.

I bought a Microwave from Amazon (So I didn't have to carry it up the steps to the house) used it once, and smoke came out of it. I rang Amazon, and they arranged for the post office to pick it up, talk about a moaning twat, he refused to take it as he'd parked his van too far away

 

[RichardHelen262]

Our post and posties are very good around here.
I now hope I haven’t spoken too soon

 

[trevskoda]

Main Newtownabbey post office is just round the corner from me and all seems to work very well.

 

[colinm]

The last time I asked our local postie they where only coming out to our village when parcels where to be delivered, but I think this has now changed to coming out every second day. We get parcels from EVRI overnight, but letters via Royal Mail can take weeks.

 

[Tezza33]

We get very few deliveries with Royal Mail, but, when we do the posties are cheerful, helpful, carry heavy boxes in to the house if I am not there, unfortunately I think the whole country has a problem of the Royal Mail service prioritising letter deliveries, I posted two letters last week, both birthday cards, both to the same area, the one with a first class stamp on was delivered the next day, the other had a second class stamp on it, it took nine days.
There was something on the news earlier saying they are being investigated, should be sorted after the hearing, about five years from now

 

[Steve and Julie]

I've just been ill health retired from royal mail after 39 years. The job is impossible they keep making rounds bigger as they say mail is dropping but don't take in to account parcel volumes have increased on my old duty I went from 20 to 30 parcels a day to 90 a day. So managers just told you to take out first class letters and tracked parcels nobody cared about leaving mail in your frame for days. It's not going to get better anytime soon I'm glad I've left