General Chat

I left RM 10 years ago. OH is still a postie, he will be leaving next year.

It is not a job that I would now recommend to anyone.

It will not be getting any better, the more other companies are allowed to cherry pick the better parts of the delivery service the worst it will get.

However, I will say one thing, that I used to say to my mum when she complained about not getting mail everyday. Are you expecting any mail. They can only delivery what has been posted. I know I can go days without anything coming through my letter box, but then I am not expecting anything!!!! :-D

Here in New Zealand it was decided that in towns the mail would be delivered no more than 3 times a week! Luckily protests about the same applying to rural mail was abandoned. We still get it 6 times a week. And we have a friendly postie. If I see her when I am going to town I stop to collect my mail, save her the bother of coming up our very rough road, all 700metres of it. She really appreciated that when there were trucks coming down loaded with logs, last year. As they had trailers also loaded with logs they were not something you would want to encounter on a corner or narrow part of the road.

Thank you Graham it was lovely.

Well, I hope you had a nice birthday anyway :-)

I can't complain about my normal postie but on the whole RM is on the down ward slide. :-( :-(

dont serpos i can complain as we use to get post from 11 to 12 am
and now we seem to get post from 10 to 11 am
and its the same post man for about the last 5 years or more
maybe he has learnt to walk quicker :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

but dont seem to see him every day more like every other day

I sent a strongly worded complaint to Royal mail about 10 days ago, my post used to be delivered between 10:am and 12 Noon, since the beginning of April this year it has been getting delivered between 16:30pm and 18:00pm.

I cornered the postman the other week, he did not have a good grasp of English, I think he was from Eastern Europe, anyway I asked him what the hell was going on with our postal deliveries, and to be honest I don't think he could understand a word I was saying.

I live in a sheltered housing scheme which is made up of two separate areas each area is in a differently named street, and what I discovered beggared belief, he did not know what street he was in - and was delivering the mail for, lets call it Street A, to addresses in the other street which I will call Street B.

I suppose this is the improved service that the Business Secretary Cable said the public would receive when he defended the controversial floatation of the royal mail.

I think that as postal workers retire from/or leave Royal Mail, that they are being replaced by untrained people on the minimum wage and that the service will only get worse.

Yes Graham it was my birthday but because of the post I had has many cards the day after so I really had two birthday :-D :-D :-D

TNT were heavily fined recently for poor deliveries - eg. bundles of small packets found under some bushes, on a few occasions.

I do not know about anywhere else but we now have two post, one from Royal Mail and also TNT :-S :-S :-S

Joy <3

I sent a birthday card last week to a good friend
and it arrived one week and one day later

snail mail me thinks :-( :-(

The only thing I seem to get in the post is bills. And I'm too worried about them arriving late ;-)
So what's with the cards? Is it your birthday?

Is anyone else having problem with their post, my mum posted my a card on the 30 April from London to Northamptonshire first class and it took a week arriving yesterday also my daughter sent me a special card that should have been delivered on Tuesday was not delivered till yesterday Grrrr