General Chat

We sold our summer cottage in March, and needed to send a relatively important letter to the buyer last week.

All dealings with lawyers and notary publics ended on March 31, so that route was out.


He has a Post Office Box number (no street address) in a community about 125 km away from here.

OH took the letter to our local Post Office last Tuesday ..........

....... no registered mail ('cos no one to sign for it),

....... ordinary mail would take 5-10 business days,

....... recorded tracked mail would take 2 business days "so should be there by Thursday"!



so he paid the equivalent of £5 to send it "recorded tracked"



we, of course, can't "track" it .............. we have no other contact with the buyer, and he doesn't know it's coming!



I guess we will find out if he got it or not either if he makes contact to say "what the h*** is this?", OR we get a letter to say the tax bill has not been paid this time next year

Her indoors had a letter yesterday morning from DWP Brown Envelope jobbie.
It was informing her of an increase 54p a week to her Attendance Allowance.
(every little helps)

Every one of the 4 pages inside had the print date at the top..." 28 Apr 2014"

So from printing to arrival it only took a mere 30 days.

Speed post at its its best :-D :-D :-D :-D

If your post did not arrive until after 4pm, that could mean your regular postman is either on leave or off sick. So his 'walk' would be covered either on overtime by another postman after he had completed his own 'walk'. Or a casual doing the work, but having no idea of the area and taking twice as long to do the delivery.

I think that is the way we will eventually go Sylvia.

you still have Saturday delivery???


Aren't you lucky!!! :-)


We haven't had Saturday delivery for well over 25 years. :-(

Canada Post are talking of reducing home delivery to 3 days a week ...................


and within 2 years we are all supposed to have Community Mail Boxes, which will be within 1 km of our homes ........... no home mail delivery of letters at all, even in the biggest cities such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver etc.

Each Community Mail Box will have individual boxes for each household within the designated area


The big question being asked by the citizens is "where are these Community Mail Boxes gong to be placed in the densely built cities?"


Canada Post is going to direct its efforts towards the delivery of parcels, as so many of us order on-line and those have to be delivered by somebody

our one delivery arrived at 4.00 p.m. today. Usually it is around 2.30p.m. weekdays - noon on Saturdays.

If I use a dark coloured envelope I always use a sticky white label. Strange thing is that the card I sent minus post code because I didn't remember it, arrived while the one that took ages had a computer printed label with post code.

Yes maybe it could have slipped inside another envelope. ButMK always seems to be the one where mail is delayed or doesn't arrive.

What happens with things like postcards or even small cards is that they can often end up inside other envelopes, which for some reason people just do not bother to seal.

Remember it used to be cheaper to send unsealed envelopes many years ago.

Whether there is anything of value or not in a card please always seal and do not just tuck the flap inside.

I can assure you that this is quite a common problem that is not the fault of the post.

Used to see it all the time.

However, I live on a road which has a road down the hill with a similar name, we regularly get each others mail. Always when our own posties are on hols.

Another big problem for the machines that read postcodes, are dark red envelopes, unless you use a black pen, the machines will often reject these items, or misread the postcode and send them on their merry way around the country!!!!

I phone yesterday 12.45 to order a gaget to tell me when liquid gets to the top of a cup etc it came today

I call that good service

sally w <3

Makes you wonder.
Post from my pension provider to Menorca always takes at least 3 weeks......I understand they are mailed from Switzerland :-S :-S
Posted a get well card from Menorca to a cousin in Redditch on Wednesday. Just had an e mail to say she recieved it this morning.
Totally inexplicable

I did read somewhere that postcards were often passed over in the sorting office as not priority. But I have a friend who for some reason doesn't like e mail although she has it and, if she wants to arrange to see us she usually sends a postcard!!!

Wendy, I didn't have any envelopes with me and no shops nearby so risked the postcards. I am used to cards from Lanzarote going on an outing of their own on their way to england (usually Malta) but in the UK I expect them to get there if they have the same postage as a letter. If they want them to be a lower priority they should have less postage.

Tess, they knew I had sent it so were not bothered but I always send them a card even though they are now nearly 12 and 18 this year. :-D

My mum sent me a birthday card from outer London to Northamptonshire and it took over a week to arrive, I also had a letter yesterday postmarked 12 may I think there is some think wrong with our post.

If I send post cards I usually put them in an envelope it costs the same to post and stands more chance of arriving.

Yesterday I received a birthday card for the 17th April. It had insufficient postage and came by sea, approx 47 days, I think it's been on a cruise, but at least it got here.

P.S. I wonder where it has been all this time? Perhaps on a little adventure of its own! ;-) ;-) :-)

Ann, I agree that it is disappointing and annoying that the postcard to Milton Keynes took so long to arrive.
However, I'm sure that the recipients were pleased to get it.
It can still be a card to treasure, especially as it was from their grandmother.

Tess

Posted a postcard to son and family in Milton Keynes from Cornwall on 12th May together with 2 others. The other two arrived a couple of days later but son's has just arrived. I send them for the grandchildren but now I wonder why I bother.