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Do you remember when the post used to be delivered really early?
Vodka_Drinka
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I'm sitting here waiting for the Royal Mail to deliver something that needs signing for because it's recorded delivery, god knows when it'll arrive because they days it could be anywhere between 9.30am and and about 2pm. It's a pain in the arse, I'm not that old but I can remember when I was a kid waking up to the sound of post coming through the letter box or a knock on the door if it was something too big of that needed signing for. Nowadays your lucky if comes before lunch time!
A PITA if your waiting for something important, why does the post come so late these days?
A PITA if your waiting for something important, why does the post come so late these days?
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Up until about two or three years ago we had the same postie who'd be doing "the run" for years, and we always knew exactly what time our mail would come. He's now retired and instead they seem to send 14 year old boys in short trousers who do it when they can be arsed, and half the time we get our neighbours mail and they get ours. It's a joke.
My Uncle used to be a postie back in the day and he started work at 3am! We need to go back to those days.
Now it is delivered at 12.30pm or later never before
Cutbacks.
In our office they did away with the four man nightshift who would have got 90% of the mail sorted for us coming in.
This meant instead of hitting the streets at 7 we didn't get out untill 9 plus.
I think the actual frontline RM staff do a fantastic job and have to tolerate no doubt bullying management and a hostile public. I trust RM posties unlike the amateur courier companies.
Any discontentment about RM I suggest should be directed at idiots like Vince Cable, George Osbourne and Moya Green >:(
My nephew is a postie, and is always home before 11am.
Because they changed from two deliveries per day to one. They deliver to businesses first thing in the morning and residential afterwards.
This has been going on long before privatisation
Why? RM started going downhill years ago
But then we had 2 deliveries a day, second post for use was between 11am 12
Not in my experience.
When did they change to one delivery a day - before privatisation
When did they start charging for deliveries before 9am - before privatisation
Postmen never wait long so even if you nip for a wee you are likely to miss it.
People used to use letters like telegrams sending and expecting to get a reply the same day.
I was at home at 5.15 recently when the mail arrived. (First and only of course)
I recently went out at lunch time on Sunday and came home four or so hours later to din three letters on my mat. Obviously not a RM delivery on Sunday but from a neighbour who had got them through his/her letterbox a day or two earlier.
What is Correos like then?
Record price rises?
Now we go out on delivery between 9.30 and 10.00 and our finishing time is 2.20. I 'van share' with a driver, meaning we do two deliveries between us. It takes us up to four and a half hours to complete.
If we can't get rid of a parcel, we are encouraged to leave it at a neighbours house, which adds extra time, as you go to the first house, then the second, then back to leave a note at the first. If first neighbour isn't in, try a second. It might only take five minutes, but six times means half an hour's walking added on.
My regular driver went off on long term sick (he's now on indoor duties at another office) , so for most of this year I've had a 'cover' driver - meaning I can have a different driver every day. OK if they know the delivery, but if they don't it takes longer to get round. (For example, the driver is supposed to take the larger parcels while I'm walk delivering. If he doesn't know the area, then I have to go with him to direct him).
Then of course as well as mail we also have the weekly leaflets to every house :kitty:
We used to know our postman as it was always the same one, now it's a different one daily. Things change and not always for the better. Not all companies get their post early. The one I work for doesn't get theirs until lunch time if they are lucky!