As if I need reminding why I hate the Royal Mail!!

[User33236]

My rear facing camera went faulty over a month ago and was sent back under warranty. After waiting an excessive time and chasing the supplier they sent a replacement yesterday via Royal Mail.

I was out when the postie tried to deliver so I came home to a card through the door telling me to collect it from the local sorting office. Beside it on the mat was a second card letting me to forget the first one as they have left if with number xx, a house across the street.

Nothing particularly wrong with that except the occupants of house xx were moving out at the time!!!! The house is now empty and no sign of my camera! Oh well yet another complaint to RM to add to the collection.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Have you checked the wheely bins etc?
I've found stuff from the postman in my recycle bin!

 

[User33236]

Checked the usual places, and the unusual ones, even under the car as they have been known to put them there before.

 

[screenman]

Maybe postie thought he was doing the right thing.

 

[User33236]

Maybe postie thought he was doing the right thing.

Even with a removal truck outside and furniture getting taken out of the house? (Well according to the nosy parker next door.)

Due to the number of lost items over the past 12 months the sorting office is currently under strict instructions NOT to leave parcels at alternative addresses but only leave them in designated 'safe' places.

 

[screenman]

Maybe your postie is not the brightest one out there.

 

[classic33]

Might have thought they were moving in!

 

[User33236]

Might have thought they were moving in!

Nah, I think screenman is closer to the mark

 

[rualexander]

Hard to blame the postie, they are now required to deliver to neighbours if possible, unless you have the official Royal Mail sticker on your letterbox stating that items should be returned to the collection office.
The blame lies with your neighbour over the road for accepting the item knowing they were leaving surely?

 

[cyberknight]

We had a postman who lived the other side of a piece of grass land that backed onto our houses, when i saw bags of mail in the grass i contacted RM and they found a shed load of undelivered mail .

 

[User33236]

Hard to blame the postie, they are now required to deliver to neighbours if possible, unless you have the official Royal Mail sticker on your letterbox stating that items should be returned to the collection office.
The blame lies with your neighbour over the road for accepting the item knowing they were leaving surely?

Lets just say there is a bit of history between my household and the Royal Mail after they left a very expensive camera lens under the rear wheel of my car. I didnt notice it for three days and there was no record of it being delivered.

After that rules were agreed between us and the sorting office as to what they could and could not do. This has been in place for 3 months without issue. Until today.

PS. Yes of course the neighbours were idiots wrong to accept it in the circumstances but being idiots poor neighbours is the reason I'm not sad to see them go

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nice leaving prez, very generous.

 

[User33236]

Nice leaving prez, very generous.

They're welcome to it as long as they dont come back lol (provided of course the Royal Mail compensate the supplier and I get a replacement)

 

[akb]

Ask the sender to under pay for the cost of delivery by £1. Then itll stay at the local post office!

 

[midlife]

In defence, our ususal postie is brilliant, drops stuff off at school for the wife, leaves boxes well hidden or with neighbours.

Slight hiccup today though as the stand in postie felt unable to do anything with a Campag seat post apart from to take it back to the depot ......

Shaun