Royal Mail

[Drago]

My postie is great. He'll open our front door, pop the parcel in, and close up after rather than disturb us. If we aren't around he'll find a safe place to leave a parcel. Saves a load of trouble going to the sorting office. Nothing goes missing (yet).

Roger that Bro'. We got a post chick and she's similarly good. I buy her a bottle of plonk each Christmas to say thanks for taking that bit of extra care with our parcels.

 

[coffeejo]

Touch wood, never had any problems here. I know someone whose postie will take any parcels round to her mother's if she's out, which is later on the route, rather than get into faffs about cards and sorting offices.

 

[ufkacbln]

We had an unexpected parcel delivered, or rather they tried to deliver and left a card.

We then went to pick up, and they could not find it.

After a week we were told to put in a claim, so we explained that we had no idea what it was.....

That was where it got silly, unless we could describe the parcel that we hadn't seen and could list the contents then they could not look for it, investigate or recompense.

So a dead end, and we never found out what it was!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

We had an unexpected parcel delivered, or rather they tried to deliver and left a card.

We then went to pick up, and they could not find it.

After a week we were told to put in a claim, so we explained that we had no idea what it was.....

That was where it got silly, unless we could describe the parcel that we hadn't seen and could list the contents then they could not look for it, investigate or recompense.

So a dead end, and we never found out what it was!

Had exactly the same over the summer. I'm inclined to think it was an error because the local guy seems honest and is usually very reliable.

 

[Falwheeler]

Any missing packets or parcels sent via Royal Mail, need to be claimed for, after 15 working days by the sender, don't let the sender say it's your problem, only they can claim. Cash should never be sent other than Special Delivery as that's the only way it can be covered. I would suggest that anyone sending packets or parcels should use recorded delivery which has to be signed for at the other end and prevents people from saying "I never received it", unless of course they didn't receive in which case it's up to you to sort it out but you will have your proof of postage

 

[Manonabike]

At that rate you might have a crook postman

 

[Herr-B]

If anything ever doesn't arrive I go around the corner, about 50 yards on the other side of the road and knock on the door of the guy with the same name as me. Most of the time it's there, he never bothers to pop it round to me. Anything else I ask in the local PO, they know me personally so it's not a problem. I've never had anything expensive go awry, fortunately.

Whilst I may get a relatively good service out of them (fingers crossed, touch wood, and all that), there are two regular postwomen in my village who are the grumpiest posties ever - barely a grumble if you say, 'Good Morning!' in your annoyingly cheeriest voice. Stopped them cutting across my lawn and over the fence to my neighbours - if they had an ounce of decency or personality I'd let them carry on.

 

[marinyork]

If anything ever doesn't arrive I go around the corner, about 50 yards on the other side of the road and knock on the door of the guy with the same name as me. Most of the time it's there, he never bothers to pop it round to me. Anything else I ask in the local PO, they know me personally so it's not a problem. I've never had anything expensive go awry, fortunately.

One of my friends had this happen for about 10 years, but they were never sure why it continued to happen for such a long time. They didn't have the same name but the same house number on a neighbouring road. They just found it very odd because it just continued for years on end.

 

[Herr-B]

One of my friends had this happen for about 10 years, but they were never sure why it continued to happen for such a long time. They didn't have the same name but the same house number on a neighbouring road. They just found it very odd because it just continued for years on end.

I don't mind too much, I kind of ruined his life for a while when I went bankrupt - his bank froze his account for quite a few days because of the same name and very similar address. Oops.

 

[marinyork]

I don't mind too much, I kind of ruined his life for a while when I went bankrupt - his bank froze his account for quite a few days because of the same name and very similar address. Oops.

 

[compo]

Our local postie is great and I would be extremely surprised to find that he was not straight. A few weeks ago he flashed me in my car (he was in his van) to tell me he had left a card at mine for a missed delivery. He gave me my package and told me to tear up the red card.

Funny enough one of the missing articles that I had been refunded for turned up this morning. I have no idea where it has been. Perhaps someone from the sorting office has read this thread and felt guilty. Now I have to return my refund to the seller.

 

[marinyork]

Funny enough one of the missing articles that I had been refunded for turned up this morning. I have no idea where it has been. Perhaps someone from the sorting office has read this thread and felt guilty. Now I have to return my refund to the seller.

Only twice ever had stuff go missing permanently, but for a rather annoying stint of time had first class parcels take 1-2 weeks to appear on a regular basis. Had a few that turned up after long stints of time like a month. There was even a special delivery that took 3 working days. I used to warn people and ask for when it was posted and they thought I was completely nuts. We got a new postie for a good while and things suddenly and mysteriously returned to normal service and delivery times started to tumble and get earlier and earlier in the day (and every day).

 

[compo]

I bought a steering stem from an ebay seller on 18/11/12 and it was delivered this morning so no problems there. That only leaves 2 items outstanding, both of which I have been refunded for. I am going to write to the Royal Mail though with a complaint just in case other items from that time period have also gone missing.

 

[Get In The Van]

Just a quick word on this, if you buy from a shop rather than a joe public seller, they might only use Royal Mail for the 'last mile' so to say. so your item will have possibly been picked up by City Link, DHL etc etc before they hand it over to Royal Mail for delivery.
The postage sticker will say who picked it up.

 

[postman]

I am waiting for a dvd from Amazon bought via one of their sellers marked as used in good condition.It was posted friday according to e mail.Snail mail by the looks of it.I hate waiting for stuff.But i have used thios seller before and bought from him on e bay,so i am looking at Amazon and Royal mail for delay.So five days so far second class.