Obv I don’t want to get too deep into privatisation weeds as we don’t want to get into the dreaded (whispers) politics in this comm. But I’m interested to know if other people are noticing the postal service deteriorating.
Mail for other houses (my door number is clearly marked)… delivery timelines missed… then the icing on the cake, had a delivery that was supposed to come up to Newcastle delivered while I’m not at home, they left it in a ‘safe place’ despite one not being designated.
Want to hear what the ‘safe place’ was? Out on the street, jammed behind a random neighbours wheelie bin! So yeah that’s £110 of new clothes gone to some lucky local who swiped it. Boooo, Royal Mail, booooo!
To counteract the whinge, I just made a banging pizza almost from scratch. Success!
Generally, deliveries are OK (I think this just depends on the quality of the local workers) but there seem to be more problems further up the chain in the offices or depots. For example, I sent off the form to replace old stamps with the QR coded versions several months ago, and never heard anything back, so that’s a fiver down the drain. My small act of protest will be to refuse to buy any postage from now on, and try to use alternatives if I absolutely need to send anything physical.
edit: I actually contacted RM about it: they said the stamps were sent out, and agreed to send another lot, so that worked out OK.
That’s nuts. I wonder how many people sent in a form for a small amount of stamps, didn’t receive anything, and just said “meh it’s only a few quid”? The way it’s being managed at the moment I would not be surprised at all to find out they’re deliberately ignoring smaller requests in the hope that people don’t chase them up.
I sent a letter at 2pm from Belfast and it arrived in Durham the following morning first class numerous times, seems fair enough to me. Sounds like you just have a bad postie vs royal mail itself
What I hate is that companies can pay to have posties deliver their junk mail to you, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops to ‘opt out’.
You’re ‘opted in’ by default, of course… 🤬
We had great success just putting up a little sign on the door that said “no unaddressed mail”.
Of course since we were buying a custom sign for it we also added “…or else”, and one time I just happened to open the door after a young lad had pushed a leaflet through. He sort of stepped backwards a bit and his eyes went down to the sign and he stuttered “I’m so sorry I didn’t see the sign” as if he thought I was about to wallop him.
Bless.
Bloody terrible for me. I don’t get deliveries for weeks at a time, and then I get a whole load all at once. Not fit for purpose.
I run an online business and have had quite a big increase in people not getting their items since the beginning of the year.
