This isn't a dig at the post office or postmen but I am experiencing a delay in getting some letters I have been expecting for ages. Is this just a christmas post thing or are there other problems I am unaware of??

no so much a delay but i have had a load of post go missing birthday cards etc for my kids comming from london that wa searlier in the year too
what area you from i from manor park

Hillsborough area. Its quite frustrating because I asked for certain things to be sent out last week but they still haven't arrived

I was waiting for something sent to me first class last Friday. It's only just turned up today. This isn't the first time something like this has happened recently.

ive had a few of them.

best thing to do is registed post if its that important

Perhaps this thread should be locked, as there is no question mark on the title and it is a question after all ;)

I haven't noticed any delays in the post, inface a parcel was posted tuesday afternoon, and the recipient recieved it wednesday morning.

Oh good, other people are having problems too, it's not just me and the people I have bought from on E-bay.

Just thought, it could be the delays are due to the crimbo backlog of post. Remember it's Royal Mail's busiest time of the year so that might have something to do with it!!

I've been waiting for some post, I expected it on Monday at the latest, but its still not here.

I know one of the letters was posted on tuesday last week, sent first class.

I'm very reluctant to criticise Mr (or Mrs) Postie as they do a hard job and I am always amazed at the service you get for 28p but long gone are the days of first class mail arriving at the required destination the next day.

I used to be a postman & it's called souring mail, it's when you cant be bothered to deliver to certain address, I never did it myself but it's rife within royal mail they are a terrible outfit that's one of the reasons I left, my mail is always going missing, it could even be a change of postman that has posted the mail to a different address, TIP never send items recorded always send registered.

I recieved a letter this morning that was dated 9th september!! It was quite important too.

Also had another letter earlier in the year that arrived 3 months late asking me to go to a job interview. Fortunately I had phoned them to ask, had the interview and had been doing the job for 2 months by the time I got the original letter!

I have moved a few times in the last 18 months, and find that forwarded letters always take longest - the one I recieved this morning was forwarded, but was postmarked in Sheffield in september, so has been kicking around for weeks somewhere in Sheffield! Why is this?!

Most of the time I have no problems, but it always seems to be the important stuff that goes missing!

i've had a delivery from amazon go missing this month, they've reshipped it and it arrived 2 days later. Nice computer game for some scally who thought he'd help himself. At least Amazon didn't quibble, just sent another copy. Walkley area, so same sorting office as Hillsborough I think.

I recieved a pretty important piece of paperwork this morning that was dated 21st November!!

Surely 1st class shouldn't take that long even at this time of year.

my phone bills not arrived yet it was due to arrive around the 2nd or 3rd of december but im just putting it down to the xmas rush i reckon if the post office stopped delivering junk mail for the whole of december imn sure our post would arrive a lot quicker:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

A lot of my post has been arriving late and on one day al my post had already been opened, they had stolen my free Guinness voucher. The next day a letter had already been opened and a cheque stolen.

I regularly get items of mail that should have gone to neighbours houses. Odd/even numbers - there's no discrimination... I recently received a brand new soft back book in an A4 carded envelope clearly printed in big red letters DO NO BEND. Go on - Guess how my postie got it through the letter box? AND I was home - he could have knocked. It came with a card saying 'sorry we missed you - you were out; there's a parcel to collect tomorrow from the sorting office in Rotherham!!! I agree strongly with policies on employing the disabled but dyslexic pit-fingered posties are too pc I fear!
Often I complain to the Royal Mail either by phone or on line via their website. It's a good source of free books of 12 x 1st class stamps at least. They usually send me one for the inconvenience & damage etc. (Top Tip). I'm gonna buy a dog.

Originally posted by FetishFairy
I recieved a pretty important piece of paperwork this morning that was dated 21st November!!

Surely 1st class shouldn't take that long even at this time of year.

I've opened a rather large cheque for work today that was post makred 24th November with a first class stamp on it. Post Office dont worry about company cash flows.

Did any of you see the documentary about royal mail a few month ago, it was set in a sorting office in London, anyway someone had a hidden camera on them & managers & staff were stealing allsorts this does happen believe me I've seen it & any boxes with fragile on get kicked around the office like a football :loopy:

I have a few bills that were due last week and still havent arrived. It will be the christmas post holding everything up or the pizza hut menus that keep arriving with the postman. and to think they are making first class 30p soon the cheek

We had a period when post was going missing regularly. It culminated in 11 parcels going missing in one week!!! I complained several times regarding our postal service, but never got a decent reply from Royal Mail.

I now have parcels delivered to my work address, which seems to get reliable deliveries. We still get post over a month old even now.

If there was an alternative service, I'd use it.

Did any of you see the documentary about royal mail a few month ago, it was set in a sorting office in London, anyway someone had a hidden camera on them & managers & staff were stealing allsorts this does happen believe me I've seen it & any boxes with fragile on get kicked around the office like a football

I didn't catch that program but I have worked in a sorting offices before (Cambridge) and noticed the slowest items of mail to go through the system were postcards of some fit bird in a bikini. You work it out! ;)

Postman admits stealing letters
A postman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 130,000 undelivered letters and parcels in Staffordshire.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/4046003.stm

There's often stories like this. I used to be a postie and the RM Courier (their own newspaper) often had their own stories!

Originally posted by gezmac
Did any of you see the documentary about royal mail a few month ago, it was set in a sorting office in London, anyway someone had a hidden camera on them & managers & staff were stealing allsorts this does happen believe me I've seen it & any boxes with fragile on get kicked around the office like a football :loopy:

Yeh Yeh, that doc was a staged attempt at scaring the public..C4 have even admitted that many of the things were fabricated!!

Delays, lossess, damages to mail have happened ever since Royal Mail started, its just that we are now a nation of whingebags who would complain if they got a crumpled tenner note from a cash machine.
I recently saw a historic article from 1958 telling people to post early for xmas and detailing losses of mail that have been reported..its just nowadays there is more mail in the system which means more chances of services failing, as we have a sunstantially larger population.

Too many people put cash inside xmas and bday cards and then whine when it goes missing...i understand that we should be able to do this but its just too tempting for some posties so dont do it...this has happened for decades yet for some reason there is mass hysteria at the moment about RM and its failings

So how does a postie know there's money inside...?

Where did Ch4 admit the fabrications?

First you say 'whinebags' then you say 'services failing'....

:confused:


One thing I do know is that mass hysteria is not confined to the RM....

Thats a fact

my parcel royal mail man knocking me up at 6.45 this morning, could have smacked him

The post in wisewood is as bad all round hillsbrough
I have been waiting for our winter fuel payment for weeks
I know that the post office is useing agency men for delivery
of post and I think they dont get up to early to post mail to the doors.bring back good old type post men that we can rely on.

Sent a friend a birthday car on 8th Dec... As yet it still hasn't arrived :confused:

my neigbour came around yesterday to ask if i'd had a parcel for him.
So that's 2 amazon (clearly marked on the boxes) parcels that have gone missing in the last month.

We're having mail not turning up as well. And other peoples mail being shoved through our door. The likely hood is our mail got put through another door and the person didn't bother to pass it on to us.

The problem seems to stem from the fact that we don't have a regular postie any more. Its always some random bloke who turns up around mid-day.

We've complained to the Royal Mail but there isn't much they can do.

Originally posted by Deejay
Sent a friend a birthday car

How do you expect the post man to fit a car through a letter box? :suspect:

This week, at work, we got the post for the pub next door. Our post went to the hair dressers. I think this happened all the way along the street. :loopy:

Originally posted by Andy
How do you expect the post man to fit a car through a letter box? :suspect:

Ok I meant Card :P

Any more spelling mistakes in this post Andy :suspect: