My post always arrives about 1300 every day give or take 15 minutes, and has done for the 6 years I’ve lived here.
This last week my post has been arriving around 10.00 - 10.30 every day.
Im guessing it must be a quiet time them too.
My post always arrives about 1300 every day give or take 15 minutes, and has done for the 6 years I’ve lived here.
This last week my post has been arriving around 10.00 - 10.30 every day.
Im guessing it must be a quiet time them too.
Cheers,
Ben
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Interesting, I'm finding the opposite - things taking much longer to arrive (4-7 days longer) than usual.
I expect it too, as lots more people are ordering things online, so they have a lot more to do than usual. Plus staff absences must be (relatively speaking) far higher than before for a multitude of reasons.
Amazon are now delaying all non-essential deliveries for a month or more. Place an order now, and depending on what it is, it'll be here in May. It's not clear what they define as non-essential.
Stuff definitely taking longer to arrive.
RMSD is no longer guaranteed by 1300, but next day only. Even then, my last one was 24 hours late.
I have a couple of ebay purchases overdue, but I won’t chase them for a while yet.
Keep safe Posties everywhere
My Postie has just been (1430) and I quizzed him from a distance.
Half the Posties start at 0600, and the other half at 1000, allowing for increased separation in the sorting office.
This explains why some are getting their post much later.
Parcels and packets have doubled around here. This is partly down to Amazon - up here they contract out parcel delivery to locals (white van men!) but now they seem to be self isolating, and the Royal Mail picked up the extra.
The packet that arrived today (3/4) was due on or before the 31/3. Got here safely, and that’s all that matters
Our mail is at 2 hours earlier at the moment but it has been a different postie every day this week, today one banged on the door, when I opened the door he was standing well back asking how I expected mail when the letter box was sealed up, I pointed at the big mail box at the side explaining that came through the door was attacked by dog including fingers, he was ok at that, but I wondered how big does the box need to be for him to see it, maybe his brain’s fuzzied by wearing shorts in the cold and rain!
Our postie also working shift. He said earlier this week the volume of parcels was like in the build up to Christmas. Few letters, mostly parcels.
Different units are taking different approaches according to staffing levels
We’re managing to deliver 95% of the work every day but I know of other units with much higher sick
The social distancing is causing some issues as shared vans cannot happen
Several of my guys have been good enough to cycle out to meet their shared vans or take the cars ( no mail on board) to the 1st point of delivery
We’re doing what we can
my sister in-law is a postie in Essex, wow if you heard half the stories you wouldn't have much sympathy for your local postman/woman. Where we are they changed the delivery format a while ago, it was changed to two in a van, they park up and do half the round each. obviously they can't send two in a van so you have one doing a round mapped for two, while the other sorts post, of course they don't want over time so if its not all done it goes back to the sorting office for the next day. If they finish their round early they are no longer allowed to knock off and go home, they are expected to pick up others undelivered mail and go out with that (surprisingly they don't do this, if they finish early they park up and listen to the radio). when the van is returned other posties wont get in it unless it is cleaned so again that's not happening. From what I hear most of them are in the sorting office playing table tennis, we have people who have worked for the royal mail 20+ years and are so unionised that they just don't get it, the royal mail will go bust because they can't compete and the old timers will still be banging on about their rights and striking.
One thing I learnt the other day is that there must be a post box 1 mile from any house, my sister in-law drives around collecting from the boxes, companies (that pay) and post offices, she says on her round there are at least 5 post boxes that never have mail as they are in the middle of nowhere and there for half a dozen houses, she sent a photo of one that once opened is full of cobwebs and a mouse nest!
She did say they have lots of Amazon stuff to deliver, on a plus side she says everyone is in to sign for stuff so that saves writing cards out.
Last edited by lewie; 3rd April 2020 at 17:19.
Our post has been getting earlier. The spaniel, who isn’t socially distancing, doesn’t mind getting his biscuit a bit early!
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
You might want to tell Your sister in law to tell Her Workmates That finish early and sit about in their vans about the GPS in their PDAs .It will tell their boss how long they sit about doing jack sh1t and where lol
Ours (the same for the last 28 years - seriously) is arriving about the same time, but he did mention that his round was easier simply because of the lack of junk mail being sent. Small mercies.
He now wears gloves - little blue rubber jobs.
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We are lucky, we have a cracking postie, if I am out and something needs a sig then he leaves it hidden away on a shelf in our kitchen porch(we have two front doors) and he knows I won’t shaft him if anything goes pears which it never has. I look after him at Christmas and he is damn well worth it!