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fking post office

dekhdekh
edited August 2008 in Chit chat
I'd complain to them but what's the point?

A PO van just pulled up. Shoved a non delivery card through the door. Without knocking.

He was back in his van and started the engine as my wife was half way down the drive. (By drive I mean the 15ft of space my car is parked on.)

Then sped away - speed limit here 20mph.

Licence plate BX06MXG

Distance to blind corner 20 yards.

No wait, I've paused, calmed down in the middle of the rant, made a complaint.

It's no wonder the PO is in such a state.
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  • VertigoVertigo
    edited July 2008
    I've had that before, I was standing in the kitchen at the time and the dude walked up to the door, put something through and left, and I went immediately to the door to see what he'd delivered and found a non-delivery card so I had to shout to get his attention and asked him why he didn't bother knocking. Apparently he had stood there for a couple of minutes and knocked twice just then and had no reply. Righto!

    I bought some lens filters last week which came via recorded and needed a signature.
    Went to the depot to collect them and the non-English-speaking South-East Asian guy just handed it over. I said to him "Don't I need to sign for it, it says I do here?" and he looked at me like I had 5 heads. "I need to sign, it says here, right?". He had to go and ask his supervisor and she explined to him in very small words that yes, when it says 'signature required', he needs to get people to sign for them.
    Grr!
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited July 2008
    You should complain, otherwise this idiot will just do it again.

    A neighbour went to collect a package from the post office and the people recognised his address as next door to mine, they then handed him 8 books i had ordered and said they had been there for a few weeks.

    I bought the books from abebooks.com , had to moan to the sellers (got my money back) as they never turned up and then bought the books elsewhere on ebay etc.

    Then that day i received all the 8 books i thought were missing (Thought it was strange that many of them never arrived), they had been waiting at the post office for 2 months, NO red cards or anything or a 'we tried to deliver' type of thing so i assumed they were lost.

    I then bought them again, obviously those original sellers (who did send them) then filed claims with the post office, no doubt the post office will eventually say 'they were signed for' (As i finally got them a month or so later) so then i look a crook ! Total mess !

    I did email the sellers about this and reimbursed anyone who contacted me but at the end of the day i was also out of pocket as i paid on ebay for these books and also Abebooks because Mr Postie never left a red slip.

    The stupid thing is NONE of these were sent recorded delivery plus they could all fit through the letter box, because they had a huge elastic band wrapped round them (I dont think the guy thought he could untie it !) they were sat at the post office for ages !

    Sorry for ranting, just a pain !!

    Our local postie is a top bloke, regularly chat with him but some of these blokes in the vans dont bother knocking and instantly leave a red card (or dont in some cases).
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited July 2008
    Yesterday I stood for 40 minutes in the local post office behind three people with huge sacks of mail to be posted item by item. All of them eBay twats.

    I am not 68 years old by the way.
  • milemile
    edited July 2008
    Fudgepacker wrote: »
    Yesterday I stood for 40 minutes in the local post office behind three people with huge sacks of mail to be posted item by item. All of them eBay twats.

    I am not 68 years old by the way.

    you can get your pension by direct debit these days. :D
  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited July 2008
    Happened to me. Yesterday, in fact. I bought a couple of Gamecube games from SirClive1 from a thread over on the Retro Gamer forum. He sent them last Friday. They arrived yesterday morning....or rather, the postie just put a red card through my letterbox without knocking. I was in the bathroom getting ready for work at the time, but I'm in a flat and it's right by the front door so I'd have heard him knock if he did. I heard the letterbox go.

    Annoyingly, when I went to pick them up earlier, the package I was given (containing both games) would have EASILY fitted through my letterbox.

    Yes, I'm angry. :mad:
  • VertigoVertigo
    edited July 2008
    ToxieDogg wrote: »
    Annoyingly, when I went to pick them up earlier, the package I was given (containing both games) would have EASILY fitted through my letterbox.
    Makes you wonder if they don't look at it when sorting and guess that it won't fit through a small letter box so they're not going to bother taking it out with them, doesn't it?
    Do we not have a resident postie on this 'ere forum?
  • milemile
    edited July 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    Makes you wonder if they don't look at it when sorting and guess that it won't fit through a small letter box so they're not going to bother taking it out with them, doesn't it?
    Do we not have a resident postie on this 'ere forum?

    no, you are thinking of eastenders.

    my postie turns up at 11 these days, you lot are lucky he comes before you set off for your jobs.
  • ewgfewgf
    edited July 2008
    The GPO is rubbish - in the early nineties, our morning post always arrived before I left for college, I think I left about ten past eight (am, obviously), and we had two deliveries a day; morning and afternoon. Nowadays, we have only one delivery a day, which usually arrives between twelve and four pm. And of course postage is more expensive now than then. As a rule, when the postal charges increase, the quality of service decreases.

    And how much did they spend to change their name to Consignia, which no-one understands or calls them. It's always the "GPO" (General Post Office), or the "Royal Mail" to everyone I know.

    And yes, I too have had endless instances of parcels or letters that need to be signed for, just posted (or on occasion, parcels left by the front door, where they could be stolen), or a "we called and you weren't in" slip posted through the door, when we were definately in (and our dogs hadn't barked, which they always do, extremely loudly, whenever someone knocks or rings the door bell), and often the time entered on the slip is well off. I've even had it where no slip was entered, and the parcel was taken to the pickup office, leaving me and the sender to wonder why the parcel never arrived.

    I am so, so, so gald we have e-mail.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited July 2008
    A couple of weeks ago, I was waiting for one of my e-bay wins to be delivered so I was keeping an eye out for the postman. I saw him comming, so I went strait down to open the door for him, but by the time I got there he had dropped a card through saying "no one was home". Plus, our collection point closes at 12.15 so I not only had to wait another day, but I had to take an early lunch to pick it up. I also complained and the bloke at the office said "he always does that, we've given up trying to tell him!".

    Still it's still cheeper than trying to deliver something myself. You can't get very far these days on a 33p train ticket or whatever it costs these days :D
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited July 2008
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    A couple of weeks ago, I was waiting for one of my e-bay wins to be delivered so I was keeping an eye out for the postman. I saw him comming, so I went strait down to open the door for him, but by the time I got there he had dropped a card through saying "no one was home". Plus, our collection point closes at 12.15 so I not only had to wait another day, but I had to take an early lunch to pick it up. I also complained and the bloke at the office said "he always does that, we've given up trying to tell him!".

    Still it's still cheeper than trying to deliver something myself. You can't get very far these days on a 33p train ticket or whatever it costs these days :D

    It just makes no sense ... it probably takes the basts as long to write out the time/date ... why not just knock and if there's no answer then fill it out ... are they in a hurry or just not willing to talk to people face-to-face? What's the source of this issue, why aren't they delivering but resorting straightaway to dropping the slip?

    BTW I get my mail around 9:45am but if the regular postlady is away it can be anywhere between 11 and 2.
  • chop983chop983
    edited July 2008
    My post office doesn't sell envelopes anymore, they sell mailing solutions
  • ADJBADJB
    edited July 2008
    On a happier note.....

    I ordered a game from a Japanese website last Tuesday evening.

    Delivered to Birmingham on Thursday morning. Less than two days.

    So from reading above I can order something from the other side of the world and get it delivered quicker than you can actually post something here.

    BTW - Postage cost was 600 yen, about ?3.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited July 2008
    ADJB wrote: »
    On a happier note.....

    I ordered a game from a Japanese website last Tuesday evening.

    Delivered to Birmingham on Thursday morning. Less than two days.

    So from reading above I can order something from the other side of the world and get it delivered quicker than you can actually post something here.

    BTW - Postage cost was 600 yen, about ?3.

    I've had stuff come from Japan and you can see all of it's delivery stages as stamps on the packages. My last one took 2 days to get to the UK from Japan and a week to make it to me :o But still...I'm not complaining as postage was only about ?3 for mine as well!
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited July 2008
    I got another of those red cards today. Not a problem as I was at work and wsn't around to sign for it, but, my brother had a box delivered at the same time which also needed signing for and that is sitting in my front room waiting for him to come and get it. How did they manage to deliver that, but not get anyone to sign for my package? I now have to go well out of my way tommrow to pick the thing up as I need it for the weekend :evil:
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited July 2008
    Whoever used to deliver parcels to me very often used to just shove the undelivered card through without even trying to knock, I know that for a fact. Probably because it was always very early (usually before 7 o'clock) and at most houses he'd get a load of verbal for knocking so early. I'm always up at this time though, so either he knows it's safe to knock or it's a new postie.
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited August 2008
    I just sent a parcel to Sweden.

    The recipient received it OK, though it was cleared by SWISS CUSTOMS before he received it..
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