Do you trust Royal Mail?

**SlugLobber** · 18-12-2008, 01:35 PM

The letter thing doesn't surprise me. I used to live at a Keeper's Cottage, so mail was a nightmare. I got mail addressed to Suffolk, Cornwall, Manchester...They completely disregarded the street and postcode AND the town!

I trust the posties implicitly, but the sorting office is a whole different kettle of fish!

**Nicos** · 18-12-2008, 01:39 PM

My letters are redirected- and in 10 weeks they've stopped doing it twice

They sent me a cheque for �8 something to apologise...but I'd rather have known to reduce my mortgage payment rather than get someone to open my private post for me!

So far though..no other problems over the years that I can recall.

**janeyo** · 18-12-2008, 01:39 PM

We often don't get mail or parcels, I put it down to being in a village! Had damaged stuff before too, that gets manhandled.

janeyo

**bluemoon** · 18-12-2008, 04:42 PM

We've collected all our mail from the sorting office ourselves for almost three years now. Everything was going missing (except the junk) and frequently people said they'd had our mail returned to them marked with things like 'Gone away' or 'unknown at this address'. A friend had a bank statement returned to her bank with 'Addressee Unknown' written across the front. The bank closed her account, but obviously didn't write to tell her as they thought she was uncontactable. This happened when she was on holiday in Spain, alone except for her young son. She was penniless abroad until her sister managed to get money transferred to her in some way. Strange too how birthday cards/Christmas cards were always guaranteed to disappear. My brothers, who both live a fair distance away from Yorkshire, would usually put money in the cards for the kids, but eventually started to send cheques (which would also disappear, but at least couldn't be cashed). Now all mail from the rest of the family to us is sent via my mother and we avoid using the Royal Mail unless it is absolutely unavoidable.

**SueA** · 18-12-2008, 04:47 PM

Our regular posties are lovely & rarely get anything wrong but the casual ones just seem to push anything through our door, I've had letters for different streets, house a few doors away etc. & I always take them to the right address. The problem is I don't think others do the same with my mail so I've no idea how much has gone missing through the years. On the whole though they do try hard around Christmas, I've had parcels delivered on Sunday & mail at tea time this week!

**Mcbee** · 18-12-2008, 05:50 PM

I once had to send our passports off to gets visa. Paid for special delivery both ways. A couple of weeks later a guy who lived in a different street turned up - and handed me my passports!!!!

Even though they were SD, they had been delivered to the wrong house. The guy had just signed for them without looking at the name etc as he thought it was a package for him.

We were just lucky he was honest and could be bothered to bring them around to us!

I did lose my faith in RM a bit.

Having said that my current postie is fab. Esp with parcels etc

**pukka.tukka** · 18-12-2008, 05:56 PM

Hi

No. I hardly get post delivered to my house each day a wad arrives on a Saturday.

I have important post delivered to my in-laws, however their postman left my xmas present out in the rain and it was a book.

**vicky** · 18-12-2008, 06:05 PM

99% of the time it's really good here, but when our postie is off things can go very wrong as our road isn't marked and there's 8 houses with very similar names...Luckily we all know each other...

**Glutton4...** · 18-12-2008, 06:53 PM

At our old place in the next village, our regular Postie was fab, but the Temps were a waste of time, we got post for about four of the neighbouring addresses

Our current Postie is the best, he knows where to hide parcels, and he'll even sign for them if there's no one in 'Signed for by Postman' he puts. The Temp leaves all the post for those of us 'down side lanes' in the van for when the regular guy is back

Just don't get me on to the subject of Couriers - EVER

**Snadger** · 18-12-2008, 07:03 PM

I have an excellent rapore with Geordie our postie!

He knows to leave parcels inside rear lobby which is always open meaning I never get those stupid little notes saying that I have to go to the sorting office to pick up a parcel!

I always make sure he gets a decent prezzie at Crimbo for his troubles!

**terrier** · 18-12-2008, 08:35 PM

Now we have a new postie (female BTW) we dont have problems any more (fingers crossed) but before she started on our round, RM wasn't just pitifully bad, it was bordering on the illegal! We have just lost so much stuff and had so much of other peoples mail (including their bank account details) it was unbelievable. Not a day went by without incorrect mail deliveries. We complained time and time again to the mail watchdog who promised they would look into it. Well, if they did it took them several years.
A laminated A4 notice was printed by his office and given to the postman to remind him how bad our mail delivery was. How do I know this? Because he posted it through our letterbox.

**Two_Sheds** · 18-12-2008, 08:39 PM

I think the postmen are under impossible delivery times, and can't deliver it all in their shift.
We often have one day a week with no post at all ... even when I am expecting something ... and then double the next day.
I've also had Recorded stuff delivered without my signature, or any signature at all.

**sewer rat** · 18-12-2008, 09:02 PM

Last year Parcelforce lost / misplaced a 25kg bag of onion sets between Devon and Inverness. How can you mislay something that smells like that ?
This week thay have failed to deliver a cheque sent two weeks ago (first class) by the shop I supply for several hundreds of pounds.
Do I trust Royal Mail ? Nope !

**sharonr** · 18-12-2008, 09:21 PM

WE moved 100 yards up the road from where we use to live a few years ago. We knew our postlady very well but she was not aloud to deliver our mail to our new address if it had the old address on it. So we had to have it re-directed for 6 months.l For months afterwards the new tenents kept bringing any mail that was delivered there. It was very annoying as the postlady said she wasn`t aloud to post it to us.
When you think about identity theft and all the junk mail that went there had some personal details on them anything could of happened.

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