Post Office woes....

[John Howling Mouse]

Damian,

Discovered this topic created by you way back when.  After reading your comments describing your experiences with packages, I sure hope things have improved since then.  Would hate to think my own package to you is in the same situation. 

Ditto here, Damian!  Although, with Canada Post, the difference between "delay" and "no-show" is only a matter of decades... 

[upnorth]

Back in March of this year Czech authorities discovered a large number of postal bags containing thousands of letters dated between 2001 and 2006 hidden at the train station of a town in the south east corner of the country near the Slovak border.

They aren't at all sure how it happened or why, or even who's responsible, but there were a ton of important documents in the batch along with the usual Christmas and birthday cards and normal letters.

[elmayerle]

Damian,

Discovered this topic created by you way back when.  After reading your comments describing your experiences with packages, I sure hope things have improved since then.  Would hate to think my own package to you is in the same situation. 

Ditto here, Damian!  Although, with Canada Post, the difference between "delay" and "no-show" is only a matter of decades... 

Well, it happened some time back, but Canada Post and the USPS combined to take seventeen months to transport a small package from Glasgow, Nova Scotia to Fort Worth, TX.

[Damian2]

They're still slow as usual Got replacment parts for a kit 4 weeks after postage and all in one peice. As long as its nothing "valuable" then all should be well but you never can tell can you?

I'm also saving up at the moment to have decals printed for all those peeps so we'll see how long they take to get o Oz and the like

D

[AeroplaneDriver]

I got a package from Steve (Aircav) in England a month or two ago.  It came fairly quickly, but when it got here there was a stamp on it saying that it had been mistakenly delivered to Barbados! 

[Weaver]

Royal Mail in general are okay, but our local sorting office has been well below par for years. They nearly caused a rift between me and a girlfriend when she got all sniffy over the fact that I hadn't replied to, or mentioned on the phone, the letter she'd sent me a week ago. The reason was simple: I hadn't seen it yet, but she had a hard time believing that. I swear those lazy b****** could slow light down: it sometimes takes 10 days to get something sent from the next town....... They're now complaining that they're going to be sacked when the local office is closed down and service transferred to Manchester - forgive me for not joining their picket lines....

The other trick that we have perennial problems with is the way they either don't ring the doorbell at all, or ring it and wait ten seconds, before putting a "failure to deliver" slip through the door. When I'm at work, the only other person in the house is my 85yr old mother who just can't move that quick, but surely the same must apply to millions of other old people? I then have the choice of either going and picking it up from the local office (which helpfully closes at 4.00pm Mon-Thu and 12.00pm Fri and Sat, so I can only get there on Sat mornings) or arrange a re-delivery and hope they don't do the same thing again......

[NARSES2]

Well there was a case recently of the Royal Mail delivering a postcard 79 years late ! At least they honoured the stamp and enclosed an apology 

[B777LR]

The Danish postal service has just "increased" its levels of service. This means that the prices will increase, they wont deliver outside cities, they wont deliver packages at all, post office is shut down and they open a small post shop in the supermarket instead (and it is hardly ever open outside normal work times) ...

[Nick]

Here in the UK the Royal Mail has decided to stop delivering to the tiny Yorkshire village of Booze .
Apparently they don't want to risk their nice shiny big vans getting scratched along the narrow lane leading to the 16 houses. Not only that but the postman can't walk it because of a 'bad back' Wonder how he does the rest of the round then?

Royal Mail stopped the service last month after a risk assessment concluded the mile-long track to Booze was too dangerous.
It said the track was too narrow for mail vans and was so steep that postmen and women could be left with a long-term back injury if they delivered mail on foot.

But now after protests from locals and politicians the service will resume to some places after the council repair the road and include passing places. Eight houses are on a private lane and need to fix their own road before they get direct delivereies resumed.

Strangely the road was good enough for residents to drive regular cars up and down quite easily.....

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Damian just checked in to let me know that my package was received today so no more worries about the delivery.

[Damian2]

Now all I have to do is worry about building it!!!

D

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Here in the UK the Royal Mail has decided to stop delivering to the tiny Yorkshire village of Booze .
Apparently they don't want to risk their nice shiny big vans getting scratched along the narrow lane leading to the 16 houses. Not only that but the postman can't walk it because of a 'bad back' Wonder how he does the rest of the round then?

Royal Mail stopped the service last month after a risk assessment concluded the mile-long track to Booze was too dangerous.
It said the track was too narrow for mail vans and was so steep that postmen and women could be left with a long-term back injury if they delivered mail on foot.

But now after protests from locals and politicians the service will resume to some places after the council repair the road and include passing places. Eight houses are on a private lane and need to fix their own road before they get direct deliveries resumed.

Strangely the road was good enough for residents to drive regular cars up and down quite easily.....

We have similar situations here in rural delivery areas such as where I live.  The main road is about a mile away and the postal service will not deliver to the individual residences on this road which terminates in the neighbors back yard where he has a roundabout for his truck and trailer.  The post office will have nothing to do with driving all the way down and back out so a number of the residences were forced or should I say coerced into purchasing secure mail boxes at the junction to the main road.  I was quite happy with the large rural deliver mail box that had been in use for a number of years but decided a long time ago that I would rather take my chances with in town deliver to my parents house than entertain the thieves that are known to rummage through the mail before you come by to pick it up. 

In town it was sad as well when I was waiting for the mail to be delivered and the mail carrier complained to me that my parents mail box was too low and he had to bend over to check it from the seat of his tiny mail truck.  The mail box is fine, height wise if you are standing in front of it, but for some reason this lazy wanker was trying to get my father to raise it up higher which I found odd since the neighbors mail box is only a few inches away and it is the same height as my parents mail box.   

I was soooooooooooooooooooooo tempted to ask what kind of cheese he wanted with that whine....

[Gary]

A few years back and a friend's arcehole husband was among a group of 4 others from a smaller town who all looked for icy patches on stairs at the beginning of winter and all "fell" down them within week of each other. Too fast for the post office to issue a warning to business' about the possible legal issues. All four were on workers compensation for the entire winter, plus top up pay from the union and when the warm weather came back, the injuries suddenly cleared up but returned the following winter. Soft tissue injuries you know.
Two of the business' went under paying insurance damages. Not surprising in an area where the economy was fragile to begin with. And when the hard part of the year was done, the replacements were tossed. Worse still, this jerk was back on the job in mid may and took his three weeks vacation in June.