General Chat

Just to update you - post was early yesterday - 5.45pm and even earlier today - 5.15pm. At least we are heading in the right direction - and yes the postman was wearing those cute baggy shorts!!!!

Our post arrives mid-morning. The only time it gets here at 7.30am is Saturdays - many a time we have been woken by insistant knocking at the door to take our parcels! My friend's tale takes the biscuit. She lives in a remote hamlet and the Securicor delivery man couldn't find it. So they sent her a letter - which DID reach her - explaining the problem and asking her to collect it else it would be returned to sender.

David.........like it lol ;P 11.30am today - junk from a loan company who threaten to make me homeless if I dont pay - and a flyer from the building society telling me how much interest I get on my £1.65 savings ............ mmmmm

Just thought I'd share this with you - after a week of late afternoon deliveries the postman woke us up with a large envelope at 7.30 this morning (the only day of the week when I can have a lie in and after a night when my 16 yr old was up with violent d+v and hubby was wandering in sleeping gear, pinny and rubber gloves with disinfectant and bucket at 5.30 am!) Actually I guess it's lucky he didn't answer the door like that! Hope you all have a good saturday xxx A

Shorts - trainers - bikes - trolleys on wheels..........you'd think the least they would do is RUN to do their round lol....... that way we'd all get our post early and be happy :)

Hi there, Sometimes our post comes at 6.30 in the morning or it comes at lunchtime or later. Sharon

Last month i sent an 'Express Post' envelope to a suburb of Canberra. i.e. From Canberra to Canberra, suburb to suburb. After two weeks it still had not arrived. Upon calling Australia Post, they informed me that i would need to call the sorting office in Sydney, as all Canberra mail goes through Sydney sorting office first. What!!!!!! I replied. YES, Canberra the CAPITAL of Australia doesn't have a sorting office. I could have walked it there quicker. Mel.

I was up at 7.15am this morning (six year old got me up!) and my post was there on the mat. Makes a change , though! All week I have had a delivery at 3.30pm!!!!

On Tuesday my local paper reported that a postman had been dismissed after a social club had received up to 15 letters a week intended for others. These included the fire brigade, blacksmiths and domestic addresses. The club steward had been delivering some but had got hacked off and reported it. They were even rubberbanded in miscellaneous bundles when they landed through the letterbox!

Hi David 10.00am - I wish - this is the early morning shift - my postman is working night shift - I must admit I felt sorry for him - by the time he got to the end of our lane it would have been dark - I hope he had his torch with him - he was in shirt sleeves and it was starting to rain !!! I have a theory - perhaps they are going to deliver in the middle of the night - we will wake up in the morning and believe that we have had our normal morning post but they are actually one day behind - they will be issued with miners lamps so they can read the envelopes in the dark !!!!

We live almost at the end of a cul de sac about 2 miles from the sorting office. If our postman runs out of time our letters go back to the sorting office to be brought out again next day, if we're lucky! Not been too bad this week with deliveries Monday,Tuesday and Thursday around mid morning, but none at all on Wednesday or today. Mind you my next door neighbour has been away this week so who knows how much of my mail is in next door! I need to send some copies of genealogy documents to my aunt in Canada, do I trust the post or go to the airport and persuade someone to take them by hand! LOL Sue

Debbie, Report it to the nearest sorting/delivery office or main post office immediately. Thatt was absolutely disgraceful. Viv

I had a letter posted through the door that should have been signed for, but no postie knocked. Sue

I cant believe the post at the moment, last week a man knocked on the door and he lived in the same road as me but round the corner, I had never met him he said he had just got in from work and found my 2 bank statements on top of his bin. Yesterday I met the Indian postman just walking across the garden he was just about to hand me some letters and then asked me if this was so and so road I told him the close that we were in so he went back to a neighbours house and picked a parcel up from the ground, he should have put a not through the door and taken the parcel, and then I realised that he had posted most of the letters in my close meant for the road on a different route. He couldnt understand a word I had said as he was Indian and he just walked away.

The thing is when someone says to you now that 'the cheque is in the post' it could well be !!!! or maybe we have a black-hole at the end of the lane and the postman only appears when conditions are right. I thought that it was extra-ordinary when one day I nearly knocked the postman over on the drive when I returned home one night after work at 5.30pm ..... but 7.24pm is something else. Just another point - in November we are voting for a Regional Assembly and guess what - its an all postal vote....what chance do we have !!!!

Oh yeah...........just remembered a bill I got last week....... Statement was dated 18th Aug........arrived 2nd Sept......and they wanted the payment to reach them by the 5th!!

I read that too Annie. Sue

We had ours at 6.30 pm, it confused me too! You know what, I think it'll go back to its roots, when it came any hour of the day or night and you paid when it arrived rather than having a prepaid stamp .... did you know the Uk is the only country that hasn't got its name on its stamp? At least that what I read, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will put me right? xxx A

No Christine I can't beat it but a couple of weeks ago my post arrived at 6.50pm, crazy. Sue

Err.......not quite in the same vein, but, I mailed home 2 boxes from Florida once - by sea cos it was cheaper - shudda taken no more than 10 days!!! THREE MONTHS later........when I had replaced half the stuff I thought I'd lost - they finally turn up !!! Apparently ParcelForce had tried to deliver them, but I was not home, so instead of using the redirect address I had put on them as I was instructed to (my Mum's less than a mile away).......they sent them all the way back to my friend in Florida, where she had to pay AGAIN to send them back to me!! :O