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staffordjas

staffordjas

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I've seen posties down our road . But a lot of our post isn't arriving. Documents posted to me 2 weeks ago haven't arrived. Will be interesting to see how long the replacements take !
Strangely - Took over a week for a 1st class envelope to reach me from Birmingham, yet another sent 2nd class ,late in the day ,from Isle Of Wight arrived early the next morning .
 
Maryland

Maryland

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littleme said:
If you live in Stoke, its because they keep falling over...

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Resi...etters-Royal/story-23742551-detail/story.html

Here in sunny ST16 I have seen the postman nearly every day, but have recieved no-where near the volume of post that I usually get...
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Keep an eye on that. To my almost certain knowledge, some posties sometimes return to sender some correctly addressed stuff that looks as if it's not important, if they can't be arsed to carry it around. There's also the envelopes that have been accidentally torn or peeled back at the opening, just enough to be able to see what's inside. And the promotional something or other from a well known store that required the scanning in of a barcode to get 10% off or whatever, which had somehow managed to get itself torn off the postcard. And the strange phenomenon that makes a postie discarding the post office's distinctive red rubber bands at intervals down your street, every day, somehow not the offence of littering. And I've never understood how it is that the weekday post can arrive at any time of a morning, but every Saturday it gets here bright and early without fail.
 
Maryland

Maryland

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Gramaisc said:
I don't use many rubber bands, but, whenever I do need one, I've never had to go more than one lamppost along the road before I find one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12518196

Two million a day!
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That's a whole lot of rubber bands. One would hope that if the PO found itself spending a shed load more on the things, they might take steps to discourage their postpersons from dropping them in people's front gardens. Small cash incentive for recycling, for instance. But maybe they do.
 
littleme

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Maryland said:
Keep an eye on that. To my almost certain knowledge, some posties sometimes return to sender some correctly addressed stuff that looks as if it's not important, if they can't be arsed to carry it around. There's also the envelopes that have been accidentally torn or peeled back at the opening, just enough to be able to see what's inside. And the promotional something or other from a well known store that required the scanning in of a barcode to get 10% off or whatever, which had somehow managed to get itself torn off the postcard. And the strange phenomenon that makes a postie discarding the post office's distinctive red rubber bands at intervals down your street, every day, somehow not the offence of littering. And I've never understood how it is that the weekday post can arrive at any time of a morning, but every Saturday it gets here bright and early without fail.
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MORNING??? Were lucky sometimes if we get the post before 4pm! My post is always either partly or fully opened, I even put in a complaint a couple of weeks ago, only to be emailed back with a message saying that the complaints department dont deal with complaints!
 
photography_bloke

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I sent a disc of wedding photos to a client on Friday morning and they never had them either... in the end I had to drive over to Wolverhampton with a second copy to make sure they got it

I've had some post this week, not a lot but I don't tend to get much anyway
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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A postwoman once told my mum that she just bungs it back in the post box by the shops if she runs out of time......

A small parcel from Glenmorangie was once pushed through our letterbox, it had been torn open but the contents were still intact. What a disappointment it must have been for the postie (it certainly was to us!) to not find a miniature bottle of whisky inside, but a souvenir piece of wood from the cask !
 
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littleme

littleme

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Postie must be reading my posts....

Today my post was delivered at 4pm, mostly all the stuff we thought should have been delivered earlier in the week, including a parcel that he thoughtfully rammed through the letterbox....& guess what? NONE of it had been opened! (It wasnt our usual postman though).
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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Maryland said:
Keep an eye on that. To my almost certain knowledge, some posties sometimes return to sender some correctly addressed stuff that looks as if it's not important, if they can't be arsed to carry it around. There's also the envelopes that have been accidentally torn or peeled back at the opening, just enough to be able to see what's inside. And the promotional something or other from a well known store that required the scanning in of a barcode to get 10% off or whatever, which had somehow managed to get itself torn off the postcard. And the strange phenomenon that makes a postie discarding the post office's distinctive red rubber bands at intervals down your street, every day, somehow not the offence of littering. And I've never understood how it is that the weekday post can arrive at any time of a morning, but every Saturday it gets here bright and early without fail.
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http://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com/
 
PeterD

PeterD

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We have had chuckles aplenty from Hermes on the run up to christmas, multiple items left in my "secure porch". If you know Victoria Terrace, the secure porch they refer to is called a doorstep by just about everyone else. Scratching my head as to how only one parcel went missing.
 
Bob

Bob

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I've had nothing since the day before Christmas Eve, one of the drawbacks to living in the middle of nowhere.
 
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