Anyone else seeing long Royal Mail delays?

Hades · 31 Mar 2020 at 19:17

My postie not delivery post with pandemic

I am sad

paradigm · 31 Mar 2020 at 20:26

Royal mail have been fine here, no noticeable delays. Herpes on the other hand are now not only slow, but making multi-part consignments partially disappear.

SideWinder · 31 Mar 2020 at 20:34

scratch said:
Sounds like somebody needs to stop making assumptions. I don’t have to justify myself to you but 2 of the packages are presents for my 2 year-old from her grandparents who miss her like crazy!!

Maybe if people only posted when they had something positive to say then the world be a nicer place? People like you are the reason I don’t come onto OCUK much any more.

You're asking for trouble though with a thread like this!

I have seen a lot of recruitment though (incl Royal Mail) so should ease back to normal soon.

ttaskmaster · 31 Mar 2020 at 20:40

paradigm said:
Herpes on the other hand are now not only slow, but making multi-part consignments partially disappear.

Sounds like they remain completely unaffected, to me... Only bonus is they won't be able to argue a failed delivery and demand I drive a 30 mile round trip to collect a £20 package.

garak112 · 31 Mar 2020 at 20:50

My postie is only coming every couple of days.

Parcelforce (the parcel delivery arm) are completely useless and being a bit dishonest about delays and I've had something Sat with them for over a week now.

ajf · 31 Mar 2020 at 21:05

neil_g said:
Your postman not delivery letter post when it been pandemic?

Thread winner !

ralv585 · 31 Mar 2020 at 22:11

Our concierge is no longer accepting packages, so we've been having issues recently.

The postman and any delivery guy is simply not ringing our flat numbers to be let into the building, so I've had a couple of packages returned to sender

Psymonkee · 31 Mar 2020 at 22:20

I've had 2 packages shipped to me recently. One from the US and one from China (ruh roh!). The latter arrived in exactly 7 days whilst I still have no sign of the US one

Psycho Sonny · 31 Mar 2020 at 22:36

scratch said:
Clearly I’m aware that these are difficult times and there are going to be delays, but what’s everyone else’s experience of RM delivery times at the moment?

I know of at least 4 items we’re expecting at home which were posted more than 5 days ago (one was posted 11 days ago) and none of them have arrived yet.

Are we just really unlucky, or are the possible reduced service levels RM are reporting on their website playing the situation down somewhat?

no issues here but i heard a guy say at the post office if 1 person catches it their whole office will be shut for weeks.

so looks like someone got it in your local office.

also a lot of places aren't actually posting stuff out they are shut.

parcelforce collected like 14 parcels from my home today and i only set it up yesterday so they are bang on at the moment.

Flibster · 31 Mar 2020 at 23:30

Got my weekly coffee delivery on saturday as normal, early afternoon instead of about 10am, but that's about it.

Although, the lack of junk mail is absolutely lovely.

bigfoot4616 · 1 Apr 2020 at 00:12

as normal here, ordered some bearings sunday, posted monday and turned up today

along with some junk mail

HungryHippos · 1 Apr 2020 at 00:18

Flibster said:
Got my weekly coffee delivery on saturday as normal, early afternoon instead of about 10am, but that's about it.

Although, the lack of junk mail is absolutely lovely.

Yeah they really need to kill junk mail off at the moment, massive waste of time receiving it normally, and even more so now.

I hope my FF7 pre-order arrives for release date though still! that's on the 10th.

MOOGLEYS · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:10

I’m still getting junk mail and leaflets from Royal Mail. Also had a few menus and leaflets delivered by random people. Really should be stopped at the moment with what’s going on.

b00merang69 · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:15

"Anyone else seeing long Royal Mail delays?"

Are you basing this on overhearing your missis telling her sister on the phone that the postman "takes a long time to come".

Malt_Vinegar · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:17

I had some small motorcycle parts all arrive as per usual from my usual online haunts. Nothing seems to be held up here (South East)

peterwalkley · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:21

Posties all seem to be ok around here. I usually see them to say hello on my daily healthy walk.

Junk mail still coming including a flyer from DFS in there ! I wonder if there's a sale on .....

Maccy · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:21

Yup ordered a thermometer off ebay 10 days ago, not arrived yet. Bit late now as we've both recovered!!

b00merang69 · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:26

^^ I prefer Amazon for stuff like that esp for returns if duff and again esp with Prime next day Del.

EB for certain things but not my primary place for new items.

Psycho Sonny · 1 Apr 2020 at 09:54

Maccy said:
Yup ordered a thermometer off ebay 10 days ago, not arrived yet. Bit late now as we've both recovered!!

I ordered mine from china and it arrived within 10 days. I wanted a branded one everything on ebay/amazon was either unbranded or if it was branded it was like £60. so i ordered chinas biggest brand xiaomi instead on aliexpress.

cheap as chips too compared to a branded one here. i wouldn't trust an unbranded one with my life.

Maccy · 1 Apr 2020 at 11:14

b00merang69 said:
^^ I prefer Amazon for stuff like that esp for returns if duff and again esp with Prime next day Del.

EB for certain things but not my primary place for new items.

I would've done the same, but couldn't find a thermometer for under £50 on Amazon at the time!

Anyone else seeing long Royal Mail delays?

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