Just checked an ebay order I placed last week, it was sent 48 hour delivery but instead looks like it's doing a tour of 48 delivery offices and mail centres, it's currently at something like 5 offices in 5 days.
Royal Mail Rant
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Royal Mail is bonkers. I send a lot of stuff and as much as people complain about Evri I have way more issues with RM parcels that I have sent
I have issues with both... well all. I will say that for a while I had an excellent service with Royal Mail until the postie left and they got in new ones who are either lazy or don't have a clue on what they are doing.
People come and go in Royal Mail, sometimes you get decent workers and other times you get incompetent lazy ones that scan your items off as delivered regardless of where they have been posted too or dumped in some cases.
What tends to happen in my area is that there will be a decent postie around for 2 or 3 months then that one leaves and a new one starts or they have a few working in the area and then the trouble begins again until another postie takes over who actually delivers mail correctly.
Evri are terrible but in most cases they do end up delivering whether that be a late delivery or one on time you still get your things 9 times out of 10 and they take a photo of your door/door mat so if it does go to the wrong address you can find it by the photo of the door.
My main issue with Evri is the way they treat peoples parcels, more than half of mine arrive in semi crushed boxes or torn packaging and if you order anything glass or fragile, forget it... it wont be in one piece.
I had an issue with Yodel earlier. I was watching the driver on the tracking app where you can see the location of the driver. The driver was literally around the corner so close that I could have seen the driver from my window so I waited expecting the delivery driver to ring the door bell at any minute... nothing so I waited... still nothing. I go back to the app and the driver has left the area, then some more time passes, the driver has completely gone of the map. A few hours later "delivery attempted" the driver didn't even bother coming to my address. My guess is that he probably got a bit lost and rather than walking up a few meters more up the road he turned back to the van and left.
Yeah there is a Evri warehouse local and I've seen them chucking them about, they don't care
have they reduced delivering post in other parts of the country ?
we only get it once a week now and some of that seems to be stuff they have already been sitting on for weeks.
I had about 20 letters delivered at the end of last week in one go, multiple missed hospital appointments for my mum. My car tax & insurance reminders from the month before.
dont think we will be getting christmas cards till easter at this rate.
we only get it once a week now and some of that seems to be stuff they have already been sitting on for weeks.
I had about 20 letters delivered at the end of last week in one go, multiple missed hospital appointments for my mum. My car tax & insurance reminders from the month before.
dont think we will be getting christmas cards till easter at this rate.
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So it's not just me then. I've got mail coming I know was posted nearly two weeks ago. Some important documents, regular mail, etc.. not a peep from my postie.