How often do Royal Mail Delivery?

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Are Royal Mail supposed to deliver everyday? It would seem they only work Thursdays in my area. Any other days, there is no sign of of them. It can be very annoying when tracking on a parcel shows that its expected to arrive and your waiting in all day and nothing... no sign of the postman. 4 days go by and still nothing.

I live in London so I would have thought there would be a regular service.

 

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There was a Panorama episode about this recently where people on a new build estate were having to drive to the sorting office to pick up their mail otherwise they may not end up getting it.

I think they may as well do this because after all we are living in a very broken Britain and we will never get the good old days back, things don't have to be more stressful than they already are so Royal Mail may as well just scrap posties and have people pick up there mail instead? better all around I think. No more waiting in, no more parcels going to the wrong address, no more postal workers getting stressed because of the amount of mail they are having to deliver.

 

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There desperately needs to be a new system in place I think, like for example everything gets delivered to a location in peoples local areas where people come to collect there own parcels and the companies/online shops have there own delivery services. Scrap Royal Mail and have letters sent to email instead.

 

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And what happens with the likes of the elderly and disabled?

RM was working fine, then the government sold it off having cut it's staffing levels to the bone and made sure private companies could leech most of the profit out of it.

Post should not be for profit, it is a service that is required for pretty much everything from your local GP or hospital to contact you in a timely manner, to the police, your insurance, the tax man (and pretty much every other government department).

The elderly and disabled? We live in Tory Britain now its what people voted for?

RM was a vital service just like many but unfortunately times have changed, we'll never get back the good old days. What we have today will be a luxury of tomorrow, we take so much for granted that we don't realize it until its gone. What we are suffering now is just a symptom of broken Britain and its only going to get worse so long as people keep voting for it. I still think its important to make the best of a bad situation.

 

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I think there must be a huge back log of stuff at the moment because I checked with my local sorting office and they said they only had one parcel for me so the issue must be further down somewhere in other areas unless the postman hasn't delivered to the correct address which wouldn't be the first time. The manager said they are very short staff, a lot of posties have left.

I just gotta play the waiting game although I do get onto my sellers because if something was delivered but to the wrong address then I have more of a chance of finding where it has gone and going to that address to collect it but if I wait too long then the parcel is gone for good. Sometimes posties take photos just before delivering which is a big help because then I know where its gone and I have the proof just encase I get told "I ain't got it" most are honest folk where I live anyway. I did have a huge parcel go missing just before Christmas, I have no idea what address that went too but I got refunded.