Miseed Royal Mail Delivery, Back at Kilburn DO

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I bought a Ducky YOTS and was assuming that if I made it back home in time today, I could receive it; if not, id go to my local post office and collect it. These two days are the only two days I can collect it and then im away for a month again.

Its been sent back to the kilburn delivery office (im guessing DO stands for delivery office).

Has anyone actually gone there and been able to collect a parcel? I plan to get there at about 8 so that I may get there in time for them to not move it to my local post office.
 
Because thats what they normally do so that if I miss a delivery, i can rearrange it or choose to pick it up at my closest PO. Isnt that what happens for everyone else?
 
WuMyster said:
Because thats what they normally do so that if I miss a delivery, i can rearrange it or choose to pick it up at my closest PO. Isnt that what happens for everyone else?
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Our missed post gets sent to the closest delivery/sorting office, which we can pick it up from. Luckily it's only a few miles down the road.
 
WuMyster said:
I bought a Ducky YOTS and was assuming that if I made it back home in time today, I could receive it; if not, id go to my local post office and collect it. These two days are the only two days I can collect it and then im away for a month again.

Its been sent back to the kilburn delivery office (im guessing DO stands for delivery office).

Has anyone actually gone there and been able to collect a parcel? I plan to get there at about 8 so that I may get there in time for them to not move it to my local post office.
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standard practice is to keep is to keep it at the DO, it will only go to the PO if you request it YO (lol)

our DO is open half days 3 days a week and long days 3 days
 
My mistake. I realised that I named it wrong. It isnt a post office, its next to it and its called a "callers office". You enter and collect the parcel but right next to it, theres a post office.

Thanks for the info though. I go up to the DO its at and hope I can pick it up. Is the DO a large building? Almost warehouse size? On google streets it looks like so.
 
Well i can barely find any info on the DO. Ive seen most state that itll be open from 7 - 12 for saturdays so ill just make sure I Get there early.
THanks for the help guys. I guess ill update this later tomorrow if anyone else stumbles across this thread.
 
Here it seems to be that missed Royal Mail stuff gets taken to the Delivery Office (in the city centre), but missed Parcel Force stuff gets taken to the local Post Office. The "we missed you and you were out" card normally lists their opening times on it IIRC.
 
Yeah. The card shows opening times but the card is for the closest post office and callers collection.

I have tracking on the parcel and it's showing that it's been sent back to the DO awaiting me to choose my redelivery options. Hopefully I can just turn up and collect it.

I won't be in a different part of the DO and so will be unable to collected it right?
 
Lopéz said:
No, it goes back to the sorting/delivery office.
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If I miss a RM delivery to goes back to the mid-sized post office down the road. This may also be a DO as it's where all the posties pick up their loads in a morning. Is that the definition of a DO.

It's not massive, about the size of a detached house.

Missed PF deliveries are taken to the tiny PO up the road.
 
Yeah, a DO is where the postman gets his mail from and you collect missed deliveries. It doesn't have to be big, the one near me is about the size of a detached house like yours.
A Post Office is where pensioners queue up to Terry and pay their gas bill with ration tokens from 1942 :p
 
Well after a lot of journeys on the tube, I finally have it but it was an absolute pain.

I woke up early to get to the DO that was listed online on the tracking page and was told that it wasnt here, and that it wouldnt be for my address. She said that the tracking site was completely wrong and that I should head to where I normally get my post.

Went back to the post office / callers collection and low and behold, it was there.

TL;DR, dont trust what the RM tracking page says. Either way, im a happy bunny, typing on my YOTS!
 
Lopéz said:
Yeah, a DO is where the postman gets his mail from and you collect missed deliveries. It doesn't have to be big, the one near me is about the size of a detached house like yours.
A Post Office is where pensioners queue up to Terry and pay their gas bill with ration tokens from 1942 :p
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There are some sites where the DO is in the back room of a Post Office. The subpostmaster rents the space to Royal Mail and runs the day to day delivery operation, they are normally quite small with <20 staff. These are called SPDOs. In these places the Post Office counter will act as the collection point for undelivered items. In some places where SPDOs have been closed down and moved into the nearest DO undelivered items will still be left at the Post Office which used to house the SPDO.
 
Well the Kilburn one is where people collect their deliveries and also where the post men collect their post. Its the size of a warehouse. My local point where I collect mail is the size of a semi-detached house as well. But on the calling card, its called a "Callers Collection".

TL;DR, stick to what the card says and not the online tracking.
 
WuMyster said:
Well the Kilburn one is where people collect their deliveries and also where the post men collect their post. Its the size of a warehouse. My local point where I collect mail is the size of a semi-detached house as well. But on the calling card, its called a "Callers Collection".

TL;DR, stick to what the card says and not the online tracking.
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Kilburn DO is alright. Collected from there a few times.
 
Lopéz said:
Yeah, a DO is where the postman gets his mail from and you collect missed deliveries. It doesn't have to be big, the one near me is about the size of a detached house like yours.
A Post Office is where pensioners queue up to Terry and pay their gas bill with ration tokens from 1942 :p
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You're forgetting the stock of random things that nobody would ever think would be in a post office.
 
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