Postman no delivery.... in any weather

[VincentHanna]

I get letters everyday, if there are letters to be delivered.

How can people know they are missing out on post, unless you are expecting a letter/parcel everyday?

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Our local postie (Tim) is a legend, delivers every single day, in any weather, always wears shorts, very happy chatty fella, I'm guessing he's the exception to the norm!

Sounds like ours
We did have a dodgy one the other year, she was useless, often giving us letters not for us, I had some deliver a tracked package she had put at theirs instead of mine.

Like many things its hard to untangle systematic company problems vs local management and down to individual posties.

The royal mail are basically screwed. The government as part of trying to lower and bust up the monopoly caused long term damage.
There are plenty of companies you can go to, to print and sort and distribute letters cheaper than royal mail.
These companies do the easy first part and then get to inject this part into the main network at the point its highly un cost effetive, the final delivery part (maybe one stage up at regional sorting it varies)
They have to pay RM for this part, but at below a fair rate.

Plus the post service was setup and scaled for around 3x the current letter volumes.

 

[randal]

RoyalMail have uploaded the wrong certificate to their site, getting https warnings. lol.

 

[Will Gill]

RoyalMail have uploaded the wrong certificate to their site, getting https warnings. lol.

Which site? I'm interested because we run quite a few of their SSL encryption policies

royalmail.com looks ok to me and checks out ok too:

 

[randal]

Which site? I'm interested because we run quite a few of their SSL encryption policies

royalmail.com looks ok to me and checks out ok too:

.co.uk, I assume there should be a redirect to .com but the cert is for Akamai.

 

[cheesefest]

This is why I don’t sign up to any postal prescriptions service. Don’t want medication to be lost or late

 

[Mr Badger]

No I am in a fairly big town. We get nothing for a week then 10-12 letters in one go back dated.

Great when you are waiting on hospital letters.

Ever since Covid impacted on the service daily postal deliveries seem to be a thing of the past on my city route. It's always a bunch of letters together and then nothing for a while.

 

[koolpc]

Changing it to 3 days is like it is now anyway!!!

 

[cheesefest]

See the postman most days (if I'm outside will have a chinwag with him too) although we get very little actual post, mainly flyers (Dominoes I'm looking at you) and charity bags

Some of those charity bags are bogus! I had one a few years back with a company number. Entered number on Companies House website and company number was a mechanics garage in Devon!

Trading Standards took great interest

 

[Vanquish-Storm]

I get letters everyday, if there are letters to be delivered.

How can people know they are missing out on post, unless you are expecting a letter/parcel everyday?

You can see on the letters the stamp date and compare the delivery date - along with the date within the letter for things like hospital appointments so you can see that they have been building a batch of letters to send on a single day. Simple really.

 

[Werewolf]

Plus the post service was setup and scaled for around 3x the current letter volumes.

However they have also massively increased prices, reduced the deliveries from twice a day to once, and are delivering far more small packets which earn more per drop than they ever did in the past...

RM was privatised and the buyers knew exactly what they were buying and having now milked as much out of it as possible are trying to get the terms of the service changed so that they can increase how much more they pull out, then they'll no doubt argue that they need to reduce the service even more.
Eventually we'll end up with no national delivery service or one that only does a delivery once, maybe twice a week.

IIRC over the last year or so they've already been caught out massively failing their service obligations in a way that should have led to it being immediately nationalised again.

And no i'm not at all annoyed by the fact that for a lot of the last year we've already been at the 3 day a week deliveries*, and they've messed up more packages, including ones that I paid for next day delivery for than ******* yodal (last year they lost for example a £90 book, and had shoes my dad needed for a hospital appointment that spent 10 days at the regional office, and repeatedly have had deliveries coming in from the next town over).


*I actually went through my CCTV footage several times because I was expecting deliveries and realised we hadn't had a postman down the street on multiple days, so either no one had a letter to be delivered, or management decided not to bother (another day there was a RM mini van that did one stop and turned around, without going near the other 100 properties).

 

[Resident]

I get letters everyday, if there are letters to be delivered.

How can people know they are missing out on post, unless you are expecting a letter/parcel everyday?

My son has had 2 neurosurgeries and has frequent appointments. The dept at the hospital sends appointment letters first class. Sometime the appointments are short notice (4-5 days after posting the letter) and there have been a number of times where we have either got the letter the day before/on the day or even days AFTER the appointment was scheduled.

First class used to mean you got it the next working day guaranteed (assuming it was posted before last collection). Now Royal Mail states that it AIMS to delivery next day but there's no guarantee that it'll be any faster than 2nd class

It's gotten so bad with the post that the hospital has set up a phone notification service. They make the appointment and you get a phone call with an automated message informing you of the appointment.

Like @Vanquish-Storm said above I often get nothing for a few days then a stack of mail, with dates/postmarks that are delivered days after the supposed service window being paid for.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

However they have also massively increased prices, reduced the deliveries from twice a day to once, and are delivering far more small packets which earn more per drop than they ever did in the past...

RM was privatised and the buyers knew exactly what they were buying and having now milked as much out of it as possible are trying to get the terms of the service changed so that they can increase how much more they pull out, then they'll no doubt argue that they need to reduce the service even more.
Eventually we'll end up with no national delivery service or one that only does a delivery once, maybe twice a week.

IIRC over the last year or so they've already been caught out massively failing their service obligations in a way that should have led to it being immediately nationalised again.

And no i'm not at all annoyed by the fact that for a lot of the last year we've already been at the 3 day a week deliveries*, and they've messed up more packages, including ones that I paid for next day delivery for than ******* yodal (last year they lost for example a £90 book, and had shoes my dad needed for a hospital appointment that spent 10 days at the regional office, and repeatedly have had deliveries coming in from the next town over).


*I actually went through my CCTV footage several times because I was expecting deliveries and realised we hadn't had a postman down the street on multiple days, so either no one had a letter to be delivered, or management decided not to bother (another day there was a RM mini van that did one stop and turned around, without going near the other 100 properties).

Yeah but again 3x more letters and relatively less parcels is a different business to manage to one thats transitioning further away from letters and to more parcels.

I would agree, fully renationalise it personally. But in the grand scheme of things there are places I would want to spend that money first.

The country has basically been asset stripped. We need to reverse that, but its difficult to do.

I would actually start with housing. A new wave of guaranteed state (could be local) owned housing. Charging fair rents which are partly linked to the salary of the person living there.
So people who really should move on and up into private are given every encouragement to do so.
Alas I don't believe we have any politicians right now brave enough, or with enough vision to even start this kind of process.

So many things, including the postal service, are basic building blocks of a functioning and efficient country.

 

[Uther]

Our local postie (Tim) is a legend, delivers every single day, in any weather, always wears shorts, very happy chatty fella, I'm guessing he's the exception to the norm!

We had a great postie, but he retired late last year and since then it's gone rapidly downhill.

 

[Uther]

Did find it amusing on the news when a women moaned she had to receive her NHS appointment letters via email rather than post, well yes and why not? Its far quicker, easier and simpler. Its not the 1900s anymore people.

I bet there are lots of older people who don't have email / the internet.

 

[Resident]

Yeah but again 3x more letters and relatively less parcels is a different business to manage to one thats transitioning further away from letters and to more parcels.

I would agree, fully renationalise it personally. But in the grand scheme of things there are places I would want to spend that money first.

The country has basically been asset stripped. We need to reverse that, but its difficult to do.

I would actually start with housing. A new wave of guaranteed state (could be local) owned housing. Charging fair rents which are partly linked to the salary of the person living there.
So people who really should move on and up into private are given every encouragement to do so.
Alas I don't believe we have any politicians right now brave enough, or with enough vision to even start this kind of process.

So many things, including the postal service, are basic building blocks of a functioning and efficient country.

The problem with linking rent price to income is that you then geta scenario where you have 2 identical houses, one populated by a life-time doley paying a pittance in rent and the other a worker on an average income paying 2/3 times more for the same property. How would that be remotely fair?

I agree about fair rents but linking to income just creates more of an issue.

What needs to be done to start the process is the re-introduction of the Fair Rents Act & Landlord licencing with penalties up to and including seizing the houses of landlords who refuse to follow the law, putting them back into social housing stock.

 

[fez]

Our postie is great but the poor guy is being worked to the bone from what I can tell.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

The problem with linking rent price to income is that you then geta scenario where you have 2 identical houses, one populated by a life-time doley paying a pittance in rent and the other a worker on an average income paying 2/3 times more for the same property. How would that be remotely fair?

I agree about fair rents but linking to income just creates more of an issue.

What needs to be done to start the process is the re-introduction of the Fair Rents Act & Landlord licencing with penalties up to and including seizing the houses of landlords who refuse to follow the law, putting them back into social housing stock.

The reality is that what you describe happens now, the "life-time doley" would be paying nothing basically now anyway.
You need to address the situation you used to (still do but to lesser extent) get where really well of people would keep "their" council house, often to try to pass that on, when they could and should have moved out as they no longer needed the cheap council support.

Every house now has different rates bar some; social, shared ownership would vary, private rent will vary, people with mortgages will vary etc.

Even now you have people holding on to council properties who don't live in them, they illegally sub let and make a bit extra.
If your on £150k as a solicitor I see absolutely no reason you need social housing. Paying say £500 a month, letting it for £1500 whilst living a nice life in a private flat elsewhere.
If it was linked to salary and that rent went from £500 to £2k a month they would certainly give it up if they could only get £1500 on the dodgy sub let.
This is rarer now due to the declining number but it does still happen.

Really its about targeting the social to those who need it most and at the point someone really doesn't need it, to encourage them to move on, freeing it up.
But if they insist on staying then at least they are paying a commercial level like everyone else.

 

[CaneyJ]

Assume that if they cut delivery from 6 days a week to 3 we get half price stamps?

 

[Nasher]

Royal Mail has been going downhill since it was stupidly sold off. Like everything which gets privatised. You can't have a public service as a business, people are too greedy.