Royal Mail Postmen

Morgoth said:
To make your round even easier don't bother taking parcels round, just have a bunch of those "While you were out..." cards pre-filled in so you can sneak up to their letterbox and slip it through!
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One of our postmen do this. The normal one that walks round is great, but the one that comes round in the van never rings the bell, he just writes one of those cards out and buggers off. I then have to waste half hour collecting it from the sorting office. Were in the process of complaining because it's a PITA :mad:
 
I have twice purposely watched 1 DHL driver and 1 Postie walk up to my door and leave a card.
I have a CCTV system and my computer chair is by the front window.
Both times I ran out while they were walking off and both swore blind they were ringing & knocking for ages.
Lying gits.
 
dmpoole said:
I have twice purposely watched 1 DHL driver and 1 Postie walk up to my door and leave a card.
I have a CCTV system and my computer chair is by the front window.
Both times I ran out while they were walking off and both swore blind they were ringing & knocking for ages.
Lying gits.
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I mean apart from the time and money involved in collecting it ourselves, what the hell is the bloody point of paying for a "to-door" service from the other end?:mad:

/rant over, sorry, I've just watched ours do it again!
 
Jeff Lynne said:
It certainly isn't enough to support a family but it hasn't mattered because traditionally guys have had a decent amount of scope to boost it with overtime, but it the name of modernisation and cost cutting they now force guys to take out what they might've done on overtime in the past in their duty time. Hence the reason why many no longer "love their jobs".
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That's exactly what happened during the 4.5 years that I worked for Australia Post. Fortunately I worked at the state mail centre (I wasn't a postman) so I didn't feel the same impact. But the overtime began to drop off and they reduced our shift penalties, which didn't help.
 
I used to catch delivery drivers and our old postie doing that. Leaving the parcel in the van and just walking up to the door to leave a card without knocking.

My current postie is ace though. He signs for special delivery/recorded delivery himself if nobody is in and leaves the parcels in the stable.

Top man.
 
Morgoth said:
Aha, I can understand the postie doing it but the DHL driver boggles the mind, he must have had the goods on his van anyway.
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It was a 3000 watt PA system consisting of 4 x 15" active bass bins and 2 x 12" active tops.
Probably had a bad back.

Make that 3 times.
I knew my new mixing desk was coming so my eldest Facebooked by the computer, had the door CCTV on the TV next to it and I told her to watch normal TV from across the room.
She said the driver walked up to the door with the mixing desk, looked puzzled, posted a card and walked away.
She banged on the window, asked him where he was going and he made an excuse he was getting something out of the van.
 
a guy I know started as a postman 4 years ago in Manchester as a temporary position, he's still there now as a full time postie, his wife works from home, so they get to spend a lot of time together, he loves his job :)


edit, guys this thread is massively off topic.. steer it back in the right direction..
 
My current postie is ok but we had one before him who chucked all the mail in the local river....and im still waiting for the ram from ocuk from 6 months ago...probably someone at the sorting office blagged that....ocuk replaced it without question though:)
 
Felix Da Housecat said:
A Q for the postal people on here, are you allowed to hold mail so you deliver 2 or 3 days worth of post to homes on the round instead of going there each day? it's just that some weeks we get no post for days at a time and wondered if they were holding it then bringing the whole lot at once.
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The do that with our work post for packages. They collect them over the course of a week or so and then bring them all at once. Its a pain if you are expecting something and need it quickly and they are stock piling it at the depo! And I know for a fact they do this because I've gone down to check for things and they've come out with a large bundle that they haven't even tried to deliver! :mad:
 
Street said:
The do that with our work post for packages. They collect them over the course of a week or so and then bring them all at once. Its a pain if you are expecting something and need it quickly and they are stock piling it at the depo! And I know for a fact they do this because I've gone down to check for things and they've come out with a large bundle that they haven't even tried to deliver! :mad:
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How on earth do you know that they've not tried to deliver it? Have you been in and had a look around the delivery office to find evidence of it?

If you're talking about a firm then they get a better service than anyone because they're the most important customers.
 
best bit about my postal round (i hated it. snowed for my first 3 weeks on the job :/) was the bike ha. the run from sorting office to my round was all downhill. reckon i could have easily broke speed limits with a few bags of mail in it. wouldnt of liked to see the outcomes of a crash though!
 
Jeff Lynne said:
How on earth do you know that they've not tried to deliver it? Have you been in and had a look around the delivery office to find evidence of it?

If you're talking about a firm then they get a better service than anyone because they're the most important customers.
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Because there is someone in our office from 8.30am until 5.30pm, they don't leave cards and if they do deliver something, the postman usually turns up about midday.
 
The postman round my area is a lazy, thick, work shy waster, we regularly get mail for other houses most are for different roads so God knows how much of our mail is with other people. But the worse thing he does and ive caught him doing it a couple of time, is putting a 'Tried to deliver but you were not in' note through the letterbox without even knocking, I opened the door and said 'im in so ill sign for the parcel', he replied 'I didnt expect you to be in so I left it back at the depot'... what a complete idiot!
 
Our postie is fantastic and will sign for packages for me and leave them somewhere safe. He also wears the postie shorts ALL YEAR ROUND, even when we had that snow.
 
our postie isn't half bad, changes frequently but most seem top notch blokes, can't say i've ever been carded without actually being out. still, it's a PITA that the post is coming closer to midday than the 7am sharp it used to be when i was a kid.

actually, if i could get it i'd like to do some PT work as a postie to pad out my pay at the end of the month, pity there isn't anything going in brighton atm :(
 
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Fishfingers said:
The postman round my area is a lazy, thick, work shy waster, we regularly get mail for other houses most are for different roads so God knows how much of our mail is with other people. But the worse thing he does and ive caught him doing it a couple of time, is putting a 'Tried to deliver but you were not in' note through the letterbox without even knocking, I opened the door and said 'im in so ill sign for the parcel', he replied 'I didnt expect you to be in so I left it back at the depot'... what a complete idiot!
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make a Log of each mistake he makes over a two week period, then take this log to the sorting office and demand to see a manager, then show him it. He will then act on it. Alternatively ring customer services and have them pass it on, but ring them a few times and then it will come through to the relevent manager as a repeat complaint. This is where higher manager's will become aware of your problem.

Another thing, if your Postie sgns your recorded packets etc he isnt allowed to do this, and if it goes missing for any reason after he leaves it for you then he will be in bother when it is reported.

You must have given RM a written consent for them to leave items in a safe place.
 
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