Snail mail

Brizzles said:
I thought this was a reference to the Members Market.

Advertise an item for £80

Get an offer of £30 with 'snail mail/slow post is fine' because you had obviously included hand delivering the item by Taxi and they are saving you a fortune.
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Have to love the chancers on the MM!

They seem to have no clue about postage costs as "Slow Post is Fine" as they like to call it isn't always that much cheaper than the faster options anyway.

Mail for myself has been fine all year round too, over Christmas the extra day maybe but then it's expected anyway.

I do however have a friend in Manchester who only seems to receive his post once a week, sometimes fortnightly.
 
barrelofwine said:
It's a staffing issue. If someone is off, and they're unable to cover backlog mounts, and it takes ages to clear it up.
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This, plus eliminating at least 10% of the rounds, as mail should be declining, but parcels are increasing... but parcels and recorded deliveries take longer than the time saved with less mail.

Depends on the area, but Cambridge, specially the villages around, are mainly younger couples, who buys loads of things online and often not afraid of ordering expensive stuff that will be a recorded delivery, which now, is advised to post if goes through.

About five years ago, the geo-route would consider a 3:30 minutes duty outside the office, and average of 35-40 knocks (parcels that won't go through and items that requires signature).

Last Xmas my duty, now 100+ calls bigger, and the lightest day, between 80 - 100 large parcels, plus mail for about 75% of 600+ house (semi and detached). Busier days, 6 hours walking non-stop.

Then you ring the bell, people want to finish their breakfast or their meeting before answering the door. A bit of common sense won't hurt.

Now, pandemic still happening, no shared vans, but the office with 200+ duties, have more than 20 managers, who want to force 10% of those 200+ duties to be lapsed (every person should take a bit extra). Considering the volume of mail (letters and magazines) is higher than expected, and people have to order online pretty much everything, the chances of such duties being delivered are non-existent.

Now regarding people who talk without knowledge of what is really going on, since the pandemic started, not a single manager left the office to clear a delivery, despite being their responsibility to make sure everything is delivered, EVERY DAY, even if they have to do it themselves. It's safe to go out, but not them.

Royal Mail wanted to get rid of 25% of the management. I think should be 90%. None left. In fact they employed few extra to make sure the coffee machine is always busy.

The Union have done nothing, contrary to previous comment. They won't push for a strike during Xmas, like any other category would when they have the upper hand. The excuse: The public support us. They don't, pretty much 9 out of 10 would go to 3 social media to bitch about something, even if them or the sender can't bother to use their correct address and won't think twice before push a complaint just to get some extra stamps.

Back to the issue with the delay with orders, Overclockers is in the same situation as any other company which can trade online, and quite sure a lot of suppliers are struggling to delivery their items too. Waiting for a Lian Li case, nowhere in the UK is available. They placed warnings when placing the order for a reason.
 
Will Gill said:
2nd class post is generally 2-3 days apparently, so I'm sure it will be with you soon.

If you want to speak to the shop to check on the delivery status please post a thread here
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If it takes 2 to 3 days and it's already been two days shouldn't it have been shipped by now and will it send me an email when it has or does it not update at all
 
I know my 1st class package of Xmas cards took 16 days to get to my family in Yorkshire, also I find the service pretty poor with a fair percentage damaged or lost, try and do a click and collect with my eBay stuff now, think it's all the deadbeats they employ recently (edit, obviously on top of covid impact)
 
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moon man said:
I know my 1st class package of Xmas cards took 16 days to get to my family in Yorkshire, also I find the service pretty poor with a fair percentage damaged or lost, try and do a click and collect with my eBay stuff now, think it's all the deadbeats they employ recently (edit, obviously on top of covid impact)
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I can't disagree with the service levels there, just like OC's or other businesses service levels currently.

Poor management and leadership, taking on extra work despite no plan and demoralised staff.
 
MrPotato said:
This, plus eliminating at least 10% of the rounds, as mail should be declining, but parcels are increasing... but parcels and recorded deliveries take longer than the time saved with less mail.

Depends on the area, but Cambridge, specially the villages around, are mainly younger couples, who buys loads of things online and often not afraid of ordering expensive stuff that will be a recorded delivery, which now, is advised to post if goes through.

About five years ago, the geo-route would consider a 3:30 minutes duty outside the office, and average of 35-40 knocks (parcels that won't go through and items that requires signature).

Last Xmas my duty, now 100+ calls bigger, and the lightest day, between 80 - 100 large parcels, plus mail for about 75% of 600+ house (semi and detached). Busier days, 6 hours walking non-stop.

Then you ring the bell, people want to finish their breakfast or their meeting before answering the door. A bit of common sense won't hurt.

Now, pandemic still happening, no shared vans, but the office with 200+ duties, have more than 20 managers, who want to force 10% of those 200+ duties to be lapsed (every person should take a bit extra). Considering the volume of mail (letters and magazines) is higher than expected, and people have to order online pretty much everything, the chances of such duties being delivered are non-existent.

Now regarding people who talk without knowledge of what is really going on, since the pandemic started, not a single manager left the office to clear a delivery, despite being their responsibility to make sure everything is delivered, EVERY DAY, even if they have to do it themselves. It's safe to go out, but not them.

Royal Mail wanted to get rid of 25% of the management. I think should be 90%. None left. In fact they employed few extra to make sure the coffee machine is always busy.

The Union have done nothing, contrary to previous comment. They won't push for a strike during Xmas, like any other category would when they have the upper hand. The excuse: The public support us. They don't, pretty much 9 out of 10 would go to 3 social media to bitch about something, even if them or the sender can't bother to use their correct address and won't think twice before push a complaint just to get some extra stamps.

Back to the issue with the delay with orders, Overclockers is in the same situation as any other company which can trade online, and quite sure a lot of suppliers are struggling to delivery their items too. Waiting for a Lian Li case, nowhere in the UK is available. They placed warnings when placing the order for a reason.
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Thanks for your service :) genuinely though, I massively appreciate my postwoman. She's hot and she brings my post every day. She's been very reliable throughout and as far as I know, hasn't missed a day.
 
i'm from London SW, and have couple of items from RM delayed.. though not sure if it's delayed or lost. OCUK shipped an item out last wednesday using RM 1st class and still yet to arrive. Also have a couple of modding items ship from HK before being passed to RM, and that too has yet to arrive - shipped 4th December
 
krooton said:
We've just been informed that the postal services for our area are now running at 50% staffing levels to to sickness, so delays are to be expected, especially as postal traffic is higher than recent years.
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I've heard similar for a few areas.

It's probably not helped by the way they cut the number of permanent staff by quite a large number prior to privatisation, as even a couple of years ago the RM around our way had little or no spare capacity if someone was off sick under normal conditions.

I've had stuff take over a week to arrive first class, and arrive by 9am the day after posting which in itself is a sign they're not working normally, as our normal postie delivers between about 11:45 and 12:30 (very rarely more than a few minutes earlier, sometimes later if it's really bad weather),
 
Contacting your local office is your best bet. The manager in charge of your delivery duty is able to track every step of the way, despite the website stating something else. But taking that time, and not been delivered, even if at the wrong address, clearly lost.
 
Signed for is worthless they don't even bother asking for signatures anymore it just gets shoved through the letterbox regardless you're just doubling the price of postage for no good reason. Special Delivery is supposed to be better but at least one person in another thread had his GPU left in a bike shed. At least thats covered by insurance though.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Signed for is worthless they don't even bother asking for signatures anymore it just gets shoved through the letterbox regardless you're just doubling the price of postage for no good reason. Special Delivery is supposed to be better but at least one person in another thread had his GPU left in a bike shed. At least thats covered by insurance though.
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You're struggling to understand WHY signature is not being required. A PDA passing through 100's of hands every day, good idea?
Or do you think half van is stacked with sanitizer wipes?
 
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