Crooked posties

[glasgowken]

These days I don't know if everything I buy is actually going to be delivered.
Does your postie have a good rummage to see if there's anything worth taking ? I'm sure mine does, a lot has went missing over the past year.

Is there anything constructive I can do, is it even worth complaing ? The usual advice is register or record the packet, but it's not valuble stuff in cash terms, to me it's priceless. And it says a lot about the people they employ. (my dad was a postie, but I hasten to add that was a long time ago)

Fucking pissed off about this. A couple of them were (probably) unique items.

[Vladimir]

I think crooked 'posters' on HG is what you need to look out for

[glasgowken]

Crooks on HG ??? Never

[macca734]

Crooks on HG ??? Never

Hello, my friend. I am recently widowed Nigerian Royalty....

Want to buy a bridge?

[ramor69]

You could always send a turd thats been baking
for a few weeks to yourself in a sealed box with
"Happy Birthday" or similar wrote in the corner.


Or if that's a bit too much, how about a bit of
roadkill.

[shuttle534]

I agree.
The postal service can be a bit dubious to say the least.
When was the service to be de-regulated?
I remember seeing something about it on the News a while ago. Royal Mail were getting their knickers in a twist because the Germans were coming over to show them how to do it.....or something like that.

[marginalwalker]

Cue Sydney Rosewater..

[Toby Dammit]

I'm not especially old (is 43 old?? Please tell me it's not?), or even Sydney Rosewater (?) but I can remember when the post seemed like some kinda inviolate and sacred institution. I had to move to some Jonney Foreigner type land before my post started getting knicked as a horrible novely. Since round about 2002 though, it's got really bad in Britain, even if you send stuff via recorded delivery, it'll still merrily vanish into nowhere.

That the post has gone from 4 efficent deliveries a day, no hassle, to just one a day, showing up sometime round 4 in the afternoon if you're lucky - just goes to show that 166 years hasn't nessecerally guaranteed progress. At least in the field of shuttling a little bit of paper from one door to another.

[Dexter St. Clair]

There's always been a minority of crooked postmen and sentences when caiught always meant jail.

It is worth complaining as they do investigate. My sister in law reporting one dumping mail.

I don't know about their recruiting methods and if we insist on forcing people into work the Post Office mighty have more than its fair share of new employees who are not uesed to early morning rises, manula labour , bags full of junk mail and gung ho supervisors.

I use the mail quite a bit and one Chistams a small parcle was bust . Luckily enough nothing iof value was in it. I've received stuff from all over the world.

My beef with the posties was I suspected them of leaving parcels at the depot and arrigving at my door with a pre written card advising me that I was not in and I coul collect at my near by depot.

That appears to have ceased.

My greater beef with Royal mail is how second class mean dlivered within a weeek rahter than the old two days, removing the times of collections from post boxes, going from 2 domestic deliveries per day to one at some unpredictable point during the day.

Our current posties has now settled at a 9:30 drop.

hit the royal mail site for complaints

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content2?catId=20000202&mediaId=3100051

[onyirtodd]

Only recently a postman based in Baird Street and delivering in and around G1 -G4 has been reported to the PF for having 15,000 (fifteen thousand!) letters and packages in his home.

[Sydney Rosewater]

even if you send stuff via recorded delivery, it'll still merrily vanish into nowhere.

That the post has gone from 4 efficent deliveries a day, no hassle, to just one a day, showing up sometime round 4 in the afternoon if you're lucky

There has never been 4 (!!!) deliveries a day.
There were 2 deliveries a day with 1st delivery commencing at 6.40am until single daily deliveries got pushed through along with walk sizes doubling or even trebling in some cases, and an additional feed of mail coming into offices at 8am which has to be sorted before which you are not supposed to leave the office. These changes were practicaly forced on many offices by management and the union regardless of repeated votes against it by the actual postmen.

Recorded Delivery is not worth a fuck. Anything you want to have tabs kept on send by Special Delivery.

[JayKay]

I had it on good authority that the staff at a local mail office not a million miles from where I live check mail quite rigorously for cash or p0rn. If it looks like a card or a video/dvd they'll try to get a wee peek at the contents.

Once this had been pointed out i couldnt help notice the amount of mail that had a small tear in the corner, that no doubt happened accidentally...

Sadly the junk mail always makes it through intact.

[glasgowken]

Well if my latest bits & bobs go missing i'm going in my local sorting office with a baseball bat

That'll probably get nicked as well.

[Pripyat]

They tell you of the dangers of purchasing online.
The fact is the postal delivery system is the most
dangerous point. Lost count of stuff that has been
either lost or opened.

[marginalwalker]

Special deliveries are the only safe bet if your posting something of value..