All you postmen out there

[the wanderbus]

A van drops off 2 or 3 bags of letters etc just inside the front door of our flats and then the postmen eventually gets to us and picks them up to deliver on his bike. Great security anybody could walk off with a bag or two of post.

if you reported that the driver that drops it off would be sacked, all non secure bags are supposed to be passed hand to hand

 

[BensGrandad]

what, goes up the stairs in your flats on his bike..............that's impressive !!

J Arthur......... he walks up the stairs and then rides his bike to the next place/road to walk and deliver there and so on till lunchtime when he finishes like most postmen, I know.

 

[Neil]

My postie pulled out a blinder last week. A friend sent me a birthday card, and it had no house number (my friend had forgotten which number I lived at), the wrong road (she'd written 'Drive' when it's actually 'Close'; the Close splits off from the Drive) and the wrong postcode. And it still only took two days to get to me. Ruddy impressive.

People are quick enough to moan when a letter doesnt arrive but dont like giving praise when they realised the poster put the wrong address on it.
Had someone moan about a birthday card not arriving once saying it had £20 in it , they were ranting about postmen being thieving bstards and it turned up after it had been wrongly written out as Brighton instead of Eastbourne.
I purposely knocked on the door and gave it to him and just slammed it in my face after taking it from me

 

[BensGrandad]

if you reported that the driver that drops it off would be sacked, all non secure bags are supposed to be passed hand to hand

This has been happening for at least the last 3 years.

 

[Neil]

A van drops off 2 or 3 bags of letters etc just inside the front door of our flats and then the postmen eventually gets to us and picks them up to deliver on his bike. Great security anybody could walk off with a bag or two of post.

Not allowed to use bikes anymore in my office !!!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

My postie pulled out a blinder last week. A friend sent me a birthday card, and it had no house number (my friend had forgotten which number I lived at), the wrong road (she'd written 'Drive' when it's actually 'Close'; the Close splits off from the Drive) and the wrong postcode. And it still only took two days to get to me. Ruddy impressive.

A friend of mine once sent me a birthday card addressed "The house with the yellow garage door" (he did get the road right), and it got to me ok. Unfortunately many of the things that are perfectly correctly addressed - to someone else - also get to me.

 

[Neil]

This has been happening for at least the last 3 years.

report it then

 

[Stat Brother]

A van drops off 2 or 3 bags of letters etc just inside the front door of our flats and then the postmen eventually gets to us and picks them up to deliver on his bike. Great security anybody could walk off with a bag or two of post.

Partly why the system is changing.

 

[BensGrandad]

report it then

Why it is pretty obvious that the management know about it but chose to turn a blind eye. I know about it and so do others in the block as they use it to see if the postman has been or not.

 

[Bozza]

Those of you who called us lazy money grabbing bastards might like to think about that when an important piece of post turns up at teatime when you've been waiting all day for it.

That's the point though, isn't it? How many genuinely important and time-critical pieces of post actually exist nowadays? I'm struggling to think of any...

 

[Neil]

Next day special delivery before 1pm

 

[the wanderbus]

This has been happening for at least the last 3 years.

however long its been happening bags are only supposed to be dropped off behind a door that can be locked.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

That's the point though, isn't it? How many genuinely important and time-critical pieces of post actually exist nowadays? I'm struggling to think of any...

Indeed that's what secure internet pages or email are for !

 

[the wanderbus]

That's the point though, isn't it? How many genuinely important and time-critical pieces of post actually exist nowadays? I'm struggling to think of any...

You may laugh but i know people who rely on getting their benefits early because they have no food for the day or money for the gas/ electricity meter.

report them then, or get it on local radio, we had a similar situation in our office, management from top to bottom absolutely shit themselves at the thought of having to explain themselves to the media.

 

[Stat Brother]

We're a couple of months in, and it's as you'd expect.
You could write down, before a van entered the unit, who would make it work and who would cut off.
I reckon my guesses would have been 95% right.

Myself and partner will always try and make it work, the loops are a pretty good guide line, but we use our own intelligence to make sure it works.

We've never had to cut off, in fact, we are between 10-30 mins up on each day. (an hour and 15 today)
We frequently had to take half of the previous day's post out, as the rounds were 'impossible'.

All in all it's nowhere near as bad as I thought, I loved riding the bike, but that's gone and this isn't the end of the world.

 

[Icy Gull]

I have nothing but good words for my postman, I didn't realise so many had issues with them.

 

[BensGrandad]

I have no issue with the man who actually puts the bills through my letter box hence I would not report him but do object to them just leaving the bags for him or possibly anybody else to collect. Adam Crozier f....d up the FA then Royal Mail and now he is trying with a TV Company.

 

[durrington gull]

We're a couple of months in, and it's as you'd expect.
You could write down, before a van entered the unit, who would make it work and who would cut off.
I reckon my guesses would have been 95% right.

Myself and partner will always try and make it work, the loops are a pretty good guide line, but we use our own intelligence to make sure it works.



We've never had to cut off, in fact, we are between 10-30 mins up on each day. (an hour and 15 today)
We frequently had to take half of the previous day's post out, as the rounds were 'impossible'.

All in all it's nowhere near as bad as I thought, I loved riding the bike, but that's gone and this isn't the end of the world.

Well done mate, at least your being honest. The truth is that there are a hardcore of posties who are determined NOT to make it work! - no matter what!!, I'm afraid that's why the company are in a mess.

 

[skipper734]

I am afraid all posties are on a loser here. Ever since the PO started recruiting managers from the newly opened Universities in the 70's they have had a succession of numptys with needlework degrees being able to rearrange working practises to save money. All these changes over the years succeed in achieving is disgruntled staff and customers. Probably.

 

[Kazenga <3]

My phone case arrived three days late. What are you clowns playing at?