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The Local => Local News & Discussion => Topic started by: Nemesis on December 20, 2010, 08:54:40 am
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It has just been announced on Tudno FM that there are to be no mail deliveries today in Llandudno, the Junction and other local areas.
Items may be collected from the Maedu depot
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Thanks for that, Nemesis. Haven't seen a mail delivery van for four days :-)))
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My paperboy has managed to deliver my newspapers Saturday, Sunday and this morning no later than he normally delivers.
I also saw the milkman delievering as usual on Liddell Park at 3.30am this morning.
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I've just come back from the shop/ Post office at Colwyn Heights and the mail in the pillar box outside the shop is level with the letter box opening. Apparently the post hasn't been collected for four days and there are other sacks of mail in the Post Office awaiting collection.
4 X 4 vehicles are going up Wentworth Avenue and I would have thought that the Post Office would have at least one 4 X 4 vehicle that can pick up the mail,
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I visted Deganwy Post Office this morning. The mail is still there from Friday afternoon, including all the Special Delivery Items. Friday evening was very bad, but the main roads were cleared on Saturday, so you would have thought they could have collected from those Post Offices on the main roads.
They also haven't received there secure delivery of money or stock from Post Office Ltd. Which means due to the limited amount of money allowed to be held that they could be running out of money within a couple of days.
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I've seen letter boxes being emptied in Llandudno this morning, so things may be moving again.
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Our postman, Dryden, delivered to us in central Llandudno at lunch time and as usual he was wearing his shorts!
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Royal Mail - Disruption to delivery services
Llandudno sorting office are ONLY delivering to the main roads that have been gritted for the remainder of this week. However customers are able to collect any goods from the sorting office as long as they take a VALID FORM OF IDENTIFICATION with them.
Recieved the above this afternoon via the Council Postmaster system.
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So exactly WHERE is this mysterious collection point for my mail?
My road won't have thawed out until Easter, so I had better set off with my passport.
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Now that's commitment.
If your reading this Drydon, I promise I'm joking mate _))*
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The town centre had a delivery yesterday, so my OH rang Maesdu Road this am. The managers are looking at the situation this a.m, but the latest is no deliveries at the moment to areas that haven't been treated. -- 2010?
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So if we take I.D we can go to the depot and ask to collect mail for our address?
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Royal Mail - Disruption to delivery services
Llandudno sorting office are ONLY delivering to the main roads that have been gritted for the remainder of this week. However customers are able to collect any goods from the sorting office as long as they take a VALID FORM OF IDENTIFICATION with them.
Recieved the above this afternoon via the Council Postmaster system.
To save a possible wasted journey, I would suggest you also take along acceptable 'proof of address' if you are taking your passport with you as your passport does not show your home address .
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I went to Maesdu office at 7.15am today.... and waited 10 minutes while they searched , only to be told there was nothing for me.
I asked them to double check as I KNEW that various items had been sent to me.... and after another 10 minutes wait, mysteriously 7 items were handed to me.
When I queried why this happened, I was just told ..''take a look in there mate, its piled high...chaos''
Thats not a good reason to send people away empty handed (which did happen to several others while I was there) ...
So.... don't accept the first answer if its a NO.
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Yes That's a point ! My OH asked how busy it was and was told there was a queue. It isn't a very big office, so I should wrap up warmly !
Next thing all the posties will have hernias lifting the volume of mail. Oh dear what a situation. :'(
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OMG This sounds like a panto.
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Can someone who has already been up there please confirm the road leading up to Royal Mail office and the Visitors Car Park have both been treated ?
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I asked them to double check as I KNEW that various items had been sent to me.... and after another 10 minutes wait, mysteriously 7 items were handed to me.
When I queried why this happened, I was just told ..''take a look in there mate, its piled high...chaos''
The letter pigeon holes will all be full to overflowing, that's true, but it's incumbent upon them to make every effort to find the stuff for those who make the time and effort needed to reach the sorting offices. However, as always, it's down to the quality of the individuals manning the desks.
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Britain's decline into a third world country continues...
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Whereas I can empathise to a certain extent, the Post Office 's performance during this recent poor weather has been abysmal.What was probably a justifiable decision to avoid going out for the first day has snowballed ( sorry!) into a situation that appears to be chaos. There is no justification for avoiding deliveries in many places where a delivery hasn't been made in days and now the situation has gone out of control through the sheer weight of post at this time of year.
This is another nail in the coffin for snail mail and I too might resort to electronic communication in the future
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I agree Bri.
But sadly they haven't yet invented an electronic way of getting the contents of my parcels to materialize in my house.
I avoid snail mail at every opportunity.
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I've noticed the private couriers like DHL seem to be operating normally?
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We've just been to the delivery office, road clear to the visitors car park only 3 spaces plus 2 disabled, so had to park in their drive! a few people waiting and I got 3 letters i'm sure there must be more! Yesterday we had a delivery by courier with no problem at all, I imagine its down to health and safety and not wanting to compensate injured postmen, all part of the mad world we live in :rage:
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Apparently the Royal Mail have left it up to their carriers as to if they think its safe for them to deliver or not.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2010/12/21/snow-impacts-north-wales-christmas-business-55578-27859423/ (http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2010/12/21/snow-impacts-north-wales-christmas-business-55578-27859423/)
I've done some work at the RMG in Chesterfield and the staff their are beyond despondent for a variety of reasons. It really does seem as if the Royal Mail is down for the count and the vultures are circling overhead.
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Just collected quite a big pile of mail and 1 parcel. Busy but not heaving. Chatting to a postman outside, a postman broke his ankle, the other day so health and safety have said they can't deliver to anywhere not gritted.
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The doorbell rang at about noon and there stood our usual postman with a pile of mail and two parcels. Apparently things are being delivered if there are parcels!
Our road and pavements are still lethal so the gritting factor didn't enter into it. How odd-- perhaps they are running out of space. Silly thing was one of the parcels was a free sample of doggie treats. Bet they wouldn't have delivered that if they'd known. Result--- one very pleased pup ! ;D
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I’ve been to the Royal Mail Sorting Office and I agree the car park is full but actually there were only half a dozen local residents collecting their post.
There were three or four lads on the counter.
They were all cheerful and fairly quick to gather a few items of post for me and everyone else.
I would imagine the car park must be full of cars belonging to postmen.
I have also driven up Narrow Lane in Llandudno Junction this afternoon where the road is a mix of slush and ice but I could not help noticing the entrance into the new Welsh Assembly Government Building was perfectly clear and it does not appear to have been affected at all by the weather. *&(
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Visted the sorting office today at 4:30pm. The car park was very busy but found a space OK. People were queing out the door and it took about 20 minutes to get served.
I agree Bri, very good happy staff even though not all the customers were.
They weren't answering the phone though, it must have rung continuiously when we were there.
We still didn't get a parcel we have been expecting for the last 8 days.
I just hope Royal Mail don't get an ideas for the future about reducing costs and start only delivering once or twice a week !!!
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its called a delivery centre, perhaps it should be renamed a collection point L0L
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Jason,
Perhaps you should do what I did, look despondant and ask if they are really, really sure.... then your parcel might well be forthcoming!
My haul went from zero to seven by doing that.
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I'll be trying again on Christmas Eve, I'll put on my hapless face on and see how I get on.
Quite a lot of the postman know me anyway from when we had Deganwy Post Office. They still manage to sort mail from a relative who continues to send cards to our address from 6 years ago.
They are attempting to deliver parcels, so it may be in the back of someones van.
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I'll be trying again on Christmas Eve, I'll put on my hapless face on and see how I get on.
Is this the one Jason? 8)
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That's the one Trojan :o
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That's the one Trojan :o
L0L
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Standing in the queue yesterday I heard a little old lady remark,
" I only just heard that we could come and pick our post, it would have been helpful if they had "sent us a letter or phoned us" !! Bless. :)
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Saw Christopher Draper (author of Llandudno before the hotels) getting interviewed on the news on TV last night. It was from Penrhyn Bay and he was talking about the Royal Mail deliveries or rather lack of them.
The owner of the Ham Bone in Llandudno was also on the Welsh news.
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We were in the queue today to collect our post and the amount of vitriol, from some people who's parcels hadn't arrived on time, being pointed at the team in the delivery office was unbelievable.
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That's strange, TheMedz.
I called for the third time this week around 10.30am and I was told all the letters had gone out with the postmen.
It's nearly 8.30pm and I am still waiting for ours !!
I understand only parcels may be delivered tomorrow but one needs to phone the depot to check.
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Standing in the queue yesterday I heard a little old lady remark,
" I only just heard that we could come and pick our post, it would have been helpful if they had "sent us a letter or phoned us" !! Bless. :)
Oh the Irony! L0L L0L _))*
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Postie got to my house about 7pm last night! Nice to see them pulling out the stops.
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I don't feel any sympathy towards the Post Office whatsoever. The fact we haven't had a delivery in 11 days is ridiculous. I live in llandudno's suburbia.
How come most other businesses, including the likes of DHL, can carry onregardless just shows how pathetic the situation within the Royal mail has become.
I am told it's because the Post office staff are not covered by insurance should they injure themselves on duty. Well, sort it someone, the cost of the post is sufficient to cover all eventualities.
I fear next year the number of cards posted will fall dramatically.
Many of my friends had already declared prior to this year's festive season that their intention was to send an e mail instead and they would make a charitable donation in lieu of paying out for cards and postage.I was very anti but my attitude has changed.What's the point of receiving a Christmas greeting when it's all over ?
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Exactly, we are also now stuck with 2 weeks rubbish due to be collected on the 23rd. No way of finding out what to expect either.
The lane is like an ice rink, nothing has yet braved it, pity the folk who actually live on there.
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From Conwy Council's website.
Recycling and Refuse Service Disruption Due to Extreme Weather Conditions
Our crews have been back on the road since Thursday 23rd December, collecting refuse and recycling from all areas that have been safe to access, given the weather conditions.
Unfortunately many side roads, hills and inland areas are still inaccessible with our 18-tonne refuse and recycling vehicles.
We will reassess the travel conditions daily and every effort will be made to resume scheduled collections in areas that are clear of snow and ice. We will also be using additional resources to collect from areas that have been missed.
If you have been affected, please leave out your recycling containers and refuse bin for our crew to collect when practical to do so from Monday 27th December. There will be no collections on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. We appreciate the inconvenience that this causes to residents, and are grateful for your patience.
The recycling centres in Mochdre and Abergele are open to the public every day, apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
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Thanks for that. Shall have to find some way of sea-gull and cat proofing any extra bags.
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From Conwy Council's website.
Recycling and Refuse Service Disruption Due to Extreme Weather Conditions
Our crews have been back on the road since Thursday 23rd December, collecting refuse and recycling from all areas that have been safe to access, given the weather conditions.
Unfortunately many side roads, hills and inland areas are still inaccessible with our 18-tonne refuse and recycling vehicles.
all very well but this same council are the ones who should have cleared the roads and pavements :rage: :rage:
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:o I'm absolutely amazed by the PO issue there but it explains why Clive was sitting fuming with flames coming out of the top of his head when I spoke to him on Skype just before Xmas. He went on and on about not seeing the post for at least a week in Glan Conwy.
I live in the wilds of rural Norfolk in a little village four miles from the nearest small town not much bigger than us. When we were in the direct howl of the north easterly snow blasting winds from Siberia our postman (Jason) was bang on time at 11am everyday without fail, ice and snow bound unclassified roads notwithstanding. We fought and so far have won to keep our village post office and are looking to turn the PO shop into a Community Interest Company run by the village. The post office is wonderful here. :P :P :P :P :P :P
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Thanks for that. Shall have to find some way of sea-gull and cat proofing any extra bags.
Hi Nemesis,
Strange things are happening, because despite the website statement, the bins on the Gt Orme HAVE now been emptied.... either today, or maybe the 24th because we have been away since Xmas eve morning.
I reckon it was still too dangerous to get up here on the 24th though.
No excuse for your bins not being emptied...
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Bins emptied and 3 separate vans full of parcel deliveries from the Post Office up the Orme on the 24th.
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Well we had the bin emptied on the 24th but still no post. Our Christmas cards will probably go directly in to the recycle bin by the time we get them !
Do I tip the postie is now the question !!!
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They were only delivering parcels Christmas Eve, ie, Amazon, HMV etc. Apparently they had a lot of post in that morning, more than they were expecting. I suppose we'll get it Wednesday. Our bins, food waste and cardboard recycling were collected Xmas Eve, our normal day.
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Still nothing here in either direction. No post, no ordinary bins and no trade waste.
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No post in our part of Conwy either.
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Don't actually think Royal mail are operational at all. The depot looked deserted this am. It is officially a Bank Holiday, so the post wouldn't be delivered anyway.
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Services over Christmas & New Year
There will be no collections or deliveries of mail on 25th 26th, 27th and 28th December.
Services will resume on Wednesday 29th December.
Christmas Eve Normal deliveries. Saturday time collections from posting boxes and Post Office® branches. Business collections by prior arrangement only
Christmas Day No deliveries or collections
Sun 26th to Tues 28th No deliveries or collections
Wed 29th & Thurs 30th Normal services
New Years Eve Normal deliveries. Saturday time collections from posting boxes and Post Office® branches. Business collections by prior arrangement only
New Year's Day No deliveries or collections
Sun 2nd & Mon 3rd Jan No deliveries or collections
Tues 4th Jan 2011 Normal deliveries and collections except in Scotland where there will be no services
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Weather permitting Bri. ;)
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On the plus side, we can all have another Christmas in January when our presents arrive!
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Post arrived today--one from the Inland Revenue :o and a few cards
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Lucky you, we have had nothing at all since a week last Thursday. I did catch sight further down the road, of what I thought was a postman but then again they seem to have become extinct round here so I couldn't be sure.
It was our recycling collection due day today - our glass and cans box was emptied OK along with our papers. We had been told not to put garden waste out but there would be a collection of cardboard. What happened? - well nothing actually and as the cardboard was still outside the gate at dusk, I brought it in and will probably resort to taking it to Mochdre.
Oh wouldn't life be good if people did what they said they were going to do, when they said they would do it!!
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We had post today, the first for a fortnight.
Well from here on it should only get better. shouldn't it???
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Received a credit card bill yesterday (my first one from a new card company so I didn't know when the due date should have been) with a payment due date of yesterday and hence no time to pay it. I spent 25 minutes on the phone to get through and explain my situation logically (shout at them!) and eventually they agreed to refund the £12 late/no payment fee. When I asked why it had taken 25 minutes to get through apparently they have been having thousands of calls from people with the same issue. Always worth a phone call and a rant. Do not accept late payment charges if it was due to late delivery of the statement.
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Why don't you get your Statement on line, most companies do it now. In fact you can check your exact balance every day if you wish. Couple this with Internet Banking and you don't need the Mailman any more!
;D
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No post delivered today for us in Rhos on Sea, or for friends in the surrounding roads, for the second day running. So that means nothing will be delivered until 3rd January. A letter sent recorded delivery before 14 December has still not arrived.
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As I mentioned in the posting I've only just taken on this new credit card so had not been able to register for the on-line statement. I'm now registered but I thought I'd pass on the my experiences anyway.
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As I mentioned in the posting I've only just taken on this new credit card so had not been able to register for the on-line statement. I'm now registered but I thought I'd pass on the my experiences anyway.
Hmmm, and the money it costs per minute to reason with these companies... hassle, all hassle.... and stress... and expense!
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No post delivered today for us in Rhos on Sea, or for friends in the surrounding roads, for the second day running. So that means nothing will be delivered until 3rd January. A letter sent recorded delivery before 14 December has still not arrived.
Sorry to report there will be no collections or deliveries on 3rd January as it is a Public Holiday.
The next day for a delivery of post is next Tuesday, 4th January 2011.
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nice little earner at the sorting office all the cards/pacels not enough charge [stamps ] so they stick £1 handling charge and royal mail wonder why folks going elsewhere
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Where does the £1 go? 'Cos you don't get a receipt! L0L
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A few years ago I sent a letter to Buckingham Palace asking the Queen to send my Mom and Dad a congratulations Card for their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
Back came the appropriate form for me to fill in requesting their full details which included the address the card should be sent too, which I did.
A few days later I received another letter from the Palace asking me for their correct address. My sin was to assume because their house was in Llandudno they actually lived in Conwy County, which for some years now has actually been a political reality.
No said the Palace your correct postal address is Gwynedd not Conwy. But they don’t live in Gwynedd say’s I. It doesn’t matter said the Palace put Gwynedd as their address anyway.
Can anyone explain why we have to put Gwynedd on our address, when we all know we don’t live there? It’s not as if there is a massive Post Office sorting office lurking in that lovely part of North Wales is it, as all LL30 mail is sorted over the boarder in Chester.
Do you think it’s worth starting a petition to put CONWY on the post, where it rightly belongs?
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I never bother with the County, just put the Town and then Postcode on the letter. It's amazing how many mail databases are still hopelessly out of date after so many years.
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Just what the Royal Mail recommend. Leave the County OFF and just use the post code.
In fact if you put the house name or number followed by the Post Code the item will be delivered. That is all that is used for transmission and delivery.
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Yorkie, what are you suggesting?
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Nuffin' Guvnor, 'onest!
I feel a FoI request coming on!
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Don't worry Blongb, I stilll get Clwyd as my county when I deal with certain companies. The post code will sort the post out for delivery.
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OK I’ll concede the post, but what about the myriad of other forms of address you have to fill in, especially online forms. Don’t you think its about time Conwy was included?
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Have any of you had a letter from the Royal Mail regarding new delivery arrangements?
Our postman has been moved to the West Shore and a new young chap has inherited us on top of his usual round. I've seen two post men pushing a little box on wheels as they now have so much to deliver and our post is now arriving by 3.00p.m. Hope that they are getting paid overtime.
In the GPO the other day the harradan behind the counter kept snarling at me that they couldn't guarantee delivery because I insisted on first class for a parcel I was sending. Ho hum nice times we live in.
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Yes, it's odd how these 'alterations to service' always seem to result in a decline in service.
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Yes, I had the letter too and my post seems to be arriving later.
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The posties are being given trolleys so they can do their rounds quicker. This also means that they can carry more post.
This will mean, fewer postmen doing bigger rounds, so later deliveries for a lot of people.
No more bikes either.
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Our post has been as late as 4pm some days. Not much good for a business when the collection from the nearest post box is about the same time !
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The postal service down south delivers more junk mail than post. I regularly get latest offers from pizza houses, Currys, lidl etc being delivered by the postie. I stick it all back in the postbox for someone else to waste their time recycling the rubbish.
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The postal service down south delivers more junk mail than post. I regularly get latest offers from pizza houses, Currys, lidl etc being delivered by the postie. I stick it all back in the postbox for someone else to waste their time recycling the rubbish.
Such mail has been paid for and helps to keep our postal services operating. Your action is just creating more work - and cost - must make you feel great. WWW
If you don't want such mail you can opt out the same as you can with the Mail Preference Service. The Royal Mail web site will give you contact details.
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Im glad I'm keeping people in work and fuelling the economy. $thanx$
Majority of people put these items straight in the recycling bin. I did not subscribe to junk mail so I shouldn't receive it.
I suppose opting out of junk mail will be like choosing to not receive unsolicited sales or marketing calls via the telephone, pointless.
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About as pointless as an inflatable dartboard, Poppy! :laugh:
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For ages now a weekly classic car newspaper has been delivered on a Wednesday, then last Wednesday no post at all. On Thursday it arrived with a lot of other post, I joked to the postman that it felt like they were storing it until there was enough to deliver. To my amazement he said that was exactly what was happening as a lot of working hours had been cut! Wednesday is here again and no post arrives! I thought it was illegal to delay Her Majesty's Royal Mail? Does that not apply to themselves? &shake&
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For ages now a weekly classic car newspaper has been delivered on a Wednesday, then last Wednesday no post at all. On Thursday it arrived with a lot of other post, I joked to the postman that it felt like they were storing it until there was enough to deliver. To my amazement he said that was exactly what was happening as a lot of working hours had been cut! Wednesday is here again and no post arrives! I thought it was illegal to delay Her Majesty's Royal Mail? Does that not apply to themselves? &shake&
Interesting ME, I too got quite a stack of mail (mostly political garbage) yesterday, and nothing today!
So that's what's going on is it?
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And the joys of privatisation continue unabated...
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Same thing here, piles of rubbish one day, then nothing for 2 or 3 days. Still waiting for news of a lost parcel from 6 weeks ago !
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Just had the post delivered at 5.15pm (minus the usual weekly car newspaper) it seems a couple of people are off sick, this will be the Colwyn Bay sorting office.
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From Monday, April 6, Royal Mail will be making changes to delivery office depot opening and closing hours, as well as deliveries.
The new changes have been put in place to ensure the safest and most reliable service for its customers nationwide.
It follows additional measures put into place on March 24, which include "only one person being allowed in a Royal Mail delivery vehicle at any one time", and an emphasis on postal workers washing their when leaving and entering any Royal Mail buildings.
To minimise contact, a customer signature is no longer required, and packages that are too big to be posted through the letterbox will be left outside the door, our sister title the Liverpool Echo reports.
Here are the stricter guidelines coming into force next week, as stated on the Royal Mail website:
cont + video https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-mail-announces-changes-post-18037979 (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-mail-announces-changes-post-18037979)
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Royal Mail has announced plans to ban traditional stamps as they’re set to be replaced by a new barcode stamp system.
The postal service could also charge people up to £3.50 to receive their post after the ban.
Any parcels or letters with traditional stamps on them after the ban is in place will be left at sorting offices with a “surcharge” added.
People who receive items with the old stamps will receive a “fee to pay” card and be told to collect them from a sorting office.
This extra cost stands at £2 a letter or £3.50 for a small parcel.
Royal Mail said: “Non-barcoded stamps will remain usable until January 31, 2023.
cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/royal-mail-ban-traditional-stamps-23007251 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/royal-mail-ban-traditional-stamps-23007251)
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Royal Mail has announced plans to ban traditional stamps as they’re set to be replaced by a new barcode stamp system.
The postal service could also charge people up to £3.50 to receive their post after the ban.
Any parcels or letters with traditional stamps on them after the ban is in place will be left at sorting offices with a “surcharge” added.
People who receive items with the old stamps will receive a “fee to pay” card and be told to collect them from a sorting office.
This extra cost stands at £2 a letter or £3.50 for a small parcel.
Royal Mail said: “Non-barcoded stamps will remain usable until January 31, 2023.
cont https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/royal-mail-ban-traditional-stamps-23007251 (https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/royal-mail-ban-traditional-stamps-23007251)
Update on above, Post office information site.......... https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps (https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps)