postman. Shall I report him AGAIN

custardy

okay i wont

movingforward2010

read: house number/name on letter - post: letter thru letter box that matches the one on the envelope

am i missing something here perhaps he cant read?

Debt_Free_Chick

babyhead wrote: »

I've complained to Royal Mail in the past about this issue

Our address was very similar to another house in the village, our neighbours kept getting our letterss, we got theirs, he delivered some things to a relative who lives not far from us (addressed to us though!) and it would happen every day.

So, I sent Royal Mail a complaint via their website


We've moved now but still have the same postman. He gives me a free redirection service now as he says that if he notices something still addressed to me for our old address when he is sorting the post, he delivers it to my new house!

Oh the irony - firstly he gets a rollicking for delivering mail to the wrong address and now he gets luvved up for it!

Debt_Free_Chick

kazzah60 wrote: »

would those people wanting to give the postie a break like it if they had a house fire and the fire brigade went to the wrong address?
after all, we all make mistakes!

It's happened - and more than once.

It's not possible to devise a process that has a 100% guaranteed success rate - that's life, I'm afraid.

jb66

Does the op have a door number on her door and a nameplate?

hoyles10

I know this isn't my postmans fault but I wasn't starting up another rant about the postal service but i've just received a letter from the hospital asking me to go for a CT scan on 3rd August which I obviously haven't been to as I have only received the letter today. The post mark is 16th June.

I now have to ring the hospital and apologise for not turning up to the appointment and try and make another asap as it may affect the treatment I am receiving.

sagalout1954

Get a life.....................

brila

We have the same problem and as the neighbour who gets my post is often away for weeks at a time it is very inconvenient. I work from home and am often left waiting for cheques/order/important documents for weeks because they are stuck next door. I'm sure it affects repeat orders. I also get totally fed up of not getting any post on a Thursday (my postman's day off - the round does not get covered) and when our regular postman is on holiday I tend to get a large amount of post twice a week. I have complained for several years but have got nowhere (RM assure me that if I had any post on a Thursday it would be delivered and say repeatedly that mistakes with door numbers can happen and that they seek to minimise this and have brought it up with the postman in question). For people to say get a life etc. is not very helpful. It has had such an effect on my business that I now rent a mailbox and collect my post every day, but many letters still need to come to the house (hospital appointments, inland revenue, personal banking items, signed for letters etc.) and delays in receiving these things is frustrating and costly. Frankly if a postman can't consistently manage to put the right envelope through the right door, he/she is in the wrong job - I'm sure there are many people who would be glad of the job and would give it the moderate amount of concentration it requires.

avinabacca

calleyw wrote: »

No comparison one has the potential to be life threatening the other is just annoying. You don't die or lose your house because the postie delivers to the wrong house:rolleyes:

Where I work we get a lot of orders by post. We did not get all our post this morning as they where down staff. We got the rest this afternoon mid afternoon did we make a fuss nope.

Each to there own.

We still get post to my home for someone who moved out 4 years ago but do I make a fuss. Umm no. I just write on there and pop in the next post box I past.

Yours

Calley

They're not doing the job they're paid to do. Simple as that.

The more suckers who accept it, the longer it takes to put right. Seriously - if you'd paid for any other service that you didn't receive, would you be so accepting of such nonsense?

Bennifred

calleyw wrote: »

No comparison one has the potential to be life threatening the other is just annoying. You don't die or lose your house because the postie delivers to the wrong house:rolleyes:

Yours

Calley

Actually, in the case of hospital appointments, this may not be true. My mother would have missed more than one appointment for chemo/radiotherapy if it hadn't been for my sisters and I ringing the hospital to enquire about them, due to letters going astray:mad: