What happens to all of the items lost in the post?

davemorton

dacouch wrote: »

I always get annoyed by the people who say "I found it in the last place I looked". Of course you did!

Almost as good as the 'Where did you lose it?' Hmmm

dustypixie

I've always wanted to work at the Return Letter Centre...

getting to open all those exciting parcels (I have a thing for post)

:rotfl:

amcluesent

> if anyone knew what happens to all of the items lost in the post<

Anyone seen a postie out buying Xmas pressies? No, me neither!

Soubrette

robinson79 wrote: »

I sort out the mail at work and almost everyday there are letters for completely different addresses!

Me too, Christmas last year - I must have put 40-50 wrongly delivered cards back in our post tray.

As far as I could see all were addressed correctly and clearly.

However, many years ago I also worked for a company where our standard excuse was 'oh it must have got lost in the post' when really it was almost certainly in our massive backlog'.

Sou

Hermia

I have often wondered that. My parcels are pretty much bombproof and there is no way the addresses could come off, so lost parcels are not just due to bad packaging/labelling. I have had some enormous parcels go missing so it's not like they could have fallen down the back of some machinery!

bingo_bango

I met someone working in RLC in Belfast a few years ago. She told me that there are so many parcels etc there that even if you did know your parcel had ended up there, they would have no chance of digging it out.

Now to find out where the auctions are....

Lobell

bingo_bango wrote: »

I met someone working in RLC in Belfast a few years ago. She told me that there are so many parcels etc there that even if you did know your parcel had ended up there, they would have no chance of digging it out.

Now to find out where the auctions are....

My Mum works there and I did a summer there myself during my student days...worst, most tedious job I ever had. Truly awful! And you are correct...the sheer volume of stuff that goes through there means it is pretty much impossible to isolate individual items, even if you know it's there somewhere.

The auctions aren't held that frequently and usually happen in-house for staff with all proceeds going to charity. Books, CDs, DVDs etc get sold off more frequently (again, in-house for staff), also for charity.

The was majority of stuff is just utter tat though...promotional keyrings, pens, diaries and that type of thing....they go straight to the bin.

There is no chance of staff just being able to take the choice stuff...every inch of the place is covered by very high powered cameras...the CCTV control room in one of the first thing they show to new recruits

amcluesent

"Postman who didn't like mornings hid 6,000 letters

Moore, 28, spent two years hiding the post in the boot of his car, in his mother's loft and in the basement of the shop where he also worked. Investigators were called in when one of his colleagues at his second job spotted shredded letters, which included bank cards, cheques and theatre tickets.

Henry Mainwaring, prosecuting, told Chelmsford Magistrates' Court in Essex that Moore, who had worked for the Royal Mail since 1997, confessed he did not like getting up early and had hidden parcels and letters in his mother's loft without her knowledge."

So that's where they went!



Moore: "Trust your local postie! Awight!"

custardy

what a *!@$

wullie

amcluesent wrote: »

> if anyone knew what happens to all of the items lost in the post<

Anyone seen a postie out buying Xmas pressies? No, me neither!

I buy Xmas pressies. and i use the van , i park in the middle of the High Street on double yellow lines and do my shopping with no chance of getting a ticket...:rotfl: what have you got to say about that lol.....