How long is you post taking to arrive?

rich_shot2003

I bought a Jacket from e bay and it was sent out from South Coast last Friday Dec 10th and it only had to come to Cheshire and i still not got it.

chancesare_2

My mail from Devon to north of midlands is delayed from 6 and 7 still stuck at birmingham according to tracking.

Myyrrddyn

Some of my customers are letting me know by ebay messaging that there items are now turning up, and this is the lot I posted on the 2nd first class. I know items are getting there eventually but when it snowed 20-30 years ago there was never any problems with snow then. Everyone just knuckled under and got on with it. Now everyone is soft and scared of a bit of snow. I remember it snowing at home about 6 - 12 inches, this lot is just a small flurry.

macfly

This is the worst December weather for thirty years. I was working in the seventies, and it's just not true that we "got on with it". Public transport was stopped on many occasions. I remember being stuck in Pudsey twice overnight. Fewer people had cars. I lived in a mning area, so everybody walked to work anyway. There were many more local shops, but they all ran out of bread at one point. Nobody shopped on the internet. A parcel through the post was a rare, and quite exciting, event.
The schools hardly ever shut though. In those days many of them had boilers fed by coal or coke, so power cuts - which were plentiful - didn't stop them.
Twenty years ago a large area of Glasgow was evacuated on Christmas day due to gas mains freezing.
Memories can be very selective.

custardy

macfly wrote: »

This is the worst December weather for thirty years. I was working in the seventies, and it's just not true that we "got on with it". Public transport was stopped on many occasions. I remember being stuck in Pudsey twice overnight. Fewer people had cars. I lived in a mning area, so everybody walked to work anyway. There were many more local shops, but they all ran out of bread at one point. Nobody shopped on the internet. A parcel through the post was a rare, and quite exciting, event.
The schools hardly ever shut though. In those days many of them had boilers fed by coal or coke, so power cuts - which were plentiful - didn't stop them.
Twenty years ago a large area of Glasgow was evacuated on Christmas day due to gas mains freezing.
Memories can be very selective.

i remember in the late 70's/early 80's listening to Westsound radio to see if my primary school was open or closed
so it did happen
as usual folks always think everything in the past was perfect

Myyrrddyn

custardy wrote: »

i remember in the late 70's/early 80's listening to Westsound radio to see if my primary school was open or closed
so it did happen
as usual folks always think everything in the past was perfect

Yep I agree

hellokitty08

I ordered a parcel from ebay on friday 10th Dec it arrived on Wednesday 15th Dec. I ordered some CDs from German Amazon on the 4th December, they should have arrived on the 10th, no sign. I ordered two t-shirts from play.com both on the 7th December, one arrived on Wednesday 15th, no sign of the other one.
I know some places have had bad weather, but I do still worry about packages getting "lost" in the post.

Myyrrddyn

hellokitty08 wrote: »

I ordered a parcel from ebay on friday 10th Dec it arrived on Wednesday 15th Dec. I ordered some CDs from German Amazon on the 4th December, they should have arrived on the 10th, no sign. I ordered two t-shirts from play.com both on the 7th December, one arrived on Wednesday 15th, no sign of the other one.
I know some places have had bad weather, but I do still worry about packages getting "lost" in the post.

Ever wondered where all the lost post goes to, because it must go somewhere!!:D

nmm

I sent an item on Monday 1st Class Recorded, it still hadn't arrived yesterday and buyer emailing etc, no tracking update either. I received an item today that was posted yesterday, mail is weird at xmas

freddysmith

Myyrrddyn wrote: »

Ever wondered where all the lost post goes to, because it must go somewhere!!:D

They sell it off at £20 a mail bag, bit of a lucky dip really.