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cajef wrote: »

My OH has been quite ill recently, though thankfully recovering well now, unknown to us one of her friends sent her flowers, they were sent on the 13th of this month by royal mail, yesterday one box of dead flowers arrived even though the box was labelled urgent delivery fresh flowers, thank you royal mail.:mad:

If the flower company has just paid for the normal postage rate, then they just get delivered along with all the regular mail, which unfortunately has been backlogged due to the weather. Sticking stickers on saying urgent doesn't make it go through the system any quicker.

It's a shame when it happens. Husband delivered a box of dead flowers the other day and he was dreading handing them over to the customer. Luckily they were not at home, so he just put them in their porch as he thought they'd be even crosser if they made a special trip to the delivery office for a box of dead flowers.

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Wayne3765 wrote: »

I went to the local sorting office on Monday to collect my mail and asked about the deliveries and was told that due to Health and Safety rules they were not allowed out to deliver.

What puzzles me is that on Tuesday they were out delivering letters even though the streets were no better than they were the day before, if anything conditions were worse as the snow was compacted and frozen.

Good job I have a cold and couldn't smell the bull**** at the sorting office.

Were they doing whole deliveries tho? For all you know they could have been doing certain streets. That's what they did in our office when the powers that be decided it was too snowy/icy to deliver. 2 days later (altho the conditions were worse) the guys got sent out to do perhaps a third of their normal duty, the same the next day, and the next day. Which would have made more sense in the start. It takes a lot longer to wade through thick snow or skate over ice than it does to walk, with RM cutting overtime they way they have.......


Managers who take those decisions, not the posties pounding the streets.