Post going to wrong address

charlie792

Well my post has been a little thin on the ground lately but Ive just had my mail delivered and it's been written on the envelope that it was sent to a different area in my city.

Basically I live in a particular road in the city centre itself, but it turns out that there is another road with the exact same name 10 miles away which is where my post has been sent. Now the postcodes are the same NP beginning but completely different numbers following, so I assume whoever is sorting the post is ignoring the postcode and just looking at the street name. I assume the post workers in the other area had sent it back to my area, but obviously Im now wondering how much of my post is being sent to the wrong place.

Don't suppose there is really anything I can do about this really.....

paddyrg

Move house ;-) Try drawing your local sorting office's attention to it, at least they'll keep a bit more of an eye out for you?

gordikin

Calling Custardy! (Ex postie MSE member!) Speak to the sorting office manager...should be easy to sort!... do you see what I did there!

MissUno

I worry about the postal service, they forgot to deliver a package until I chased up the redelivery. The amount of mail I get put through my door that isn't addressed to this house is a bit worrying as well. Does make me wonder if I'm getting other peoples post, who may be getting some of mine. Although if it's any of the huge amount of junk people get shoved through (even though we have a no junk mail sign up on our door) they are more than welcome to it haha.

mkaibear

charlie792 wrote: »

Well my post has been a little thin on the ground lately but Ive just had my mail delivered and it's been written on the envelope that it was sent to a different area in my city.

Basically I live in a particular road in the city centre itself, but it turns out that there is another road with the exact same name 10 miles away which is where my post has been sent. Now the postcodes are the same NP beginning but completely different numbers following, so I assume whoever is sorting the post is ignoring the postcode and just looking at the street name. I assume the post workers in the other area had sent it back to my area, but obviously Im now wondering how much of my post is being sent to the wrong place.

Don't suppose there is really anything I can do about this really.....

Ah, the dreaded Newport postal area changes.

I don't suppose you live in Duffryn, by any chance?

We used to live in Panama Court - NP108AJ - which is built on the site of the old RC school in Duffryn and the postcode had been reassigned from somewhere random near the motorway.

...it's now 3 years later and it looks like they've *finally* updated the postcode records!

Gigervamp

Remember the adverts telling us to "USE THE POSTCODE!"? Seems the postcode is pretty pointless these days.

Our house name is also the same as other roads and houses, eg. XXXX Cottages, XXXX Barns, XXXX Terrace, XXXX Gardens etc, all in the same village (ours came first btw!), but we have different postcodes. Yet we keep getting post for the people that live at one of the other addresses.

Do the posties not sort the mail on their own rounds? I ask because when I handed back another mis-delivered letter to him, he sighed and said he was getting fed up of this, implying that he gets handed the post and just sticks it in the letterboxes. <rolls eyes>

I'm sure Mr and Mrs C are getting fed up of their post arriving late.

vikingaero

I sometimes get my mail sent to Maidenhead instead of Maidstone. Then someone scribbles "Maidstone, Kent" on it. My parents sometimes get sent mail from Aylesbury instead of Aylesford. There are plenty of other anomalies:

Ashford Kent/Middx
Gillingham Kent/Dorset
Rainham Kent/Essex

frivolous_fay

Post intended for Alderholt, Dorset, will go to Aldershot if the sender guesses wrongly that the county is Hampshire.
Or if the address includes 'Nr Fordingbridge', which IS in Hampshire (but not near Aldershot)

custardy

MissUno wrote: »

I worry about the postal service, they forgot to deliver a package until I chased up the redelivery. The amount of mail I get put through my door that isn't addressed to this house is a bit worrying as well. Does make me wonder if I'm getting other peoples post, who may be getting some of mine. Although if it's any of the huge amount of junk people get shoved through (even though we have a no junk mail sign up on our door) they are more than welcome to it haha.

a sign saying no junk mail is irrelevant.
addressed mail has to be delivered. how is a postie to know what you deem junk?
if you dont want unaddressed mail from RM then opt out

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400126&mediaId=500081

custardy

Gigervamp wrote: »

Remember the adverts telling us to "USE THE POSTCODE!"? Seems the postcode is pretty pointless these days.

Our house name is also the same as other roads and houses, eg. XXXX Cottages, XXXX Barns, XXXX Terrace, XXXX Gardens etc, all in the same village (ours came first btw!), but we have different postcodes. Yet we keep getting post for the people that live at one of the other addresses.

Do the posties not sort the mail on their own rounds? I ask because when I handed back another mis-delivered letter to him, he sighed and said he was getting fed up of this, implying that he gets handed the post and just sticks it in the letterboxes. <rolls eyes>

I'm sure Mr and Mrs C are getting fed up of their post arriving late.

many posties come in to their rounds prepped. that how the part time duties work
you also have the new fangled holy grail walk sequencing machines. mail now arrives later at the delivery offices as it goes through these machines(well should)
so in theory the mail is in trays and in the order of the frame. so a postie just throws the mail in as quickly as possible in the order of the trays. so its easier to miss a missort item. you also have people putting up duties the dont deliver. never a good mix
staff are given X amount of time to do a tray and managers will staff an office using timings like these. so the pressure is on.
Add in for example that this week i know of offices where the staff have 10+ D2D items
when the timings were created it was 3 max
somehow these have to be made up/delivered with imaginary time

MissUno

I remember my job working for royal mail in my late teens. They pay a good salary to a human to tell a computer to tell another computer the details on where the mail is supposed to go.

Image of envelope pops up on screen, computer one doesn't understand so human sat at computer two uses human eyes to read address and type it in.