Royal Mail....fraud waiting to happen.

jodie

When i lived in London I would have to wait 48 hours to collect but here in Cheshunt it's different every week, normally 2 hours but then it can be 4 or 6, maybe it depends how busy they get?

Emmysmum_2

We once ordered a DVD player from Amazon and the courier delivered it to completely the wrong street, in teh next village over. he took a sig from the neighbour, left it out on the front step, and the people who owned that house were away for a week's hols. Amazon were trying like mad to discover where it was and the courier could not even find the sheet with teh sig apparently. then the man whose house it was arrived home, saw the parcel , luckily still there, and drove over to deliver itt o me himself. ARGHHHHHH

catz747

Royal mail couldn't 'locate' my package today 48 hours after the card came through and after a 30 minute wait in the queue - Tsk, they offered to send it back out on Saturday so that I could get another Red card on Wednesday - D'oh!

sparkymark_3

keep getting other people stuff and they get ours ? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH why does nothing work properly in UK anymore Eg buses, hospitals vercrowded roads, useless utility companies ?

angelavdavis

We have the same thing here. Approximately once a week over the last six months minimum, a neighbour who lives in the same number house number as us and has one digit different on the postcode, delivers our post to us! We have had the same problem vice versa!

I have tried reporting this online, but they want the postage details all the time. This is difficult because I have no knowledge how long my neighbour (bless him) has held onto the mail before doing the postie's job.

Its very infuriating that we are doing Royal Mail's job for them.

Heinz

Got my first 'an unstamped item awaits your collection at ......' card today. It described the item as 'Christmas card type'.

The Post Office is 20 yards away but I won't be collecting - £1 extra for not delivering is ridiculous - they can return it to the sender (and, as it's a Christmas card - probably with no retrurn address - they'll not manage that either).

kuohu

But it might be from a long lost relative who has just won the lottery!

squashy

Quite a few times in the last couple of weeks we have had a card put through when we have been IN! They didn't even knock/ring. Thus meaning we have to mess about collecting the items.

I heard something once saying that the reason for this is that they employ casual postmen who aren't authorised to carry the parcels at all so they just leave them at the depot and put a card through. Sounds like laziness to me though!

Contains_Mild_Peril

I sometimes get mail addressed to neighbours, and sometimes even different streets. Our posties rarely knock to deliver a parcel - they usually just put a card through the door.
My dad, who spends a lot of time at my grandad's house and little at his own, was horrified recently when he found out that the PO hadn't delivered his mail at all, but had returned it to its senders marked "Gone away"! This has caused him all sorts of problems, since senders of important items have (understandably but erroneously) concluded that he's changed his address and that they have no way of contacting him. He's fuming. Even if someone had moved, that would be no reason to assume that they were no longer collecting their mail from the address to which it was sent.

peterbaker

I think the whole UK postal system is approaching meltdown due to factors like reduction in standard of care, unmanageable volumes and flows and the 'low cost high volume' approach to security in retail and in banking.

We have had too many uncontrolled changes in a relatively short period.
To name a few:
1. The proliferation of casually employed RM postpersons as the 'norm'
2. The worldwide eBay crescendo.
3. The recent Channel Islands VAT avoidance phenomenum (DVDs and Video Games from people like HMV and Tesco Direct being supplied in exactly similar FULL VALUE LABELLED normal unsigned-for postal packets which everyone recognises as nickable, and which rarely fit in anybody's letter box.
4. The RM junk mail crescendo
5. The UK cheap immigrant labour junkmail crescendo
6. The UK credit card crescendo
7. The barely understandable need for local authorities to issue weekly free newspapers bulked out by printing everything in ten languages.
8. The UK's totally dumb love affair with anything cheesy and circular that is declared to be pizza and may well be pizza but should never be consumed in the quantities it is!
9. The UK's tolerance of clothing collection scams
10. The UK's tolerance of black market local services
I came home the other day to find "HMV Entertainment Media Value £34.99 Guernsey" sticking half in my letterbox next to the 15 other letterboxes for this block of flats! I was amazed it was still there after the number of junk mail delivery second hand childs pushchair type personnel we see every week in our street.

I have credit cards. I don't think there is a single standard delivery method for any of them, but none is signed for!

My postbox is a secure as a lid on a flowerpot (a woman could easily reach inside) and if I leave it more than a long weekend is quite likely to overlow. Then it starts receiving special treatment depending on who is trying to deliver to it or abuse it or both!

As a result, 10 out of 16 letterboxes in my block are now externally damaged (no flap or flap falling off).