Postpeople

nashly

I was over my mates today and as the postie was about to put mail through his door at the same time he opened the door to put rubbish out so the postie gave him his mail and walked off, when my mate looked through his post he noticed one item was a " sorry we missed you when you were out " card, my mate is expecting a parcel and only lives 2 miles from the pick up point so was not to bothered about it.
This also happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I was in my kitchen which is next to my front door, I picked up the post and I had the "sorry we missed you" card as well.

Is this now a Royal Mail policy or just lazy postworkers ?

fluffnutter

I should imagine it's as a result of targets surrounding how much ground has to be covered by each postie. They've no doubt decided that writing out cards beforehand is more time-effective than knocking the door and waiting for a response. Got to meet those targets! Government says so!

somethingcorporate

They may not have the capacity to carry all the packets and parcels for their entire round. Hence they have some cards for the ones that they cannot carry.

ThumbRemote

somethingcorporate wrote: »

They may not have the capacity to carry all the packets and parcels for their entire round. Hence they have some cards for the ones that they cannot carry.

That's no excuse though. The customer - who has sent the parcel - has paid for it to be delivered (or at least a delivery attempted).

useless_git_requires_wife

This is standard operating procedure when they are busy AFAIK.

somethingcorporate

ThumbRemote wrote: »

That's no excuse though. The customer - who has sent the parcel - has paid for it to be delivered (or at least a delivery attempted).

I agree, it is not an excuse, merely a suggested explanation.

custardy

nashly wrote: »

I was over my mates today and as the postie was about to put mail through his door at the same time he opened the door to put rubbish out so the postie gave him his mail and walked off, when my mate looked through his post he noticed one item was a " sorry we missed you when you were out " card, my mate is expecting a parcel and only lives 2 miles from the pick up point so was not to bothered about it.
This also happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I was in my kitchen which is next to my front door, I picked up the post and I had the "sorry we missed you" card as well.

Is this now a Royal Mail policy or just lazy postworkers ?

its not policy
does he live in a stair?

arcon5

Re-arrange delivery online or by phoning them, see if they post a second red card

spike7451

somethingcorporate wrote: »

They may not have the capacity to carry all the packets and parcels for their entire round. Hence they have some cards for the ones that they cannot carry.

Packets & parcels over a certain size are delivered by van man in my town,I live 10 min walk from the town,less than 1/2 mile.

custardy

spike7451 wrote: »

Packets & parcels over a certain size are delivered by van man in my town,I live 10 min walk from the town,less than 1/2 mile.

delivery systems vary from office to office
generaly folks on the older systems, like yourself. have a better chance of a decent service

lateandlive

I'd have thought it was logical, if not slightly annoying, that if you had an X-Box sent through the postal service it would be totally impractical for a postman or woman to carry it on their route. There may be vans available, but if it was going to work out faster (with the amount of parcels vs the amount of vans) for you to pick it up then a card through the door seems sensible.

"Sorry you were out" seems a tad hypocritical, but then again "Sorry, it was too big to carry and the vans are going the other way" seems a bit long

I'd be interested to know if, and it might be the case, when you post an item you're paying for the promise it will be brought to your home or if that's an assumption we make because letters are, and it's within the 'charter' of the Royal Mail to say large items being collected is acceptable?