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Royal Mail refusing to deliver to my door

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  • antrobus
    antrobus Posts: 17,386 Forumite
    Billy76 wrote: »
    ...I'm more convinced than ever from the replies that court action is the only way.

    Read this:-

    http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nireland/consumer_ni/consumer_post_e/consumer_problems_with_post_e/consumer_problems_with_post_delivery_e/can_royal_mail_refuse_to_deliver_mail_to_your_home.htm

    It might prove cheaper than court action.
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,641 Forumite
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    edited 20 August 2012 at 6:05PM
    Billy76 wrote: »
    The post has been delivered on and off . Like I said, at a whim. Most of you here must either work for or have worked for Royal Mail.

    Here we go again, just because others aren't seeing your POV you come out with that statement. What utter tosh.

    Oh and I dont work for RM
  • starrybee
    starrybee Posts: 1,917 Forumite
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    I would really love to see a picture of this path!
  • mazza111
    mazza111 Posts: 6,327 Forumite
    Billy76 wrote: »
    The post has been delivered on and off . Like I said, at a whim. Most of you here must either work for or have worked for Royal Mail.

    Why were some postmen able to post correctly, while others were not? There is no hazard to highlight to the delivery office. The delivery office is full of !!!!. They have taken a purely vindictive action because I complained about one particular postman who is too lazy to post in my door.

    Furthermore, if an uneven path is a tripping hazard, then so is the bloody kerb, the paving stones, and all the other paths in the street. Besides, the path is not uneven anyway and had been used by former postmen before the lazy one without
    problems.


    I'm more convinced than ever from the replies that court action is the only way.

    Well, hello. I have never denied working for RM, hence why I asked about the path. Each postie does their own Risk Assessment every day when out walking. There's one door I wouldn't go to when it was wet because of the greenery on their path and the rubbish quality of RM boots. Not with my knees :rotfl: You have judged this guy to be lazy, but fail to show a pic of the path in question. Yes, posties even have to be careful at street level, because of kerbs, but you expect them. You don't expect to go down a pot hole up to your knees in the snow (yes it happened to me :rotfl:) etc. It would have been a manager that risk assessed your path, not the "lazy" postie
    4 Stones and 0 pounds or 25.4kg lighter :j
  • Arg
    Arg Posts: 931 Forumite
    DCFC79 wrote: »
    Here we go again, just because others aren't seeing your POV you come out with that statement. What utter tosh.

    Oh and I dont work for RM

    It's easy to confuse unhelpful oiks with workers interested in defending their lazy actions.
  • pmduk
    pmduk Posts: 10,683 Forumite
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    It's also very easy to write off any opinion that doesn't meet the OP's predecided prejudice.
  • mazza111
    mazza111 Posts: 6,327 Forumite
    Arg wrote: »
    It's easy to confuse unhelpful oiks with workers interested in defending their lazy actions.

    Err. I don't work for RM any more. But may be able to see another posties' POV on this. I don't owe RM anything after my knees got messed up walking down stairs that were covered in wet leaves. So when posties are facing these risks every day, I would like to see the path. I will give an honest opinion. My knee will never be right again, which has caused other problems, like the knee giving way and me doing my shoulder in too. So you can call me lazy if you want, but actions or inactions due to a risk assessment is hardly laziness.
    4 Stones and 0 pounds or 25.4kg lighter :j
  • Billy76
    Billy76 Posts: 13 Forumite
    edited 20 August 2012 at 6:53PM
    Different case altogether.
  • wealdroam
    wealdroam Posts: 19,180 Forumite
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    Billy76 wrote: »
    Ridiculous. If that's the kind of hazard you're talking about then Royal Mail need to go into another business altogether. Kerbs, paving stones, uneven driveways, crazy paving, etc. etc. What do you want a bloody runway from the delivery office to the letterboxes? Pathetic
    Are you going to tell us what Royal Mail reckon is wrong with your path?

    Or are you just going to continue abuse anyone who does not agree with you?

    Rational answers would be appreciated.

    As was mentioned on an earlier post, a picture would be good.
  • Guardsman
    Guardsman Posts: 991 Forumite
    Why don't you ask for your mail to be delivered to your local post office the walk there will do you the world of good.
    People these days are so lazy they expect everything to be on their doorstep.
    I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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