Can I have a little rant regarding Royal Mail please?

pigpen

custardy wrote: »

you mean when I quoted your whole post?
I think you mean highlight
So you are saying they didn't wait 10 seconds
yet they had crossed the road,knocked and your neighbour had got to the door in under 10 seconds?

I got to the door and opened it and stood looking confused for a few seconds before noticing the royal mail van so I waited a little longer until he came back and asked if he had a parcel for me and he went back and got it from the neighbour. At which point I suggested he waited after knocking so at least give me time to get to the door.

I have a 7ft hedge so can't see up the street in the direction he had gone.

custardy

pigpen wrote: »

I got to the door and opened it and stood looking confused for a few seconds before noticing the royal mail van so I waited a little longer until he came back and asked if he had a parcel for me and he went back and got it from the neighbour. At which point I suggested he waited after knocking so at least give me time to get to the door.

I have a 7ft hedge so can't see up the street in the direction he had gone.

sigh. since you have a bee in your bonnet
so it took you how many seconds to answer the door? you say 10 seconds? to stop doing washing and walk 56 feet?
The driver has gone to try and get your packet delivered(for your convenience) and would be returning to leave a card at your door to advise this.
had you given me the same 'flea in my ear', I would make sure in future not to put you through so much trauma and return everything to the office if you failed to answer the door

motch

custardy wrote: »

sigh. since you have a bee in your bonnet
so it took you how many seconds to answer the door? you say 10 seconds? to stop doing washing and walk 56 feet?
The driver has gone to try and get your packet delivered(for your convenience) and would be returning to leave a card at your door to advise this.
had you given me the same 'flea in my ear', I would make sure in future not to put you through so much trauma and return everything to the office if you failed to answer the door

seconded

so your postie has tried to help you out do you a favour by leaving the parcel with a neighbour and he gets grief/told off by you for doing so.

LannieDuck

Best one I had was when I hurried down the stairs to answer the door (honestly took me no more than 10 secs), and the postman had already put the red slip through and was walking away.

His reasoning? I should have called down to him to let him know I was 'on my way'. When I said I had no idea it was the postman and I wasn't about to call down to every random person that knocked on my door, he said I could have looked out the window to see it was him... only the window was the opposite way to the door I was trying to get to to answer and would probably have doubled my response time.

(Although I guess that doesn't quite beat the courier who left my parcel in the recycling bin... on bin day :P)

D4WNO

Debt-Free-Wannabee wrote: »

"There is no data currently available for this tracking reference."

FYI for anyone who gets this error message (as I did on the links on postoffice and RM websites), try the link below instead which they for some reason don't advertise. Suddenly my code existed again and it gives loads of detail, yay!

http://www.royalmail.com/trackdetails

CupOfChai

At least your postmen knocked! I'm not at all still annoyed about the time I was sitting in my living room and by coincidence happened to glance over to the front door, only to see a red card stealthily creeping through the letterbox...