Deliveries re-starting?

wendym

custardy wrote: »

on the card it will give how long to give before collection.
on of the reasons they wont be offering redelivery(i assume) is for the time its taking for items ot be sent back to the delivery offices as they go back in the same mail system as normal mail.
most offices remain open during the strikes for collections however if you get a red card i would call the delivery office.
if the items in the office there is no reason(bar strike) itt cant go out on redelivery or to a local post office.
also if you have another address within your delivery offices delivery area it can often be redirected there for you.

Thanks - I'm assuming that all these normal arrangements won't hold for next week - and there is never any point in trying to call the office (thanks too to wileycat - my thanks button is on strike in sympathy)

wileycat

wendym wrote: »

Thanks - I'm assuming that all these normal arrangements won't hold for next week - and there is never any point in trying to call the office (thanks too to wileycat - my thanks button is on strike in sympathy)

Only for the one day that the delivery office is on strike.

custardy

yeah as said.most post offices get mail every day so forwarding local collects makes no difference.
same for redeliveries as long as its actually physically in the delivery office.

wendym

Wasn't life easy when local offices (not just Royal Mail, of course) had local phone nos answered by real people? Thanks for being real people and helping out on this board.

And I fear that soon I'll be saying 'wasn't it easy when Royal Mail delivered to the Isle of Man at the basic UK price?'

custardy

yeah unfortunatly you will soon look as now being the good old days

Baby_J_2

So (excuse me for being slighly dense) but will we not be getting ANY post at all for next week? i am expecting quite a few things and none seem to be turning up!

custardy

no its rolling IA.so say monday the lorrys dont run(some would anyway though) ,next day its the mail centres,next day the delivery offices.
so wednesday woould be the only day there were no deliveries however mail is slowed down throughout the system.
note i dont have the specific days just now so dont go by the example i made

wileycat

Baby_J wrote: »

So (excuse me for being slighly dense) but will we not be getting ANY post at all for next week? i am expecting quite a few things and none seem to be turning up!

Yes you should be receiving deliveries now, ie from wednesday onwards.

Next strike day for delivery is Tuesday.

But if you live in Liverpool, SW/SE London, Glasgow and a few other areas unofficial strike action is still occuring over local matters where postman are being unfairly suspended and union representatives being victimised in the workplace. This might be why you're not getting anything.

Items are flowing through the system, there is a backlog, thats to be expected after 4 days of strike action! Certainly finally made the media interested at least!

Rev

I called royal mail customer services today to ask about a parcel sent special delivery on Wednesday, it still hasn't left the senders sorting office. When I asked about strikes next week he told me he had no idea what I was talking about???? But was very quick to inform me I the money couldn't be claimed back as next day delivery hadn't be guaranteed, even though I hadn't asked that. Also, since I'm in Liverpool, I haven't had any mail delivered for over a week now.

custardy

Mail centres and airports - duties, scheduled attendance and overtime commencing at or after 18.00 Monday 15th October 2007 and before 18.00

Tuesday 16th October 2007.
Deliveries and separate collection hubs - duties, scheduled attendance and overtime commencing at or after 03.00 Tuesday 16th October 2007 and before 03.00
Wednesday 17th October 2007.
Network (drivers) - duties, scheduled attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Wednesday 17th October 2007 and before 12 noon

Thursday 18th October 2007.
MDECs (mechanised data entry centres) - duties, scheduled attendance and overtime commencing at or after 12 noon Thursday 18th October 2007 and before 12 noon
Friday 19th October 2007.
International/Heathrow World Distribution Centre - duties, scheduled attendance and overtime commencing at or after 14.00 Thursday 18th October 2007 and before 14.00 Friday 19th October 2007.

full strike breakdown for next week.