Mail only being delivered once a week at most maybe even less...

user225688 · 14 July 2020 at 11:38AM

Isn't nearly everyone back at work now so royal mail should have cleared out their backlog by now?

I only started receiving mail to my own post box a couple of weeks ago after having had to wait 8 months odd for the property managers to bother to put them in. FINALLY!

They had contacted royal mail instructing them to deliver to the properties (around 50 or so on the new build site) and they did so efficiently for a few days, maybe 3 or 4 days then suddenly I stopped seeing the mailman. I know they aren't coming because I am in every morning and watch like a hawk from when I wake very early til around 2 pm. And even when I go out and return mail is not arriving while I was out so they aren't coming at all I think.

Also I was waiting for an item on ebay and it had been about two weeks. I had just raised a case to have it resent then that day must have happened to be the only day royal mail delivered and I received it and cancelled the case.

I really hope that it is only a temporary thing and it is not they just don't wanna deliver any more than that as a permanent thing. Royal mail like to make it really hard to find their direct numbers for sorting offices so it is hard to find out any info. Also the office is about 10 miles away, and I don't drive and don't wanna use public transport, not even in the same city; it is in a town out of the city, even though before we got our own boxes the mail came in from a sorting depot only a couple of miles in the same city.

So do you just have to 'lump it' and when you get it is when you get it. It surely is great to have my own box now and not have to go and ask for stuff but the regularity is probably less now than when I didn't have a box. I really hope it's temporary and not permanent and the sorting office feel they do not need to deliver any more often than once a week.

Since they were delivering daily the first few days is what makes me question the cause since if it was covid related I imagine the 1 per week would have been from the start but it happened only after a couple of weeks. So I am wondering if they thought they don't feel obligated to deliver any more than that for a new site that has just been tacked on to their already bursting workload.