Post office - long delivery times

lincroft1710

sheramber said:

That is a box from the reign of Edward 8th.  Not many of there left.

There weren't many to start with

GaleSF63

custardy said:

GaleSF63 said:

custardy said:

As for calling it Post Office. Trust me folks who work for PO and RM get tired of explaining the difference daily (yes) when people go to the wrong place /organisation for whatever it is the need/want to moan about.

It probably didn't help that when one organisation became 2, it didn't really make any practical difference to the general public. They still go to the post office to send their parcels by RM, still buy their RM stamps at the post office and still post their letters in boxes which often look something like this... I assume the letter boxes are all owned by RM now?
I hope they never change or get rid of the Post Office letter boxes though.

By the same argument. Why not refer to it as the GPO?
How many decades will the same excuse/reason be used? 
Calling it one thing but not knowing the difference is the issue. Yet folks are always quick to excuse it
RM,PO & BT were split out (in various forms) in the 80's. So that 1 organisation became 3. Nearly 40 years ago

I'd forgotten about Post Office Telephones!
I don't think people use it as an excuse - most don't think about it; that was just me thinking it might be a reason. 

custardy

GaleSF63 said:

custardy said:

GaleSF63 said:

custardy said:

As for calling it Post Office. Trust me folks who work for PO and RM get tired of explaining the difference daily (yes) when people go to the wrong place /organisation for whatever it is the need/want to moan about.

It probably didn't help that when one organisation became 2, it didn't really make any practical difference to the general public. They still go to the post office to send their parcels by RM, still buy their RM stamps at the post office and still post their letters in boxes which often look something like this... I assume the letter boxes are all owned by RM now?
I hope they never change or get rid of the Post Office letter boxes though.

By the same argument. Why not refer to it as the GPO?
How many decades will the same excuse/reason be used? 
Calling it one thing but not knowing the difference is the issue. Yet folks are always quick to excuse it
RM,PO & BT were split out (in various forms) in the 80's. So that 1 organisation became 3. Nearly 40 years ago

I'd forgotten about Post Office Telephones!
I don't think people use it as an excuse - most don't think about it; that was just me thinking it might be a reason. 

But they do. its dismissed as not important/pedantry.
However the companies are separate and moving apart.
For example. PO now do direct Amazon collect parcels. Delivered by Amazon logistics.
Yet every day people will rock up to an RM office looking for these items.
Anyone working in a central RM CSP will have to explain multiple times a day they are not a PO and often deal with irate customers when they don't have the answers.
I would bet its worse for PO staff.

Pollycat

GaleSF63 said:

custardy said:

GaleSF63 said:

custardy said:

As for calling it Post Office. Trust me folks who work for PO and RM get tired of explaining the difference daily (yes) when people go to the wrong place /organisation for whatever it is the need/want to moan about.

It probably didn't help that when one organisation became 2, it didn't really make any practical difference to the general public. They still go to the post office to send their parcels by RM, still buy their RM stamps at the post office and still post their letters in boxes which often look something like this... I assume the letter boxes are all owned by RM now?
I hope they never change or get rid of the Post Office letter boxes though.

By the same argument. Why not refer to it as the GPO?
How many decades will the same excuse/reason be used? 
Calling it one thing but not knowing the difference is the issue. Yet folks are always quick to excuse it
RM,PO & BT were split out (in various forms) in the 80's. So that 1 organisation became 3. Nearly 40 years ago

I'd forgotten about Post Office Telephones!
I don't think people use it as an excuse - most don't think about it; that was just me thinking it might be a reason. 

And telegraphs!
There used to be a grade called P&TO (postal and telegraph officer) - I remember this from superannuation papers I dealt with.
There's a Wetherspoons pub in Brighton called the Post and Telegraph.

And it used to be part of the Civil Service until 1/10/1969 (called Vesting Day).
I started work just over one year after it became a public corporation.

GaleSF63

Pollycat said:

And telegraphs!
There used to be a grade called P&TO (postal and telegraph officer) - I remember this from superannuation papers I dealt with.
There's a Wetherspoons pub in Brighton called the Post and Telegraph.

And it used to be part of the Civil Service until 1/10/1969 (called Vesting Day).
I started work just over one year after it became a public corporation.

Bridge of Allan.

JJC1956

It was my other half’s birthday in March, she received a Birthday Card last week with correct address and postcode, it was stamped missent to Jamaica, we live in Jamaica St 😆

Pollycat

JJC1956 said:

It was my other half’s birthday in March, she received a Birthday Card last week with correct address and postcode, it was stamped missent to Jamaica, we live in Jamaica St 😆

Did it have the correct postcode on?

JJC1956

Pollycat said:

JJC1956 said:

It was my other half’s birthday in March, she received a Birthday Card last week with correct address and postcode, it was stamped missent to Jamaica, we live in Jamaica St 😆

Did it have the correct postcode on?

Yep, as I said above, the address was perfect, probably a postman just having a laugh. Posted end of March, turned up last week. It was stamped in capitals MISSENT TO JAMAICA 🙄

JJC1956

Pollycat said:

JJC1956 said:

It was my other half’s birthday in March, she received a Birthday Card last week with correct address and postcode, it was stamped missent to Jamaica, we live in Jamaica St 😆

Did it have the correct postcode on?

Might explain where my SAR request is, from HMRC about my NI contributions that I asked for last July, (plus 3 phone calls) probably being pored over by the locals in a Rum Shack in Kingston 😆