Let's Do the Time Warp (Royal Mail)

superscaper

This morning my mum received a Christmas card!!!! So what perilous journey did this card have to make from its sender? All of two or three miles from the village/town next to us! It does make you wonder what other more important stuff gets sucked into RM's wormholes.

tinkerbell84

I'm amazed someone would send a christmas card vis RM to someone so close!

Was it addressed correctly etc?

Do you have scout post at christmas there?

superscaper

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

I'm amazed someone would send a christmas card vis RM to someone so close!

Their choice I suppose, sometimes easier if you've got hundreds to post.

Was it addressed correctly etc?

Admittedly the postcode was one letter out but that'd still make it only a couple of streets away and the street and town were correct.

Do you have scout post at christmas there?

No idea, but not sure how that's relevant.

tinkerbell84

superscaper wrote: »

No idea, but not sure how that's relevant.

cheaper and more efficient than RM - your mum could have suggested it to the sender for this year's cards

superscaper

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

cheaper and more efficient than RM - your mum could have suggested it to the sender for this year's cards

It's organisational hell already trying to get all xmas cards sent out to right people and still people get forgotten etc. Can't imagine my mum'd be organised enough to tell everyone about it beforehand. Of course hindsight is great, but I think most people she knows live too far away anyway. Besides the more worrying thing is that what else goes missing? Can't do much about post that aren't christmas cards.

But will definitely look inot it for ourselves at least (although very local cards we deliver ourselves).

tinkerbell84

Ah, I have another way around it - I don't send Christmas cards!

superscaper

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Ah, I have another way around it - I don't send Christmas cards!

That's my personal philosophy as well at the moment (at least it was last christmas). But I get roped into the "contacts" retrieval and sorting on the parents' pc. So I don't quite escape it.

custardy

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

cheaper and more efficient than RM - your mum could have suggested it to the sender for this year's cards

you mean the ones we get posted into rm's letter boxes,thus without postage
or the ones dumped at the bottom of the tenement stairs i deliver to?
seems efficient

superscaper

custardy wrote: »

you mean the ones we get posted into rm's letter boxes,thus without postage
or the ones dumped at the bottom of the tenement stairs i deliver to?
seems efficient

Suppose it depends on area. No idea what they'd be like here, but our local RM sorting office seems to have gained quite a notoriety for bad apples. Like that link I put up a few weeks ago of a postie storing thousands of items in his home. Our local scouts can't be much worse than that.

custardy

superscaper wrote: »

Suppose it depends on area. No idea what they'd be like here, but our local RM sorting office seems to have gained quite a notoriety for bad apples. Like that link I put up a few weeks ago of a postie storing thousands of items in his home. Our local scouts can't be much worse than that.

unfortunatly its a rough time for rm on many fronts
depression central in my office :rolleyes:

however every year i see scout items coming through rm's system so are charged
and on my duty(all stairs)i see cards dumped on the ground floor

superscaper

custardy wrote: »

unfortunatly its a rough time for rm on many fronts
depression central in my office :rolleyes:

however every year i see scout items coming through rm's system so are charged
and on my duty(all stairs)i see cards dumped on the ground floor

Just suddenly had a nightmare image of a cost cutting decision by RM management to employ scouts instead. :eek:
I bet you wouldn't put it past your bosses either would you?