I have on my desk a Royal Mail “Sorry, you were out” card. Time – 11.50, date today.
Erm, no. And if you’d knocked on the door or rang the bell, you’d have found that out – we heard the letter box go when you dropped the card through, and Big saw you getting back into your van when she went to get the post.
So add to tomorrows list – go to delivery office to pick up perishable parcel.
Add to today’s list of things done – complain. :rant:
eta and then the door bell did ring, and it was our postwoman, with the rest of the post, including a small parcel (that’ll be the other half of our chrimble pressie then 😉 ) and we told her all about it, and she said that there’s been several complaints, and she doesn’t think they ring the bell. Told her there had been another complaint, and how I’d said that it hadn’t been our usual postie, (her) because we know that she always rings the bell!
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It’s like there’s been this directive. Our regulat postie always rings the bell very enthusiastically, but the xmas one today just did a sort of rattle of the letter box as he put the rest through. Had I not being on the point of opening the door to get Hannah’s wellies out of the car, he’d have been off with our parcel as well.
But why would they not want to get things delivered first time?
Having been a Xmas postie – it’s a damn sight quicker to write out a load of cards in advance, and then stick them through the door with the mail and keep on walking, than it is to ring bell/wait/write card x 75. If you are physically carrying them, there is an incentive to get them posted, but if they are on a bike carrier, it’s a very tempting prospect sometimes. Not that I have ever done it myself…….
Did you see the “castle” they made yesterday? It was fab!
This guy wasn’t even carrying the stuff, he had a van! But I’m guessing he didn’t bring the parcel out of the van, only the card. Which looked prewritten to me, as something had been added on in slightly different handwriting and pen.
Grr.
Yes, they’ve played with the castle again today.
That happened to us a few months ago. We complained at the sorting office (had to make a special trip to Holmfirth to collect parcel) and they said they had had a few complaints about this particular postie, who wasn’t our usual one either.
At Xmas time, the PO always take on many temporary staff just to cope with the extra mail. My brother did this a few years on the trot. I’m afraid these staff don’t have the same approach to the job as the regular posties do.
My postie is absolutely fab. He just knocks on the back door, opens it, yells ‘Mail’ and drops it on the kitchen mat. 🙂
If I’m not in, he knows where to leave the packages, and if he’s got something that needs signing for, he flagged me down before now,as I drive down the road so he can give it to me. If I go out before he arrives, I drive out of my road the other way, so I can pass him – he sees me coming (not that I drive anything distinctive, mind) and has my post in his hand waiting to hand to me through the window. He’s brilliant.
(sorry, bit effusive that – but nice to write something positive for a change 😉 )
Sky channel 508 now until 10.30pm is the education white paper commitee meeting (or some such- I couldn’t watch it!), thought you might be interested.
Thanks Ros.
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He he, you could switch to Parcel-Farce. They dont bother writing a card or even getting out of the van. You will just know that they have been, and will trot off to the post office and do their job for them….
We have had pretty good service from Parcelfarce in the recent past. It has not always been that way though.
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completes our festive smiley collection. For now, anyway.
oh well, just one more then..
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Round here, ParcelForce generally just leave stuff on the doorstep. Which when it’s worth 200 quid is a bit annoying. The postman’s great though 🙂