Royal Mail rant

Ex-postie here. They’ll be getting battered at the moment, Black Friday morphing into Xmas. Services already running at the edge of possibility just break down. Blame incompetent management – and the unrealistic expectations of customers demanding free postage? I just get anything from Evri and the like delivered to a local hub (corner shop off-licence 15 minutes walk away). Easier for them, gives me a reason to stretch my legs.

Current postie here and what everyone is saying about RM management is true. Our office has been very understaffed for months now and we are getting battered with parcels at the moment. Only a small office with 14 rounds, recently recruited two new staff, one of which has just completed two weeks training and jacked it in. Surprise, surprise. It was harder work than he thought it was going to be. One of the lads has just gone sick for the next six weeks and another is retiring at the end of this week. We are right royaly stuffed now in the run up to xmas. I’ll be glad when it’s over as I am every year.

Running a postoffice we’ve just had well over 10x more post this morning than a regular Monday – the vast majority from two business which had black Friday deals over the weekend. Postie couldn’t collect it all this morning so my kitchen currently is holding the extra bags of post.

I live in Kent, near to a big town and a mile from the local sorting office.

Haven’t had any letter post delivered for two weeks, so went to the sorting office this morning where they gave me two weeks worth of post.  WHen I asked what the problem was the staff behind the counter replied “because Royal Mail are sh1t”

At least they’re honest….

Added that loads of staff had left and they are finding it hard to recruit replacements 

On the flip side we’ve suddenly started getting daily deliveries for the first time since the pandemic. 🤷‍♂️

I was expecting an item from eBay last week, tracking said due Thursday. Nothing arrived, but when I got home on Friday from doing some shopping there was a red ‘Sorry we missed you’ card on the mat, with ‘your safe place’ ticked, and ‘parcel box’ written on it. (I have a black kitchen waste bin outside for parcels). Checked, and nothing there. Went to the sorting office, explained the situation and the chap copied the card, took my number and said he’d check with the postie. I was out earlier today, got home and had an eBay item delivered notification on my phone, checked the box outside and the item was there! I’d assumed that the package had been nicked, so ordered another one from somewhere else, (it’s a case for a bow sight), because I needed a couple of other items as well, so now I’m going to have to return the first one.I just can’t figure out why I had the card through the door on Thursday, when the parcel was still in transit. 🤷🏼

I had a great one with Evri. Paid for a priority tracked service. Received a message stating ‘unable to deliver’ finally managed to get through to a person by, I’m assuming, breaking the Chat Bot with sarcasm. The brilliant excuse was that the driver couldn’t find my house as it is difficult to find.

My house is painted white, has the name of my road and the next road literally attached to it. Is on a prominent bend and is the first thing you see when going around said bend. ****

As suspected. Yodel have successfully delivered my parcel to some random address it would seem. Nice picture of doors I don’t recognise and my parcel.

Good one today…

Text msg from Parcelforce saying “your delivery is due today between 12.30 and 16.30”, then some options, i.e. text 1 for delivery to a neighbour.

I texted 1, got a confirmation msg. Then 3 hours later got another msg saying “sorry you were out, we couldn’t deliver.”

FFS! You literally gave me an option, I chose it, and you’ve ignored it and done something else.