Is anyone getting mail yet?

Roscobob

I think it depends on the Post Office as well.

According to my mate who's a postie Royal Mail told all the posties that they could deliver the mail if they wanted but they weren't insured for these conditions. My local post office is one of the most militant in Britain so they refused to deliver the mail. Other post offices may well have just got on with it.

We didn't receive any post for 10 days.

Tom Butcher

Down here we were told the posties wanted to go out but weren't allowed - maybe that translates as told they weren't insured I don't know.

singlespeedexplosif

Are they on strike again? must have been at least a month since the last one so they should be due at least a week off.

rc856

Some mail arriving but still waiting on my Tifosi bike bag that I won on ebay.
It managed to get north in the bad weather but has been sitting at the Motherwell depot....about 40miles away....since 3am yesterday morning

a_n_t

been waiting for some bars sent special delivery on 3/12/10. Track and trace says they tried to deliver them from the portsmouth depot today - I live in manchester though??!!

a_n_t

.............and just 10 days later they turn up, good old special delivery!

amaferanga

I picked up a parcel today that was posted on the 26th November. I'd given up on it as lost in transit....

bompington

Lots of stuff gettng through to us since about last friday, but now comes the news that Tesco et al aren't sure they'll get everything sorted before xmas, so they're not going to deliver to Scotland for the foreseeable future :shock: That'll certainly go down well in places like Galloway where there's been pretty much no snow.

That's probably better than zazzle.co.uk: Bompette is a keen runner and we wanted to get her a hoodie for xmas with an "eat sleep run" logo. We found one at Zazzle, everything looked fine as we went through the usual annoying and unnecessary registration process, until the final payment page. P&P listed as 4.95, could be worse I thought, as usual I checked the small print & found the xmas posting info. Turns out that 4.95 is the standard postage, and the last order date for guranteed delivery is about November 25th. Or you could always upgrade to express... £22!

Remember that's a hoodie, not a steam roller.

Guess who didn't get my business after all?

schweiz

How's the post situation in blighty now? Are packages getting through?

I ordered some stuff for Christmas presents which was posted on 9th of December to be sent to my parents address and it still (up to last night) hasn't arrived.

amaferanga

I received a parcel yesterday that was posted 1st class on the 29th November.

Still waiting for a few that were posted early December.

schweiz

I'll just keep my fingers crossed.

Still got three days yet.

Ginjafro

First post for 4 days this morning, which is snow (geddit) surprise but within 5 minutes another Postie turned up with even more mail !

aegrey

Not yet, and I am waiting for the cyclescheme voucher to go pick up my new bike :-(
Posted last week but not yet here :-( :-(

NW Postie

I've been out most the weekend delivering mail, even with the amount of snow we had here in Southport we have been out regardless

The main problems now are the backlogs at the main sorting offices where they've not managed to clear the huge amount of parcels :shock:

amaferanga

Yeah it's been quite obvious here in Sheffield that once the snow had gone they started delivering parcels posted after the snow pretty quickly, but those posted before/during the snow seemed to be only trickling into the delivery system. Everything I've ordered since the 12th December has been delivered now, its stuff from early December that's taking ages.

NW Postie

i wouldnt be surprised if there is alot of parcels still stuck in depots, well thats what we are being advised anyway.... these early starts arent great and some people really do not appreciate the effort made to deliver parcels in these bad conditions

fish156

A few of us neighbours are going to club together an buy our postie a winter coat for Christmas. Maybe then he'll consider delivering when there's a bit of snow on the ground.

Better not get it mail order though

Today (Wednesday) I got last weeks CW (it's been available in my corner shop since last Thursday). :roll:

Monty Dog

Royal Mail are trapped in a 1980smindset - if they were a business they'd go under because if customers had reasonable choices they would leave in droves - for the 4th winter in a row we get a little snow for a day or so and the whole thing caves-in. Modern businesses have crisis management and business continuity plans to prevent their operations from failing due to unforeseen events - the fact that snow in winter is entirely predictable just demonstrates their incompetence.

Mr Dog

Lets hope you get the postal system you want monty.. and the comment about the snow had me rolling around the floor.

Pross

The postie in my neck of the woods has delivered every day but we are getting less than usual presumably due to delays at the other end.

NW Postie

Pross wrote:

The postie in my neck of the woods has delivered every day but we are getting less than usual presumably due to delays at the other end.

this is the current case up my neck of the woods also.... i've been working through the night at the sorting office and the mail is upto a week from date of posting :x