Don't You Just Love The Royal Mail?

10ClarionSt | 19:36 Tue 18th Dec 2018 | ChatterBank

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I know. It's a busy time for them but I received a card today addressed to someone who lives at the same house number and street as me but unfortunately they live 220 miles in Winchester. I live in Middleton, they live in Littleton. I live in Manchester, they live in Winchester. I live in Lancs, they live in Hants. Wouldn't you think someone at the Southampton or Manchester sorting office might have asked a question or two? They only just missed the letterbox by 220 miles. Don't you just love the Royal Mail?

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Mamyalynne

Postcode right or wrong?

Tilly2

Yes, I do love the Royal Mail. They do a grand job...usually.

10ClarionSt

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There was no postcode on the envelope. But it was clearly written.

douglas9401

They should be shut down, management rendered down for soap and the delivery mob crucified.

When I was a lad, etc.

You could, of course, just drop in in a post box in passing and let them try again thus giving yourself an amusing anecdote to recount at the Christmas dinner table.

Mamyalynne

No postcode, part of the problem right there.

There really isn't a little person carefully reading every envelope sadly, it's amazing how low the numbers of wrongly delivered items there are.

TonyV

IMO Royal Mail do a brilliant job even with the temporary staff they need to take on at this time of the year.

Mamyalynne

I would add the correct postcode before reposting it.

Tilly2

I did two stints on the Christmas post when I was a student. I loved it. I got loads of Christmas tips!

I still tip my postie at Christmas. She's a treasure.

Buenchico

The only thing that matters when letters go through the sorting system is your full 'postcode address' (which includes the house number).

So if you live at 23 Acacia Avenue, Sometown, Northshire, XY1 2AB, your address (as far as the sorting system is concerned) is simply 23XY12AB. It's those characters which are encoded onto the envelope by the optical character recognition software that attempts to read people's handwriting (or by the person who has to manually deal with anything that can't be machine read).

Either somebody has written 'SO22' so appallingly that the machine has picked it up as 'M24' or, possibly more likely, two envelopes have got jammed together in a sorting machine, so that the the code for one envelope has been imprinted onto the other one.

Once the incorrect code is on an envelope it automatically finds it way to the road associated with that code, without any further human intervention. The postie then has a pile of envelopes destined for Bloggs Road and is only required to look at the house number to complete the delivery.

wiltsman

Yes, I do love the Royal Mail.
You failed to mention whether the card you received today included a post code. If it did include a post code for Littleton, Hants, then I think you had a right to be a bit annoyed.
Why not be a good Samaritan, find the correct post code from the internet, write it on the envelope and stick it in the nearest post box?

TonyV

Agree Lynne on our street post codes number are only different by a different last letter in postcode, one for right other by left but if any missdelivers

Buenchico

Oh! No postcode? Well it's hardly surprising that it's gone astray then!

TonyV

Neighbours get cards delivered to correct address bless