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pastafreak | 19:07 Tue 14th Jan 2025 | Shopping & Style
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How long should I wait for one to arrive before I get worried. Posted last Wednesday from Mansfield. 

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The delivery target is "two to three working days".  Let's supoose though that the parcel wasn't posted until fairly late on Wednesday, then it would seem fairest to start the calculation from Thursday.  That would mean that your parcel should have arrived by Monday in order to meet the target figure.  However Royal Mail hasn't been meeting its targets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nkj2k237o
so it might be a little too early to start worrying yet.

...and no point in worrying anyway. It won't get to you any sooner!

PS: The USPS and Royal Mail seem to have worked well together for me thouh, as I received a letter in today's post that was sent from Westchester, NY just last Wednesday.

PPS: It could be worse.  My friends live in Trieste and reckon on allowing about three weeks for Poste Italiane to get a letter from one side of the city to the other!

From what I`ve heard in parts of Devon, there are a shortage of Royal Mail workers.  People don't get anything for ages, then everything comes at once.  Hopefully your parcel will get to you sooner or later.

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I assumed as much 🙄. I've bought from the seller before and things usually arrive pretty quickly...2 days.

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I was actually wondering if they hold on to parcels until they've got enough for a particular area. Service was OK pre-christmas.

They might have taken on temporary staff in the run up to Christmas so things might have been moving faster. I would give it a week and then investigate.  It's not good enough though.

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It's a small house plant...probably be shrivelled when I get it. Sellers should use Tracked 24 or 48.

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