Sorry, i need to vent!! F*&king Royal Mail!!!!

[kira000]

Grrrrrr. I am FURIOUS!

Just got home to find that with the post on the mat, is a while you are out card saying they attempted to deliver 2 parcels today at midday.

My Ar&* they did. My OH was at home ALL day, sitting about 2ft from the front door,and primed to listen out as i warned him some plants were being delivered.

So, thats my plants dead, as i cant get a redelivery till Friday, and i have to give them 48 hours, yes 48HOURS before i can go and collect.

WTF are they doing with the parcel for 48 hours!!!

And the last 4 redeliveries i have arranged didnt show up on the redelivery day, and so had to be arranged for 2 days later again. So looks like my plants sent yesterday, will most likely turn up on Monday.
Bol7*ks.

I'm sick of it. I'm soooo going to ring up and demand the lazy Shi*e gets sacked for Foo*in up my mail, AGAIN!

Grrr. Ok,. Rant over.. :p

[kira000]

I get the need for waiting, but it clearly say on the card, in the box where they write how many hours to wait.. 48!
In my old place, they usually said 6 hours.. So i dont understand why this (SW London) S.O needs so long.

[Postdog]

I can only speak for our office. Deliveries are so long now, by the time we have completed, it will be too late to get back before the callers office shuts. I always say next day.

Don't worry, with the plans they have, it will be a lot worse in a few months.

[kira000]

Geez. Thanks PD. I'll look forward to that then!!

Warning, be prepared for RANT part 2 on Friday night when they havent shown up as rearranged (again).
Putting a watch on my mail really hasnt achieved a thing!

[Postdog]

I plan on going out anyway....

[mrs.chappie]

My postie's great. If he needs a signature and I am out, he'll knock on my neighbour's door and ask them to sign.

Likewise, he'll ask me to sign for my neighbour's delivery, if they are out. He has even knocked on neighbours several doors down, to find someone in who will take a parcel for me. What a smashing fella.

I've never had a problem with a delivery, I'm glad to say.

[crazycathy2]

We have a post women and she's great but if we're out we can just go to the post office or if we see her on her bike just ask her.

She'll ask the neighbours though if we're out

[c1]

Kira000, Maybe your OH popped out just at the time the RM came with the plants and (going by your rant) was probably scared to tell you.

[kira000]

Welllllll.. an update in case anyone sees it.
Just to prove that it was the postie being a lazy tw*t, i stayed home from work today to go and try and collect my parcels, ignoring the instruction to leave 48 hours.

Got there, grovelled a bit about coming before the 48 hours, and the bloke behind the counter said. "oh, dont know why it says 48 hours"..
Goes to get the parcels comes back, and they both would EASILY have fitted through the letter box, if the lazy berk had been bothered to take the red elastic band off and put them through separately!!!

I asked the man behind the counter why they were marked as being too big for the letter box, and he looked vaguely embarrassed, and shrugged, before running off to hide out the back.
But hey, got my parcels 24 hours sooner and only one of them had gone wilty.

[c1]

Kira

Im curious to know how big your letter box is or how small the plants were, surely x2 plants couldn't fit through a standard size letter box!