We're not yet able to provide you with an online redelivery service, but we
are working on it.
By the end of February, arranging your redelivery will be easier and more
convenient for you than ever.
If we have left you a 'Sorry you were out' card, it means we were unable to
deliver an item of mail to you. This card should state the reason why we
could not deliver an item to you, such as there was no one at home to
receive mail that needed a signature, or the item was too big to get through
the letterbox.
It should also give you more information about what type of item we are
holding for you and where we are holding it.
--
Your village just called. They're missing an idiot.
Sorry we were unable to deliver your item the other day, we just
couldn't be bothered to carry it around with us, so have left you a card
today where you can call and let us know you will be in for sure.
Indeed. I got to the point where I used a very large bit of shocking pink
paper, and a black marker pen, to write and stick a note on my door. It says
'TRY RINGING THE BELL". I was as shocked as the colour of the paper, when
it actually *worked* !! :-)
Grymma
That wouldn't work for us, we do get the parcels when they are big
enough to be delivered by royal mail in the van (around 11:00), but when
it's small enough to be delivered by the regular postman (around 11:30)
but considered too heavy / bulky by the regular postman they just leave
it at the delivery office and fill the "Sorry you were out card".
When I've called to ask them to redeliver I've heard them say, it's
another one that should have gone out, but so and so has carded it
first.
--
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But not who stole it on the way back to the sorting office :-)
Wonder if it will tell you whether that round has a PROPER *Safe drop area*
rather than behind wheelie bins, A garge or someones porch?
Really amazing on how security is none existent within Royal Mail these days
:-(
A common problem for me is that they appear not to leave a card at all and,
unknown to the buyer, the item is awaiting collection ! And sometimes, when
I've advised buyers to check with their sorting office, they're often told
it's not there only for it to come back here two weeks later. Quote, a
recent e-mail (excuse his shouting, I'm not re-typing all that lot lower
case :-) :
HI ********
THANKS FOR GETTING BACK TO ME..
I ENQUIRED TODAY AS TO THE WEREABOUTS OF MY ITEM,APARENTLY ITS BEEN AT THE
BARNSLEY DEPOT SINCE SAT, THE POSTMAN WAS SUPPOSED TO DELIVER IT ON SAT BUT
BECAUSE HIS SHIFT TIME WAS UP HE DIDENT ATEMPT TO DELIVER IT, THIS HAPPENS A
LOT ROUND HERE , ITS HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE WITH A NEXT DAY DEL , THEY DID
THE SAME THING WITH THAT...ANYWAY IVE FOUND WERE IT IS AND IM GOING TO PICK
IT UP TOMMOROW , WILL LEAVE FEEDBACK WHEN I GET IT , THANKS FOR THE OFFER OF
ANOTHER ONE ITS VERY KIND OF YOU BUT I SHOULD BE OK ,THANKS AGAIN
******.....
In my experience, Royal Mail aka the GPO are a fucking useless, fucking lazy
shower.
They sometimes take 5 days to deliver first class letters.
The problem, as ever, is that customers are never happy, whatever the
postie does, or does not do. Leave a card because the item is too large
for the letter box, and the customer will complain - postie should have
left it in the shed/greenhouse/garage/behind the wheelie bin etc. Postie
follows those instructions next time, and guess who is to blame if the
item is damaged, wet or missing?
--
Geep
Further down the same page :
How to get your item
You have several options:
* Phone the delivery office to arrange for the item to be taken to a
local Post Office Branch – this is our “Local Collect” service,
and it costs 50p. You can do this for all types of items, including
Special Delivery.
Ha ha ha. What the web site does not say is that local collect only
operates from certain offices. I cannot offer local collect at my
office, even though it is a large rural area, and a whole lot of my
customers live much closer to other POs.
--
Geep
I just wish they would take the parcel out for delivery with them,
instead of leaving it in the delivery office without even attempting
delivery.
They won't deliver to my local post office, which is less than a 2
minute walk, the post office they will deliver to is a 20 - 30 minute
walk away, they won't deliver to my local post office as it isn't in
their delivery area.
> I just wish they would take the parcel out for delivery with them,
> instead of leaving it in the delivery office without even attempting
> delivery.
At least if I catch them doing that I can send them back for it - the yard
is directly opposite my flat :-) My old postie was a sweetie. If he got
back to the yard and found new parcels for me, he would bring them over then
and there, instead of waiting til next day. Some self interest there, no
doubt, make his load lighter the next morning, but still, it was a nice
touch. I miss him. It's the new guy that's causing me all the grief.
Useless fecker.
--
Grymma AFPOh Goddess Of Hangovers; B.F.(use 'reply to')
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management
can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.Katharine Whitehorn
Alot depends on how you tip them at xmas :-)
I have the data file of Local Collect PO's, I can check any PO or find your
nearest if that's any help ?
John
The nearest PO to me that the delivery office that covers my address
will deliver to is a good 20 - 30 min walk, the PO which is less than a
2 min walk away is covered by a different delivery office, so my
delivery office won't deliver there. If you walk to the top of my road
where the PO is that is in a different Postal District, yet the shops a
couple of doors up from the PO are in the same Postal District as I am.
What are these posts all about then? Anyone know?
Thank you
Carlisle ,37 North Street,Ferryhill.DL17 8HX
god, are people really this thick?!
USE THIS LINK * http://tinyurl.com/2vsygb *
NOT THIS ONE; http://myreader.co.uk/msg/117919428.aspx
THIS AS IT SAYS IN THE LINK IS A *NEWS READER* NOT THE ROYAL MAIL'S
REDELIVERY SERVICE. F.F.S!
USE THIS LINK *
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content2?catId=400040&mediaId=37000673 *
OR * http://tinyurl.com/2vsygb * FOR THE ROYAL MAIL REDELIVERY SERVICE.
ALTHOUGH IT COULD BE BETTER TO PHONE YOU LOCAL SORTING OFFICE.
is this going to be the longest on-going non-thread ever? ;-)
I'm still bemused by this. I confess to having tried this from the RM
website, and it did not show up here. Although, I got an insanely daft email
from them.
Yabbut, how do the OPs get *there* in the first place? I know someone
suggested a misgoogle, but for that many?
third link for "royal mail redelivery service" on google.
First two links are to the royal mail redelivery website.
And if you type www.royalmail.com/redelivery (the URL royal mail
advertise the site as), it's the second link, and the first one to have
that text in bold. Lots of people are stupid enough to type URLs into
search bars, and when they see the text in bold will click on it and
think it's the site they were after.
I think you have to spend a few weeks on desktop support to see the
stupidity of users. Even telephone helpdesk doesn't show you just how
wrongly they're interpreting instructions.
Don't confuse stupidity with just not being familiar with technology, makes
you look a bit of an arrogant prick .. which is probably why you're hiding
your real identity. :)
--
Niel H
on Thursday 3rd January
> >on Thursday 3rd January
> >
> >url:http://myreader.co.uk/msg/117919428.aspx
>
> Did you bother to read anything from the link you posted your message
> on? Or the part that says to go to http://www.royalmail.com/redelivery
> ?
>
> You just posted your request to a worldwide newsgroup, not to Royal
> Mail.
>
I don't think they are posting to usenet but to another place that is in
turn posting to usenet. What, how and why are still however a mystery,
waiting to be solved.
Interestingly, I tried to track an SD item today. When I looked for
redelivery, the page bombed out with an internal RM error. I wonder how
often this happens, and whether people then go on to google for it..... and
end up on that wretched myreader site.
That would explain it.
I solved the mystery about 2 or 3 weeks ago, if not more.
Ironically, google is your friend.
--
Neil
>>
>> Interestingly, I tried to track an SD item today. When I looked for
>> redelivery, the page bombed out with an internal RM error. I wonder how
>> often this happens, and whether people then go on to google for it.....
>> and end up on that wretched myreader site.
> I've not heard anyone mention it, we have very few problems with the
> redelivery website tbh.
Probably a Sometimes It Does That, guv. :) To use a technical term, like you
do.
I'd keyed in the SD number, the thing had been carded, so I then tried the
redelivery link. That was when it bombed with an internal error.
Yup, they got it done - the POD isn't showing yet, but I suspect that's
Chrimbo for you.
Ta - and thanks for being as caring as my postie is. :)
Honestly, I do not know what to google for so perhaps a further clue or
two?
Or you could just tell us. :-)
2nd result (at the time of writing).
--
Neil
I think we are talking at cross purposes as this group already knows
that we are getting posted to via this site. What is not at all clear is
why people are using *that* site to ask for their post to be redelivered
instead of the royal mail.
Or are you saying it is simply because it is a high hit on google if you
search for the royal mail site? In which case, nah ha!
Yes, I'm saying that the reason is that people don't know how to use a
URL 9ik.e type it into the address bar in their browser). They are
instead going to google, typing the url into the search box, and then
clicking on a redsult, some of which are clicking on the myreader result.
--
Neil
so can you please redeliver it on friady 11/1/2008
thank you.
This is making me squirm!
HAHAHA this thread is just going to run and run
I received a 'Sorry, you were out' card at 07.40 a.m. on 19.01.08, the item
needs to be signed for.
Delivery person duty number 478 DID NOT bother to knock on the door or to
ring the bell. It was quite clear that someone was available as the interior
light was on.
This package could be extremely important and now we have to wait 48 hours
before we can collect it.
NOT GOOD SERVICE
Ann Morley
2 Arran Close
Sinfin
Derby
DE24 9LN
I always thought the idiots of this world were confined to Ebay, nice to be
proved wrong.
--
Niel H
Indeed :0)
--
Alex
New laptop - Sig missing
I think it's all a pointless troll by someone....
Why can't you go to the sorting office and pick it up there, 2 hours
after the delivery attempt?
Owain
Won't work on Saturdays. Not sure what the rules are other days, but I
think my local sorting office closes at around 1pm, and my post will
often not arrive before 11am. Such is the deterioration that the RM has
suffered in recent years.
--
Roland Perry
Ah - didn't check that...
>
> If it's a troll, it's someone pretty savvy.
Yeah, I find it quite amusing though (in a strange way!)
It isn't a troll. I have phoned a few of them, after doing an online
directory enquiries. Just to let them know that they *haven't* used the
right link, that rm hasn't got the message and that their parcel will be
sent back to sender unless they do something more. Also mentioning that
they may want to reconsider their plans over the next few days, if they
had mentioned that their house was going to be empty during them.
Many seem unshakeably convinced that (a) I work for rm and/or (b) that
it is entirely rm's fault and not their's in any way..
Such is life..
--
Sue
None of the messages are being posted directly on here. They're
being posted on a chatboard which leeches\feeds off of usenet.
All usenet postings are public domain once posted anywhere.
There are quite a few of these boards - the "banter" sites are
another good example. Most seem to be advertising driven,
although this one doesn't. Not forgetting the daddy of them all,
Google Groups.
Most\all of posters on these boards wouldn't have a clue what usenet
or newsgroups were if you asked them, and many are pretty clueless.
In addition, hostile responses are probably weeded out by whoever
runs the site.
michael adams
...
Why bother? Let these idiots put up with whatever comes along.
I thought first that it wasn't so much idiocy but lack of familiarity
with computers/the internet and/or people in too much of a hurry. But I
must admit that those I have spoken to do mostly seem to be two crates
short of a picnic.
Even so, the people that sent the parcels may deserve some
consideration. They are the ones likely to bear the cost of doing nothing.
And who knows, some of these parcels *may* be something other than
colour-in crayon books..
--
Sue
They may be in the public domain but that does not mean they are free of
copyright restrictions.
> There are quite a few of these boards - the "banter" sites are
> another good example.
Several posters on uk.d-i-y put copyright restrictions on their postings
explicitly removing permission for the diy banter site to use their
postings.
> Most seem to be advertising driven,
> although this one doesn't. Not forgetting the daddy of them all,
> Google Groups.
Ahem. The granddaddy of them all was Deja News. Which at least provides
a useful archive service.
> Most\all of posters on these boards wouldn't have a clue what usenet
> or newsgroups were if you asked them, and many are pretty clueless.
<nods sadly>
Owain
This one looks a lot more intersting
http://myreader.co.uk/gp/1180-1.aspx
Ad from page 2
Looking for high heels and boots Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:06:23 -0600
http://www.candlelightfashions.com Online shop for for sexy high heel shoes,boots,
lingerie and a full line of gothic footwear. Offering shoes and boots in sizes up
to size 15. Offers World wide shipping and price match guarantee. Discreet shipping. ...
michael adams
...
Does that mean the postman knocks on your door very quietly before
posting you a card and creeping silently away?
--
Roland Perry
It most probably means plain brown paper packaging Roland.
With, for the size 15 high-heeled shoes, a CC payment made out to
Smiths Industrial Boots and Work-wear
Don't say you didn't know ?
michael adams
..
You don't say, I'd never have guessed.
--
Roland Perry
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