Royal Mail Senior Management seem to be completely 'Off Planet'.
Just WHO wants to answer door to post at up to 10pm?
I get annoyed with Hermes / Amazon delivering at up to 6pm!
And I DON'T want Post on a Sunday!
Local posties pretty good... usually 10am to 2pm.
Good lads / Lasses.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62672783

We've had deliveries scheduled for up to 9.00pm around here, with deliveries starting from 7.00am, for Amazon, Hermes et al.

I thought the title was announcing a far more interesting post about katars or becs de corbin.

Oh and I forgot to mention food deliveries at all hours of the night, but these have dropped off of late due to the squeeze on the cost of living.

Our posties are good, apart from the fact they park their vans across our drive while delivering to the houses nearby. It coincides with the time I get home from work when on night shift. I then end up sitting in the road waiting for them. Not something I want to do after a 14 hour working day.

There is no need for this as there are loads of places they can park without blocking the drive. 

I too am quite happy with one daily delivery 5 or 6 days a week.
I certainly do not want deliveries at 10PM or Sundays

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 01:33:45 AMRoyal Mail Senior Management seem to be completely 'Off Planet'.
Just WHO wants to answer door to post at up to 10pm?

Who? Me!

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 01:33:45 AMI get annoyed with Hermes / Amazon delivering at up to 6pm!

I get annoyed with Evri (TCFKA Hermes) when they don't deliver anything. As the local wags say, Evri - every parcel lost, damaged or stolen!

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 01:33:45 AMAnd I DON'T want Post on a Sunday!

I'll take post/ parcels whenever they can deliver them. Every day is Saturday now I'm retired.

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 01:33:45 AMLocal posties pretty good... usually 10am to 2pm.
Good lads / Lasses.

At last! something we agree on!

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 01:33:45 AMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62672783

QuoteI certainly do not want deliveries at 10PM or Sundays

I have had one delivery driver - not Royal Mail/Parcelfarce - knock at the door at 10:50 one evening. He did apologise for the lateness.

QuoteI get annoyed with Evri (TCFKA Hermes) when they don't deliver anything. As the local wags say, Evri - every parcel lost, damaged or stolen!

I have stopped using one supplier, who advertise as using Royal Mail for delivery, after my last order was delivered by Hermes. And I have emailed them telling them this.

Orcs... just ask if drivers could move along a little way. Sure they will be happy to.... but ask.

I was Post Office, but not Royal mail. I did do a stint as an Xmas casual in Sorting Hub, 5 yrs ago. It was NOT fun. By 2hrs into 8 hr night shift... standing, tossing 'small packets' about... back would be 'knotted rope'. If you were unlucky, (But Someone had to do it!), you might get a York (5'x 3' sq) FULL of tiny pharma packets. Had to take magnifying glass to read labels!
We tried to treat some packages with care... flowers, calendars, etc. but some posters just no clue about packaging toys, glassware, etc. Sad little 'tinkle' now and then. It got you down to realise someone's Xmas gift was not going to make it. And, then there was all the 'junk' mail letters... Nobody wants them. Hundreds of 'return to sender'... but you knew posting companies would still keep on sending junk. Demoralising... and for a pittance. I did not 'need' wage at the time... but others did.
Be nice to posties.

I was just wondering what kind of mail we were talking about here - ring mail or the ubiquitous Victorian 'chain-mail' ... or maybe I have the wrong thread 

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 August 2022, 03:24:33 PMOrcs... just ask if drivers could move along a little way. Sure they will be happy to.... but ask.

The problem is they have wandered off down other walkways/ pedestrian avenues to houses that are not directly on the highway. They could be 500 yards away. That is my issue.

I have also had them parking on my drive so I cannot get in.

QuoteI have also had them parking on my drive so I cannot get in.

Gosh, how rude!

Almost fifty years since I worked the Christmas Post. Four Christmasses in a row. Apart from a couple of days when the rain was coming down in stair rods it was a great job. Fringe benefits included half a dozen freshly baked morning rolls if I delivered to the bakery that day and a three course lunch in the local colliery canteen for less than the cost of a poke of chips when we had a delivery there.

Happy days!

Anyone who has been Post Office knows that you 'Wear Mail'. Pride and burden.
In 'Old Days' Managers may have once delivered Telegrams across Murmansk Ice. Now... 'different'.
YOU WERE POST OFFICE. Somehow, think I'm stuck with it!

Our posties have always been excellent, all friendly people who just get on with their jobs.  They've helped us out with extra collections when we've needed them, waited happily when our printer isn't playing ball, taken larger parcels to the depot to save us booking separate collections, etc.