General Chat

sorry Liz I thought everybody knew I had changed my name. There were several threads about if you google your board name you will be surprised. Well as I was using GLoryer on most of the other sites I visit I was amazed how much info came up on google so felt it was time for a change. Been using LLC for a long time now though

Karen,you aren't the only one, I never realised this was one and the same person lol I have to say in fairness, that lately I have been quite impressed with deliveries of post, several times I have caught the last postal collection with a card or letter first class stamp and it has arrived the next day, even tho more than a hundred miles away or more. I even managed to persuade the postman collecting from a Post Office to take my parcel even tho he said he had done the collection, he took mine and another woman's who had just been weighed and stamped at the post office, and the parcel arrived 150 miles away the next day! As you can see from my previous post, last year, I had become very disillusioned with them but looks as if things around this area are getting better. Touching wood as I type this. Liz

Just thnking - it's not all that long ago that there used to be 2 deliveries of post a day - AND a delivery on Christmas Day. Liz

Me to i'm sitting here reading this thread and i thought .......well my daughter never even phoned me let alone give me a card phewwwww. hazelx

lol sorry if I confused you all. Still must be a good reminder.

When second class works this is what you are supposed to get: 'Millions of people use Second Class mail every day to send Letters, Packets and other small items. We aim to deliver your mail by the third working day after posting.' So, why choose second class if the card was important? The fact that one got there early was just a fortunate.

Has anything changed in the last 12 months? Brother sent us an anniversary card from about 12 miles away, put 1st class stamp on, and it took 3 days. Only thing he didn't put on was the postcode, should this make 2 days difference?

Going to play it safe this year!!!!! I have Wednesday and Thursday off work this week so hopefully (depending on weather) deliver the card myself in person by hand along with some flowers. So there Post Office you have lost my custom

That is ridiculous. They could have left the parcel at the soring office and asked what you wanted to do. Pay the extra yourself or the receiver will pay. Nice to know somebody still does the old pen pal system. I thought maybe that had all died out now with the net being so much easier and available.

Most if the time i have no problems with the Post. I have around thirty odd penpals who i write to regularly and most of my mail and small parcels seem to get there or here in one piece. Though i am begining to wonder how many friendships i've lost because the letter never got there and the person thought i'd stopped writing. I do remember Royal mail saying they lost around 14 million letters last year. My gran on the other hand has had a really bad time with the PO. She sent a parcel to my great aunt in Austrailia back in September containing christmas presents for some of my great aunts grand kids. She usually send a few parcels in the months leading up to december so that she doesnt have to find the money to pay for them all at once. It cost her £38 to send it. Now as i've said she sent it in September. Two weeks ago she received it back! It had been all the way to Austrailia and back because they say my gran hadnt paid enough postage on it. £38!!!!! And it was weighed and everything at a Post office - how can they say she didnt pay enough? So my grans had a go at them and my great aunt is going to have a go at the people on her side cause as she said - if they had mentioned to her that they had a parcel for her that needed an extra however much money paid on it she would have paid it. Its just ruddy ridiculous Mhairi

Never never put money in cards or letters. Our local postoffice has had problems with postmen taking money and lots of post has been found in one chap's loft as he couldn't be bothered to deliver it. Years ago my Post Office savings book didn't come back to me and I had to get another, it was found 6 months later with a lot of other post to me and others, dumped in a field! I have had so many problems with Royal Mail that I always say if there was another way to have mail delivered I would use it. They are useless. I would be upset if I had sent a card and it hadn't arrived for something as important as Mother's Day.

Exactly Gloryer - it's what it does to the person who doesn't get it that's so hard to value. My mum would have been gutted not to receive a card. Hope you get somewhere with your claim. Rick.

COR bet Jan won't be very quiet!!! Our postie is great but has told us to never put anything of value in a card as they are some theiving B*****rs at the sorting office and any thign that look like a card that may contain money they open it.....and thats from someon who works there!!! Please notice I said some are thiefs NOT all.

I went to the post office today and filled in a claim form. No proof of posting so my word against theirs. I did put value of card as £2 but its not the value I am worried about its the fact that my mum never got her mothers day card when she is nearly 79 and lives alone she looks forward to getting her post. Phoned her tonight and still no sign of it.

Don't worry - Jan (the quiet one) is sorting them out tomorrow. A neighbour just found a wet muddy wedding acceptance addressed to us in her garden. God help them !! Rick.

Can you imagine getting proof of posting for every item of post you send ? !!!!!!!!!!!!! and we all did the same.............the queues............... what would the PO think?

I sent a cheque with card for niece`s 21st , posted with other letters (which did arrive)-it didn`t arrive , was compensated for card but told should have got a proof of purchase -sometimes difficult when so few PO around nowadays.Luckily bank cancelled cheque with no charge Ros

Same thing happened to me. OH mum never got hers and she lives in Croydon not too far from me, and S/mum got hers and she lives in Lancashire Julie

Agree with the main thrust of the thread. People get fed up with us oldies living in the past, but many many things were so much better, e.g The post office; highways departments; Police. The list is endless. How come we can,t have the best of the old with the best of the new? Happy days

I sent some postcards home from a school holiday in Germany when I was 12. I am now 42 and we are still waiting for them 30 years later. Dianne xx