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superspoons



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Post Office...is it just me...
Please, is it just me...

Missed a delivery of a Parcel, Post office card put through the door in my wifes name....

I go to the PO with my ID (same Address) and the failed delivery card to collect...

PO won't give me the parcel because I don't have her ID on me...

FOR CHRISTS SAKE! I'm her husband, same address and I have the card that was put through my door. Did I break in and steal the card, and my id , in order to pick up a pair of wellies for my lad! Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head One of the staff has been with me in the shop my wifes works in and spoken to us both!

I was met with the usual "Procedure" , "you might be a mystery shopper" Big Cry

Little things like this are slowly chipping away at my resolve to stay in this country. No wonder the Royal Mail is losing money. The Postman and women are fantastic around our way but they are being let down so badly in other areas. Cheers,
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Not just you, Royal Mail seem to be very good at sending my outgoing post back to me at the moment Rolling Eyes  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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It's just you. I collect parcels all the time for my partner from our regional Royal Mail Sorting Office and naturally we don't even have the same surname simply on the production of my diriving licence..may be local policy in your area perhaps?

Or......

'Double Standards' and regional 'Jobs Worths.' Whistle If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

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The PO round here can't really be bothered to sort the post for the Industrial Estate so we seem to get anybody's and everybody's post Rolling Eyes And the Royal Mail sorting office is on the same Industrial Estate ! Shocked An engine to TDi for!
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Could be worse!

Some time go I had the same thing, parcel was addressed to me, deiivery card had my name on it, but I forgot my ID.
Now for this parcel an ID was not required, only the delivery card. But the girl at the office insisted an ID (office policy sir).... and .....
I knew this girl...
She lived 5 houses from us....
And when she was a little girl, we used to baby sit her....
Banging Head Banging Head Banging Head Cheers, Vincent
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Are kid sends lots of mail with his business most days about 15 to 20 bags...... when he took it the other day the girl said she was going to report him for having to much mail everyday Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter

apparently Post offices don't get paid for sorting the mail out for royal mail anymore Laughing NEVER TAKE LIFE SERIOUSLY. NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE ANYWAY
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Anyone notice as well that of recent there is a surcharge for sending mail using the Post Office. I swear I read that somewhere... No Guts, No Glory.
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We send between 2-500 parcels a day, when people aren't in, they'll leave parcels in people's bins Shocked So think yourself lucky it's at the delivery office!!
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You're lucky to get a card left!

On many occasions parcels I sent haven't turned up, no card left. Customer instructed to check with sorting office and voila' parcel awaiting collection.

Having said that in 8 years or so of sending parcels only a handful have ever been 'lost', far less than I have mislabelled or sent to the wrong customer by mistake Whistle

Frustrating none the less when you get the wrong end of it.

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