I think I've only ever had a rant on here about twice but.....

[Paul the 6th]

THE F***ING ROYAL MAIL IN YORK IS S***E!

The postman is crap. He constantly posts my bills & letters into the houses either side, and I regularly get their mail. Then there's the matter of packages which are too big or need signing for.

Let me preface this with a bit of info about the location of the sorting office where the packages are taken back to. The sorting office is about 2 miles from my house in the centre of York. There's a tiny carpark with 2 x disabled spaces and man in a hut with a barrier & his big red button to stop people from coming to collect their packages.

The nearest carpark is about a 5 minute walk away and it's the train station carpark so you have to pay to park there.

Although it's only 2 miles away, a round trip can take upto 40 mins 'cos the traffic is so bad in York.

So with this in mind, I have asked him in person and with notes left on the door - approximately 15 times - PLEASE DO NOT RETURN PACKAGES BACK TO THE SORTING OFFICE, LEAVE WITH ANY OF THE NEIGHBOURS IN MY CULDESAC, THEY'RE ALL OAP'S WHO ARE ALWAYS HOME.

But no, he takes them away every time. I even wrote a letter to the delivery operations manager so they had it in writing that he could leave packages in my designated 'safe place'..... "Sorry Mr. Pauly, we never received that letter, our postman is shiite as well"..

My bike is currently unrideable while I'm waiting for some service items coming through the post. I did leave another note on the door this morning saying "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT TAKE ANY PACKAGES BACK TO THE SORTING OFFICE, PLEASE LEAVE THEM WITH 46A".. I doubt this will make a difference, but not only is the bank holiday going to mean that I don't get my items til tuesday, there's now also been a bomb scare at the sorting office as a package has leaked chemicals and 3 people have been taken ill... Hope they get well soon. I'll pop a card in the post.

Honestly, it is more convenient for me to get stuff delivered to my work address in west yorkshire and complete a 75 mile round trip than it is to try and rely on the York branch of the royal mail.

Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky, have another postal strike, only this time they'll do enough damage to get rid of the royal mail and spark up a bit of healthy reliable competition

[hindle8907]

6/10

The person who is meant to send things arent very good at it either, eh Paul?

[Paul the 6th]

I did actually manage to get your cd in the post about 6 weeks ago? thought you were being rude and not saying thank you

[Luckypants]

Push bike to Leeman road? No traffic down river /cycle tracks...

I never recieved it

[Dave20046]

Ours are worse, you just have anger issues paul. I've said it before and I'll say it again-you're an angry man Paul .....ask Kuze


Our previous postman just left the 'sorry you were out tickets' when he did his rounds despite me being very much in, it's quicker and easier for them to not bother loading up with the actual parcels and just run up drives flicking these through the letter box. Then we got a new postman, he thought ,as I wasn't in, it'd be a good idea to stroll into the elderly next door neighbours house and put my parcel in there....without telling her. She promptly binned it as she didn't know what it was - to make matters worse he did this a second time.

He also left £400s worth of kit at a neighbours house without telling me...neither did they until I went round to enquire out of desperation and noticed it indeniably in their house.

When he's not doing stupid **** like that he does the normal get it from the sorting office thing, problems with that is I'm at work when the sorting office is open and you have to wait 24 hours for collection for some reason in sheffield.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Push bike to Leeman road? No traffic down river /cycle tracks...

leeman road and another road has been closed to pedestrians & traffic apparently. Full on armed response/fire crew etc... sounds quite mega. I want my fecking bits!

Originally Posted by Holdup

I never recieved it

ah ffs... send us your address again, I've deleted all my pm's since. Got even more d'n'b now

you need to get the sender to put a note on it saying

'leave at no. 46a if out'

We have to do this when we send the board packs out to the directors. If they have the permission of the seller, they have denaibilty(SP?) or something like that!

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

ah ffs... send us your address again, I've deleted all my pm's since. Got even more d'n'b now