Who has had post today??

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 9 Sep 2009 14:00

I'm off work at the moment, and have found that sometimes post comes... somtimes it doesn't! I'm waiting for a few bits from Ebay, and so far today - it's now 3pm - no post has arrived! I live in block with 9 flats, all our post gets put into a shared letterbox... and nobody has any!!

Anyone in Sydenham had any post yet??

juniper · Post by **juniper** » 9 Sep 2009 14:04

Post? What's that? Oh, hang on, I remember...

According to royalmail.com, there are limited (probably no) deliveries in London today. They've got quite a useful link on their homepage that gives details of which towns will be lucky enough to receive their mail on which days. Sad that it's becoming routine to check that, really.

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 9 Sep 2009 14:08

God it's an appalling service isn't it!? You never know whether you can expect any post or not! It really makes me mad - I've been off for two months now, and there's been several days I can think of that I've received nothing!

simon · Post by **simon** » 9 Sep 2009 15:52

I haven't had any post today, but on Monday I had two deliveries. The first came at 9 am and contained 9 letters, of which two were for me; six were for neighbours on either side and another for somebody around the corner, not even the same street. When I saw one of our regular postmen he told me that was the Saturday delivery whing could,'t be delivered because postmen were on leave. He then "some random postman must have delivered them", which seemed about right as they were certainly delivered randomly.
Hopeless!

multisync · Post by **multisync** » 10 Sep 2009 08:58

AND WILL WE HAVE POST TODAY!

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 10 Sep 2009 09:48

I just don't know what they're playing at - as for will we have post today... who knows!?? I still have some LoveFilm DVDs floating about somewhere in the postal system - or praps they've been stolen en-route, they're not exactly disguised with 'LoveFilm' printed all over them. And all the Ebay stuff I'm waiting for... praps they'll arrive by Christmas!

marianne · Post by **marianne** » 10 Sep 2009 10:45

I got post at 10.15am this morning, but none yesterday.

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 10 Sep 2009 11:19

Whereabouts in Sydenham are you Marianne - coz at 12.20am we still have nothing in Kent House Road.

bigtitt · Post by **bigtitt** » 10 Sep 2009 15:04

I had 17 letters in the post yesterday. Not one was for my address!

I have emailed a complaint but have had nothing back (probably lost in post).

marianne · Post by **marianne** » 10 Sep 2009 18:06

Hi Nickerbockers - I live off Dartmouth Road next to Sydenham Girls School.

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 12 Sep 2009 13:59

No post again in Kent House Road today....

Chazza · Post by **Chazza** » 12 Sep 2009 16:44

We had what appeared to be about a week's worth of post delivered this morning in Venner Road.

I'm still waiting for a letter that was sent first class on Wednesday though.

I'm fed up with this shocking service; does anyone know of a reasonably-priced alternative for sending letters domestically?

alywin · Post by **alywin** » 13 Sep 2009 20:57

As far as I can see, most of the disruption has been down to the postcode-selective strikes going on in central London for the last few weeks: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/cont ... d=99700760

For instance, I mailed a letter first class from the office a week or two ago which took a good week to reach its intended recipient, 3 miles away. If you can get into the non-London postcodes (BR3, CR0) a short distance away and post your letters there, you may find they avoid a lot of the disruption, but of course that doesn't help if you're waiting to receive things.

Sarah BJ Turner · Post by **Sarah BJ Turner** » 15 Sep 2009 06:33

Saturday lunchtime at exactly 1.55 I saw a postman with at least one handful of letters (at least 20) posting them in the letterbox on the corner of Lawrie Park Road and Westwood Hill.

Could anyone (including the Postman on this site) please give us all an explanation as to why?

multisync · Post by **multisync** » 15 Sep 2009 11:46

I received no post yesterday! and wonder if i'll get any today.

Nickerbockers · Post by **Nickerbockers** » 15 Sep 2009 13:28

No post yet in Kent House Road... looks as if nothing is going to arrive. I give up at about 3.30pm usually and that's only an hour away... cheers Posties!??

maestro · Post by **maestro** » 15 Sep 2009 14:43

Why can't they just give the mail to those guys who deliver the pizza and curry house leaflets? That way we'd get at least three deliveries a day, even on Sundays. Then the ones on those little mopeds that actually deliver the food, could even bring our parcels too, plus they'd probably even promise to give you a pound back if they were more than half an hour late bringing your parcels! (the Post Office won't even deliver your parcels, they just stick a card through your door stating that you've one to go and collect!) Problem sorted.

Willy · Post by **Willy** » 15 Sep 2009 15:30

I had post today, a parcel delivered at 7:55am

MiniFox · Post by **MiniFox** » 15 Sep 2009 17:02

On Friday I received a letter posted over a week before telling me I had to reply by ... Friday!

Today I received a letter posted 3rd September!

multisync · Post by **multisync** » 16 Sep 2009 09:14

I think maybe the post gets delivered on alternate days in different areas.You used to see a lot of posties either walking around or on pushbikes.Now a lot of them drive around and maybe the roadworks in the area delay them!!

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Who has had post today??

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