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Is it just me, or has Royal Mail gone downhill badly? (self.ukcasual)

submitted 1 year ago by Transcendant to c/ukcasual

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Obv I don't want to get too deep into privatisation weeds as we don't want to get into the dreaded (whispers) politics in this comm. But I'm interested to know if other people are noticing the postal service deteriorating.

Mail for other houses (my door number is clearly marked)... delivery timelines missed... then the icing on the cake, had a delivery that was supposed to come up to Newcastle delivered while I'm not at home, they left it in a 'safe place' despite one not being designated.

Want to hear what the 'safe place' was? Out on the street, jammed behind a random neighbours wheelie bin! So yeah that's £110 of new clothes gone to some lucky local who swiped it. Boooo, Royal Mail, booooo!

To counteract the whinge, I just made a banging pizza almost from scratch. Success!

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[–] leraje 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not wrong. Postal deliveries in my area are, at best, sporadic. I'd say my area gets deliveries maybe two or three times a week at most.

[–] Transcendant 2 points 1 year ago

Well it's good to know it's not all in my head. On the one hand, it's nice not to get spam shoved through the letterbox everyday... always felt sorry for the postie as when I asked one day why they ignored my 'no leaflets' letterbox sticker, they said they are ordered to deliver the spam leaflets. But it's really noticeable that the deliveries are spaced out now. Lucky for me I rarely have anything important coming via snailmail.