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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't get much from RM tbh, but with work a lot of letters we send out go undelivered. Usually parcel deliveries aren't awful, but our neighbour is quite good.

[–] Transcendant 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder how much of that is RM, and how much is people not updating their address. I've rented the same property for ~13 years and still get mail for other people every now and then!