I need to rant to someone about my postman!!!

We are, so far, very lucky to have a lovely postman. He always goes the extra mile and leaves parcels and post inside our porch if it’s left open.
Our local Hermes Delivery driver (Rob) was a cross dresser and liked to be called (Gem). They were well known and when they died, quite recently there was a huge outpouring of messages, of how much everyone was going to miss Gem on our local social media site. (Names changed) Not all heroes wear capes!

I am lucky enough to have a back door with a side entrance. I have stuck huge signs on my front door with an arrow direction for the postman, if I’m not in, please to leave by the back door on the bench, or if it looks like rain I put a plastic storage box there. They always manage to leave them now and I rarely get a card. If I. Do get a card it’s to say that they have left a parcel in my recycling bin, or in the red lidded bin. Am lucky to have a good postman.

Yes, in the past we had this problem too. As often as not the postmen bringing letters hadn't got the parcels with them, so they just put the card in through the letter-box, assuming that no-one was at home.

No amount of complaining to the postmaster made any difference at all.

The solution is definitely to buy from companies that send by one of the efficient carriers.

Really great postwoman here, even brings in parcels that other deliverers have left outside the gates or in the hedge! Considering she has to ring a buzzer then hang around for me to rush to the switch inside the house to open the gates to let her in, she does a splendid job.

Same here LauraNorderr - I too thought gillybob had returned
Why bother with a 5 year old posting! Start a new one!

Before my retirement I was a Postmistress. Certain postmen were that lazy they didn’t even take parcels out with them to deliver, especially on a Saturday. They had the red and white cards already written out saying “it is at your local Postoffice”. They call it “doing a flyer”. My office was absolutely full of parcels for collection always by the same Postman. It drove me mad as I didn’t have the space to store all the parcels. He dropped a bagful of parcels of early on a Saturday morning. I ended up reporting him to Royal Mail.

I’ve found that both our postwoman and Hermes delivery lady to be excellent. The worst courier of all though, is Parcelforce. I’ve found a parcel on the doorstep that had been out there for 2 days when we were in and no card was put through the door.

Our Postie is Awesome - he is super friendly and goes out of his way for you.

I start to read a thread, see a name I haven’t seen for ages, today I saw gillybob and got very excited, I was about to welcome her back and realised her post was 2017.
Please people, if a thread is years old leave it there and start another. The original poster has been answered and her problem long gone.

Our post lady is lovely, so is our Hermes delivery man. They will call back later if we are out when they deliver. A neighbour even found a parcel in their locked garden shed - no idea how the postie managed it!

I've taken to writing to companies and telling them that I would have liked to buy from them but the use of Royal Mail makes it a problem. Sometimes, they will post using a different company. I would like to be a loyal RM user but until they better their service, I can't stand the stress they cause. In the old days, my postie would happily sign the docket if it needed signing, would leave post in a safe place and knew if an envelope was wrongly addressed. That changed when RM kept changing the rounds and the service deteriorated with it. Last week we got Christmas Cards which had been posted in plenty of time for Christmas. Some of our recent post has been nibbled by rodents. We know it is not happening at our end so the mind boggles!

BlueBelle

Why revise a 5 year old thread?
Start a new one
I ve commented 5 years ago which is the opposite to how I feel today
How do people find these threads from 5 years ago if I look for something from 6 months ago it’s disappeared!!!

Their search facility must be better than mine
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We love our postie. Just saw him after a long absence and the poor bloke had Covid.

The OP's curmudgeonly postman is giving the service a bad name. She should write a letter of complaint and also speak to him if she feels brave enough.

Have sympathy. He may not be lazy. Like many an organisation saving money or supporting ill health of staff, the individual rounds are often far too demanding.

We live on an entry road into a housing estate with a few cul de sacs off it. The road name is also a gardens, a crescent and a close, and for a while after our regular postman left, we, and a lot of our neighbours started getting the post for the corresponding house numbers at the other addresses. We made the postman aware of the mistakes but it kept happening so in the end we advised the sorting office - they must have had a word because apart from the odd letter, it stopped. We’re all different postcodes so I still don’t understand whether he was confused or just lazy.

The same thing still happens with deliveries and I’ve now given up complaining because seemingly the various carriers are incapable of rectifying it - we’ve now got the phone numbers of the corresponding house numbers at three other addresses so they can collect their parcels, and in a few cases, food deliveries !! Amazon are the worst - they ring the bell and leave the parcel on the step and by the time I get to the door they’ve gone.

I also sometimes have my parcels left at other addresses with photographs of someone else’s doorstep uploaded as ‘proof of delivery’. Nightmare.

Sorry CraftyCat that everyone hasn't got a wonderful postman like mine.

I find if you are not standing behind the door when they knock they just go after about 2 seconds I could be upstairs and rush down and they have gone. Also my postman keeps posting next doors letters in my letter box.

Why revise a 5 year old thread?
Start a new one
I ve commented 5 years ago which is the opposite to how I feel today
How do people find these threads from 5 years ago if I look for something from 6 months ago it’s disappeared!!!

Kim19

Goodness me, this thread is ancient.

......but it has been revised so it is current!

Goodness me, this thread is ancient.

I have just moved to a new maisonette and there are 4 neighbours front doors facing each other. I gave our disabled postie £10 with a Christmas card. He has a strong limp. He looked shocked. Next year will be double. I am not well off but when I have a tracked delivery I just tell him on the intercom I need to get a coat and walk downstairs and he just leaves it on the doorstep. If I was well off I would give a much larger tip.

My post girl is very good. She knows to leave parcels in a safe place.The other one ,for some reason, never puts the letters through the slot. He pushes them half way and they hang there letting all know the house is empty. He has been told but still does this.

Not had any bother with post people and my Mum has a lovely postman who takes her RNIB talking book memory stick to post for her. We've not really had problems with delivery people and often take in for younger working neighbours. Only once when picture of item in not my door was sent. Company refunded then several weeks later it turned up. They told me just to keep it. Delivery man who brought Mum's pads took them upstairs for her and Sainsbury's drivers often take delivery into kitchen which I'm not keen on but Mum has memory loss and doesn't remember they are not supposed to and has a special "I can't lift them in, I'm too old" voice so it's probably easier for them to just do it.

ninuksmith

Our postie is brilliant! Always smiling and happy and friendly. Each year I put some £ in the Christmas card for him. Give it to him before he is off for his Christmas break.

Exactly this ?

We have a lovely postie too - Darren
He was out early this morning delivering the Water bill letters.
I wonder if they get extra for this? They deserve it.