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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

We had a lovely postman who disappeared when Covid started he was an older man so I hope he just retired. We have had a constant stream of newbies some ok but some unable to read or count. I got sick of delivering letters to other houses even in the next street so complained on twitter and my husband had already complained on email with a very poor response, put them back in a postbox. Which we did unless it looked important such as a hospital post mark. In the end we caught the lazy young lad handed him the wrongly posted letters and put him straight. He is ultra careful now.

My postman is very good, but YODEL is another matter the problems I’ve had with this company, the last one being they were supposed to make a delivery to me certain day certain time the chair I sit on is in the window so I sat there all day reading at the time he was supposed to come I received a text saying he had come I wasn’t home and he had left a card, all of which were lies and neither was there a card left.
Hubby was also home and no way did anyone come

I want to be a postie; I keep looking for jobs in my town. If I get one, I promise to be a good one!

My postie is excellent as is our local delivery office, he knows where everyone likes there parcels left if not in and always bangs on the door, I try and use companies that specifically use Royal Mail as couriers class us a 2 day delivery area and charge stupid prices

My post people are lovely, yours sounds like a nightmare.
I would complain in writing to the postmaster.

I'm lucky with our postman and any couriers that deliver. I've come home to notes saying they've put a parcel on the back step or in the shed.

My postman is great and even if I'm not in I can arrange a redelivery.

We have very friendly postpeople in this village. Although I am housebound I might be in the loo when they come so they leave anything round the back door if I don’t answer. Same with Hermes and Amazon.

Ditto, LauraNorderr, I thought the same.

If it’s your regular postman that you are talking about, I would make a complaint to the post office about their particular member of staff.
It seems he is or was totally ignorant of your situation, he has a job to do and to do it well. He gets paid to do the job.

I don't have any problems with parcel deliveries by the postman or couriers but I know postmen have longer rounds as a result of Royal Mail cutting staff over the years and they now have more to deliver as we are all ordering stuff online. I think Royal Mail was better in public ownership and it should not have been privatised and Post Offices split off.

My postie is very good, though he bangs so loudly on the door, if he has a parcel, that I nearly have a heart attack! My next-door neighbour gives him, and other deliverers, Magnums. An expensive exercise, but she's soft-hearted, better-off than me, and it certainly keeps them sweet!

I get you craftycat Ive been on Twitter to them over same issue. At least they answer there...so worth it.
It is infuriating. In my case the Royal Mail website doesn't even list where the delivery office is. I happen to know. You can drive and park there but god forbid if you couldn't it is so out of the way on an industrial site by dual carriageway- no use to pedestrians or users of public transport and quite a long drive for me.
Postmne rarely ring the bell, and depending who it is don't leave in the safe place. Some do some don't.
And there is a great sign in our delivery office saying how rudeness to staff will not be tolerated...always a sign that they might deserve it - not personally but as a business.
Also when did find them on website to find their opening times because they have weird opening times (eg 6am - 2pm) and every day different which used to be printed on the card...not any more..it said it was open and it wasn't. No sign saying sorry. Three other users had turned up by car too. I agree I avoid companies that use them such a nightmare. And to think we own most of it. Bit garbled but it needs saying and I'm in a rush

I posted a Christmas present to my sister in Italy on 15th December and she still hasn’t received it!

Our regular postman is good. However, the temps that appear from time to time are appalling!

2 very recent examples :-

1) letter and small parcel ( paperback book) delivered to an obviously empty house round the corner. House has no gate, boarded up window, doorbell removed, general air of no one living there. Owner had died some months ago, house passed to daughter, not local, only visited occasionally. Temp postman put a card through our door saying " sorry, I've delivered to wrong house". We put a note through the door, but it was a couple of weeks before we recovered the post.

2) Waiting for urgent ( very expensive) medicine for our poorly cat. Had been dispatched, but not delivered to us. No red card through door or anything. Finally went to local parcel office on spec, and explained. Lady confirmed they had it, but needed the red card. Explained the postman hadn't left one, didn't make a difference. So the medicine for my poorly cat was sat on a shelf behind her, and she wouldn't give it to me, even though I could prove who I was. Had to wait for them to re-deliver the following day. ( Cat is improving, I think, but would have benefitted from starting the treatment earlier.)

The temps just don't seem to care.

Complain loudly. That postman might well do the same thing to others who, unlike you, are not as mobile or capable.
On the other hand, although I’ve come across stupidly nasty posties myself, I must point out that there are many more who go beyond just doing their job properly. One of my many postmen always ignores it, but the others always take notice of my note asking “ Could you open this for me please”
Bottles of bleach, glass bottled sliced gherkins, those new fangled plastic containers of washing liquid tablets and
quite regularly I’m afraid, NHS brown bottles of tablets. Childproof openings they might have. But they are also old lady proof. The posties open them all for me.