Royal Mail Strike Again

In article <[email hidden]>, Danny Colyer <[email hidden]> writes

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Michael MacClancy said:

My experiences with items delivered by Royal Mail have been 100% good.

Fair enough, but it's the items *not* delivered that I've had problems with :-/

The non-delivery of my replacement Visa credit card in March caused a bit of a problem. Not only was
it not delivered, but someone in south east London racked up over UKP 2,300 of mobile phone
purchases on it in about a week and a half.

The fault doesn't lie only with the Royal Mail, though. The issuer hadn't sent the card special
delivery, and since then I've received a new account card as well as its replacement, neither of
which was sent special delivery.

On top of that, on a daily basis my upstairs neighbour and I exchange wrongly delivered mail. Our
addresses differ by an 'A'.

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In article <[email hidden]>, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
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We once had a letter addressed to "Guy and Felicity, Checkendon, Oxon." It arrived.

Years ago, my great uncle in N Ireland received a letter send from the US which was addressed 'Uncle
Larry, Dungannon'.

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congokid said:

Years ago, my great uncle in N Ireland received a letter send from the US which was addressed
'Uncle Larry, Dungannon'.

But was his name Larry and was it intended to go to him?

Tony ;-)

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congokid said:

Years ago, my great uncle in N Ireland received a letter send from the US which was addressed
'Uncle Larry, Dungannon'.

But was his name Larry and was it intended to go to him?

Oh, yes. He was the intended recipient. It was sent by his nephew in Philadelphia.

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Michael MacClancy <[email hidden]> wrote

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"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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It does include the letters which are correctly postcoded but

incorrectly

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addressed and spend weeks being sent to all the local villages with the same street name until
luck happens.

What was incorrect in the address? The house name/number? The reason I

ask

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is that the house name/number and full postcode are (supposedly)

sufficient

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to identify the delivery point. Although I can believe that Royal Mail would place a greater
reliance on the written address being correct than

the

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postcode.

My sister sent a letter back home from uni addressed to "61, S104EM" - it arrived at the normal
time, but with a big red stamp on it saying "This letter has been delayed because it was improperly
addressed - USE YOUR POSTCODE" (and the street name written on in pencil)

Andrew

I said:

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But my wife's never forgiven the Royal Mail for the knickers that they failed to deliver).

and marc requested:

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Jpegs???

Unfortunately jpegs aren't an option, as we don't have the knickers.

This was before we were married, when I was living in Bristol and Catherine still lived in Tunbridge
Wells. She hadn't had time to do any washing, so brought some with her for me to do when she visited
one weekend. She then forgot to take the clean washing away with her. She didn't have time to do any
washing the following week, either, and was short of underwear, so asked me to post her some. It
never arrived.

She still has some knickers that match the lost ones, but I am forbidden to provide jpegs because
they're old and tatty.

To make up for it, here's a pair of mine: speedy5.freeserve.co.ukz knickers.jpgOpen ↗

But that's another story.

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Alan Hutchison said:

We paid £74.35 plus £2.50 insurance on 15 October for the parcel to be sent by International
Parcel Standard which Royal Mail advertises will reach Australia in 6 to 10 days. We are still
awaiting delivery after 58 days!

Claim off the insurance? It was "sent "International Parcel Standard and you have the paperwork to
prove it, it hasn't arrived in"6 to 10 days" so it's "lost"!

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On 13/12/03 12:25 pm, in article
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No criticism of Cyclexpress intended. Item ordered on 1/1003 posted by them on 2/10/03. Delay due
to postal service. I suspect locally.

Must second this. Excellent service from Cyclexpress. Ordered a jacket thursday PM, arrived
saturday. Of course I don't know that I have got this wrapped up and waiting under the tree..

..d

Danny Colyer said:

Catherine still lived in Tunbridge Wells.

Well there you have it. The Royal Mail decided she needed something to be Disgusted about ;-)

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In article <[email hidden]>, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<[email hidden]> writes

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We once had a letter addressed to "Guy and Felicity, Checkendon, Oxon." It arrived.

Years ago, my great uncle in N Ireland received a letter send from the US which was addressed
'Uncle Larry, Dungannon'.

Allegedly the Post Office sometimes manage to correctly deliver postcards with no address
whatsoever. Stick them up on a noticeboard, and if another card comes through with the same
handwriting, and an address, send them both to the same address. On the other hand I used to get
letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street (with a postcode that was different
from mine) about once a week.

On 15 Dec 2003 11:56:24 +0000 (GMT), [email hidden] (Alan

Braggins) said:

On the other hand I used to get letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street (with
a postcode that was different from mine) about once a week.

This is Perfectly Normal around here, there being two Chapmans in Hemdean Rise, plus Hemdean Hill
and Hemdean Road adjacent.

Guy
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[email hidden] (Alan Braggins)typed

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On the other hand I used to get letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street
(with a postcode that was different from mine) about once a week.

I had a similar problem a while back. How Royal Mail could *regularly* deliver stuf intended for
'Stag House, 94 Burnt Oak Broadway, HA8 0**' to me at 94 Stag Lane, HA8 5** amazed me.

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This is Perfectly Normal around here, there being two Chapmans in Hemdean Rise, plus Hemdean Hill
and Hemdean Road adjacent.

Sounds familiar. I live in Offington Drive. Nearby there are Offington Lane, Avenue, Close &
Gardens. Thank goodness my surname isn't as common as Chapman ;-)

James

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Just zis Guy said:

(Alan Braggins) said:

On the other hand I used to get letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street
(with a postcode that was different from mine) about once a week.

This is Perfectly Normal around here, there being two Chapmans in Hemdean Rise, plus Hemdean Hill
and Hemdean Road adjacent.

That's understandable. This was Scotland Road and Edinburgh Road, with the occupants names being
equally different. (The only other Braggins in the local phone book being my parents.)

Helen Deborah Vecht said:

[email hidden] (Alan Braggins)typed

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On the other hand I used to get letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street
(with a postcode that was different from mine) about once a week.

I had a similar problem a while back. How Royal Mail could *regularly* deliver stuf intended for
'Stag House, 94 Burnt Oak Broadway, HA8 0**' to me at 94 Stag Lane, HA8 5** amazed me.

Hi Helen

Many moons ago when I was still a pre-teen, I posted a letter to my mother from school - one letter
a week was compulsory - and I addressed it to Mrs L Hodson, postcode so-and-so. The letter arrived.

Even worse, or better, perhaps, another school mate addressed his letter to Mum, above the Chip
Shop, Nelson. (That's Nelson, Lancs., FWIW.)

Rather like ISPs or software, we don't complain when they're doing their stuff correctly; it's only
when something goes wrong that the "Annoyeds from Leafy Surrey" mention the fact.

James

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"Alan Braggins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Just zis Guy said:

(Alan Braggins) said:

On the other hand I used to get letters addressed to the same house number in a nearby street
(with a postcode that was different from mine) about once a week.

This is Perfectly Normal around here, there being two Chapmans in Hemdean Rise, plus Hemdean Hill
and Hemdean Road adjacent.

That's understandable. This was Scotland Road and Edinburgh Road, with the occupants names being
equally different. (The only other Braggins in the local phone book being my parents.)

Well, at least there's a Scottish connection. ;-)

I guess that what's happening here is that the sorting frames are laid out by street and then
divided by house number. If one street is above another in the frame then it's easy to missort into
the right number but wrong street.

My understanding is that posties aren't supposed to take account of family names when sorting and
delivering so if Guy's postie delivers his mail to another Chapman in a different house number in
another street then s/he is doing something completely wrong by trying to be too clever.

Have a heart for posties today - apparently it's the busiest day of the year because so many people
wrote and posted their Xmas cards over the weekend!
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Michael MacClancy

marc said:

Alan Hutchison said:

We paid £74.35 plus £2.50 insurance on 15 October for the parcel to be sent by International
Parcel Standard which Royal Mail advertises will reach Australia in 6 to 10 days. We are still
awaiting delivery after 58 days!

Claim off the insurance? It was "sent "International Parcel Standard and you have the paperwork to
prove it, it hasn't arrived in"6 to 10 days" so it's "lost"!

Already tried that, Marc. They obviously stall off long enough to exhaust all possibility of
delivery being effected. In the meantime, I have been warned by a representative of Royal Mail that
they do not cover consequential damages, so if we buy replacement camping gear to go for a short
holiday, and the "lost" parcel turns up, however late, we are done.

Thanks for your input. I'll post the outcome when it is finalised.

Regards,

Alan.

"Michael MacClancy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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....My understanding is that posties aren't supposed to take account of family names when sorting
and delivering so if Guy's postie delivers his mail to another Chapman in a different house number
in another street then s/he is doing something completely wrong by trying to be too clever.

When I was growing up my parents and my dad's two brothers' families owned three consectutive house
numbers in the same street. With a total of six adults and eight children (including two pairs of
shared initials) the PO seemed to divide the mail roughly by weight between the three households

best wishes james

(Alan Braggins) said:

That's understandable. This was Scotland Road and Edinburgh Road, with the occupants names being
equally different. (The only other Braggins in the local phone book being my parents.)

And there was I assuming that Braggins was a made up Usenet nom de plume comprised of a tolkienish
reference and a tendency to boast...

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(james) said:

When I was growing up my parents and my dad's two brothers' families owned three consectutive house
numbers in the same street. With a total of six adults and eight children (including two pairs of
shared initials) the PO seemed to divide the mail roughly by weight between the three households

Hi James

A miracle occurred this afternoon: I sent all my Christmas cards before 23, December!

An old school friend of mine and his family lives next door to his parent in a small Surrey vilage.
Their small cul-de-sac has only four houses in it yet at least two of them have different postcodes.
To confuse matters a little more the street name was changed a couple of years ago.

Fortunately, they have all lived in that village for many years so a letter addressed to Surname,
Village, County, would most probably find them.

James

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