The Post

[The Stout Yeoman]

Dunno but I get home about 6:20pm any post is in the recyling bin a minute later - dunno why I dont leave a key for the postman and he could do it for me ...

 

[Silent Bob]

How about 6pm and no I am not joking
and yes this is my first post
Hello to you all

You waited eight years to say that?

 

[Yoda]

Around 12:00 yet I only live a 5 minute walk from the main office & sorting station in Worthing.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Around lunchtime here.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Usually arrives between 11 and 12 in the deep ends of Westdene.

 

[Colossal Squid]

There aren't enough poll options.

My post never arrives before midday and usually turns up between about 12:30 and 2pm

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Between 11am and 4pm. The week before last we had three separate post deliveries on one day!

 

[SeagullSongs]

Ours usually arrives anywhere between 10am (couriers) and 5pm (The Argus), I remember being woken up at 7am by the newspaper coming through the letterbox about 10 years ago...

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Earliest is normally between 11-12 , sometimes arrives 1-2 but most of the time around 3.30 in the afternoon. It was our Silver Wedding Anniversary (20th June) last week , cards arrived on Monday , only junk mail on Tuesday , cards and flowers at midday on Wednesday , nothing on Thursday but a half a dozen cards on Friday afternoon all sent the previous week.

 

[Westdene Wonder]

Our post is usually received between 11 am and 1 pm no problem with that.
What does concern me however is the time post is picked up from the post box,it used to be several times a day but boxes now only show last last post, i have been informed by a number
of people that this time could be the only collection of the day, if you had posted a 1st class letter this would be poor service for the amount it costs

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Can be any time, very unpredictable. As it's all junk mail anyway, it doesn't much matter. I'd take 1 delivery a week, quite happily, I don't think I get anything my snail mail that I need in much of a hurry these days.

 

[Stat Brother]

Our post is usually received between 11 am and 1 pm no problem with that.
What does concern me however is the time post is picked up from the post box,it used to be several times a day but boxes now only show last last post, i have been informed by a number
of people that this time could be the only collection of the day, if you had posted a 1st class letter this would be poor service for the amount it costs

What do you think happened to the post collected earlier in the day?
It's not carried on a golden cushion to it's finally destination.

It sits back at the depot, waiting for all the other post, and then goes to Gatwick in a lorry.

It's something like 98% is then delivered next day, which is staggeringly impressive when you take into account the volume we carry, and the price you pay.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

We usd to have a delivery before I went to school and then another about 11.00am but that was when the post office was providing a service unlike now. I was told that irrespective of when you post a letter in Burgess Hill or Haywards Heath it only gets taken to the sorting office at 2.30pm each day.

Collections from Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath come up to Gatwick Mail Centre way past 14:30.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Ur lucky I don't get my post till 3pm nearly every day and I am lucky if I get my own post as the post man hasn't got a brain sell and get all different address

I work for Royal Mail and I think quite a few of our postmen/women can spell brain cell, shame you can't.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

dont know but if a post man starts work at 5 am ,thats probably 3 hours unsociable hours payment , postman starts at 8 am no extra money .
stuff the fact that you want your post in plenty of time to send out a same day reply

It doesn't have anything to do with paying postmen/women allowances due to the times they work; there are people on night shifts who still get allowances. The change in delivery times is to do with falling letter volumes, increased packet/parcel volumes and a company that now has to make efficiency savings.

Royal Mail is lurching towards becoming a business from being a public service and businesses don't have two deliveries a day.

 

[phoenix]

I can't spell Brain Sail either.

 

[beorhthelm]

i've never understood why it matters to people how early it arrives. unless you are retired or out of work then its little difference if it turns up at 9am or 12pm, and if you are at home what pressing need do you have that you cant wait for the post?

 

[Notters]

I was expecting a parcel at some point this morning and, wondering when it would turn up, I made sure I was up nice and early. When I heard the flutter of the letterbox, I assumed it was my parcel and came to the door, waiting for him to ring the bell. Instead it was a 'Sorry, you were out' card. I then watched him trudge up my neighbours path and just leave it in their open doorway as they've got builders in.

A real people person, clearly.

I had this a couple of weeks ago. My new company posted my new contract to me swiftly as I was about to go on holiday but the postman just put one of those slips through the door instead of buzzing our (very loud) buzzer. This meant I couldnt pick it up until a week later. We also ALWAYS get the post from the garden flat which I have to take downstairs. I'm thinking about charging them for this service.

 

[Pat McCrotch]

Strange poll choices...

My postie comes at 12.30pm on the dot most days

 

[Silk]

post man hasn't got a brain sell

rofl