anyone work for royal mail on here?

sent a parcel last thursday to manchester, which was a birthday present for my dad.. sent it first class recorded.. now i know it can take upto 15 working days but most stuff is there within 2-3 days.. ive tried tracking it but it says its still at my local post office

surely its not possible to lose a 2ft square box

has anyone got a cheeky way of checking where it is for me?

thanks gaz

 

Its the weather mate, they cant anywhere to take anything. weve not had any post for days. asked my post man and he said no lorries have been able to get to bring it to us

 

well i thought about that but considering i posted it last thursday before the bad weather came along i thought it might have just of made it?

cos it has been a week?

just hope it hasnt been lost, thats all

 

Gaz,

I work for Royal Mail, remember the post has to go to Northampton now the big new sorting office and then on to it's destination.

Recorded Delivery you sent it yes?? if so you should have a tracking number to follow it up bud.

As said, weather's shocking and Xmas time is always a mare to get parcels there on time...

 

yup im a postie as said it's the weather
been real dead at work

pete 3dr does your office get it's 400 quid bonus this week?
we're ment to but pay slip didint make it down from sheffield. lol

 

Ask mal mate,he's in the know when it comes to stuff going missing in the post

Apparently loads of sex toys go walkabout in the post round here

Not saying he a Perv that doesn't like paying for his preclusions,but if the shoe fits ya know.....

 

lol.. looks like ill have to hope it gets there before saturday then, just wish the tracking number i keep checking would say its moved from my local post office thats all

 

Daz you spastic!! I saw your van today bud, slumming it in the 'monkey islands' eh!!

As for this recorded item, it's not traceable like special deliverys are, it travels with ordinary mail and only gets a signature on delivery... That said if you wanna PM me the 13 digit number I can check on the internal system to see if it says anything different, but I seriously doubt it!

We were told it's a Ł600 bonus, but we ain't getting it 'til the new year!!!

 

We haven't had our bonus here in Coventry yet, got a nice 2.5k 2weeks ago though for re-location move...

 

you have pm mal thanks ..

cheers for the pm pete that is a nice re-location move lol

cmon u fookin postie's get out there and sort my parcel

 

we move in 2012 so i'll be in for the pennies then

did you actually get 40p a mile over 5 years, lump sum?

 

3 Years bud, you can have the lump sum option, or yearly....mine's been spent..

 

I've been out one day this week it's good that our post comes in via air or a day later by boat, crap day tmw and sat tho

 

The amount of stuff I've had lost by the royal mail is unbeleiveable. Also get opened parcels and letters that look like it might have something interesting inside.

If it's anything now of any personal or monetary value, I always pay the bit extra for special delivery.

 

cool 3 years then,

you know more than the spastic managers at my office lmao,

doubt mine will last long either,

 

fook me you lot get paid this much and cant even get my parcel delivered on time id sack the fookin lot of ya

 

Today has been the only day the rural deliveries were suspended at our place, we've been sent out to see what we can do all week! It ain't been too bad to be fair, apart from me being taken out by a mad twat yesterday!

 

Howdo mal,shoulda said hi mate and I could have shown u the door mirror one of your workmates bust on me van today Lol...


Client may have been on the monkey islands but he paid straight away

 

They wouldn't let us out Monday cos of ice on the pavements, Tues we went out with 4 days of mail! yesterday I was day off inside sorting and today we had 6" of snow! hopefully tmw we will get out, oh we still wear our shorts this weather

 

im still waiting for 3 weeks worth of cheques from work.

 

Ah the old "cheques in the post"

 

The thing is they have actually sent them...So cant really kick of.

 

have you checked its not been misplaced in the post office you sent it from. ive known that happen before

im a postie but ive been snowed in at home for the last 2 days and i aint walking 6 miles to get to work

 

i havent checked mate, but its a tiny post office and they would be falling over it all the time ...

up for mal

 

I've had a look and all it says is - 25/11 - 4 Main St Coventry!

And there's no recorded info since then. I was hoping there might've been an attempted delivery or summat for you, but nowt! Sorry bud.

 

cheers anyway mal, appreciate it

 

I dont know about the mail getting through to people. I know the postmen are doing a good job of smashing the vans up though lol.

 

yeah i`ve noticed !!!

not just their own tho mate

 

Ive had that happen a few times when it says 'has been accpeted at post office'. The problem with recorded is that its only 'tracked', from the post office to the final destination, so if it doesnt come up as signed for, or taken to local sorting office for collection, then chances are in will be 'lost in post'.

Although we all know what 'lost in post' actually means in reality. I always wonder where all these 'lost in post' items end up. They cant just magically dissappear! yes there might be the odd genuine one thats misplaced or delivered to the wrong place, or the labels fell off and is untraceable etc, but its quite obvious that most will be 'stolen' by untrustworthy staff. No way of proving it though of course.

Out of interest, a question to the royal mail staff, do you have some sort of system in place that records the number of 'lost' letters/parcels that go missing in a postmans/postwomans area? That way, if a pattern emerges or numbers look too high in one area compared to others, then its obvious theres a problem somewhere with 'theft' maybe?

 

we have internal police. lol

 

I used to replace lighting in the Sorting Office watching galleries, pre CCtv, we weren't allowed in if "They" were around.

The galleries had a direct entrance from outside.
P.O take Mail theft very seriously.

.

 

Internal police may be a good thing in the actual sorting offices, but i suspect that 99% of the 'thefts' take place out on the job, by the posties and the workers collecting from the post boxes etc. Easy pickings for them i suppose, which is why i wondered if 'lost mail' is recorded in some way so that the powers that be can see if theres a pattern or an area with a high 'loss' rate and can then investigate further. I suppose its something thats hard to enforce and we have to accept it really.

 

i find royal mail to be quite good, but i have had the odd 1 or 2 lost

1st class recorded is pointless, as you cannot track it at all, its only proff that its been signed for and delivered, but only when its been signed for and they have put it on there system

special delivery is the only way to go to gurantee it will get there and it covers upto Ł500 and is next day most of the time

though what annoys me with royal mail is they offer a recorded signed for for parcels going outside the uk, it costs Ł4.50 a parcel, but you can only track it until it leaves the uk, once its left the uk you cannot track it at all or have proff thats its beendelivered, so wtf are they offering a service they cannt provide

 

That's the service you pay for Recorded Delivery, not Tracking.

I don't know the service but I would expect you CAN get proof of Foreign delivery, maybe not online tho', same as above it's proof of actual delivery not tracking during the delivery.
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I do wonder where this mail actually gets physically lost permenantly.

surely in sorting machines theres only so many places letters can fall, and if a postie picks up a mail sack and it splits, surely he picks it all up again and if letters randomly fall on the floor, youd expect the cleaners to not put letters they sweep up in the bin but back in the system etc.

and with parcels they are even bigger

 

mainly wrong address or the address has fallen off ect,

but we now have an internal letter opening factillity called DWP which allows certain staff to have a look iside and see if there's an invoice/receipt to get it back on it's way,

most stuff goes to belfast to sorted and can take months to arrive back

and obviously there is theft

 

still not arrived yet. and it was his birthday today been a week and 3 days now lol... are we having any bets that it will be delivered within the 15 working days or not.. i know what i think

 

youd think royal mail would vet their staff better........

 

If someone doesn't have a criminal record for theft, or anything else related like that, how are they supposed to know?

 

Lots of ordinary people who wouldn't say boo to a goose steal.