Royal Mail

[DimPrawn]

When I moved I setup mail redirection so that mail addressed to me at my old address gets delivered to my new address.

This morning the postman pushed through a whole bunch of letters.

All the redirected mail is actually someone elses mail, i.e. they have redirected it to me correctly, but it's a different name and a different address in Swindon and all the other mail was for a different person at a different address in Newcastle.



May I suggest compulsory eye tests for all Royal Mail staff.

[sasguru]

Sorry to be off-topic but you moved from one tulipe-hole to another?


Why for God's sake?

[AtW]

The guy who moved out from my new place also had redirection in place but it did not work.

[Paddy]

When I moved I setup mail redirection so that mail addressed to me at my old address gets delivered to my new address.

This morning the postman pushed through a whole bunch of letters.

All the redirected mail is actually someone elses mail, i.e. they have redirected it to me correctly, but it's a different name and a different address in Swindon and all the other mail was for a different person at a different address in Newcastle.



May I suggest compulsory eye tests for all Royal Mail staff.

My postman can't even read the single digit five inches high just above the letter box

[Paddy]

The guy who moved out from my new place also had redirection in place but it did not work.

So you had a male lover and he did not like your new place.

[RichardCranium]

I've had multiple redirections for the past ten years as I move for every contract. Unsurprisingly, anything of any value usually gets lost along the way but they do tend to be thorough with the junk mail.

A few times I've had redirections running from A-->B and B-->C and that actually works without any quibbles.

But, I reckon we get an item of post intended for a different address near to 'A' or 'B' at least once a week. I just drop it back in a letterbox with "Redirected in error" scribbled on it.

About once a month we will get someone else's entire redirection as a batch, in a polythene bag.

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What really frightens me about Royal Mail's incompetency and thieving, is that when it does get privatised, it will be even worse. It'll be like CityLink, but for everything.

[RichardCranium]

The guy who moved out from my new place also had redirection in place but it did not work.

I learned years ago that when one moves it is worthwhile leaving behind a couple of sheets of pre-printed Avery labels with:

Please redirect to:
Mr R Cranium Esq
16b The Ditch
Chargin-by-the-Ower
Splot AB1 2CD

with a note to the effect of:

"If you get any post for Mr RC or Mrs RC or DickHeads Limited please put one of these stickers on it and drop it in a letterbox. No postage is required."

This catches post that the redirection misses. It tends to work and people do comply. I know because we receive post with those stickers on.

[d000hg]

And if they are nice and post you some things to start with, send them a bottle of wine or something so they don't stop!

[MarillionFan]

Sorry to be off-topic but you moved from one tulipe-hole to another?


Why for God's sake?

I saw DimPrawn last week. He was kicking a can down the road. When I asked him what he was doing he said 'moving'.