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Royal Mail - intermittent - Liphook resident (23rd Sep 2023 - 14:14:35) Just wondering if anyone else notices that the post deliveries are fewer each week. We used to get mail almost everyday and now we seem to get only about two deliveries a week of normal post. Small parcel delivery is fairly reliable except on Friday/Saturday.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - AR (23rd Sep 2023 - 15:39:37) I see the postie usually every day around Liphook. Maybe you don't have anything to be delivered.?

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - Joe (23rd Sep 2023 - 16:30:12) Some of the more rural areas are having less deliveries, yes. Having spoken to my postman about it they do not have enough manpower to do every round every day now so with the further areas it is stored up a bit.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - C (23rd Sep 2023 - 16:46:35) Hi, came on here specifically to ask whether others had been experiencing delays with post. Before people weigh in I’m not complaining - just curious. The postmen and women are very nice! I had a parcel delivered to Liphook post office on Weds (can see whereabouts through tracking) and still not had it delivered. I assume it’s due to reduced staff or similar…

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - Amy (24th Sep 2023 - 07:47:47) Yes, we’re experiencing this too. It’s not that we don’t have things to deliver, the postal workers simply don’t come. We’re not rural, we live in the centre of Liphook. I’ve no doubt it’s to do with lack of staff and not their fault but it is frustrating. I get my medication delivered and the last 3 months I’ve had messages to say it’s being delivered, followed by one later saying they couldn’t deliver today and would attempt the next working day. The medication goes through the letterbox so no one needs to be home. It also doesn’t help having a sorting office that’s only open 2 hours a day so it makes collecting things very hard. Again, I know this isn’t their fault, just another broken system along with most in this country.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - S (24th Sep 2023 - 11:02:05) We live in one of the rural villages and get our mail about once a week often many days after being sent. Nothing “Royal” about the Mail any more it’s another broken service. By way of an example my new credit card was delayed by about a week after confirmation of dispatch and so late I reported it as missing and requested a replacement at huge inconvenience to me. First class post taking 7 days is unacceptable especially since the cost has increased so much. Even the signed for service doesn’t work,my recent attempt at this again wasn’t delivered.What response did I get when I enquired where in the system it was well a book of stamps as compensation for no delivery.So that’s ok then! There are plenty of people who would take a job as a postie as T&Cs have improved immensely over the years,and they do seem to take almost anyone these days! It’s a shoddy poor so called service that nobody wants to accept the failings of or responsibility for..Answers on the back of a stamp please. The country has gone to the dogs.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - passfield resident (24th Sep 2023 - 11:32:59) It's what you get when you privatise things in the wrong way-water companies, Post Office , railways, none of them aiming to do much more than provide a profit for their investors with a minimum level of service for their customers.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - Lexi (26th Sep 2023 - 18:34:38) We had a lovely postie Damian on our road and he just literally disappeared one day and haven’t seen him since. We get different posties most days so maybe there’s staff shortages.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - AF (28th Sep 2023 - 21:04:39) As an ex RM employee the whole problem stems back over 15 years when the EU(Yes it is their fault) made the RM open up to competition and give up their monopoly on postal deliveries. Basically the other companies then creamed off the profitable part of the business(city deliveries and company mail) and the loss making parts were left to the RM. That's why prices rocketed from 20-30p to prices approaching £1.00 for the general public. So yes the quality of the service has gone down, remember in my days 20 yrs ago there were two deliveries a day and the first post before 0930. So just another example of the EU messing things up. Glad were out of that mess.

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - Ivan (29th Sep 2023 - 22:26:17) For less than a month ,we have experienced two significant delays with the Royal Mail for the delivery of our dog's prescribed medication ,which has an impact on her treatment process. The first one, a prescription for a controlled drug drug has been sent to Animed Direct(an online pharmacy) and was supposed to be delivered next day - instead, they have received it 9 days later (you can make a complaint only if the delivery was delayed 10 days and more, which is a bit suspicious, in my opinion, despite the fact that you've paid £6.80 special delivery?). The second one, again an issue with the delivery of the actual medication of my doggy: I have received an email on Wed,27th of September that my medication will be delivered on Thurs, 28th September, between 9am-1pm (that is what I have paid for) ,but that did not happened ,my dog missed a day of her treatment for a serious illness. I went to the Post Office next (London Rr in Liphook) and the medication was there, waiting for me :) I understand that we live in very "interesting times" and I do not want to blame anyone , however , I would be very grateful ,if you pay for a special service(and the prices are significantly Up) and that Must be prioritise ,or at least people should not be misled by receiving emails with wrong information;

Re: Royal Mail - intermittent - SteveC (13th Nov 2023 - 07:27:07) Royal Mail fined £5.6m for missing delivery targets www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67401045

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