Well, he's surpassed himself !!

I think we are very lucky, our postie comes everyday between 11.30am and 12noon, and on the odd occasion he is late, he always apologises if I see him. A really nice young guy.

Ours is any time between 1 pm and 4.30. Who gets it in the morning, I wonder? Saturdays, it's around 11 am, so why can't it be that time during the week?

It might help if letterboxes were by the gate. Then posties would not have so far to walk or dodge dogs, We have to put our rubbish by the gate and iwe should pick up our post there.

Do all apartment blocks have letter boxes at the entranc?

My DH is a postman. He starts at 6.30am and some days doesn't get back to tje office til 9.30pm. They have to sort mail into walks before they leave the office, and wait for any miss sorted post to come from the main sorting office before they go out. He and his mate take two walks in the van and then come back and take walks that aren't covered due to sickness and holidays. There is an official finish time and often post is brought back as the walk can't be finished in the time allotted by the computer. That then has to be taken out by someone else on overtime. Your post is late? The way the system doesn't work, you should be grateful it comes at all.

Give the posties a break - as a pp said, posties now have to sort their own post before they start their round (as all the people who used to do this job have been 'let go' in the name of efficiency (?!?!) and financial constraints).
After they have delivered their own round, they may have to go back to the office to sort and then deliver someone else's round, as there are no 'relief' staff any more, so if someone is off sick/on leave their letters and parcels have to be delivered as a 'second' post by someone who has already done their own round...!
Like all other organisations being 'slimmed down' for privatisation, lots of staff were made redundant - with no real thought about how this would impact on the service - simply to save money and make it more attractive to investors. There was just the assumption that the remaining staff would 'pick up the slack' - i.e.do twice the work for the same pay...
Can you tell that I know a postie..??

My post arrived today at 5.30pm, very late for a Saturday.

Today is Saturday and my post arrived at 5pm! I thought that he had been earlier. I sometimes see him walking around delivering at 6.30pm. during the week. Very rarely do we receive anything before 9am, usually late pm.

My postie is really wonderful. He always leaves bulky mail in my safe place if I'm not in. He comes here at noon or later, but the other day I saw him delivering in the village centre and realised that he must be doing two rounds each day.

I'm hoping she won't last long, nina. She must know that being a postie in a rural area will involve driving to isolated farm properties where there are bound to be dogs.

She doesn't speak much English so in the end I gave up trying to explain that the dogs are very friendly. I was on the brink of doing a 'Mrs. Brown's Boys' type mime - toungue out, panting and wagging an imaginary tail but she just shrugged her shoulders and drove off.

I don't think we're going to get on.

merlot what ever was she thinking applying to be a postie
Perhaps she should get herself an owl to take on her rounds.

Our nice postie left last week

We now have a woman who is terrified of dogs so won't get out of the van. I had to drive to the sorting office yesterday to collect a very small parcel which would have easily fitted in the box on the wall

I managed to coax her as far as the garden path this morning trying to reassure her that the dogs would always be in the house unless we're outside with them. She wouldn't believe me when I said they are friendly. She then spotted one of DD's chihuahuas and ran off screaming, jumped in the van and drove off.

I think a stinger might be required to stop her escaping if we're ever going to get any mail.

I think maybe some of the Postie's have to cover another round after they've done theirs (during holidays).
Ours always looks very worried, but can rustle up a smile when my dgd age 4, flirts with him!

My postie is probably a nice guy (never got past a smile and a wave) it's the system. If your waiting for something to arrive I think we'd all hope to receive it before 4pm. Especially children's birthday cards or similar.

We always give our postie a good Christmas box but we exchange village gossip on a regular basis!!!! All the posties in our village are lovely but if they import one from the other villages trouble ensues!

Isn't it great to read about so many lovely posties. I wonder how many of us show our appreciation (I always give him a Christmas gift but that's about it). I think the good ones genuinely enjoy the job and love meeting all the people on their rounds.

kitty, the postman who does the round alongside Loch Long greets and feeds all the dogs en route too. He loves his job. Bet the dogs look forward to his appearance too.

Gosh! Is when the post arrives something one's supposed to notice? Epic fail here then. Ours just opens the back door and plonks stuff on top of the freezer (I told him he could). It's only a problem when he's away on his hollibobs and the 'locum' tries to put things in the cobweb covered postbox attached to the outside wall. We don't have a letterbox in a door like normal people. I don't think such things were necessary here when this house was built.

The previous permie postman, who had four kids and then ran off with his fancy-woman (not the kids' mother) used to put stuff in the coal bunker till I told him the freezer was OK. I'd love to know how he's getting on nowadays.

Our postie takes around dog biscuits for all the dogs on her round, she has rung the police when she spotted a burglary, the ambulance when when she saw one of her 'old ladies' lying on the floor. She went next door to tell a neighbour when one of her customers couldn't open the front door and, once, she delivered a meal I had made for my friend down the road when she was undergoing chemo and I had a cold so daren't call round. They keep threatening to put her on another route but I think there would be uproar if they did.

Unfortunately, times have changed and not for the better Posties no longer have the training that they used to have to learn their delivery routes. They have to sort the post before they deliver it. Now they have "prams" to push round and they have much heavier loads to actually carry. I sometimes wonder how they carry them, especially when they have parcels as well (usually my 'auction website' bargains ) We're part of the local training route and just get to know the postie and they're shunted off to another route

Our postman never delivers before 11am and more often it is 2pm, I think he favours a gentle saunter around the estate and likes to stop and talk to anyone in the vicinity.
We are always complaining to Royal Mail because he will insist on taking short cuts across our manicured lawn, if I wanted him to walk there I would have put in a second path

Our regular postman is lovely, but I am wondering if he has a lie-in every morning these days. Yesterday he arrived at 2.30 whereas it used to be about 11 ish. I'm not grumbling though as he is always cheerful, always leaves packages in the garage as requested.
Is it now post-office policy to deliver later?

When I hear things like this I always think of Blanche from Coronation Street. She was watching Postman Pat with her great grandson and the music came on 'early in the morning, just as day is dawning'. Blanche said grumpily 'early in the morning? More like 1 o'clock, wearing shorts and flicking elastic bands all over the street'.

Ours comes about 2 pm. That's fine as far as I am concerned. He is cheerful and helpful and will take stuff we want to post to save us walking up to the box. He is also very careful to re-close our gate if he finds it closed, as he knows that means there are children here.

Our postie who is also lovely told me the other day they are no longer allowed to use bicycles - health & safety.
WTF

My postie is also great. I can always tell when he is on holiday because the post comes about an hour earlier!! He is a lovely friendly chap and will stop and chat to anyone he sees - especially if he knows you live alone. If you tell him you are going to be away he will take a stroll around the house and garden to make sure everything is OK. If he were to be moved to another round I think there would be an uprising locally!!!