Well, he's surpassed himself !!

No, probably completely pointless. If you were running a business, however, then I would certainly complain.

I thi k that posties are under lots of pressure! According to ours (who is brilliant) they keep having their systems changed. She now has to do parcels as well where previously larger parcels were delivered by a van and she had a bike. Now she does the lot but from the back of the van which obviously takes much longer. As a customer it's flipping frustrating!

I feel sorry for Posties. I see them dragging big trolly things about and they have to deliver all the junk mail now. My post used to arrive at about 10.30 now it's late afternoon.

They do annoy me when they won't leave parcels in my "safe place" and I have to walk to the Depot to collect it.

Our post used to come by 09.30, now it is never before 13.00 and sometimes as late as 15.30. The postman had to change his route and we are towards the end of his round, instead of near the start.

It's a bit different from the old morning and afternoon post isn't it On the one hand they say 'snail mail' is being used less and less but I guess it's all the junk mail and parcels as others have said.
It's soothing to know it's not just my area.

Our post comes at different times every day depending on the roster and how much other work in the sorting office has to be done first. I'm just grateful it gets here at all. Posties go out in all weather and we get post every day except Sunday- that's fine - anything urgent comes by e-mail anyway.

Our postie is great. If he fails to deliver parcels etc. he comes back at the end of his round to see if anyone is in.
He is aware the you could be in the garden and not hear the bell.

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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!!!

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

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.

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'.

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

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.