Postal Service

[Stubby]

All good here . She comes daily round about lunch time . 

Edit . No inuendo Les ! 

Edited 12 hours ago by Stubby

[AHPP]

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I have a visceral hatred of La Poste after they sent all of my original birth certificates and my parents marriage certificates to Tunisia instead of Ireland to be lost forever!

Recorded delivery as well!

 

That’s handy for the freshly minted Michael Horatio Dempsey of Tunis Street, Tunis. He probably drives an imported Morris Minor to keep the ruse going. 

Edited 10 hours ago by AHPP

[AHPP]

Refer to postmen as couriers btw. They appreciate the nuance.  

[Paul in the woods]

8 hours ago, AHPP said:

One massive danger is service of legal proceedings. There are timescales that start when a form is posted, not received. With a long enough postal delay, you could get sued and lose by default (by not replying) without ever knowing about it. 

 

I've never understood that considering it seems to be widely accepted not all post is delivered or at least delivered on time. I think the NHS ask you to go digital as they know their post often arrives too late.

[Paul in the woods]

Considering we live in an area regarded as too remote for our councils to provide any services we actually get very good Royal Mail service. Parcels tend to arrive on time and when tracked are accurate. A box is left at the front gate to make their life easier.

[AHPP]

13 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

 

I've never understood that considering it seems to be widely accepted not all post is delivered or at least delivered on time. I think the NHS ask you to go digital as they know their post often arrives too late.

I recently made an application to change a hearing date. Called the court to pay the application fee. They said they’d call me when they got to my application and take the fee then. OK. When will that be? About five weeks. The hearing’s in three weeks. I heard her shrug.
 

Anyway. I sweet-talked her and queue-jumped five weeks of people. Hardly fair for them. Whole thing’s a mess. 

[AHPP]

40 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

we live in an area regarded as too remote for our councils to provide any services

Do they somehow manage to provide the tax collection and planning enforcement services though?

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[Paul in the woods]

21 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Do they somehow manage to run the tax collection and planning enforcement services though?

We pay their ever increasing tax via DD but like many councils I doubt they have a good record in chasing non-payers. Planning enforcement seems to be rather selective, some people seem to get an undue amount of attention and others seem to be able to do whatever they want. 

[AHPP]

11 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

I doubt they have a good record in chasing non-payers

 

I bet they do!

[kram]

10 hours ago, Mark_Skyland said:

Royal mail have really let us down lately. They 'lost' a large amount of parcels over the Christmas period. They have let our customers down and it will cost us a couple of grand at the least.

 

I worked in a mail centre when I was young. They like to hold back vast quantities of second class. They only get fined once for it being late so they let it sit for ages, it might get sorted by Febuary.. I believe they now include RM48 and RM24 in what they hold back, it'll all be sitting at your local mail centre.

Its very much fraud, offering a service they had no intention of delivering.

 

I try not to use them. Amazon are the best for delivery,  Evri being slow but reliable.

DHL are the worst.