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[STMO123]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19293772

Another cost cutting measure which is for "our convenience". I will tell my postie that, if he leaves my parcels at a near address, I will be putting a claim in for non-receipt. Idiots.

[STMO123]

Sorry, just noticed that there is an opt-out. Dont know how the 17 different postmen that deliver here will know who has though.

[Taxi_Driver]

Well, i spose it might stop my postie leaving 'signed for' parcels hidden behind the wheelie bin 

[STMO123]

Well, i spose it might stop my postie leaving 'signed for' parcels hidden behind the wheelie bin 

I'd trust your wheelie bin more than some of my neighbours, Dave.

[albitz]

Could be worse.You could still be living in Liverpool.

[STMO123]

Could be worse.You could still be living in Liverpool.

The good folk of liverpool will be enlarging their letterboxes as we speak.
 
Well...half of them anyway.

[Varche]

Oh stop moaning. At least you have a proper cheap postal system.

We have one delivery a week and one emptying of the postbox for outgoing stuff. If it is a hot week, a public holiday or no one is available . No post.

Parcels. Better news. They leave a paper saying couldn't deliver. Please collect between 1.15 to 1.30 p.m. from the town hall 6 miles away. If you don't collect within a week it gets sent back to main post town 20 miles away. Slips get put into the wrong box..........

[Kevin Wood]

It'll make no difference here. The postman doesn't appear to have grasped the concept of numbers, and the need to match up those on the address to those on the houses. 

[Andy B]

Our postie already uses her common sense & delivers anything that won't fit through our letter box or a 'signed for' parcel with a neighbour ........ we'd had various things delivered to our house to for others. It's worked here for years  Don't know what the fuss is about 

[Vamps]

Our postie already uses her common sense & delivers anything that won't fit through our letter box or a 'signed for' parcel with a neighbour ........ we'd had various things delivered to our house to for others. It's worked here for years  Don't know what the fuss is about 

Same here, out postie signs for us and posts it or puts a package in the porch, as neighbours do not have a porch we often get their parcels...........been here 13 years and never a problem........

[cleggy]

Our postie already uses her common sense & delivers anything that won't fit through our letter box or a 'signed for' parcel with a neighbour ........ we'd had various things delivered to our house to for others. It's worked here for years  Don't know what the fuss is about  

Same here, out postie signs for us and posts it or puts a package in the porch, as neighbours do not have a porch we often get their parcels...........been here 13 years and never a problem........

And again here, 9 houses in our crescent and the postie leaves parcels with whoever is in, we've also trained othere parcel deliverers

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

I actually look forward to this. The amount of whinging I do every time they try to deliver during the day, when we're at work, then return it to the office where it can only be collecting during the, er, day...

[Jimbob]

I had to re-read that article to work out what the headline was...

That has happened here all my life, works fine.

[omega3000]

Our postie often puts our letters in next door and next doors in our  had a meercat go missing and bet it got sent to wrong address  sometimes they leave stuff in wheelie bins with no card to say where its been left ...

[Nick W]

Our postie already uses her common sense & delivers anything that won't fit through our letter box or a 'signed for' parcel with a neighbour ........ we'd had various things delivered to our house to for others. It's worked here for years  Don't know what the fuss is about 

The postman does just that. Impossible to complain about.

Parcelfarce van drivers are an entirely different issue. They are on job and knock(I know a couple), and the faster they do their round, the earlier they go home. There are no penalties for not delivering parcels, so the procedure is: park the van in the road(blocking it if necessary) directly outside the house; give a virtually silent tap on the door, even if there is a working bell; scribble the You've paid us to deliver this parcel, but we can't be bothered. If you still want it, it's getting in our way at Best Street sorting office. Come and collect it soon before we lose, damage or steal it card, ensuring that there isn't a time on it; shove it partially in the letterbox(don't want to risk those fingers); and leg it back to the van. At my address, that lot takes about 10 seconds. We missed a trick at the Olympics; it the sprinting team had been postmen, they'd have made Usain Bolt look about as fast as a snail.

They should stop pretending that they are a parcel delivery service. Sell the vans, sack the drivers, keep the parcel at the sorting office and get the postman to deliver the cards. The result would be the same, and profits would increase.

Also, I'd like to know how the Royal Mail -or whatever stupid name they've chosen this week- can get a parcel from the other end of the country overnight, but I can't collect it from the sorting office less than a mile away for another 24 hours.