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[Lindilou]

I've just been in the post office for four 1st class stamps - £2.48 !  That's 62p a stamp - that's more than 10 shillings !    (yes I'm showing my age, am 56)

[CLKD]

  …… and? you couldn't drive the package there for that amount!

[Joyce]

Shocking isn't it, I mean the price of a stamp, not your age!     Christmas time is awful, even using second class stamps.  Not everything can be dealt with on the internet. I still have to send letters to friends who don't use a computer.  Maybe should buy some pigeons. 

[Lindilou]

The Royal Mail, gets privatised and prices go sky-high, service is appaling too.

[Joyce]

Service beside us is awful too. We had to ask postie where all our mail had gone. Having had absolutely no deliveries of anything for several weeks. Some of our neighbours were getting our mail & we theirs. Excuse was they'd been using trainees! Not been training them too well then. Now we are getting post at teatime!

[CLKD]

Royal Mail has altered their time of pick up from the boxes in the villages and it isn't obvious if it's been collected! however an e-mail to them has illicited a reply  in that they will 'look into the problem I have raised'  ……… occasionally we get the neighbours' post but don't we all have Senior Moments …….. otherwise service around here is pretty good …….

[Lindilou]

Yes, they used to collect letters from the post box a cpl of times a day.  Now the LAST collection from our post box is 9am.  Yes, 9am in the bloomin morning -  I ask you !

[bramble]

I use RM a lot and find the service is still very very good. My mail gets delivered between 11am and 12 noon and the daily pick up from my local post box is 4.15pm. When I had to ring them the other day about a problem they were excellent and phoned me back very promptly. My only slight complaint is when I buy stamps from the RM shop online I have to pay postage. My local post office is excellent as well - it is open from 7am to 9pm every day including Sundays. Can't complain about that.


Bramble

[CLKD]

Aahhh  -  but reading the notice on our post box it states 'post will not be collected before 9.00 a.m.' - so when then  - 10 past, mid-afternoon ……. which is why I'm trying to get Royal Mail to put that little day box back in place - the 1 that is stored inside the box which Postie  should swap each time letters are collected 

Where do you live that you get a PO open on a SUNDAY 

[toffeecushion]

Ours is open 7am to 2pm on a Sunday

[CLKD]

Crikey.  Is that really necessary ……….. ?

[honeybun]

Scotland CLKD 


I use RM for everything except parcels. They are far too expensive. I can't complain about our post. It arrives every morning at around 9:30 and the last collection time is 4:15.


Once I had my postman trained not to put letters through the letter box but in the wall hanging box we got on fine...the dog eats the letters 


Honeyb
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[CLKD]

  ……… OK unless it's an ERNIE cheque then 

I didn't realise that PO is open on a Sunday up North …….. 

[bramble]

Some of the sub post offices are part of shops now as is ours so they are open shop hours. Great for the customer and much better than when it was a 'proper' sub post office. Only thing is that the post box is still round at the old post office. I think there are plans to move it. And we still have the little day labels on my post box as well CLKD.
I remember when I moved house to England. I had moved on the Saturday and had earmarked Sunday to go and do my food shopping. Not! All the shops were shut! Had to have a chip shop tea again! There were and are some good things about living in Scotland!
Bramble

[CLKD]

Oh come on, we lived in Wales when it was dry on Sundays  - until we had the 'vote' ……….