Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Are local postal services still operating?
The Post Office is apparently still open for business nationally but has anyone had local deliveries this week?
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Yes, my postie said there's "no such thing as tracking" any more. If sending something important use a courier.
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Permalink Reply by air on
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I got a week's worth of post yesterday, about 10 letters.
It seems they have a major backlog and were just going to have to be patient.
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Permalink Reply by Barney Winnett on
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They are behind with deliveries through sickness and staff self-isolating, plus the volume of mail is as much as at Christmas due to a huge surge in people ordering online rather than physically shopping. They are doing the best they can but given the circumstances we are all to expect more delays than usual.
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I spoke to our lovely postie who told me that many were off sick quarantining.. that the post was stacked up ..huge piles but hardly anyone to deliver. The most important thing was that he complained about not having been any issued gloves and masks... he bought his own gloves but not many around. I felt sorry for him as he is such a great guy.
Please don't be cross with our posties...!
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Not being cross with our posties.
Awaiting delivery of several items for over 2 weeks - needed for tax generating projects that help keep the show on the road.
Only got Boris's letter, a letter from the Council, and a mis-delivered letter that I had to sterilise and deliver myself to a nearby address.
I empathise with legitimate staffing shortages and very much appreciate our frontline posties. But other courier companies manage to deliver. So, unless I am overlooking something obvious, this smacks of the usual type of excuse for operational failures - stemming directly from unaccountable management, whatever the prevailing reason happens to be.
Formulaic letters and excuses about "working externally hard in the circumstances" no longer cut it. Absent a plausible explanation, weeks without delivering is an organisational failure.
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Permalink Reply by Neil on
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My post has arrived without problem each day.
The virus has created one interesting fact. Because nearly everyone is at home when parcels are delivered, the local sorting office and collection point has very little to give out and has cut opening hours drastically.
Wood Green collection office has reduced it's opening hours to 7am to 9am because hardly anyone has anything to collect. The place was empty at 8.30am when I collected a parcel and the worker told me why his shelves were empty.
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Still not getting post regularly in N8. Got only a piece of junk mail yesterday, and no post today (though I saw a RM postie on our road).
Still waiting for at least 3 packages that are now missing for up to a month... Anyone beat that?
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I'm in N4 - I got a parcel yesterday posted on 28th March, but two more from 23/24th have still not come. One is supposedly 'tracked' but no information online and the postman said 'There's no tracking now.'
I also got a totally boring bank letter posted on 8th April, so parcel delivery seems to be worse affected. So much for being able to order essential things online that you can't go to the shops for.
I'm wondering if the problem is the same when sending things out - I posted my son a birthday card for next week to Manchester but no idea when it will turn up. As someone else pointed out, courier companies seem to be managing with minimal disruption, so maybe this marks the end of Royal Mail as a reliable service...
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On the bank holiday Monday we actually had TWO separate deliveries. And one on the Sunday too.
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There are still some things posted two weeks ago that I'm still waiting for. Nothing too urgent yet so I'm being patient.
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Permalink Reply by Simon on
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Parcel post is running very late I got something yesterday that should have arrived on Monday but it did get delivered eventually
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