Letter delivery duration
Discussion
It's all a bit random at the moment.
I'd say ten days is extreme, but I posted a letter from Nottingham to Mansfield & it took a month!
Off topic, but for many years Ireland was the only country in the World without postcodes. Even when they introduced them 2 years later only 1% of people bothered with them
I'd say ten days is extreme, but I posted a letter from Nottingham to Mansfield & it took a month!
Off topic, but for many years Ireland was the only country in the World without postcodes. Even when they introduced them 2 years later only 1% of people bothered with them
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/international/in...
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/international/co...
3-5 days is the aim for Europe
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/international/co...
3-5 days is the aim for Europe
x5tuu said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Off topic, but for many years Ireland was the only country in the World without postcodes. Even when they introduced them 2 years later only 1% of people bothered with them
They still don’t have them in the UAE eitherMost streets have no name. They are arranged in 'blocks'.
One numbered block may have dozens of physical blocks .
Houses within a street are not numbered sequentially - House 1 in a block was the first to be built; house 2 was the second to be built; house 1 may be next to house 35.
wong said:
x5tuu said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Off topic, but for many years Ireland was the only country in the World without postcodes. Even when they introduced them 2 years later only 1% of people bothered with them
They still don’t have them in the UAE eitherMost streets have no name. They are arranged in 'blocks'.
One numbered block may have dozens of physical blocks .
Houses within a street are not numbered sequentially - House 1 in a block was the first to be built; house 2 was the second to be built; house 1 may be next to house 35.
How does that work? There can't be over a thousand houses just on one street.
Do they have some kind of block number then street number as well?
wong said:
x5tuu said:
2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
Off topic, but for many years Ireland was the only country in the World without postcodes. Even when they introduced them 2 years later only 1% of people bothered with them
They still don’t have them in the UAE eitherMost streets have no name. They are arranged in 'blocks'.
One numbered block may have dozens of physical blocks .
Houses within a street are not numbered sequentially - House 1 in a block was the first to be built; house 2 was the second to be built; house 1 may be next to house 35.
Our letter addresses seem overkill by comparison.
Name
Number/house name
Street
Area
Main town/city
Postcode
Why not just your name, house and postcode…. Although I’m sure that would work, just wondered why convention dictates the rest these days… Fair enough if you do NOT have the postcode, but if you do you don’t need most of it.
Obv that assumes sender gets postcode right of course
Name
Number/house name
Street
Area
Main town/city
Postcode
Why not just your name, house and postcode…. Although I’m sure that would work, just wondered why convention dictates the rest these days… Fair enough if you do NOT have the postcode, but if you do you don’t need most of it.
Obv that assumes sender gets postcode right of course
Well, if it's any consolation, I sent a letter to Dublin (with a complete and correct address) on the 24th of May. I sent it with Track and Sign, so I know where it is and when it arrives .......
The screenshot below shows the current status ...... The bottom line, because I sent it as tracked, it had to have a customs declaration (even though it's just a letter). Due to a cock-up on Royal Mails behalf it did not have some specific code. As a result it's being sent back to me.
I sent an email complaint to the chairman of Royal Mail and An Post. Suffice to say the Royal Mail guy replied with a few hours ..... The An Post guy .... not even recognition of receipt of the email
The screenshot below shows the current status ...... The bottom line, because I sent it as tracked, it had to have a customs declaration (even though it's just a letter). Due to a cock-up on Royal Mails behalf it did not have some specific code. As a result it's being sent back to me.
I sent an email complaint to the chairman of Royal Mail and An Post. Suffice to say the Royal Mail guy replied with a few hours ..... The An Post guy .... not even recognition of receipt of the email
Having very briefly worked as a temp postie I can tell you I have a new found respect for the job, a lot of roads are well thought out, usually older, but some new estates have literally no real layout to speak of, roads in the middle of roads, numbers all over the place, you can see why things are not delivered on time or to the wrong houses, modern estate design is atrocious and it often makes little or no sense.
One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
LukeBrown66 said:
Having very briefly worked as a temp postie I can tell you I have a new found respect for the job, a lot of roads are well thought out, usually older, but some new estates have literally no real layout to speak of, roads in the middle of roads, numbers all over the place, you can see why things are not delivered on time or to the wrong houses, modern estate design is atrocious and it often makes little or no sense.
One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
Ah that makes sense. One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
We live on the last house of the road and the postie often uses our porch to empty what appears to be the entire junk mail contents of his bag onto the mat.
I've started positioning the recycling box directly under the letter box to make the whole weekly process more efficient for all concerned.
LukeBrown66 said:
Having very briefly worked as a temp postie I can tell you I have a new found respect for the job, a lot of roads are well thought out, usually older, but some new estates have literally no real layout to speak of, roads in the middle of roads, numbers all over the place, you can see why things are not delivered on time or to the wrong houses, modern estate design is atrocious and it often makes little or no sense.
One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
Council estates are the absolute worst for having completely and utterly bizarre layouts and illogical numbering systems, I suppose it's what you can only expect from Public Sector planners and designers, presumably down to the usual Public Sector traits of ineptitude, incompetence and generally having little to no concept of how the real world works One thing I did learn was it is pointless leaving notes saying no junk mail, posties are paid extra to deliver this and will never, ever recognise such signs, they re contractually obliged to deliver junk mail!!
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