Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Do Royal Mail sometimes only deliver every second day?

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Do Royal Mail sometimes only deliver every second day?

I moved house a few months ago and I noticed something strange goes on with the post deliveries here. We rarely get mail delivered 2 days in a row. Sometimes we will even have no mail for 2 days and then receive a big bundle all at once on the 3rd day! I know it could just be that we there is no mail for us but I live in a building with 5 other flats and a communal mailbox, I don't believe that for up to 2 days in a row not one of the flats has a piece of mail needing delivered, especially when I see how much mail there is on a day when the postman has been here.

So, do Royal Mail sometimes deliver every second day? Is this an official procedure?

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I am a postman and No there is no Official procedure that allows this. in fact its against the law. Postal Act 2000 I think.

RM have a Universal Service Obligation written into law that they must provide 1 delivery to every address in the UK every working day (Mon - Sat) and I collection from every post box and post office and other recognised collection points.

There are 3 options available to you.

1. Call the Local Delivery Office and ask to speak to a manager or ask for one to call you back and then explain the situation.

2. Call the Customer Care line on 08457 740 740 (8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday. 8am - 1pm on Saturdays) and explain it to them - the local Delivery Office Manager has too respond to their query as its recorded in a central location. However, it is an unfriendly service with lots of options to choose.

3. Contact Postwatch and complain to them - although to be fair they will ask you to exhaust the formal RM complaints procedure first.


I think I know what is happening and it may be down to lack of staff but I am just guessing as I don't know ehere your are based.

Good luck

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