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hiya just catching up after me few days away :0) dad finally got his card on 24th june so it took 10 days to get from barnsley to cardiff!! been quicker to strap it to a piegon lol tina xxx

Crikey Fred-what a disgrace the Royal Mail has become by the sounds of it. No wonder my mother complains. I just thought it was her being her usual complaining self!! The post over here in NZ is pretty good. Rarely do things go missing (within the country) & always delivered following day if local. 2 days for the rest of the country. No second post-Everythings "first class!!". Sorry to boast. But been there with Royal Mail-they managed to lose my graduation certificate between Birmingham & Surrey. Never did get another 1. Hoping this gets there....Zoe, Wellington, NZ

There is a problem with theft over here Zoe. An undercover camere was put inside a post office sorting room a while ago ,and the things it showed was amazing . Cheques being taken ,ditto with parcels, mail being thrown into rubbish bags,i could go on. It,s only a few doing this sort of thing ,but that,s all it takes.We even had one postman up here in the north in court ,he threw mail away ,over a three week period because he couldn,t be bothered to deliver it.[his own words] A far cry from the 60,s when i joined the postal service ,a week of filling forms in references to get ,and to cap it all you needed to have a rellie ,or friend working there or you had no chanceFred.

On a positive note I posted 8 letters last Monday afternoon from here in Wellington, New Zealand to different UK addresses & got my first reponse via email on Thursday evening. SO between the NZ postal system & Royal Mail I reckon that's a pretty good turn around time by anyones standards!! Mind you my mother used to regularly post parcels out to us from the UK but every other 1 never made it here. Needless to say she's stopped posting parcels!!! I always wonder if there's a similar problem in mail as there oftern is at airports with staff rifling through bags in order to find goodies to steal. Best wishes...Zoe

Sorry Tina - missed your point - this was THE special Father's Day wasn't it? So sorry your card didn't get there in time.

The post has been bad in my area too, use to get about 7.30 now its late afternoon, but last monday i got a letter of a lady whom had posted it on the sunday from Dorset i thoght that was pretty quick tracy

I have a postcard of my g-grandmothers, posted c. 1900, inviting her out to tea that afternoon, and asking her to confirm by return of post if she could come!!!Obviously in those days you could post a card in the morning and it was delivered that same day. Now you are lucky if it is 3 weeks- that's progress for you!!!

well im of on my break now for a few days any letters you want posting i'll chuck out of the airplane window on my way might get there quicker lol tina xxx p.s fred i remember ernie lol

Why is it when two Christmas cards are posted to the same address on the same day they arrive a week apart? Has anyone read any really old postcards where someone would write in the morning to say what time they would be home that night? Happy memories for some !!!

Same here with the London service at work, up until a month or so back it arrived around 8.30-9.00. Now it's anything from 11.30 until 2.30, we still get a second post (reply-paid mail) which now get there before the "first" post! Needless to say, we now use fax or e-mail where we can.

Someone made a comment that a horse and cart would be quicker,i read somwhere early in the week that the milkmen may get a contract to deliver second class post,the name Ernie springs to mind.lord preserve us.Fred.

i can only speak for the london postal service,but its an absolute disgrace...they put in secret cameras at a main sorting office,mail was thrown away,some even stolen! we used to get two deliveries a day,now its one...mail used to arrive about 8am,now its mid afternoon...letters regularly delivered to wrong adresses...went to have a moan to my postman,cos he was delivering someone elses mail to my adress,and he couldnt speak english...royal mail stinks. best wishes....bryan.

Tina,i think you may be right, karen

karen its so maddening just got a call this morning of my niece to say thanks for her birthday card i sent it 2 weeks ago! be quicker the old fashion way horse and cart lol

similar thing happened to me,my daughter wanted to post a birthday card to grandma even thoughwe only live 10mins away,i posted it 3 days before her birthday,did it come for her birthday, did it heck,3 weeks later it arrived. another great one is we had a letter from the post office saying it intends to get post delivered by lunchtime,next day our post came at 3.30pm the day after 4.45pm!! karen

well i posted my card and presents on tuesday morning first class did my dad get his card ????? nope he didnt im really mad never complained before but i will do this time it was to important hope every other dad got there card on time tina xxxx