Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

We're pretty fortunate here with post. We get the odd letter delivered for the same number, but different road, but I just take it round. It tends to happen in summer, when the usual postman is presumably on holiday, so the person filling in isn't familiar with the area.
Our house numbers are a nightmare to figure out anyway - I think the person who designed the layout was on something when they did it....

The parcel delivery is usually very good with R.Mail too, as opposed to these delivery companies.

 

We live in the middle of nowhere and our postcode covers quite a big area, so when I place an order for something I always add the What3words app to the address before the postcode. So, for example:

Minnie’s House
Cheese Lane
Double Gloucester
What3words: eat.dont.waste

GL9Z 8ZZ

 

It's been quite for parcels being delivered here, perhap's the no one is spending

 

I think the drivers have What3words on their phones anyway.

 

Just had an email from BT offering full fibre broadband of upto 900mbs, well unless they came and changed the copper lines at night which they haven't we won't be able to have full fibre unless they use Gigaclear lines

 

We had no choice @Jiffy. France had a goal of getting everyone connected by 2030 and, so far, they're up to 89% in the country and 94% in towns. No-one loses their ADSL line till the fibre optic is laid and working altho they accidentally switched us off and we worked with tethered mobile phones and free data to do it.

Lots of lovely copper available for recycling. Some areas are so remote they have to work with satellite internet connections. Not sure what'll happen for them. In towns all the fibre optics are buried and they've been using the holes to upgrade water and waste pipes too. For us, in a country lane, we still have overhead cables strung on poles.

 

My moan today is after my two rain water tanks in tandem ran dry but in the last two days of heavy rain they filled. I was so pleased until I saw pin prick holes at the bottom of both leaking water. Absolutely gutted.

 

It is here too Pete.

We had a relief post lady on today and other half spoke to her about the parcel, she said she'd go and check. Having retrieved it from the back of the house it was delivered too it was in our hands within a few minutes. We can see the said house from ours, it's just around the corner. She was quite annoyed about it and was going to report back to the sorting office.

 

Here we get postal workers that have the same route for a year or so, where they get to know people and where to leave things, and are then moved on. We were told it's because they don't want them becoming to familiar and knowing when people's birthdays etc are, risking things going missing.

 

Final sorting of the 'walk' was still done by the postie when my brother-in-law worked there. He jacked it in about 6 years ago due to management attitude. The final straw was when he was told he was going to be put on a disciplinary for bringing post back in at the end of the day, despite being told (a) all overtime had to be approved in advance and (b) they wouldn't approve overtime.

 

One of our SIL's (sons in law for those that hate acronyms) works as a postie having "retired" from the print. He says that it's largely the management that have no clue. They have been told to prioritise parcels above all else, letters can sit for days, till some of the more conscientious workers do something about it. He recons first class mail is a waste of money, goes no quicker than second. The only mail that gets any priority is 24 hr tracked and signed for. Maybe it's just his depot but I suspect not.

 

When my brother-in-law worked for Royal Mail he said the absolute priority for delivery was the junk mail as that's what they made most money from. 'No Junk Mail' on letter boxes makes no difference as RM is required by law to deliver all mail.