I haven't been receiving any mail recently and I know that there should be some. For a start a bank statement that always drops on my mat in the first week in August, without fail, hasn't arrived.

Anyone else been having problems? Chris - you live closest to me - what about you?

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I know you meant Mr Pritchard but I thought that I would point out that this was raised on Monday night at our weekly meetings. One person (former delivery postman now on the sortation side) who lives in Castlefields asked why he was receiving his mail at 3PM when his house is near the start of the walk.

The simple answer was to contact the delivery office manager and complain but in reality someone at area level had all of the walks (rounds) changed (made bigger) and many are not deliverable by one postman in one shift.

It is also worth noting that pretty much all of the major 4 banks do not post via Royal Mail anymore but use downstream access which means other companies like TNT, DHL etc collect the mail, charge the customer a fee and pass it on to Royal Mail for sortation and delivery for a smaller fee.

Some of the streams of mail coming from downstream access can be unreliable/late so it might not be a Royal Mail problem in the case of the bank statement because the mail might not have been handed over to Royal Mail as expected although it still worth phoning the office and asking to speak to the delivery manager to see if your mail has been brought back to the office because you have not received any mail for a while.

Thanks for that - we've had no post for two days, though that may be because we simply have no mail for the postman to deliver! However I am awaiting two letters (one from the bank) and my mum, who lives here too, is also expecting one or two things. Something is going wrong!

No problems here, although we have gone a few days in the past without anything, these days its a miricle though with all the junk that gets put through peoples doors!

Now postbags are not being left at various addresses around the town as has apparently previously been the case, our postal delivery has gone to pot. On the other hand it may now actually be as secure as we had been led to believe it already was and not merely left to the integrity of mere members of the public who allowed mailbags to be left in their porches.

The Post Office and Royal Mail are limited companies now, privatised and subject to market forces precisely the vision the Conservative Party held regarding all public services in the 1980s. Yet as soon as the Post office is to move premises in Shrewsbury, an undisputed Tory town despite a short pseudo Labour/Lib Dem brief interval, we now have pandemonium! How dare The Post Office the great British institution move to WH Smiths (almost as great) Shock Horror, even the Chief Executive Robin Hooper is up in arms. The second Battle of Shrewsbury is about to commence. <_<

Perhaps we will see the head of the manager of the Post Office Services impaled on a post at the Top Cross. (yuk, what a thought, :o sales at Greggs would plummet !!)
His heart sent to London via Royal Mail will undoubtedly be lost enroute. :D

You're missing the point of the Royal Mail though - it is a public service and it is entirely owned by the government. Hence why we, the taxpayers and citizens, should have a say in what happens.

My bank statement finally arrived!! :o

It's dated 3rd August and it arrived today, the 11th August! Ah banks... such wonderful businesses...

The banks are apparently reducing the number of statements we receive as a cost cutting measure, :unsure: 'bless' aren't the huge profits they make enough?

I think that less paper through the letter box can only be a good thing, both for our sanity and for the environment. It's one corner that I don't mind them cutting even if their motivation is penny pinching.

Presumably as we are all using an online forum, we also have access to online banking should we want it.