Obv I don’t want to get too deep into privatisation weeds as we don’t want to get into the dreaded (whispers) politics in this comm. But I’m interested to know if other people are noticing the postal service deteriorating.

Mail for other houses (my door number is clearly marked)… delivery timelines missed… then the icing on the cake, had a delivery that was supposed to come up to Newcastle delivered while I’m not at home, they left it in a ‘safe place’ despite one not being designated.

Want to hear what the ‘safe place’ was? Out on the street, jammed behind a random neighbours wheelie bin! So yeah that’s £110 of new clothes gone to some lucky local who swiped it. Boooo, Royal Mail, booooo!

To counteract the whinge, I just made a banging pizza almost from scratch. Success!

  • digdilem@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    undefined> Postman to be paid for performance. Postman to be paid for performance. I don’t think that works.

    If it did, flyers and phonebooks (back when they were a thing) wouldn’t be found dumped in hedges in bulk. Post is a little different, but not that much. and there have been many cases where bags and bags of undelivered mail have been found stashed in postmen’s homes because they couldn’t be arsed to deliver them.

      • digdilem@feddit.ukEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The problem is - except for tracked parcels, nothing is traced and there’s so many ways for something to go missing between sender and recipient. Hard to measure performance if you can’t rely on that.