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1900 BST Saturday: Just had parcel post delivery !!!
Posted: Sat May 30, 2026 6:22 pm
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
I kid you not:
I have just answered door to a real, live Post Office Postie bearing parcel I was not expecting until Monday.
1900 BST on a Saturday ??
I made a polite remark about not expecting it today-- And certainly not this late !!
He shrugged, said the parcels had not come to the depot as scheduled...
Re: 1900 BST Saturday: Just had parcel post delivery !!!
Posted: Sat May 30, 2026 7:42 pm
by Craiglxviii
Royal Mail Ltd is all about parcel delivery these days. They just don’t care about letter post!
Re: 1900 BST Saturday: Just had parcel post delivery !!!
Posted: Sat May 30, 2026 8:50 pm
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
"What gets measured, gets done..."
Such '24hr' parcels are 'tracked'.
1st Class and 'Special' post gets variously tracked.
Here, we reckon a Walk's '2nd Class' piles up until overflow or a 1st comes along and, um, 'pigs' the pipe-line.
Can take a 'working' week for a '2nd Class' hospital appt to get across the city.
IIRC, it goes out to sorting Centre near Warrington, then eventually sorta wombles back...
Re: 1900 BST Saturday: Just had parcel post delivery !!!
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 10:40 am
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
Saturday mid-morning...
Have just had three weeks of 'New Scientist' magazines shoved through letterbox.
And a belated 'yachty' mag. (*)
Must have needed 'King Tide' to cross harbour bar...
Hmm: Last week, the 'Fortean Times' arrived a mere week late, now the 'New Normal'...
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*) Yes, yes, I still have hopes of collating my notes for 'The Lady May', yachty-based 'P for Pleistocene' sequel.
But, hip-deep in 'City of Fresno', I'm making scant progress on 'TLM' between crafting a few crucial scenes...