Have you got your Boris letter?

[Dave2002]

Just wondering whether to have ours framed. So many will go in the bin, that in 50 years' time it might be a rarity, and our g-kids might put it up for auction and retire on the proceeds.

Good idea! If nothing else delivering these missives keeps the posties in a job.

[Bryn]

Good idea! If nothing else delivering these missives keeps the posties in a job.

It would keep them in even more work if the letters were all marked "return to sender".

[Dave2002]

It would keep them in even more work if the letters were all marked "return to sender".

You could start a trend - just write that on yours (have you had it yet - I can't remember?) and stick it in a postbox near you. Which raises a question - are the postboxes still open? I don't know - haven't been out for weeks. Is mail still being collected? We still get mail from various firms etc., but I don't think we get much which has been in a street mailbox these days. We also get Amazon and other deliveries - very helpful.

[Bryn]

You could start a trend - just write that on yours (have you had it yet - I can't remember?) and stick it in a postbox near you. Which raises a question - are the postboxes still open? I don't know - haven't been out for weeks. Is mail still being collected? We still get mail from various firms etc., but I don't think we get much which has been in a street mailbox these days. We also get Amazon and other deliveries - very helpful.

I failed to mention that I got mine yesterday morning. Re Amazon. I was briefly a bit miffed today when I checked the tracking for a tarpaulin I have ordered as a temporary covering for a shed, the roof of which had collapsed. The tracker stated that the item had been handed to the customer. It hadn't. However, on opening the front door I found that it had been tucked behind my wheelie bin. I can understand the deliverer not wanting to knock on the door or press the button for the door chime.

[LMcD]

It would keep them in even more work if the letters were all marked "return to sender".

I've been practising that for ages!
Mail is still being collected as usual from our local box.

[BBMmk2]

Received mine in the first wave. High risk category.

[LMcD]

Well, a letter apparently from the Government arrived this morning but we don't like to open it because we've no reason to suppose it's for us.

[burning dog]

Good idea! If nothing else delivering these missives keeps the posties in a job.

No, It's the record number of packets being sent for the time of year that's doing that. Incidentally Royal Mail deliver loads of parcels for Amazon.

Pretty sure the "Boris Letters" have been sent as a "door to door" - no name or address, like a Pizza flyer.

https://www.royalmail.com/business/marketing/mail/door-to-door

"Did you know that 73% of door drops are opened, read or filed?**"

\We know where they are filed. What happens to the other 27%?

[LMcD]

No, It's the record number of packets being sent for the time of year that's doing that. Incidentally Royal Mail deliver loads of parcels for Amazon.

Pretty sure the "Boris Letters" have been sent as a "door to door" - no name or address, like a Pizza flyer.

https://www.royalmail.com/business/marketing/mail/door-to-door

"Did you know that 73% of door drops are opened, read or filed?**"

\We know where they are filed. What happens to the other 27%?

Mine's going back in the post box (cf. #32). Whatever its contents they're bound to be out of date by now anyway. Apparently some key calculations have been assuming a much lower rate of compliance than has actually occurred - but that might change over this weekend, of course.

[burning dog]

Mine's going back in the post box (cf. #32). Whatever its contents they're bound to be out of date by now anyway. Apparently some key calculations have been assuming a much lower rate of compliance than has actually occurred - but that might change over this weekend, of course.

If you mean to "give the posties something to do" they are extremely busy at the moment.Some are covering for ill, self-isolated or even sadly deceased colleagues

[Bryn]

If you mean "to give the posties something to do" they are extremely busy at the moment, some are covering rounds for recently deceased colleagues..

My Royal Mail deliveries have been arriving a couple of hours earlier than usual. If I manage to spot the postal delivery worker today, I intend to make a point of thanking her/him. I will pop out of the front door in a few minutes to sanitise the letterbox.

[burning dog]

You're unusual if you are getting a delivery every day. It's the huge number of small but un-letterboxable packets in the system, as well as light but larger items like toilet rolls, that's slowing the whole company down, as well as illness & self-isolation. Last Monday was like the second Monday in December rather than the first Monday in April. The quantity that actually arrives ATM is far greater than the forecast. Fortunately for me I work indoors, often in an office, so mostly have to avoid work colleagues in the newly "spaced out" staff canteen. All staff at our location now have a bottle of official RM hand-sanitiser, signed for individually of course.

[LeMartinPecheur]

It would keep them in even more work if the letters were all marked "return to sender".

If HMG gets bucket-loads of the things returned, they'll probably assume they've come from the wilfully non-compliant. And they probably won't be wrong in a lot of cases

[LHC]

My Royal Mail deliveries have been arriving a couple of hours earlier than usual. If I manage to spot the postal delivery worker today, I intend to make a point of thanking her/him. I will pop out of the front door in a few minutes to sanitise the letterbox.

I hope you are careful about how you inform your postie that the letterbox has been cleaned.

[ardcarp]