What time do you get your mail ?

[Alison]

... and indeed any comments on the Royal Mail in your neck of the woods ?

[Alison]

Ugh ! Are titles editable ?!

[Chris Newman]

I get mine at around about 11.45 to 12.OO.

Occasionally, there is one postman who begins the round at different places each day and occasionally surprises me with an early delivery (and presumably others with a later delivery). He thinks this is fairer than the lucky early birds always being the same people but he cannot persuade his colleagues to do the same.

[Dave2002]

Usually about 11.30am to 12 noon, though packages can arrive at any time. They often arrive early when I'm out, and then I get a card to take to the sorting office. Despite what it says on the card, it's never possible to get to the sorting office to pick up the package on the day. It's either too late and the office is closed, or - alternately - the package is still on the rounds when I get to the sorting office.

[amateur51]

Mine arrives anytime between 11.15 and 12.30. Main postie is pleasantly friendly, likes a bit of banter, uses his own initiative (he sometimes puts the mat over a packet that won't get through my letter box) and he has some interesting views on the privatisation of Royal Mail. Junior postie is usually the early bird, faster and monosyllabic. Both give a good service, I feel.

But I do remember post on a Sunday and first thing and at lunchtime during the week. Was there afternoon post too?

[Vile Consort]

Tuesdays and Thursdays. I suspect it would reach me faster if I lived on Rockall.

[barber olly]

10.00am to 11.15am, very good, friendly service. Why do you ask Alison, you got problems?

[barber olly]

Tuesdays and Thursdays. I suspect it would reach me faster if I lived on Rockall.

Mention of Rockall reminds me of Michael Bentine's Square World and wasn't it Professor Alfred Glockall of Rockall University.

[Roehre]

Between 8 and 8.45 am.
Very friendly posties and lassies

[VodkaDilc]

Excellent service here. Polite, cheerful and efficient - and usually between 9.30 and 10. Regular postman comes five days a week and a regular Thursday postman on the other day. Both know the round well, as do the two or three holiday/illness stand-ins. They could not be more helpful and know where to put oversized items if I am out.

I think the Royal Mail service is wonderful - and frequently unjustifiably criticised.

[Anna]

I have no idea when Postie comes but today I found I have my first Christmas Card, from my cousin in Connecticut which has led me to searching out last posting dates in order to be not so previous as to be embarrassing, with festive greetings.

[amateur51]

Between 8 and 8.45 am.
Very friendly posties and lassies

My mother lived in Wrexham , North Wales and her post was always around breakfast time, Roehre.

Must be something in the bread

[Chris Newman]

Excellent service here. Polite, cheerful and efficient -
I think the Royal Mail service is wonderful - and frequently unjustifiably criticised.

Hear hear. The collection/sorting office has started to open Saturday mornings. Useful for those box sets that won't fit through the letter box.

[ahinton]

If I'm lucky (which usually I'm not), some time between 13.30 and 18.30 on days when anyone happens to feel like doing the job. Since I've been in my present location, no less than five Special Delivery items mailed to me and three that I have mailed out have vanished without trace. That said, there's one local sub post office in the county somewhere at which - er - a rather more helpful and entirely unsanctioned service can sometimes be offered if you know what I mean hush hush and all that; no names, no pack-drill, but I have on more than one occasion been able to depend upon it to deposit items on a Saturday morning for them to be delivered safely later the same day or on Sunday. Don't tell the unions or the Royal Mail...

[decantor]

Post arrives here around 9.30 - never later than 10.00.

My brilliant postie of eight years' standing retired a couple of years back. I thought I would never see his like again. The young chap who took over the round is equally good - and he scribbles a note for me if he's left something in the 'hidey-hole'. His occasional 'sub' is good too, but is inclined to leave the gate open....... which can be disastrous in this area where sheep roam free. Even so, I think the Royal Mail serve me pretty well.

Each Christmas I give my postie (what I hope is) a decent cash present, as my parents did before me. I intend it as genuine appreciation, not a bribe. Do others do that, or is it a dying tradition?