End of Mail Collect

[sheepish]

Does anyone else use Mail Collect? The service where you can collect your mail from the sorting office because the postie doesn't have a 4x4 and I don't want his sump on the access track to the farm? Add in that track comes across someone else's farm and they don't want me to put up a box on their land, and I don't really want one a mile from the house.

Got a letter today to say the service ends in 2020. Looks like the alternative being offered is a PO Box at £270 / year. Just wondered if anyone else was going to have to work this out, or if anyone had told the post office they were welcome to try and deliver.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Can you use a secure drop of address or put something nearer to the main road for posty to leave stuff in

 

[smj1]

How bad is your track? Posties come to places around us which are absolutely savage on their vans. I would just stick a lockable box up even if it is a mile from the house if you dont want them coming up the track, or improve the track a bit. If a postie cant get up could an ambulance?

 

[sheepish]

How bad is your track? Posties come to places around us which are absolutely savage on their vans. I would just stick a lockable box up even if it is a mile from the house if you dont want them coming up the track, or improve the track a bit. If a postie cant get up could an ambulance?

Ambulance service has Discoverys. Fire Service has Defenders. The mile away problem is more that I don't own any land a mile away to put a box on. Might have to see how they get on in their van.

 

[Paddington]

Our postie sometimes has a hire van when the red one is being serviced or repaired, now a 2WD hire van can go everywhere a 4x4 can get to.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Our postie has one of the Peugeot vans, a 14 plate one that’s been to the moon twice judging by the lack of foam on the seat and the worn through footwell carpet to the stage of polished steel! It must be built like a tank as 40mph on farm tracks and and sometimes even across a field is nothing for it. It’s flipping surprising that the rear axle is still finding its way back to the depot still attached to the van every day.

 

[Nhtvt170]

Our postie has one of the Peugeot vans, a 14 plate one that’s been to the moon twice judging by the lack of foam on the seat and the worn through footwell carpet to the stage of polished steel! It must be built like a tank as 40mph on farm tracks and and sometimes even across a field is nothing for it. It’s flipping surprising that the rear axle is still finding its way back to the depot still attached to the van every day.

Ah, so it isn't just ours then. The customer service we get from ours is second to none- comparing it to the likes of yodel.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Ah, so it isn't just ours then. The customer service we get from ours is second to none- comparing it to the likes of yodel.

Same here, they will always leave parcels and scribble signature if needed etc, not a stupid card to go 10 miles to depot etc.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Got a letter today to say the service ends in 2020. Looks like the alternative being offered is a PO Box at £270 / year. Just wondered if anyone else was going to have to work this out, or if anyone had told the post office they were welcome to try and deliver.

wow - ive had a PO Box in Gunnedah for nearly 30 years, for a number of reasons, but it is very convenient having a fixed postal address when your residential address changes

they currently cost $130 / year, which is a big increase from the $30 in the 90's

small village PO's still hold mail to be collected though.
Where my farm is at Curlewis, there is no delivery service past the gate ( There are rural mail delivery contractors, but not on my road ) or even to the houses in the village. There is only a handful of PO Boxes there, so most people have to go in & collect their mail.

 

[TripleSix]

Our postie delivers to us all the time unless it's snowy or icy (you struggle on our lane in a 4x4)

In bad weather mail is left at the PO in town.

That's another thing I like about our PO, it's in a shop in town, and thus the PO stays open till 10pm.
Useful.

 

[uztrac]

Get it deposited at your nearest inn !!

 

[Exfarmer]

Sure they srtill have a duty to deliver to the edge of your property, tell them to do just that. Put a box there and let them get on with it. Most of it is spam anyway!

 

[Pilatus]

Off topic.
If you live at the end of a long drive/track, what type of broad band do you use, is the speed very good, also is your mobile signal very good.
Just asking out of interest,some places round here GL7, there are still quite a few places with poor to almost non existent phone signal, but postal system good.

 

[HolzKopf]

We had a postie who 'saved' mail i.e. wouldn't routinely deliver spam, charity or other 'unimportant' stuff until he had proper letters to bring, then he would include aforementioned cr*p. Saved him a hell of a lot of time, wear and tear on van and our post came nice and early. Used spare time to assist elderly etc but only talking therapy, friendly conversation. Got the sack for 'tampering with the Queen's mail'. Should have got an OBE imo

 

[Steevo]

We had a postie who 'saved' mail i.e. wouldn't routinely deliver spam, charity or other 'unimportant' stuff until he had proper letters to bring, then he would include aforementioned cr*p. Saved him a hell of a lot of time, wear and tear on van and our post came nice and early. Used spare time to assist elderly etc but only talking therapy, friendly conversation. Got the sack for 'tampering with the Queen's mail'. Should have got an OBE imo

That's what you call efficiency!

I'm sure if everyone were given the option by RM they would opt for that. Could save them a fortune and improve public image too.

 

[pellow]

do you have any family members who live in civilization who would take your post? I have important stuff sent to a relations house as I have a neighbour with a similar address name to mine and if any post goes there its never seen again

 

[Exfarmer]

That's what you call efficiency!

I'm sure if everyone were given the option by RM they would opt for that. Could save them a fortune and improve public image too.

Today, this is the official policy. In reality it means we only get 2 or 3 deliveries a week. Just means my Private Eye is normally here on Friday instead of Wednesday

 

[davieh3350]

Postie was absolutely feckin delighted when I move here and told them to leave the mail with the neighbours at the road end. The previous lad insisted they drove the mile of rough track, opening and closing the three gates each way.

Surely it's cheaper for them to give you a p.o. Box rather than driving out to you each day. Tell them to do the maths and get back to you.

 

[Pilatus]

Postie was absolutely feckin delighted when I move here and told them to leave the mail with the neighbours at the road end. The previous lad insisted they drove the mile of rough track, opening and closing the three gates each way.

Surely it's cheaper for them to give you a p.o. Box rather than driving out to you each day. Tell them to do the maths and get back to you.

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