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"others, which were attached by elastic band to my package,for houses further down my street" that does happen occasionally ,and TBH I think it's pretty forgiveable at the moment . -

I'm very happy to have two packages which I had given up on .I had feared that a huge backlog would inevitably result in lost items .One of my packages had a damaged wrapper and the address was hard to read . I think credit is due to those delivering the backlog - they are doing a good job.

"Because they were 2D barcoded, RM could readily outsource them because they would know what was overdue and reconcile this with what they needed to outsource" I don't understand this ,could you ,or someone else ,enlighten me ?.

Interesting cidolphus .I got backlogged mail this evening - about 8.20.It appeared at the same time as a Yodel delivery of 2 parcels .One of which was for someone else several streets away . My guess is that Yudel also delivered the mail ,which was actually 3 small packages .Franked 12 Dec .

I'm on Barry Rd and have seen postal workers delivering both letters and packets today ,Sunday . Hope I get the 2 long outstanding items I'm waiting for soon .

Lower Forest Hill - is that the area that encompasses Sainsburys ,The Weatherspoons in the old cinema , Forest Hill Station?

Postie I spoke to today said they are now getting some extra help .

Thanks for posting Loki .

Pointlessly ,but out of curiosity,I'd like to know more about the sorting process and at what stage items are franked .

A few Christmas cards filtering through here .No idea when posted as they are not franked .So I guess that as I can reuse the stamps represents a sort of compensation . I now routinely think of work arounds ,the copy of the marriage certificate I want to fill in a blank on a family tree ? Posted to a friend in another part of the country for them to photograph and send to me . But that won't help people waiting for essential documentation .

In case anyone has missed this Line of Duty interview taking BJ to task . https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/01/18/watch-led-by-donkeys-video-sees-line-of-duty-probe-boris-johnson/

"How did thy know to deliver one bill and no Christmas cards or other letters" This is what I don't understand .Random break through post arriving while stuff posted weeks before remains undelivered .I guess there is no system whereby the backlog is held in an organised way .Either by date or postcode?? Which makes me think that even with more staff it's going to be difficult to deliver the backlog ,that the longer this goes on the worse the situation will get .And that post will be simply "lost" .

Really interesting posts Sue and Penguin ,thank you . I fear,as Rockets has said ,that much post will simply get lost and never reappear. And hear hear to same poster's comments to Cllr Mcash.

Oh Foxy ,you poor thing! Constipation is the pits and such a close bedfellow with operations .As if you don't feel bad enough. Nothing compared to the morphine induced hallucinations - I was convinced I was back in the 1950s and those wall mounted anglepoise type lights morphed (see what I did there ? ) into giant crickets . Let me know if you need a hand with anything .We have met ,I got some proving baskets for sour dough .

We received 2 Christmas cards yesterday ,One from abroad postmarked 13 Dec and one from SE26 postmarked 19 Dec . I can't understand why those two got through and not others .Why would they be special ?

and 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 bingo this thread is locked .

If some of the post is sorted and sitting waiting to be delivered wouldn't it help if individuals could go down and collect it ?

Yesterday ,29th Dec ,we received one card posted 16 Dec . I don't understand how one piece of post gets picked up and delivered and not others . Could it be that the sole item we got through the door had been caught up with another resident's bundle and then kindly onwardly delivered by that resident ? I know I've had occasion to do this .

I spoke to a postman on Barry Road yesterday .He said letters /cards were in their slots .So I'm guessing they are largely sorted ? I'm beginning to brainstorm here and wondering if Highshore Road could have some dedicated open days where eg residents of certain postcodes could come down with ID and collect their post themselves?

I wonder if cards/letters might be sorted and could be collected ?

Have people been successful in calling at Highshore Road and asking staff to look for their mail ? I'm wondering about going down there .

lindylou - it's rarely washers now ,it's all ceramic cartridges and a million different sizes

Bic -does the recipient live in SE22 ?