This is probably going to annoy our resident posties but here goes...

Normally, without industrial action, I would receive aprox 3-4 letters eachday Mon-Sat on average. Since last Wednesday I have received only 3 letters (yesterday), two of which were complete junk. Today has seen no delivery whatsoever.

Now I appreciate that whilst the strikes continue there will be delays but there is absolutely no way that the sorting office have no mail waiting to be delivered to me. I know for a fact that a book I ordered was despatched first class last Tuesday but its still not arrived.

I get the impression that the notoriously slow and unreliable Royal Mail employees are using the dispute as some kind of excuse to offer an even worse service than what was previously on offer. I wish someone could come up with a viable alternative for door to door collection and delivery and that the Royal Mail could be put out of its misery. I would just add that this is not a matter of me disapproving of the industrial action - i dont know enough about it to form an opinion on that.

I've had no problems myself. I ordered some clothes on-line on the Wednesday night before the first strike, and they arrived Saturday morning three days later.

The only thing I'm waiting on now is the 4 nations final tickets.

We've ordered a few things that were dispatched last week.

None of them have arrived. We have also had no post bar a couple of junk mails since last week.

Its annoying me.....

I'm buying a house and its blooming annoying the hell outta me.

Sorry no public sympathy here.

The thing that makes me angry is that some Posties are on a lot more money than some of our heros in Afghanistan

That is weird about the junk mail getting through, that is pretty much all I have received over the past couple of days!

First of all that isn't true.

Believe me, it is

The mail you were expececting doesn't come direct from source straight into the Warrington office. I would hazard a guess that due to the strikes it has been held up elsewhere.

I can hand on heart guarentee to you that if it has arrived at the office we are trying our best to get it delivered during these difficult times for all of us.

I have a friend in the armed forces and I can tell you he earns more than me.

It is because that has probably been in the system for a few weeks. If it has a big M in the top right corner then firms can hand that over to Royal Mail weeks in advance and then specify a date when it is to be delivered. As the strikes have held up most of the first and second class that it isn't surprising that this is all that is getting through.

That is where you may get a little frustrated. Although usually machine sorted mail usually get's through just a couple of days late.