UK Postal

[pehayes]

I'm a distant member of the Moto Guzzi Club of Great Britain.  Wonderful, slick magazine every other month.  Except for today I received this:

Dear Overseas MGCGB Members
The UK copies of the Jan/Feb Gambalunga are being mailed out this week.  Unfortunately, Royal Mail is currently the victim of an IT ransomware attack which means it's not accepting any overseas mail at present. We have agreed that the printer will hold on to the Overseas Member's copies until the situation improves.   We apologise for the delayed delivery of your magazines but we will get them to you as soon as the Royal Mail situation is resolved.

No complaining about USPS local for now.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[Sye]

Yep, it's a big deal here at the moment.

[fotoguzzi]

I have complaints for the USPS. For the past several months our delivery is skipped, the whole block and more. And the carrier is almost always real late, like 7pm sometimes. And it’s a different person almost daily.
In the end we get the mail, sometimes a few days and after the email with images of my mail days beforehand.

I guess they have a people shortage.. I always thought being a mail carrier was a pretty good job.. our old guy from a few years ago always paused to straighten out our American flag.

[Scout63]

I just received an email from Lacey Ducati that my part can’t ship.  It wasn’t  rain, sleet, snow nor gloom of night, just a little dark code.

[Enzo Toma]

City carrier is a high stress job. Very physical, long hours (often 10-14), not much allowance for a social life, and weather can be rough depending on location. Unless that's the type of work you're seeking, it's a hard sell over an entry level office job with better pay and weekends off. Many carriers quit within 6mo-1yr, that's often the hill to get over. Very high turnover rate.

[kballowe]

We are very rural and used to have exemplary mail service... and then our regular carrier retired three years ago.

I don't have anything nice to say about the "service" over the past three years.

[mhershon]

Just last week I received a letter from England postmarked November 18th! It took almost two months to reach Denver!

[tris]

That won't have been helped by more than one strike by postal workers for more pay in the run up to Christmas!!!

[john fish]

That won't have been helped by more than one strike by postal workers for more pay in the run up to Christmas!!!

Unfortunately, the Royal Mail has been privatized.  That has led to maltreatment of employees and a degradation of services. 

A majority of UK citizens support the strikes, as do I.  Privatization of the Royal Mail was a foolish mistake.

[Moparnut72]

There has been talk in the past about doing this with the USPS. I hope that never happens. For one thing government isn't supposed to make a profit.
kk

[Vagrant]

Every year I have to forward my mail for three months while in Az. I started forwarding this year on 12/27 and just got my first mail this week.
At home for three years we had a carrier that couldn't speak or read English. Every day we had to deliver 1/2 of the mail in our boxes to other neighbors near by.

[Petrus Rocks]

Just ordered parts from Darganfly UK for my Ariel.  I'm in New York.  Wonder how they are sending them??