First class post in Taunton and Wellington (From Somerset County Gazette)
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First class post in Taunton and Wellington
9:00pm Friday 7th September 2012 in News
First class post in Taunton and Wellington
PEOPLE in the Taunton and Wellington area get a better postal service than most of the rest of the country.
Between April and June, 95.1% of first class mail in the TA postcode area arrived on time, above target and ahead of the 92.9% national average.
David Schofield, Royal Mail delivery director for the area, said: “We’re pleased we’re delivering a high quality service.”
Comments(8)
Taunton_Guy
says...
9:50am Sat 8 Sep 12
(Good Old Days) 1 x Postie, Push Bike, Delivered at around 7am
(Old Service) 1 x Postie, Push Bike, Delivered at around 10ish
(New Service) 2 x Posties, Diesel Van, 7pm Delivery!
Still I guess if they keep extending the delivery time we will eventually get back to 7am again :)
FreeSpeech?
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10:31am Sat 8 Sep 12
tauntontone
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7:33pm Sat 8 Sep 12
Taunton postal staff are a lovely bunch, it's obviously their regional management that have cocked up the way that they work, meaning it's not possible to get deliveries through our doors at a reasonable time of the day.
GrumpyNewsReader
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6:14pm Sun 9 Sep 12
MrSlightlyAnnoyed
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10:47pm Sun 9 Sep 12
*Flick*
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10:21am Mon 10 Sep 12
I don't like to bad-mouth the local post office, as their new 'way of working' comes from above. The local postmen are simply doing as they are told. Yes deliveries are later - but that is because they now have to start work at 6am and not 3.30am. This is bound to have an effect on delivery times.
Mi_Coc
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10:04pm Mon 10 Sep 12
*Flick* wrote:Some days don't see them, had one posty who couldn't read and was just dumping all 36 mail in one street! Drive like muppets brand new vans that that already look like sheds.
I cannot comment on my home post, as I am never in the house between 8am-5pm. But our office recieves their post around 10am-11am and it always seems to have arrived promptly. (The date on the letters is always within the past few days)
I don't like to bad-mouth the local post office, as their new 'way of working' comes from above. The local postmen are simply doing as they are told. Yes deliveries are later - but that is because they now have to start work at 6am and not 3.30am. This is bound to have an effect on delivery times.
Shocking it used to be good about 7 years ago.
Redirected mail makes me chuckle council spend loads on do not redirect envelopes and posties here redirect it anyway. Posties just don't care anymore if they cant have time for a second job.
jess the cat says...
10:38pm Fri 7 Sep 12