Blood for the Baron!

And you send something 2nd class standard and it gets there in 24 hrs!!
Wierd???
Royal Snail , gotta love e`m

Something similar happened to me Andy1672 sent me some stuff which never arrived then three weeks later it appeared with "not known at this address" written on it! The postie was obviously hard of reading!

I bought some 25th Anniversary Joes from Singapore and received them in four days. At the other extreme, some things sent within the UK at the first class rate have taken up to a fortnight to reach me.

Still, having worked in the central Liverpool sorting office for 8 years (I left in 2000), I realise that I really should be thankful we get anything in half decent nick. Inebriated postmen sorting letters, parcels crushed by trolleys, letters falling behind shelves and left there for weeks on end.... The things I saw - There was worse, but I can't repeat them in public!

paul wrote:-

Scoobydie sent me a few parts [cheers Andy!] that I needed last week - the postage says Oct 14th.

It arrived yesterday - Oct 21st.

It was sent first class, recorded.

Now Andy [Scoobydie] lives probably about 10 miles from me - normally I pop over to his as its only 15 mins in the car but I've been pretty busy lately so he put it in the post for me this time.

So first class took 7 days. That's nearly a mile a day!

Anyway, thought I'd have a moan seeing as I'm gradually morphing into Victor Meldrew....

Jesus, I thought Auspost was bad. Did they send it via Siberia? I get mail from Perth faster than that.