I bought some rare CD's on Ebay and the seller sent them Special Delivery due to their value. They were handed in to the Post Office 10:30 am Saturday . so well before the Office closed (at 12:30) and wel before the hour-before handin time Rm recommend.
The sender was told they;d arrive Monday. I can't see that happening. I'm guessing there was no collection on Saturday/ I have seen that happen before.
It does make a mockery of the "Next Working Day Guaranteed" though!
The only other possibility is a missed scan, but I;d have thought it would have been scanned at least once by now as it progressed through the mail system
There is of course no point in even trying to contact RM. They're useless even when you've heard the "current queue times are 140 minutes"
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Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
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Nebiroth
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
Most likely either the last collection had already taken place or probably more likely the van doing the collections reached capacity and returned to the DO or MC (wherever it takes its collections to).
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Nebiroth
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Re: Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
So hopefully m item will be collected Monday. But it;s pretty poor considering it's Special Delivery. I've seen it happen before with Saturday handins though.
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Nebiroth
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Re: Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
It's just been flagged as arriving today: there was no tracking between the post office handin (in Bath) and my local Mail Centre. So either it went direct, or a scan was missed.
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heapsy
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Re: Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
It would only be scanned ince it reached the mail centre. When the driver collects from a post office, no scan is performed.
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Nebiroth
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Re: Special Delivery Item never left Post Office
I meant thee was no scan at the sender's Mail Centre. For Special Delivery and Tracked 24 this is almost always the same day as handin, unless it;s missed the cutoff time. Most Tracked 48 are the same, but not always.
What usually happens is that you get the following track events:
Handin at sender's Post Office
Arrival at nearest Mail Centre to that
Arrival at MY Mail Centre
Arrival at my local Delivery Office
Out for Delivery
Delivery
In this case there was nothing othe handing at Post Office and arrival at MY Mail Centre (and of course, delivery)
Some postal services like USPS flag facility departure as well as arrivals but Royal Mail does not.
What usually happens is that you get the following track events:
Handin at sender's Post Office
Arrival at nearest Mail Centre to that
Arrival at MY Mail Centre
Arrival at my local Delivery Office
Out for Delivery
Delivery
In this case there was nothing othe handing at Post Office and arrival at MY Mail Centre (and of course, delivery)
Some postal services like USPS flag facility departure as well as arrivals but Royal Mail does not.