kryogenik

RM's going down the tubes, no doubt.
I get mail from all over the area! Only similarity is the house number, not even the postcode!! As has been said, if that's happening to someone else's, it may just as well be happening to mine.
I send quite a lot of recorded post every week. I found out last week to send one of my poster tubes now costs £4.20 instead of £1.75 because it must now go by Parcel Farce. When I asked why this is so, it's because at 70cm it's now too long for the postman's bag!! lmao! Have their bags suddenly got smaller then, because I've been sending these same length poster tubes for the last 6 years.. Consequently, I've pulled the posters from sale as they only cost £5 - who's going to pay almost the same for postage..
I get lots of recorded letters and jiffy's pushed through without the postman having knocked for a signature, and yes, the strip is peeled off - so who signed for it??
Is this what happened to my wife's mobile phone last Christmas? My mail has just arrived at 12:30. It used to be here at 9am. Half the working day has gone if there's something you need to act upon/work with. There is now only ONE Post Office open in my area - fortunately close to my office. But, being the only one (in the dingy, cluttered end of a cheap booze shop), it's queued down the shop all day. Not only a pain in the rear for the customers, but damned hard work for the two girls working in there.

Yes, the postal system compared to some other places IS probably still good value for money, but in a typical English way we seem to accept it's ongoing decline from what it once was, just because it's still within acceptable parameters.