Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
My postie's great.
The postie’s in the cities are usually good.
We never had a problem with our postie on Islay who had been a postie for a long time and she knew all the routes.
After she decidedly to leave things started to go downhill.
The Royal Mail bosses in Glasgow decided to reduce the training period for a new postie being buddy trained by the existing postie from two weeks to three working days which was ridiculous especially with all the houses outwith the large villages on the island not having a street number, only a name for their house.
A lot of houses on Islay only have a Gaelic name.
About ten years ago I was walking our two dogs when a delivery van driver stopped and asked me where a house a Gaelic name was situated in our village.
I told him that sadly I did not have a clue where the house was situated. I then asked the driver who the parcel was addressed to which he told me and I replied that it was the second house on the right.
This is what the posties on Islay should be doing if they are unsure where to deliver the Royal Mail.
Stop and ask a local person for help instead of putting the mail through any letterbox.
My wife posted a birthday card from Islay to an address in the Dundee area and it took eight weeks to be delivered.
No wonder people are stopping sending birthday cards and Christmas cards through the post when it is taking so long to be delivered or in the case of last Christmas not at all.
We have heard from several people on Islay that they are no longer sending Christmas cards due to the greatly increased cost of postage stamps whilst getting a poorer service into the bargain.