A new record for post

It was 4:45 on a friday afternoon and we have just had the postman knock on with todays post, we have had it delivered late before 2-2:30 but this is unheard of. What makes it better the mail he handed to me was for next door and we have just had next door but one knock on with our post aswell as some for nextdoor.

That's nowt new for this area stormey but are you sure he was early not late.

i think thats a record ...........mine is aprox 11am long gone are the days you read your mail before work ( unless you work nights that is LOL )

You could put it that way, but the post is never early

good point perhaps they are trying to get ahead and thats Tomorrows

We never get our mail before 11, at the earliest. Sometimes, it can be after 2.30 pm, because it all comes by plane, and is therefore weather-dependent.

Couriers can be even worse! One time, I ordered some cooking things from near Bristol. The supplier addressed it correctly, but some doofus in TNT decided that Orkney was a suburb of Inverness, and re-addressed it. It took the Inverness end 2 weeks to realise the error, and redirect it to Aberdeen ( ), where it sat in the harbour for another 2 weeks, waiting for someone to have the nous to put it on a ferry. Altogether, almost 6 weeks in transit

Very occasionally, I am unsurprised, because so many people get the address totally wrong. I have seen "Orkney" written as:

Aukny
Orkenay
Orkky
Orkny
Auckney

and other outlandish rubbish. I can understand (occasionally) people not knowing where it is, but surely it's not that hard to spell!

Snorri

We get our mail at 10:00 am sharp