when they cant deliver royal mail first class is it automatically redelivered next day

[what..the?]

or do you have to ring up, this would be in Edinburgh?

thanks

[ladyalex]

Do you mean a 'signed for' delivery ?
If you were not in they leave a card which tells you how to arrange re-delivery or collection.

[what..the?]

no just standard first class that wont fit though letter box

[EcclesCake]

Not sure what you mean. Why couldn't they put it through your letter box? If it was a parcel, they usually leave you a card with instructions for how to collect/have redelivered.

[ladyalex]

How do you know that they failed to deliver whatever it was ?

If they've left a card, it should tell you how to proceed.

[friedgreentomato]

You have to arrange a redelivery or go and collect in person

[bert_h]

No, they don't redeliver. Whether it's a parcel, package, or oversized letter, they leave a card telling you where to pick it up from and what the opening hours are.

[what..the?]

thanks everyone its for an item I am sending first class for a birthday on Saturday and it's too big to fit through the letter box you see.

[ladyalex]

What bert-h said ^^

[donslot]

No.
You contact the card's contact details for a redelivery.
We have to conform to the regulator.
The previous regulator did not allow us to leave items with neighbours.
Under the latest regulator's guidelines, this now, woudn't normally affect Special Delivery items.
For security & peace of mind then just talk friendly to your postperson mentioning persons that you get on well with.
This is a way of arranging for local pickup without travelling miles.

I hope this helps.
As a bonus - there's this main link ... http://www.royalmail.com/personal

ATB
donsaround

[argorstran]

bert_h , you are wrong . The Royal Mail does redeliver all items , but the addressee has to contact the local sorting office (the details are on the red card that you receive ) saying when you want it redelivered . It isn't automatically delivered the next day for the simple reason that there is no guarantee that you will be in the next day . Tell us a day when you'll be in and we'll redeliver it for you , or alternatively tell us a neighbour who is in and can receive it for you .

[DaisyNonna]

Er, how does one ever get to see one's postperson?

[argorstran]

Daisy is that a serious question ???
I guess if you are at work whenever your post is delivered (inc. saturday) then you never get to see him/her .

[Nibble]

we get a card through the door to go and collect it

[DaisyNonna]

Yes, that is a serious question. I live in afirst floor flat. My mail is delivered anytime between 11.30 and 2.pm. Twice in the last six days the post person has not bothered to ring the doorbell to deliver a package too big for the letterbox. Both times I was seated less than 8 feet from where the doorbell rings. May be old but not yet deaf. Yes I did check that my doorbell was working. Any other excuses?

[argorstran]

Daisy get in touch with your local sorting office and tell them . They will be able to ask the delivery officer concerned if there were any problems .

[DaisyNonna]

Have you seen the intimidating notice at the collection point? One is not allowed to harass or abuse the staff without dire cosequences. Took that to mean if I complained my deliveries would be even worse. Still, I suppose deliveries every other day, never in time to get to the collection point on the same day is par for the course. Whatever happened to my friendly postman who used to pop my plant deliveries behind the garden door?

[DTCwordfan]

cos they are fecking useless and need some proper competition, especially as their current business paradigm is shot through.

Turn it over to some radical management change-around, such as re-engineering the model of the final mile, as they call it, so as to give the local community the jobs to collect and deliver, without their enormous allocated overheads and union fees.

[argorstran]

"Have you seen the intimidating notice...... etc"

Daisy I'm afraid you've completely lost the plot ...

[argorstran]

DT don't forget the millions of packages which are successfully delivered to each of Britain's 22 million postal addresses every day .

[boxtops]

It's not "intimidating" daisy, the same notice is in the GP surgeries and hospitals saying that staff are not here to be abused, verbally or otherwise.