MEW263 - Postal non or late delivery?

#263 still hasn't arrived and no more deliveries today.

#262 never arrived, and it's beginning to look like #263 is also lost.

Mine finally arrived in S Norfolk today. Looks to be a good read.

Pete

Mine arrived in Warwickshire today - at last. Maybe it's posted in alphabetical sequence of name within county..

Mine arrived E Norfolk today, good issue, well worth reading

Brian

They are all sent out together, any differences can only be down to the Post Office.

Neil

I thought Gary was on to something with his W & S, but BB knocked that one on the head. The difference in PO efficiencies is interesting.

Pete

I haven't actually worked directly with our mailing house, but have worked with others.

Essentially they pack and label everything according to our requirements, and the whole batch will be delivered direct to the post office as one huge batch. There are significant reductions in cost from pre-sorting according to input postcode (i.e. the first half) as then the PO can send each bundle to the correct sorting office.

We did have an occasion when all the magazines across two counties went missing in the post, quite feasible as they would have been pre-sorted together. Presumably this is why delays sometimes affect certain areas and not others.

Neil

There are marked differences in Postal Efficiency depending on where you are located, I live in East Sussex and our mail is routed through the Gatwick Mail Centre, the horror stories about this empire are many, I know that if I post first class to my daughter in Lancashire we always allow five days for it to arrive. Those who have worked for Royal Mail locally all know where the problems are. I assume that other areas have problem mail centres as well which accounts for the variability of service.

Dave W

My issue 263 didn't arrive yet (5ft feb) in Belgium. Had to buy already 5 back issues since june 2017. Mail with complaints was replied with the comment that the issue was send 19th jan. Was probably the februari issue. Starts to becoming a costly magazine. I've had for 20years no problems with the delivery, have to reflect on the renewing of the suscription in august.

Lucien P.