Royal Mail Investigation

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
11/04/2009 20:34

Front page of CT today, Royal Mail have finally accepted there is a problem and are going to start an investigation.



Odd that BRS appear to be taking credit for this action. many of us have been liasing with MP's and with Royal mail for several months. This before BRS did their sample survey although this probably was the final piece in the chain.



For anyone not reading CT, Royal Mail are quoted as going to send out a variety of types of mail to a sample population in TRNC. Those individuals that have already been through this survey following MP's intervention will tell you that all business mail sent to addresses in TRNC arrived, all personal mail did not!!!!!



Let's hope that Royal Mail follow through with their promises to us and that they can find the reason for the missing mail items.

chinaeyes


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 425

Message Posted:
11/04/2009 20:46

I am still waiting for post sent to me over a year ago.At the moment am awaiting a letter from the Inland Revenue in the UK.Bet this gets here on time.

Watch this space.

Oilman


Joined: 19/09/2008
Posts: 225

Message Posted:
11/04/2009 21:08

Last month I posted a letter at Girne Post Office to the UK and handed to a young lady there to ensure it was posted. A month on it has still not arrived. Yet previous letters I have sent to the same address have arrived within 5 days. I receive letters from my UK Bank and advertising blurb regularly and now our local postman delivers to the house it seems to have improved. However I also had my Police National Computer report sent twice last year and it never arrived. I used the same address as I did for the aforementioned letters. Two months ago I had my Birth Certificate posted to me to the same address and that didn't arrive either. My view is a large contingent of GC's working within the Postal system in the UK and they are responsible for waylaying any mail they come across sent from or destined for the TRNC. I also conclude that those letters that could contain documents for house purchase are the main target. Clearly they don't catch them all but enough to disrupt life here.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
12/04/2009 09:32

strangly enough an Ipswich postman was in court this week charged with stealing 70000 pieces of mail. Pleaded not guilty. Case continues whilst he will be suspended on full pay. Wonder if any was destined for mersin 10 xxxx

Baspinar Bob


Joined: 15/02/2008
Posts: 618

Message Posted:
12/04/2009 10:00

Lilly.

He must have had a huge sack!



Bob.

kyreniagirl


Joined: 01/01/2009
Posts: 51

Message Posted:
12/04/2009 11:26

We have had several letters arrive from Girne but all have been opened. I wouldn't send anything sensitive through their post but carrying docs with you is no better. One of our neighbours was carrying all his house docs back to UK & on his way to Larnaca was stopped by customs & all his docs were taken, he was told he could argue about it but - "did he really want to miss his flight?"

He had no choice but to leave them behind.

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
15/01/2010 16:06

Thought this might amuse Today 15/01/10 received in the Forest Of Dean UK a Christmas card from Kyrenia sent 08/12/09.



I suppose the good side is that it did get here.

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
15/01/2010 16:20

I have only ever in 5 years received official looking letters no cards/letters nothing other than that, please god they sort it and soon.

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
15/01/2010 17:29

amazing!!! I received last week a xmas card from my elderly Aunt, with a second class stamp on it!!!!!!! all the rest with air mail etc, no chance! where are they x

oddjob


Joined: 16/09/2008
Posts: 62

Message Posted:
15/01/2010 23:16

We and friends send numerous mail from variuos parts of the UK to karaoglanoglu, and they very rarely receive it. I would say 1 in 10 of letters arrive, if that and this has been going on for a few years now.

Happy Hussar


Joined: 01/10/2008
Posts: 318

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 09:12

Does International Recorded items get here OK. I have a new driving license en route by this method.

Tony

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 09:16

Tony

recorded mail seems to get here no problem also my friend this year asked fo a proof of postage stamp which costs pennies to be put on her Xmas cards to here. No problem they got here within 5 days. The rest of them well, the same old story disappeared into thin air.



Chris

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 11:54

all the post I send 'FROM' here gets to UK within 10 days x

cyprusishome


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 2381

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 12:15

In the work done with post office, all the mail that was in official envelopes and recorded mail got here. Anything that was hand written and obviously personal did not arrive.



There is very little evidence of mail going missing going to UK.



For me the nonesense said about the problem happens in Istanbul is nonesense. Why would all personal mail for Mersin 10 be lost there. The only place I and many others identify as the problem is the International sorting in North London where allegedly there is a preponderance of people of a certain nationality.



They only take out personal mail because taking official mail would initiate a big inquiry by for example inland revenue or major banks.



My opinion anyway.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 12:16

Msg 1

The BRS will take credit for anything whether involved or not! Not an upstanding organisation as I learnt to my own cost!



Richard

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 12:32

This was an old thread resurected so that the forum could see that the problems are both ways. By the way yesterday was the 6th delivery that we have received this year (due to the snow).



The point of Msg 7 was that it takes a lot of time for mail from TRNC to arrive in Gloucestershire.



A letter posted in Istanbul on the 6th of January arrived same post with the one sent from North Cyprus on the 8th December!



So the route of the problem might be different to what one supposes might it not?

rigsby


Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 912

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 12:45

cyprusishome,You are spot on.My bank statements had a black marker line drawn accross the Mersin 10 part.When i checked with the bank in u/k i was told there was nothing that the bank could/would do.The statements went through the sorting office you are referring to.

cypgab


Joined: 09/01/2010
Posts: 338

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 13:03

The BRS will take credit for anything whether involved or not! Not an upstanding organisation as I learnt to my own cost!

Richard



That's typical, contributor is happy to make derogatory comments but with nothing to support it. Let us know what your gripe is so we can discuss it.

Geoff

SandyBlackCat


Joined: 12/07/2008
Posts: 55

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 13:30

Sent 2 Christmas cards from UK to Lapta. One with a pre-paid printed sticker and one hand written. Both arrived OK within a week!

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 14:32

We had no post for a year but this Christmas received most of our Xmas cards and they were delivered to our door by the Lapta postman on his moped

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 16:04

Most of our expected christmas mail from ENGLAND arrived, but stuff we have been told had been sent from SCOTLAND hasnt! Who do we blame now?!

michelle3012


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 578

Message Posted:
16/01/2010 19:22

Thats funny because i sent mail from Catalkoy post office on 4th January and it arrived in the UK on Monday 11th, only a week and that was after the snow in the UK, some inland mail in the UK takes longer. I must say we get all our mail within 10 days, and when we send it always arrives in UK within that time scale too!!! Maybe we are lucky.