Information about Post Office Collection Times?
I need information about the way the postal collection system operates.
1. What does the day symbol engraved on a metal plate screwed above the post box slot, stand for?
Recently I've noticed that there is a MON, TUE, WED, THU (etc...) plate on Post boxes in the local area. What does the day stand for? Does it stand for when mail is collected during postal strikes? Or does it have a more general use?
2.
Is there available a list of post boxes in Boroughs or Councils, together with collection times listed for the post boxes?
Is this list available on the internet. Or how could I acquire one successfully and straightforwardly without being refused or directed elsewhere?
3. Is it possible to collect mail due to be delivered to your address on X particular day, at any earlier time on that day or the day before. (e.g. can I collect mail due for delivery on Monday, on a Sunday afternoon for example as it is being sorted?
4. When will 2nd class mail service be withdrawn?
Answers:
1. The days on the post box stand for the days when a collection is scheduled to take place. Normally there is an arrangement for urgent things to be posted at the sorting office outside the scheduled times.
2. I have never come across a list such as you describe. If I wanted to find out information like that, I'd try my luck at the sorting office.
3. Clearly you have never worked as a postman/woman, or you'd know that the system in the sorting office cannot take the pressure of people turning up to collect mail during the sorting process. This would (and does) work in countries where there is no home delivery and where there is a system of sorting into post office boxes and I have known times when extra mail appeared in my box while I was standing by chatting idly with a friend!
4. I haven't heard about this one and the thought depresses me.
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Call or go to your local post office and ask them directly. They would know better than anyone here. Oh, and people may not like answering this question because of all the mail scares.
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