1900 BST Saturday: Just had parcel post delivery !!!

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

I kid you not:

I have just answered door to a real, live Post Office Postie bearing parcel I was not expecting until Monday.

1900 BST on a Saturday ??

I made a polite remark about not expecting it today-- And certainly not this late !!

He shrugged, said the parcels had not come to the depot as scheduled...

[Craiglxviii]

Royal Mail Ltd is all about parcel delivery these days. They just don’t care about letter post!

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

"What gets measured, gets done..."

Such '24hr' parcels are 'tracked'.
1st Class and 'Special' post gets variously tracked.

Here, we reckon a Walk's '2nd Class' piles up until overflow or a 1st comes along and, um, 'pigs' the pipe-line.

Can take a 'working' week for a '2nd Class' hospital appt to get across the city.
IIRC, it goes out to sorting Centre near Warrington, then eventually sorta wombles back...

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Saturday mid-morning...

Have just had three weeks of 'New Scientist' magazines shoved through letterbox.

And a belated 'yachty' mag. (*)
Must have needed 'King Tide' to cross harbour bar...

Hmm: Last week, the 'Fortean Times' arrived a mere week late, now the 'New Normal'...

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*) Yes, yes, I still have hopes of collating my notes for 'The Lady May', yachty-based 'P for Pleistocene' sequel.
But, hip-deep in 'City of Fresno', I'm making scant progress on 'TLM' between crafting a few crucial scenes...