Home Delivery

Wibbles

I remember - back in the 70's and even 80's when we used to get 2 mail deliveries a day - the first before 7:30.

Today - no sign of any postman yet (4:15pm)

I also remember the milkman coming round in his float - before we woke up - 6 days a week

The coalman in his horse drawn cart (we lived in a oxfordshire village)

The Bettaware man who gave me a small tin of polish for my toy cars...

Now - we've got Amazon - who often replace items and miss others (eg Battery packs)

I know when I would prefer to live..

vikingqueen

  Don't forget the paper boys/girls who always manage to deliver the morning paper before you went to work.

WelshBlue

Or the man coming around on his bike with strings of onions 

I'm torn.  I miss the simplicity of back then ... but the technology these days does improve life ?

66Mustang

I was going to make a thread on the postman/lady recently but decided not to, ours used to come in the morning some time between 8.30-9.30 every day except Sunday, now they seem to come in the afternoon. It's good to know I'm not the only one!!!!

Wibbles

66Mustang said:

I was going to make a thread on the postman/lady recently but decided not to, ours used to come in the morning some time between 8.30-9.30 every day except Sunday, now they seem to come in the afternoon. It's good to know I'm not the only one!!!!

Still no sign of our postie today

I thought that they were contracted to deliver daily?

vikingqueen

      Didn't think posties worked on a bank holiday

poppy123456

vikingqueen said:

      Didn't think posties worked on a bank holiday

They don't. Which is why wibbles hasn't seen them today

poppy123456

When i was a little girl i remember the pop man going to my nans every Thursday. My grandfather was a miner so my nan used to have free coal delivered from the National Coal Board every couple of months.

The postman where i live never usually comes until about 3pm. Can't remember the last time i had post delivered early in the morning.

Wibbles

vikingqueen said:

  Don't forget the paper boys/girls who always manage to deliver the morning paper before you went to work.

I was that paper boy for a few years 

OverlyAnxious

We never get RM post here before lunchtime.  Doesn't bother me though as long as it arrives on the correct day.  It's become part of my routine to check the post box at about 3pm.

I'd like to go back to the time where everything was available within short walking distance.  Since the 90's everything has been moved to large out-of-town stores.

I find I'm often disappointed with Amazon deliveries - the items packaging is usually damaged in one way or another, particularly annoying when the item was bought as a gift.  Also find the return or replace to be pretty poor with that sort of thing.  Ebay is generally better, both for more secure packaging and for returns, as well as being able to see more useful feedback.

66Mustang

@OverlyAnxious eBay is definitely very biased toward the buyer, and sellers want (have) to make a good impression, so I think it's a great place to be a buyer.

Being a seller now that's another story!

Hannah_Alumni

We have milk deliveries still from the local farm I like supporting as many small businesses as I can, but I think back to when I was housebound by my health, I don't know what I would have done without Amazon delivering books and crafting items.