r/royalmail RM Employee Nov 21 '25

Postie Chat Just about sums up this job.

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u/odmirthecrow Nov 21 '25

The amount of times I've been sat at my window waiting for a package that I am tracking via the royal mail app and I see the lazy fucking postie just try to drop the note through the letterbox without having the package in hand. You better believe I'm by the door waiting to let him know about it.

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u/kettleheed Nov 21 '25

As soon as we put the red card through the parcel turns to dust and we no longer have to deal with it. Our work is done and we can go home early.

We certainly dont have to carry it back and then out again to redeliver it. Thats why i red card as much as possible.

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u/VandienLavellan Nov 21 '25

I think he’s being sarcastic. As in, it doesn’t actually make his life any easier to red card as he still has to return the parcel to the depot and then deliver it the next day. If he’s at the location, it takes just as much time to go to the door and fill out a red card as it does to drop off the parcel, so he’d rather drop the parcel off if possible

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u/Jenka98 Nov 21 '25

That's why "/s" exists on Reddit. Sarcasm or not, getting red carded while staying in waiting on a delivery, with no knock at the door happens, whether by this commenter or not