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GadgetUK164 wrote: 10 Jan 2022 13:58 Yes, got worse since XMAS! Staff shortage due to Omicron I think!

Very possibly, and as Terriblefire said, maybe a result of contractors being dropped after Christmas.

Atari74user wrote: 10 Jan 2022 15:58 That's interesting, I only just now started to think about stuff I ordered at New Year, thinking why haven't I got it yet. East Anglia here, so yeah, defo waiting for stuff too which I would say are a couple of days overdue.

Yeah, I have stuff I was expecting by last Friday, but we've had no post since last Wednesday. Nothing today either, other than my Atari 600XL which was delivered by DHL not Royal Mail.

The replacement phone battery for my Dad's Google Pixel XL turned up today, having been sent 1st Class a week ago.

stephen_usher wrote: 10 Jan 2022 16:39 The replacement phone battery for my Dad's Google Pixel XL turned up today, having been sent 1st Class a week ago.

Not exactly the 1st class you were expecting no doubt.

Yeah. Oh well. At least it arrived.

I've been waiting a week for some DIP sockets that went 1st class too! I bet they turn up tomorrow!

GadgetUK164 wrote: 10 Jan 2022 23:59 I've been waiting a week for some DIP sockets that went 1st class too! I bet they turn up tomorrow!

Rubbish. No post here yesterday, and normally the postie has been by now, so looks like today will probably be a bust too. Tomorrow will be a week since we last had anything, and I have at least 4 items that should be here by now.

Woo hoo, postie just arrived, 6 items of post, fingers crossed I have some parts in there!

Just the Aquarius RAM I ordered and a TZXDuino that I ordered on the 20th December to come, though I don't think the TZX was posted until the first week in Jan!

UK might have postal problems (here in France it's not better though), but I think we have a champion here with USPS:


Ordered from the US, if it keeps running in circles, I'm not sure when it will reach France....

:o ouch