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Postal "Service"

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:00pm
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I'm in El Chaparral/La Siesta/San Luis urb - postal service has been very bad for several weeks and we have had no postperson in the road for a while. We're missing letters, Father's Day cards, birthday cards - all posted at least 2 weeks before due date - and now someone's new bank card has not been delivered.  Is it just this urb or is Correos bad all over Torrevieja?  TIA.

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:30pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:30pm

Stanley6 wrote on Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:00pm:

I'm in El Chaparral/La Siesta/San Luis urb - postal service has been very bad for several weeks and we have had no postperson in the road for a while. We're missing letters, Father's Day cards, birthday cards - all posted at least 2 weeks before due date - and now someone's new bank card has not ...

 

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...been delivered.  Is it just this urb or is Correos bad all over Torrevieja?  TIA.

Dont get me started about lack of post it's not a service it's a shambles. Last year both our new debit and credit cards failed to arrive. I gave up years ago any hope of Birthday or Christmas cards arriving, even though like yourself they were posted weeks before the event.

When we first arrived in Spain in 2015 the post arrived without any problems, but over the years it just got progressively worse until we are in the situation where we go months without receiving any post. I really dont know what the answer is.

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:35pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:35pm

Stanley6 wrote on Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:00pm:

I'm in El Chaparral/La Siesta/San Luis urb - postal service has been very bad for several weeks and we have had no postperson in the road for a while. We're missing letters, Father's Day cards, birthday cards - all posted at least 2 weeks before due date - and now someone's new bank card has not ...

 

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...been delivered.  Is it just this urb or is Correos bad all over Torrevieja?  TIA.

I can't say that we have had any type of bad service from Correos. All letters I've expected have been delivered including debit cards etc.

Steve 

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 8:07pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 8:07pm

Hi,

We live in La Siesta and the postie comes round every day without fail about 1 . We've been receiving post from England on time, by that I mean within a week of posting:)

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:08am

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:08am

Stanley6 wrote on Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:00pm:

I'm in El Chaparral/La Siesta/San Luis urb - postal service has been very bad for several weeks and we have had no postperson in the road for a while. We're missing letters, Father's Day cards, birthday cards - all posted at least 2 weeks before due date - and now someone's new bank card has not ...

 

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...been delivered.  Is it just this urb or is Correos bad all over Torrevieja?  TIA.

I have lived in torrevieja for 4years and the post is dreadful I tell people now NOT to post anything as it never arrives, sad no christmas cards, mothers day cards or birthday cards now 

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:59am

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:59am

Is there a local private post box service based in the area?  I know Correos should be reliable, but if it is not it is far safer to pay a little for a local post box - nothing worse than waiting for an important letter that never comes - especially bank cards.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:30am

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:30am

We live in El Chaparral and we have not had any problems.   Maybe your postman is on holiday.

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:40am

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:40am

Sandra7 wrote on Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:08am:

I have lived in torrevieja for 4years and the post is dreadful I tell people now NOT to post anything as it never arrives, sad no christmas cards, mothers day cards or birthday cards now 

Perhaps you could start a petition about the postal services in your area and get your neighbours to put complaints in to the post office. 

It seems that it mainly Torrevieja that is having issues. 

Steve 

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:49pm

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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:49pm

Andrea Murphy wrote on Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:30am:

We live in El Chaparral and we have not had any problems.   Maybe your postman is on holiday.

Hello

One summer, in August our mail delivery stopped completely, I went to  a Correos building in Torrevieja(NOT post office) and they went off to check & confirmed....Yes we had had no post, so later that week we got some - not all.

 When our lovely postman Juan Carlos returned, he told me he always has a fishing holiday in Aug, for 2/3 weeks hence the problem lol! Since then I'm never sure anything will arrive in August, if it does, it's less deliveries than normal and normal for me is very good.

Cheers

Elinspain

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