Post Office Outage in Hackney, Greater London, England

I’ve just had the most horrendous experience at @PostOffice @PostOfficeNews and trying to make a complaint has never been so long

@PostOffice Yesterday I posted my old passport to the passport office having renewed online at home and the po counter person commented on it saying how great it was. I agree! But I'm glad you still do this for folk who aren't comfortable doing it online. Because the paper form is awful.

@PostOffice I’ve submitted a complaint via web form. The staff in the WH Smith’s branch on Harben Parade, London NW3 really need some customer service training. Being on the receiving end of rude, dismissive, and hostile attitude is unacceptable. Sort them out.

@PostOffice I think my postman has been kidnapped! 🤨🤨 ain't seen him since last week and I've had nothing in my letter box since Tuesday last week, which leads me to believe he's been kidnapped by some long legged blonde! Poor bloke!😔😔😔

@PostOffice I arrived just after 1300 hours to post a birthday card overseas and left at 1342 hours. None of the self service machines were working as you can see. Staff were swamped. Queue well peeved.

@PostOffice just a small complaint. Had a parcel delivered today, left in the food waste bin, so far no problem, except the bin was about half full of food waste. Had to clean my package outside before opening it and bringing it in.

@PostOffice the post office Lewisham is a farce. Hardly any staff, long queues, little help and massively over complicated touch screen self service tills just to make a simple parcel postage. Ridiculous.

@PostOffice @Tesco I don’t know who employs the staff at the post office within tesco Front Lane Cranham RM14 but your member of staff Michelle is so rude and unhelpful. I suggest you do some staff training. All the staff in the actual store are lovely, so I imagine she is P.O.

I don't often send moany tweets but genuinely the @PostOffice in Ealing is the most depressing place. Always a massive queue and too few staff and just horrible atmosphere. Gross.

@PostOffice when is the postal service going to get better at their job

@PostOffice @RoyalMailHelp Thanks for that but I already have & we are NOT supposed to receive any of the crap distributed by the Post Office. However the poor sod delivering it is desperate to lighten the weight of their over filled bag of rubbish so put it through the letter box anyway!😬

@PostOffice Thanks for your help. I'm assuming that we don't need the customs stickers for the EU until told differently then.

@PostOffice No problem!

@PostOffice Not quite true. Whilst it's open the self service functions are both out of order. It's crazy in this day and age to have to queue to post one greetings card.

@PostOffice internet service is the biggest rip off going, i’m supposed to pay £21 a month but end up with bills of £40 a month, and the service is never actually working, yet again my service is broken. So angry 😡 right now. Sort out you’re service

@BalhamDailyPRSS @DuCaneCourt @BusinessWandBC @NightingaleSMcD @TootingPRSS @naturalforbaby @NNsw1217 @weareBATCA Great news about the @PostOffice - save us having to queue for 20 minutes for the dubious pleasure of being treated like shit by the miserable bastards in the main #Balham one!

@PostOffice As you will no longer have a banking service after the 11th September, is this not superfluous to your business profile.

@PostOffice Other staff members would not help, most of them finding refuge behind the door. 40+ people waiting in 2 queues, main desk & self service tills. A guy decides to close the self service despite the queue, insults clients who complain and ask him to finish the queue b4 closing

Whew. The way this letter of complaint is going to get written to @PostOffice. I am fuming. Fuming.

@PostOffice @BootstrapCook So much excellent advice from the Post Office to help us save money. An extra tip is to only use free email to send messages as oppose to using stamps to send letters

@PostOffice Staff were rude to a number of customers, pushing people out of the way without saying excuse me, threw my letters on the side, no care at all.

The worst cues found in the country have to be the @postoffice 20mins to hand in a return item cos people are trying to send hand cream to America... Come on mannnnnnn

@PostOffice since your Walthamstow Central branch relocated service quality and staff knowledge has gone out the window. This is what happens when you make experiences staff redundant as part of so called cost cutting.

@PostOffice The WHSmith in Ealing Broadway is closing down next week what will happen to the postoffice inside

@RoyalMailHelp the WHsmith in Ealing Broadway is closing down what will happen to the postoffice that is inside the store. It closing next week

@NManormani @hammersmithandy @WHSmith @PostOffice I never go in / the experience is appalling. They are gone very soon. I thought they were Post office staff operating within @WHSmith not passed to work them. This is privatisation of the post office.

Thank you to the lady at @WHSmith @PostOffice who sent me on a wild goose chase and wouldn’t wait for 10 seconds after 6pm for me to send my post out. Customer service is being a nice person is just non existent it seems.

For goodness sake! Bad enough @CoopBankUK_help doesn’t have any branches! Now the @PostOffice doesn’t have any paying in envelopes! 🧐

Prime collection time & just before Christmas @PostOffice #lavenderhill One person operating the customer service collection point. Needless to say there is a very long queue 🙄 😠

Can't believe lady in @PostOffice jay said to a lady if you can't speak English I can't help you

@PostOffice @coyleneil you used to have self service in Walworth main Post Office. Now just humungous queues

@PostOffice About 15 minutes so not too bad, but it did seem poorly staffed for a busy post office.

@PostOffice Yeah, apparently they can only help 9-5 M-F. Unfortunately I’m at work then.

@PostOffice No thanks. It’s not about a specific branch; it’s about a general trend where the quality of the service environment is diminished and squeezed. I could give a long list of places. The direction of travel saddens me.

@PostOffice 5 minutes ago. Always such poor service. Only 2 desks open.

@PostOffice Well done guys. Ur website advises DBS counter service availabke at Ealing Broadway but after queuing up and wasting time was told this is not the case. Unbelievable ineptitude. #timewaste

@StarlingForBiz @StarlingBank @Xero @PostOffice - Xero integration Me: yeahhhhh finally 😊🤠🤠🤠🤗🤗🤗🤗 - "CSV exports help you handle the numbers. " Me: 😫😫😫😤😤😤😤😤😤😤 It's not an integration, it's a mockery

@PostOffice I’ve sent a fragile gift in the post that was thoroughly bubble wrapped and in two envelopes. Item has arrived broken and receiver has put her hand in shards of glass. Very bad form and could be dangerous!!

@PostOffice appalling service in East Dulwich post office. 25 people waiting 2 people serving and another employee avoiding eye contact and working on something else!!

@PostOffice why don’t your self service card payment machines accept Amex, but your counter card machines do? Specifically your London Wall PO.

@StopFundingHate @Specsavers @DFS @BritishGas @LoveWilko @bt_uk @coopuk @ScSSofas @PostOffice @TUIUK @AskHalifaxBank @SlaterGordonUK @British_Airways @Fidelity_UK @SandalsResorts @FundsmithLLP @NOWTV @ImagineCruising Look. Just read up at StopFundingHate, and change your advertising policy. Then we'll stop telling people that you support bigots. Deal?

@PostOffice I have been served downstairs and find it fine, a friendly and ordinary shop experience. My experience is that to go upstairs is where the customer service and the wait time is unacceptable. That’s all I wanted to comment.

@PostOffice It’s every visit. A 30min queue to wait in and two women who bark ‘Counter Three’ at you, my last visit a week/ish ago was 45 minutes in a queue of over 20 people whilst one lady served and one did something admin at a v leisurely pace. Really poor attitude from staff upstairs

@PostOffice When am I going to get an update? It’s been a day already and I’m running out of time. The customer service people I speak to don’t seem to be able to help. IF this statement doesn’t arrive soon my wife will be deported (we have a 7 week old baby!) You have to help and fast.

@PostOffice The Post Office has put me through SO much and now you’ll change me £10.50 because your back office team are too incompetent to actually do their jobs? I’ve never had such awful service.

@PostOffice ... also, people need to be disciplined, this isn’t a service! I need my bank statements ASAP and I need to be apologised to. Your back office team have put my family through so much stress and we’re now in such a critical position. Fix this. #PostOfficeMoney #BadService [3]

@PostOffice The 0800 and 0345 people are the same. The manager I was promised earlier failed to call me, this is a dispicable service. I called again, the person I just spoke with promised she’d get it escalated and posted out 1st class. [1/2]

@PostOffice Jess, I always use this - 0345 602 3409 - number, that’s who I’m awaiting a call from. Will the people on your 0800 number be able to actually help me? I’m getting nowhere with this and my wife’s at risk of being deported due to your colleagues incompetency.

@hoovesonfire @GreenwichCouncl @PostOffice Calm down and do some work/is stuffed peppers ok for dinner?

The surly woman in tracksuit bottoms rolled her eyes at me and said she couldn't help. The @PostOffice folks.

@PostOffice Hi Stephen yes it was this morning about an hour ago can’t praise his service enough!

@PostOffice no wonder no one uses you! Apparently I can’t pay a cheque into my @firstdirect account there! Even though it clearly says I can. Train your idiot staff please!

@PostOffice ridiculous when you wait for a parcel to be redelivered then hear the letterbox go to the door to find another redeliverly note. Had a cheek to leave the note without even knocking or ringing the bell and when I opened the door sped off down the road! So incompetent!

Philpost service really suck. They dont deliver your package door to door both ems and airmail. Difference of 2 is that i can claim airmail at my city postoffice while ems i need to travel to their main office which is 3 hr bus ride lmao

@markyeg @PostOffice There was an awkward hug, but as I not only looked, but smelt, like a hobo I didn’t hang around!

@eniolaxx @PostOffice @MumsnetTowers Wow! That is terrible! Sorry you have to go through that!

@PostOffice Thank you. I was made quite a few promises by the customer services supervisor on Wednesday and nothing has materialised since.

@PostOffice I appreciate terrible customer service is the default standard in the UK, but frankly I’m not sure who’s worse-you or the cowboys at @OpenreachHelp who are completely unaccountable given that Ofcom is a wet lettuce.

@PostOffice I’ve had multiple phone calls since then. Empty promises from your customer service team. No response from Openreach. You’ve got my number, call me.

@PostOffice I have a complaint about your document verification service. And that has to do with the fact that all my bank accounts and utilities are now online (paperless). So I had to print out a utility bill (which does have my address on it). The Post Office branch...