Letters sent to 'High Wycombe Down Under' end up in Bucks (From Bucks Free Press)

I can understand the sentiment behind using snail mail for the bday cards... but to use Royal Fail for a funeral message is a little risky - stick to nowaday communications. Facebook. ;-)

Bet this doesn't happen with the 'Golden Post Boxes'....!!!

When we were about to move to High Wycombe in 1999, I spent time on the internet researching things about Wycombe. It was after several hours of research that I discovered I had been viewing information about High Wycombe, Australia.

It looks like the Bucks Free Press follows where the Bucks Freedom Press leads. See our story on High Wycombe, Shire of Kalamunda, Western Australia published earlier this week!http://bucksfre
edom.weebly.com/hill
s-gazette.html

OMG don't tell me there's two High Wycombe's in the world, unbelievable!

RbClose wrote:
When we were about to move to High Wycombe in 1999, I spent time on the internet researching things about Wycombe. It was after several hours of research that I discovered I had been viewing information about High Wycombe, Australia.

But did it have a 'Frogmoor'?

Was it mention of wombats and platypus that made you suspect you were looking at the wrong place?

None of this surprises me with the post office of today.

In the 15 years that I have lived in High Wycombe, I have had many letters and parcels gone missing, never to be found. That's both send and receive.

More worryingly is the number of birthday cards and other envelopes that ‘look interesting’ that do arrive, have arrived open… that is to say that they have been deliberately opened to see what’s inside, hoping to find items of value… Only too often, letters have not arrived at all.

Complaining about this to the post office via the phone gets met with an unsympathetic response, followed by lengthy arduous and tedious form filling, resulting in zero results of any kind. Not even a reply to apologise.

The postal service today sucks.

Good Life wrote:
OMG don't tell me there's two High Wycombe's in the world, unbelievable!

That just made me laugh so much.

post of the year :)

Morag wrote:
It looks like the Bucks Free Press follows where the Bucks Freedom Press leads. See our story on High Wycombe, Shire of Kalamunda, Western Australia published earlier this week!http://bucksfre

edom.weebly.com/hill

s-gazette.html

how interesting. Coincidence! I think not. Roy Froggatt sounds like a made-up name if ever I heard one.

Plus ça change... wrote:

RbClose wrote:
When we were about to move to High Wycombe in 1999, I spent time on the internet researching things about Wycombe. It was after several hours of research that I discovered I had been viewing information about High Wycombe, Australia.

But did it have a 'Frogmoor'?

Was it mention of wombats and platypus that made you suspect you were looking at the wrong place?

Did it have an overweight blogger with sandwiches et cetera et cetera?

RbClose wrote:
When we were about to move to High Wycombe in 1999, I spent time on the internet researching things about Wycombe. It was after several hours of research that I discovered I had been viewing information about High Wycombe, Australia.

Over ten years ago in the early days of the Internet I wanted to find out the late opening hours of High Wycombe and Aylesbury Libraries. I went looking for the Bucks County Library site using a search engine and spent some minutes shaking my head until I realised I was looking at Bucks County in Pennsylvania.

(See: http://www.buckscoun
ty.org/government/de
partments/affiliated
Agencies/librarySyst
em.aspx).

They have branches in Bristol, Northampton, Southampton, and Warminster.

Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........?
Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address.........
so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

chris toff wrote:
Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........? Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address......... so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

Where does it say that he put an HP postcode on the letters? You're making a false point, just for dramatic effect, and to make this man look foolish.
Not long after I moved into High Wycombe, I received a legal letter, addressed to the previous tenant; knowing that he was dead, I stuck a label over the address, with "Deceased; return to sender." written on it. Next morning, I got the letter back, with the label peeled back, to reveal the original address; it went back in the postbox, with the label secured with gorilla glue, and i haven't seen it since.

I had to visit the Aylesbury sorting office the other afternoon. I wasn't allowed in as it had just been struck by lightning and a ceiling had collapsed. Nobody was injured.
.
Something tells me that God is pretty fed up with them as well and was firing a warning shot.

Edgar Brooks wrote:

chris toff wrote:
Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........? Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address......... so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

Where does it say that he put an HP postcode on the letters? You're making a false point, just for dramatic effect, and to make this man look foolish.
Not long after I moved into High Wycombe, I received a legal letter, addressed to the previous tenant; knowing that he was dead, I stuck a label over the address, with "Deceased; return to sender." written on it. Next morning, I got the letter back, with the label peeled back, to reveal the original address; it went back in the postbox, with the label secured with gorilla glue, and i haven't seen it since.

It doesnt say it in the story . But i happen to know several Postal staff at H/WYC Sorting office involved in this and they ve all said the same that the HP post code has been added to almost all the Letters as well as " Australia" but the Postcode is at the bottom of the Letters and the sorting machines read the postcode ... you coulld always watch the Babies cbc channel and watch the "we vist the PostOffice" and see that the machine does actually read the Postcode ....

chris toff wrote:

Edgar Brooks wrote:

chris toff wrote:
Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........? Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address......... so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

Where does it say that he put an HP postcode on the letters? You're making a false point, just for dramatic effect, and to make this man look foolish.
Not long after I moved into High Wycombe, I received a legal letter, addressed to the previous tenant; knowing that he was dead, I stuck a label over the address, with "Deceased; return to sender." written on it. Next morning, I got the letter back, with the label peeled back, to reveal the original address; it went back in the postbox, with the label secured with gorilla glue, and i haven't seen it since.

It doesnt say it in the story . But i happen to know several Postal staff at H/WYC Sorting office involved in this and they ve all said the same that the HP post code has been added to almost all the Letters as well as " Australia" but the Postcode is at the bottom of the Letters and the sorting machines read the postcode ... you coulld always watch the Babies cbc channel and watch the "we vist the PostOffice" and see that the machine does actually read the Postcode ....

That only goes to prove what numpties they are working in the sorting office.

The postcode for High Wycombe in Western Australia is 6057.

How does the machine confuse that with a UK postcode starting HPXX XXX?

geoffW wrote:
I had to visit the Aylesbury sorting office the other afternoon. I wasn't allowed in as it had just been struck by lightning and a ceiling had collapsed. Nobody was injured.
.
Something tells me that God is pretty fed up with them as well and was firing a warning shot.

God sometimes posts on here so he may come and say what he has to say about Royal Mail instead of beating about the bush with thunder and lightning.

THE POST OFFICE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

THAT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

A VOTER wrote:

chris toff wrote:

Edgar Brooks wrote:

chris toff wrote:
Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........? Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address......... so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

Where does it say that he put an HP postcode on the letters? You're making a false point, just for dramatic effect, and to make this man look foolish.
Not long after I moved into High Wycombe, I received a legal letter, addressed to the previous tenant; knowing that he was dead, I stuck a label over the address, with "Deceased; return to sender." written on it. Next morning, I got the letter back, with the label peeled back, to reveal the original address; it went back in the postbox, with the label secured with gorilla glue, and i haven't seen it since.

It doesnt say it in the story . But i happen to know several Postal staff at H/WYC Sorting office involved in this and they ve all said the same that the HP post code has been added to almost all the Letters as well as " Australia" but the Postcode is at the bottom of the Letters and the sorting machines read the postcode ... you coulld always watch the Babies cbc channel and watch the "we vist the PostOffice" and see that the machine does actually read the Postcode ....

That only goes to prove what numpties they are working in the sorting office.

The postcode for High Wycombe in Western Australia is 6057.

How does the machine confuse that with a UK postcode starting HPXX XXX?

A Voter.....Try Re reading the Post s you quoted before Commenting ........... makes you look stupid .. Stupid !!!!

THE ONE TRUE GOD wrote:
THE POST OFFICE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

THAT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

I knew it!
That is why we always have to queue up and it is always so hot in the average PO.

chris toff wrote:

Edgar Brooks wrote:

chris toff wrote: Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........? Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address......... so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

Where does it say that he put an HP postcode on the letters? You're making a false point, just for dramatic effect, and to make this man look foolish. Not long after I moved into High Wycombe, I received a legal letter, addressed to the previous tenant; knowing that he was dead, I stuck a label over the address, with "Deceased; return to sender." written on it. Next morning, I got the letter back, with the label peeled back, to reveal the original address; it went back in the postbox, with the label secured with gorilla glue, and i haven't seen it since.

It doesnt say it in the story . But i happen to know several Postal staff at H/WYC Sorting office involved in this and they ve all said the same that the HP post code has been added to almost all the Letters as well as " Australia" but the Postcode is at the bottom of the Letters and the sorting machines read the postcode ... you coulld always watch the Babies cbc channel and watch the "we vist the PostOffice" and see that the machine does actually read the Postcode ....

Some on here (for whom you obviously have utter contempt) happen to know that, if a letter arrives in a post office, minus its postcode, it is the job of someone, in that post office, to find the code and add it on, so that the machine can do its reading job. If Mr. Froggatt didn't write the High Wycombe code, and all sensible people (from whom I have to exclude you) will realise that he didn't/wouldn't, then someone else must have done so, in the interval between the letter leaving his hand and arriving in the High Wycombe sorting office. Try watching grown-up TV, and you might be able to work out what really happened.

You still dont get it do you .............. im a bloody Postman .... Idiot !!!! And i ve Actually seen these bloody envlopes ............ and YES they have HP POSTCODES AS WELL AS WESTERN AUSTRALIA CODES ........... GOD SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY REALLY THICK EH BROOKESIE ....................

chris toff wrote:
You still dont get it do you .............. im a bloody Postman .... Idiot !!!! And i ve Actually seen these bloody envlopes ............ and YES they have HP POSTCODES AS WELL AS WESTERN AUSTRALIA CODES ........... GOD SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY REALLY THICK EH BROOKESIE ....................

Yes; go and look in a mirror, then find out who actually wrote those codes. If you find out that it was a Post Office employee, not Mr. Froggatt, I'll expect (though not with bated breath) an apology for the unwarranted insults. And the surname is Brooks, not Brookes

So let me get this right chris toff…
You’re calling ‘me’ stupid having read and responded to your comment.
Yet you’re the one who can’t spell a person’s name correctly, even after having it spelt for you, and you’re the one that can’t spell ‘envelope’ correctly, and item that you should be dealing with on a daily basis.

Getting back to the sorting office issue, from what you say, it’s obvious that it is postal employees, like yourself, that are erroneously adding the UK HP postcode to letters that are very clearly marked with ‘Australia’ as the destination.

Why you want to defend these somewhat stupid and childish mistakes by your colleagues and possibly yourself is somewhat baffling.

It’s also interesting to note that you didn’t defend your work colleagues after reading my previous comments about post going missing, or post that has blatantly been opened by post office employees prior to delivery (no one else touches them).

chris toff wrote:
You still dont get it do you .............. im a bloody Postman .... Idiot !!!! And i ve Actually seen these bloody envlopes ............ and YES they have HP POSTCODES AS WELL AS WESTERN AUSTRALIA CODES ........... GOD SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY REALLY THICK EH BROOKESIE ....................

So you have seen these envelopes with AUSTRALIA written on and still posted them in ENGLAND?? Yes, you are correct, some people really are thick!

we were All shown them by the Managers ... . however the last code on the bottom of the Envlopes has a HP XX XXX POSTCODE WHICH IS USED WITHIN HIGH WYCOMBE BUCKS AREA . WHY NOBODY KNOWS ............THEY ALSO CARRY aUSTRALIA WITHIN THE ADDRESS AND ABOVE THE HP CODE THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA CODE

chris toff wrote:
we were All shown them by the Managers ... . however the last code on the bottom of the Envlopes has a HP XX XXX POSTCODE WHICH IS USED WITHIN HIGH WYCOMBE BUCKS AREA . WHY NOBODY KNOWS ............THEY ALSO CARRY aUSTRALIA WITHIN THE ADDRESS AND ABOVE THE HP CODE THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA CODE

But you have previously already stated that the HP postcode has been 'added', indicating that it wasn't originally written by the person posting the letter.

Also, was the HP postcode that has been added, accurate for the UK address? I ask because it's highly unlikely that the person posting the letter destined for Australia would know the correct UK postcode for that road in High Wycombe Bucks.

This is still proving to be multiple errors by incompetent employees of the inept Post Office.

I actually live 20 minutes away from High Wycombe in Australia , but originally come from High Wycombe in bucks . There are many suburbs out here same names as in bucks . My son has sent many things out here that never get here or when they do it takes about 3-4 weeks .

chris toff wrote:
Although these letters have had Airmail stickers on And Australia on them .... Why did the sender include a HP POSTCODE ..........?
Royal Mail sorting machines read Postcodes regardless of remainder of the Address.........
so if HP is added then to HP areas the letters are sent ...........Then its down to PO workers hand sorting to Delevery s within that HP town........

A Voter. when i put that the HP had been "Added" had you read it through instead of skipping ........ the sender put an Hp code so interm s of the earlier piece and for the Stupid eh A VOTOR...... iSHOULD HAVE PUT ".............so if HP is put on the letter to HP areas the letter is sent ....... the machine read s the postcode ..... unlike A VOTER who dosent . seems we all need Glasses .........

You still haven't told us if the HP postcode was correct for that road in HW Bucks.

You also haven't explained why, after 30 similar incidences, the postal workers can't understand what the word "Australia" on a letter means.

Ozification rules - inevitably

THE ONE TRUE GOD wrote:
THE POST OFFICE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

THAT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

You're being referred to in the WWFC 'angry scenes' report as well you know- see:

http://www.bucksfree
press.co.uk/news/989
4400.Angry_scenes_af
ter_Wanderers_match_
abandoned/?ref=mr

I have given this case prolonged consideration and come to the conclusion that someone should look at the handwriting on the envelopes posted by Mr Froggatt to see if the handwriting belongs to Mr Froggatt or is being put on there by someone else.


If it does not belong to Mr Froggatt then someone – possibly a Scotland Yard detective like Inspector Lestrade – should find out who is putting the High Wycombe postcode on there.

Also the postman who delivers to Hamilton Road should avoid delivering letters with addresses containing the word ‘AUSTRALIA’ to addresses in Hamilton Road. (That was a suggestion by Dr Watson.)

It can’t be that Mr Froggatt is putting his own postcode on there in case the letter can’t be delivered, as he lives in Brum and if he were to do that then the mail would come back to him and not Hamilton Road each time – wouldn’t it?

Imperturbable Lawrence wrote:

THE ONE TRUE GOD wrote:
THE POST OFFICE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

THAT IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

You're being referred to in the WWFC 'angry scenes' report as well you know- see:

http://www.bucksfree

press.co.uk/news/989

4400.Angry_scenes_af

ter_Wanderers_match_

abandoned/?ref=mr

Of course you KNEW that - I was forgetting your omniscience again!