Pete

Without the correct street name, number or postcode it is highly unlikely that your item would get there in under 24 hours. The bloke in the post office (not a RM employee) should have known better than to tell you otherwise. Mail from that location is collected and sent to nine elms sorting office in SW8! Then it is sorted by machines! By the way the address should read:

300 Creek Rd
London, SE10 9SW

It could also be that as the item was not addressed to any persom at the pub - so it may have been opened by anybody who may have thought it was "junk" mail, after all they were flyers advertising an event at another pub, miles away!

I agree that the postal service is not what it used to be - this is not the fault of the employees - the blame lies with The Government who are deliberately running it into the ground with the hope of building up public dissatisfaction so that they can then sell it off to their cronies for asset stripping. My own office has been targeted with a further 20% reduction in staff - we are currently running a central London operation with 200 people - the same operation was run with 520 people 14 years ago!!! Businesses in the area now get their mail at 1pm instead of 7am - 9sm sd they used to, ask essex girl!!!! Because of poor wages and unreasonable workloads they now fail to attract quality staff, there are no longer any entrance criteria for workers. no exams to sit and no training of any value. This is all to cut costs, increase short term profits and pay huge bonuses to people who won't be there in a year or two!!!

Write to your MP and tell them that this is not acceptable.