Mail paranoia

[tamaranth]

Dear BT

Thank you so much for cutting off my phoneline yesterday due to non-payment of bill. I really, really needed a day of staring at 'cannot connect' messages instead of getting on with my article.

At least reconnection was fairly prompt once I'd coughed up.

It is not my fault that my ISP thinks your e-reminders are spam and deletes them.

What Gets Through

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Emails with attached gifs asking for my bank account details.

Emails suggesting that I enlarge non-existent parts of my anatomy.

What Doesn't
Well, how the hell should I know? I don't get to see what it looks like. But, at a guess, BT's e-bills. And definitely my BTinternet-using client's stroppy emails.

Am also having horrendous problems with post. ladymoonray thinks this is because my flat number wasn't visible on the letterbox. I think it's because my postman can't read. I have had mail addressed to other buildings, and I've found letters lying on the ground outside.

Of course, when mail-paranoia sets in, you start remembering all the things that should have turned up.

Does anyone know if I can do anything about this vague sense of missing post?

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Call the Royal Mail and complain, I've just done that having had similar problems (http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoo_music_girl/362292.html?nc=12). I'm not convinced it will do any good (since I complained I've still had to put something back in the post that should have been delivered to [my street name] Road instead of [my street name] Hill). But they did give me a book of stamps, so that's alright of course.

Contact details: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content2?catId=400144&mediaId=5400002

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

It's not BT's fault either, you know. This isn't demon, is it? We're using Demon's at-source spam catching, and I've heard nothing bad of it.

As for the Royal Mail, I blogged it (http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/archives/000242.html) the other day. This won't reassure you.

[incy.livejournal.com]

i have to say demon spam filtering seems to work fine. It is possible that BT has got onto someones black list (easier then you think one or two of the anti spammers are a little over zealous, I have heard of dircon getting onto the list for starters).

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

which ISP? call them up and tell them there's a problem. Ask BT to talk to your ISP - assuming they serve more than a couple of folk its in BT's interests to help sort it. I am *very* tempted to turn this into an article so I'd be happy to take it to BT's PR for you!

As to the physical post, only things taht take time. Official complaints yes, but first, if you have time (hah, I kno!) lurk to catch your postie and have a chat - isn't this a confusing place, it must be so hard, how can I label my postbox better - and do the same at the sorting office. There's also a place that undelivered letters are sent to that you can phone up and ask if they have letters for you...