Freepost Addresses and speed of delivery

[terry1974]

We recently had a batch of letters to send filing claims and legal papers on a county court for which we had a freepost plus address/code
and to keep all the cases separate in their own order sent them in individual envelopes

each one we put on a signed for label but with no postage under the freepost licence no.
in posting them the first 6 got there the day after signed for
14 got there the day after they were posted
but a batch dated 1st feb -of 6- did not land till the 10th feb

6 on saturday 8th landed on the 10th

i can understand them taking a few days but would there be a reason the 6 sent on feb 1st would take 10 days?
or just would they be randomly stuck in the bottom of a mail bag.
they dont appear to have been held for surcharge
the tracking before they were delivered on royal mail track n trace said "an update will be provided when we attempt delivery" as opposed to "the code is not recognised"

[Janet Brum]

or just would they be randomly stuck in the bottom of a mail bag

This might be the explanation, the amount of letters we find stuck/left in bags is quite high unfortunately...
At least in my office, that`s the case.