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... providing the postman, post office/Royal Mail do their thing ...

I called Bucks Admissions today and spoke to a lady who said she was actually holding my son's results in her hands. But we have to wait until tomorrow morning (assuming everything referred to in line 1 goes according to plan) before we know whether we will be going through two appeals (one for non qualification and one for over subscription) or just the over subscription one.

I even offered to collect them on our way to see my mother, but they are not allowed to do that.

Not sure how much more of this I can take!

faitaccompli wrote:I called Bucks Admissions today and spoke to a lady who said she was actually holding my son's results in her hands.

Eeek!

I even offered to collect them on our way to see my mother, but they are not allowed to do that.

It does seem silly, but I guess they don't want to set a precedent - County Hall would be besieged every November.

Fingers crossed for you and him!

S-A

Sally-Anne wrote:

faitaccompli wrote:I called Bucks Admissions today and spoke to a lady who said she was actually holding my son's results in her hands.

Eeek!

I know. I wasn't sure how much begging would be acceptable in 11+ protocol ...

On the day after allocation day for us the postman OR royal mail OR even the LEA managed to not quite get it right.... turned out when I rang that they had had to post it rather late in the day - weren't quite admitting to having missed the post though anyway they agreed to ring me up and let me now - which they did.

So if the postie doesn't appear then maybe total patheticness (and bribery with some chocs) on the phone might be worth a try tomorrow

Tomorrow (if it does not arrive) I shall try firm, followed by wimpy followed by begging. Bribery will come at the end.

faitaccompli wrote:Tomorrow (if it does not arrive) I shall try firm, followed by wimpy followed by begging. Bribery will come at the end.

I am afraid you won't have any luck. I have known people to have waited a whole week for their results letter, and when it didn't appear, BCC were absolutely intransigent about sending a fresh copy first class as being the only possible means of advising of the results.

It does seem rather outdated though - so many areas allow parents to access the results online or receive them by email.

It does seem rather outdated though - so many areas allow parents to access the results online or receive them by email.

They could spend to money they save on transport!!

Good luck faitaccompli - let us know!

Good luck! Hope your postman comes nice and early and brings good news

Good luck tomorrow, hope you get good news

thank you for your messages of good luck.
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