Why does my iPhone 4S delay text message alerts?

Many times, my iPhone 4S will not alert me as soon as I receive a text message.
Even if I received the text message when it was sent, my iPhone will not notify me until I unlock the phone.
Then it perks up -- "Oh yeah, you have a new text message. You received it 2 hours ago."
I have tried researching this issue but I can't find anyone else who has had this same issue.
All of the suggestions I've found have to do with a delay in sending text messages, not in alerting you to new text messages.
Sometimes I will receive text messages a few hours old but that doesn't happen often enough for me to worry about it.
But nothing I've found so far specifically deals with the alerts.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Any ideas how to fix this?
Note that I have tried all the "standard" suggestions: restarting, restoring, etc.
Thanks!

Did you ever find a solution? I have pretty much the same issue. I will receive text messages but not receive an alert. Then anywhere from a few seconds to minutes later my phone will light up and vibrate but there is no notification. I'll unlock my phone and sure enough I have a text message.
Sometimes, I'll receive a text message when the phone is in my hand and unlocked, no vibration, no alert, but there is a badge icon and I'll see that there is a text, read it, and even reply. I'll lock my phone and a few minutes later my phone will light up and vibrate as if I have a text, but there is no notificaion, no badge icon and it will be the alert finally catching up to the text I received minutes earlier. It drives me crazy!
Anyone else?

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