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Thu 02/09/04 at 15:35
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"Infantalised Forums"
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You read in the news about performance issues in London and some other places and you nodded, thought "Bloody post" and swapped stories about waiting for 3 days for a letter that should have arrived tomorrow.
You complain because your dvd doesn't arrive within 3 days from play.com, or Amazon hasn't arrived even though you requested special delivery.
Or you whinge to your family when the postie hasn't arrived by 10am and you've been hanging about waiting for that letter and blah blah blah blah.
Some of these are fair comment, some of them are tedious noise that nobody cares about or pays attention to.

However, we detest you as much as you moan about us.
Not all of you, don't get me wrong. But an awful lot of you.
Why? Here's a few inside secrets for you.
And obviously I don't speak for Royal Mail, or anybody else except for myself, so it's not potentially slanderous.

Special Delivery
These are those letters/packets with the grey sticker that says "Before 12pm", these are the packets you pay extra for because they're extremely important and you have to recieve it.
Fair enough.
SO GODDAM BE IN WHEN I DELIVER IT THEN.
9 times in the past 3 weeks this has happened. "Before 12". I arrive between 9am and 11:30am. And each and every single time nobody has been in.
You assfaces. If you pay the extra, then be in to sign for it. We've all done it, expecting a delivery of something so you take the morning off work or get up early if you're off. And you wait.
As soon as it's 12pm, go off and do stuff, I failed in my duty to deliver before the appointed time. But nooooooooooo, you have to be out don't you?

Magazines
You're invalid or lazy and can't be arsed to go to the shop to buy your Motorcycle News Monthly or FHM or Caravan World or Radio Times.
So I have the pleasure of 117 houses with heavy-ass mags I can buy in WHSmiths. And, this is the real redfacer, oftentimes a house will have 3-4 copies of the Radio Times, all addressed to different people.
WHY? WHY ARE YOU SO GODDAMN STUPID YOU NEED 3 COPIES? There is no excuse to need multiple copies of the same magazine delivered. Get in your SUV, drive the 110 yards to the local shops and. Buy. A. Magazine.

Massive Packets
Use your water-filled heads here people, some things will not go through your front door and chances are you'll be at work anyway.
So the following articles, all personally witnessed by myself, shall no longer be eligible for your weary Postman to lug around for 4hrs:
Footballs - Buy one and kick it you monger
Exhaust System - I'd like to shoot your children for that one you ass
Yukka Plant - I am not David Bellamy or Ray Mears
A Kite - Yep, a fully-extended Kite wrapped in newspaper.
Think to yourself, "Do I dabble in physics?" before you attempt to post something to your retard relatives in some vast concrete toilet in Essex

Correct Address
Seems obvious doesn't it? You learn this stuff at school, "Name. Address. Town. Postcode". Simple.
So don't just put "Sanjay Seervajingh, Church Langley, Harlow" you clown.
Try, before you squash that letter through the postbox with your flippers, to think "Now have I put all the details down?" before monging off to watch Casualty and Eastenders.
Or, my favourite so far, "Bill. Harlow. Esexx"
Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Crap jokes about the weather
We've heard them. All of them. Every variation. If you must speak, nod and say "Morning Postie", this is fine and very welcome in fact.
Don't say "Nice weather for ducks", because that's nonsensical.
Don't say "Rather you than me", because Postie will stop in his tracks, make a note of your door number and forget to deliver your post for the next day.
Don't say "Hope you can swim! Hahahahaha!"
Don't say "Cor, you'll be home in time for neighbours wontcha?"
Don't say "Where's Bill/Sam/Steve then? On holiday?", or if you must, then don't look puzzled when Postie says "Nope, stolen by gypsies. Or dead. I forget which" before walking across your front lawn and on to the next house.
Don't say "Oh, my post is wet" when it's thumping down and your Postman looks bedraggled and very, very angry at your jawdropping stupidity.
Of course it's wet, I've been carrying it in my arm for 20 mins whilst water falls out the sky onto it and me.
You spastic.

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That'll do for now.
Royal Mail - We loathe you more than you do us.
But it's still the most fun job I've had in 31 years.
Thu 02/09/04 at 18:25
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Haha.
How hard would it be for Royal Mail to explain everything like that?
Thu 02/09/04 at 18:14
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Did you know I work in one of the worst performing Delivery Offices in the UK?

Thought you didn't.
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:57
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well anyhoo I love my postie :)
The other day I was just wondering where some movies I'd ordered were and then comes the postie. HOORAY!!
It was raining so all I saw was an orange haze dropping 4 little parcels through my door.

HOORAY FOR POSTIES!!!
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:29
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Edgy wrote:
> Wow Grix,

?
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:28
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Wow Goatboy, you found an old picture of me on Special Observe.

*clap* *clap*

I don't even look like that anymore.


(sorry Grix, got the names mixed up)
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:20
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"Excommunicated"
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Who sents a kite in the post?
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:19
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Goatboy wrote:

> As for the massive parcels, show me the bit where I complained about
> carrying it?

To be honest, I think it's probably here:

So the following articles, all personally witnessed by myself, shall no longer be eligible for your weary Postman to lug around for 4hrs:
Footballs - Buy one and kick it you monger
Exhaust System - I'd like to shoot your children for that one you ass
Yukka Plant - I am not David Bellamy or Ray Mears
A Kite - Yep, a fully-extended Kite wrapped in newspaper.


It certainly gives the impression you are though, even if you aren't.





> The point there was that people spend loads on posting when a courier
> is cheaper and will deliver it especially.

Okie dokie


Time for a drink and some TV.
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:16
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"Lisan al-Gaib"
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Damn, kids, kids, kids. Go write some of that goth poetry and/or short stories you write so well to unload some of that teenage angst.

I thought the original post was quite amusing.
Thu 02/09/04 at 17:14
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"Infantalised Forums"
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Thu 02/09/04 at 17:10
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If it's the most fun job you've had in all those years, stop moaning like an old woman who's sat in a desk job for 30 years and is wondering why the only thing that's actually happened in her life is an increase in face lines.

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