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"Random act of kindness"

On Monday I was doing my walk and came across somebody's keys still in their front door. This happens a lot more regularly than you'd think, and always makes me chuckle.
So I knock on her door (an old woman lives here, it's a row of bungalows that old people inhabit) and there's no answer. I try her neighbour and she says "Yes she sleeps in, won't hear you knocking". So I explain the situation and she agrees to take the keys for her neighbour, I write a little note on a card and pop it back through sleeping woman's door and continue with my day.

Yesterday I come to the bungalow-row again and on sleeping woman's door is a card taped to the door with "Postman!" on it.
I open it and it's a thank you card, effusive with praise and telling me she's left a bottle of wine for me in the bin cupboard for my trouble.

I think that's the 1st time I've been the recepient of a random act of kindness and it made me smile the rest of the morning.
And I realised, of all the people I see and chat to during my walk - it's the old people that always stop and ask how things are etc.
Most other people just look down and hurry past, yet the older generation always make time, even if it's just a nod and "Morning Postie".
I think it's a completely different generation of values and it'll be a real shame when there are no more left and the old people consist of the Chantals and Liams, because they'll just be angry stupid pensioner.

Bullett wrote:
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> And Clazon, Goaty is the only Postie here I think, I just work for
> Royal Mail, more on the Admin/Performance Control side.

I had a brief stint at the sorting office during Christmas. Hurrah for Royal Mail!

It's just like that back home. Even a quick 10 minute walk to the garage shop would most likely involve one or two oldies saying morning or some typical "How's the weather" sentence. And despite the generation gap, I like it. We are, after all, a community.

Obviously, they don't make them like they used to.

The Wardy wrote:
> Cong_Man wrote:
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> Bullett, pull your finger out. Here at Thomas Cook, we had to
> completely stop using Royal Mail because you were always late
> delivering and lost most of our mail...
>
> Who do you use now?

A whole load of couriers, depending on exactly where the mail is going.

Cong_Man wrote:

> Bullett, pull your finger out. Here at Thomas Cook, we had to
> completely stop using Royal Mail because you were always late
> delivering and lost most of our mail...

Who do you use now?

Yeah well, it takes a long time holding all your envelopes over the kettle to get the flight tickets out :P

Clazon wrote:
> Bullett wrote:
> And Clazon, Goaty is the only Postie here I think, I just work for
> Royal Mail, more on the Admin/Performance Control side.
>
> So you're redundant?

Bullett, pull your finger out. Here at Thomas Cook, we had to completely stop using Royal Mail because you were always late delivering and lost most of our mail...

Hehe :P

Bullett wrote:
> And Clazon, Goaty is the only Postie here I think, I just work for
> Royal Mail, more on the Admin/Performance Control side.

So you're redundant?






:)

I dont think he will last long anyways, he will either be sacked for stealing or he will give up because he cant be bothered.

The Wardy wrote:
> I am pretty sure he has a record he has been arrested loads of times.
> Hopefully he wont deliver to my house :S

Well if you can be certain he has a record, and don't want him working for such a service, report him and he'll soon be fired.

And Clazon, Goaty is the only Postie here I think, I just work for Royal Mail, more on the Admin/Performance Control side.