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Without being patronizing, if you’re young, I.E. 22 or under, you may not think the following is a big deal, but it is.
Just nipped out for 30 mins. Whilst out, a parcel arrived that I had ordered from Amazon, containing 2 of those ‘Yankee Candles’, that were a present for the missus for Christmas. They aren’t cheap, £20 a piece. Anyhow, I see’s the ‘you were out card’ in letterbox. I read that they’d left it behind the wheelie bin, so I went to get it.
As soon as I lifted the box up, I thought ‘Oh, Oh!’, as the jingle sound I heard could have the obese bearded one himself and Rudolph, come-early. With dread, I undid the box. It had been packed well, with padding, and egg-box like packaging. But by god, they were smashed to absolute smithereens, or at least the glass jars were. I don’t think they’d have been as damaged if a bus had run over them.
As I really cannot face another slanging match and the hassle of chasing the sellers, Royal Mail, etc, I simply went outside, and smashed the rest of the glass off the candles. They are alright, it was just the jars. (Just need something to burn them in, now)
But FFS! Royal Mail. If they are not on strike, they must play football with these boxes. And surely they KNEW whatever was in it was f*cked when they delivered it? (Come on, it was obvious!) Great customer service, that. Surely they should have stuck a note on it. I’m sure that was the done thing when I worked as a Postman? Funny how they delivered it in a 30 min window when I was out, eh?
Point is, in the run up to Christmas, you may be buying stuff online. If so, be careful. Nobody want’s little Johnny to open his PS3 on Christmas day, to be greeted by a console that is smashed to pieces. I mean let’s be honest, Connect 4 and Buckaroo wear a little thin after a game or two.
The morale? Royal Mail Are Diabolical.
Whats a Yankee Candle?
They are doing my nut in atm! For years ive never had anything go missing then over the last 4 months ive had about 5/6 packages out of 20 or so go missing delivered to me and il send out maybe 50 things a week with work recorded or Special Delivery and you can guarantee 2/3 will be lost every week!
Whats a Yankee Candle?
The morale? Royal Mail Are Diabolical.
Moral*
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Moral,Morale, Moralés,….who gives….an excrement.
My candles are still f*cked!
FAZ, I think it’s because they are employing any old spastic*** that has a pair of hands and feet. Was upstairs and was a knock on the door. Shouted to the postman, “Hold on, mate, just be a minute”. Just out the shower so I threw some shorts and a t-shirt on. Opened front door just as he was putting a ‘Sorry you were out’ card through. Luckily I caught him. He mumbled something and then threw the parcel at me and walked off. I thought ‘Ignorant c*nt’.
It was only later that I found out he actually IS a Spastic***.
He comes everyday. We get our post at 4, sometimes, 5 oclock. I think that is f*cking abysmal. Don’t you? I don’t care if he’s a friggin ‘Care in the community’ case or whatever. Our postal service is still crap.
Most people I have known from my time at the post, have left. Mainly due to the workload (FAR too heavy) and the bosses. That’s why I left. I got accused of dumping mail (In a post office, FFS! Is that actually possible?) and also not turning in on a Saturday once. (Verbal warning 1) (In my first week.) The manager never said it was my turn on the rota, pulled me in the office on a Monday, and I argued that if nobody had said anything to me, how would I know? He was a tw*t and I actually said to him “Well, I’m not a f*ckin psychic!”. (Verbal warning 2- same day)
After that, I walked out. I later heard that the manager (a Scouser himself) was ‘removed’ from his position because he had said that Scousers should “Get over Hillsborough” to a lad who’s dad had died at Hillsborough. Lad complained and got the guy suspended and then ‘re-located’.
If the country wasn’t full of desperate people looking for work who went as temps to the Royal Mail, their strikes would have caused chaos. Unfortunately, the strikers jobs were handed to temp workers.
It’s not your average postie, it’s the bosses. AND some of the plebs who work for them….like my postman. Fair enough, he’s doing a job. Albeit one that someone else could actually do better….and quicker.
Disclaimer.*** I use the term ‘spastic’ to refer to my postman. He is definitely not the full shilling, you can’t understand what he says and he is obviously deaf. I do not know what-else I can call him? Mentally challenged? No offence intended, BTW, with the term ‘spastic’.
Yeah yeah i did Google it but it just showed loads of images of candles and i thought they dont look that special (the other half said about getting some for her aunty for xmas), then a bloke in work told me they were for putting wax on your body when you were having sex……didnt believe him on that one but i did believe that felching was the art of reusing teabags(id never heard it and it sounded right)!
I thought that they had a time they had to deliver your mail by? Our postys really nice but hes as camp as a row of tents, i hate getting a parcel when im in as he gives me a wink and says “summat special for the weekend”. I think you have to be a bot warped to be a posty vat. Theyve got wierd lives and they have to be a bit obsessive to get on with the job well!
My missus best mate went out with one and when she went his house hed painted his bedroom black………..and i mean the whole room furniture and windows.
Ive just had a phonecall that someone has had a Recorded Delivery delivered 3 weeks late, the Mails answer…its delayed in the post as rather than working through the backlog from the strikes new mail is being delivered first.
I wonder how many kids birthday cards go missing permenantly!
The postal system is a joke full stop. Now i know this doesnt apply to all the actual delivery posties but the sorting office needs looking at. For years ive been getting letters that have been opened, mainly bank stuff or insurance renewals and recently packages ordered of tinternet havent been turning up, come to think of it ive not had one of them credit cards through the post for a bit. Anyway these men sign the official secrets act when they start work for Royal Mail, tampering with the mail used to classed as treason, string them up. (yes ive just enquired about another missing item, robbing tw&ts).
The Royal Mail class postal items, be it an envelope, or a large parcel, as ‘Property of the crown’, whilst in it’s posession. Every now and again you get a case of a postie being caught ‘hording’ the mail, usually due to the fact that they’ve found the workload such hard going.
I used to be a postman, and it was unbelievable. There was the usual ‘your boss will help and advise you’. My ar*e he did! Supposedly, a mail bag is not supposed to weigh over 16 kg. Well, as my dad works in a place that bags things up, and had industrial scales, I called in one day and weighed a bag. It was basically DOUBLE that weight. And I had SIX bags a day to deliver.
What it was, they were being tight and had one person doing two jobs. The job was an absolute tw*t. Starting at 5, when all those who’d been there longest were rolling in at 8, and then they were taking the work you had prepped, so you were back to square one and only leaving the depot at 10.30-11am. I was still out delivering at gone 5pm, some days.
Everyday was a different route, as well. So it was impossible to get used. The manager claimed it “made you a better postman” by doing different routes.I was disappointed, because it was something I’d always wanted to do. I think I was unlucky with the manager I got.
Sounds like you cant hack a bit of graft. Worked in Royal mail for years, got away from delivering years ago its hard work. Public think postman/woman just go into office pick a bag up and then deliver it. Lots more to it as you know. Dont blame Postman for coming late or damaged mail, its the system it is a bag of shyte at the moment due to arseholes running the business. Crozier Mandalsen et pals.
Sounds like you cant hack a bit of graft. Worked in Royal mail for years, got away from delivering years ago its hard work. Public think postman/woman just go into office pick a bag up and then deliver it. Lots more to it as you know. Dont blame Postman for coming late or damaged mail, its the system it is a bag of shyte at the moment due to arseholes running the business. Crozier Mandalsen et pals.You’ve just basically contradicted yourself. Handle a bit of graft? Mate, I can handle the graft, but I can’t handle dickh**d bosses acting like little Hitler’s, and basically taking the p*ss.
You’ve basically explained why I Jacked it it.
The Royal Mail class postal items, be it an envelope, or a large parcel, as ‘Property of the crown’, whilst in it’s posession. Every now and again you get a case of a postie being caught ‘hording’ the mail, usually due to the fact that they’ve found the workload such hard going.I used to be a postman, and it was unbelievable. There was the usual ‘your boss will help and advise you’. My ar*e he did! Supposedly, a mail bag is not supposed to weigh over 16 kg. Well, as my dad works in a place that bags things up, and had industrial scales, I called in one day and weighed a bag. It was basically DOUBLE that weight. And I had SIX bags a day to deliver.
What it was, they were being tight and had one person doing two jobs. The job was an absolute tw*t. Starting at 5, when all those who’d been there longest were rolling in at 8, and then they were taking the work you had prepped, so you were back to square one and only leaving the depot at 10.30-11am. I was still out delivering at gone 5pm, some days.
Everyday was a different route, as well. So it was impossible to get used. The manager claimed it “made you a better postman” by doing different routes.I was disappointed, because it was something I’d always wanted to do. I think I was unlucky with the manager I got.
Haha aww talking about a postman as if it’s a proper job…awww… It’s a shame
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