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19 posts & 13 voices | Started 11 months ago by gwj72 | Latest reply from gwj72

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gwj72 - Member

Can you give yourselves a quick punch in the gonads so I feel better?

Our lazy fecker, who feels the need to use a van to deliver letters to a 2 mile stretch of road, can't be arsed to check if I'm in to deliver signed for parcels. I've watched him twice now drop a "you weren't in" card into my mailbox and piss off. Just because he can't be arsed to walk up to the house or negotiate a gate that stops sheeps getting out. He flies up next doors drive because they have no gate (or sheeps to keep in).

So again I'm now going have to make his journey in reverse, probably in the car just to wind TJ up, to collect the parcel that's already been past my house twice today.

I need a butler / servant / slave / robot / sex doll / holiday / lobotomy

Posted 11 months ago #
sharkbait - Member

I'd hope they would all be working at this time of day.... but then ours is proably still in bed as we don't get our mail until about 3:30pm.
I keep asking him "is this tomorrows mail a bit early?" - he doesn't really appreciate it

Posted 11 months ago #
xiphon - Member

Phone up your local delivery office and complain - they don't like these things, especially when more and more people are using alternative postal services.

That's the advice of my F-in-L who's postie.

Posted 11 months ago #
goog - Member

what xiphon said !

I made a complaint about a Fat Pat who failed to deliver stuff to my house because it was to heavy for his bag

Posted 11 months ago #
Mulletus Maximus - Member

Had a similar experience this week.

I have a porch with an internal door with a letter box which is clearly visible from outside, but for some reason a postman (not the regular one) keeps ignoring it and just opens our external door and throws the post on the floor.

I saw him do this this week so I politely asked him to use the letterbox provided. His response was that he is not allowed to step onto my property and it was my problem not his. It seemed a strange answer as he had to step onto my property to open the door.
I phoned royal mail and what he said was rubbish so I filed a complaint again him.

For the record, one of the letters delivered was a new bank card.

Posted 11 months ago #
thegreatape - Member

to collect the parcel that's already been past my house twice today.

I bet it hasn't!

Posted 11 months ago #
gwj72 - Member

I will have a word with the "post mistress" <- are they still called that or is just in Agatha Christie Novels?

I might put a surprise in the mailbox for him too. I'm hoping to have a dead fox surplus soon.

Posted 11 months ago #
gwj72 - Member

to collect the parcel that's already been past my house twice today.

I bet it hasn't!

I thought that, but it does say collect after 1.30. So I'm thinking he must have it on him. Think of all the wasted flurolumochlorocarbons wasted.

Posted 11 months ago #
sambob - Member

Will you have to resort to going to Whaley post office? If so, have fun...

Posted 11 months ago #
spacemonkey - Member

Our postie's a top bloke. He pops in most days for a chat and has the odd cuppa etc. He and the missus recently came round for dinner - which has since been reciprocated.

Just like any role in life; some people are decent, honest and hard-working; others are the opposite.

Posted 11 months ago #
gwj72 - Member

@sambob - it's the little on in the village here. I could walk down in 20 mins but I figure I'll bitch about it and burn some fossil fuel instead.

@spacemonkey - I simply refuse to believe that any postmen are hard working or honest. The evidence is right in front of me. I demand you retract that balanced argument and polarise yourself immediately!

Posted 11 months ago #
Cougar - Member

I have an assortment of posties, with a range of can-be-arsed-ness. One of them likes to leave parcels on my path if I'm not in. Last one he did that with was a laptop.

Posted 11 months ago #
coffeeking - Member

So again I'm now going have to make his journey in reverse, probably in the car just to wind TJ up, to collect the parcel that's already been past my house twice today

Won't have been, standard practice at my old house was for the postie to leave it at the depot and post a card. I caught him once and said "you didn't even knock, can I have my parcel?" and his response was "ummmm..... no, it's at the depot".

At my current place the chap's pretty good, other than coming in the front gate, leaving it open and exiting across my lawn and out the side gate - tramping a nice path across the grass and letting dogs in to poo on the lawn.

All the decent posties must be turning in their graves.

Posted 11 months ago #
spacemonkey - Member

@spacemonkey - I simply refuse to believe that any postmen are hard working or honest. The evidence is right in front of me. I demand you retract that balanced argument and polarise yourself immediately!

Okay, maybe 'hard working' is pushing it a bit where posties are concerned

Still, if the missus or I are expecting a particular letter or parcel then we can text/Facebook him and he'll look out for it. He's even met us in town to drop stuff off.

Posted 11 months ago #
gwj72 - Member

@spacemonkey - are you trolling me? They're all ****!

I'm going to ask if they will let me waiver signatures and take the risk. Most of the time it's just old playstation games or 2nd hand books anyway.

Posted 11 months ago #
Sid Killerest - Member

Postman? Tut tut, delivery officer is the preferred term.

Posted 11 months ago #
postierich - Member

Mailbox with no sign to say your in that in my book is a FAIL! either remove your mailbox so he has to come up the steps or grow some balls to confront the postie

Posted 11 months ago #
project - Member

We keep getting wrong mail for an adress half a mile oop the road, and they get ours, on complaing to RM customer service, their responce was the postman possibly cant read.Have a book of stamps, so far have had 4 books of stamps.
Alo caught another postie shoving a card through the door, sorry you werent in, wghen asked why as i was in, he said sometimes youre not, so i need to take the parcel back, and re deliver it next day, when you may be in.

08457 740 740 customer services, when theyre awake.

He didnt seem to understand delivering parcels was part of his job.

Posted 11 months ago #
gwj72 - Member

Mailbox with no sign to say your in that in my book is a FAIL! either remove your mailbox so he has to come up the steps or grow some balls to confront the postie

Yeah because I want to advertise to the world whether I'm in or not!

I would collar him but he's away in his van before I get to the top of my drive.

Anyway, have you punched your own balls yet? How was it?

Posted 11 months ago #