[Closed] Eager Postman

and you think it was handled with due care and attention whilst in transit?

This is my current worry. I may get that full face helmet after all!

Carbon bars are strong.

Lucky he didn't damage your letterbox.

We'll see how strong, maybe surviving the Mail could be a new test rating for carbon parts?

I think it was the expression on his face as he tried to cram it in that bothered me. I immediately cringed for Mrs Postie, he plays rough.

While its in Transit its bagged up and the bags are thrown around.Just pack it right no problems.

You try and load 40mail bags in less than 5mins when the train starts pulling out of the station!!!Those were the days we are much more gentle now :lol:Well i am anyway.
We do have are fair share of muppets on the post nowadays.

I'll have been a postie for 21yrs in July and internet shopping has put packets and parcels we deliver through the roof. Thats fine but i wish people would get letter boxes big enough to get their packets through or get them delivered to their work.. we don't like to carry it all the way out there and then back again especially when you have 550 calls a day like me or more as some of my collegues do.

Postman left me a red ticket the other day saying 'left parcel in bin' 🙄

We, on the other hand, got a door with a big-ass letterbox.

Your bars will be fine. One of my mates is a serial part destroyer and the only 3 parts on his bike that havnt been broken, fixed or replaced in the past 4 years are the Easton carbon bars and the Thompson stem and post. Everything else including the frame has fallen apart due to rough treatment and neglect.

Postman left me a red ticket the other day saying 'left parcel in bin'

Me too, good job it wasn't bin day

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Postman left me a red ticket the other day saying 'left parcel in bin'

i've got customers who ask me to do that (usually green bin) and other hiding places, they'd rather that than coming down to collect and stand in a queue on a cold sat. morning. But if you're happy to do that.....

We, on the other hand, got a door with a big-ass letterbox.

good on yer mate! 😀 if you could just educate your friends

I actually had a postie fold (yes thats FOLD) a 12" vinyl to get it through my letterbox. I would not mind but I was sat in the front room at the time, he never knocked and then did that. Suffice to say after explaining to him that maybe the cracking, snapping sounds and general non foldability of vinyl records should have given the game away, he then proceeded to tell me it was either that or he would of just left it on my doorstep!!! Nothing came of it ether after chasing it with royal mail for ages. Muppets.

Thats terrible mate! sorry to hear that. Sadly its gone so downhill in recent years since the "bonus culture" has taken over common sense management. We now have part timers ill trained who sometimes only last a short while and don't really care as long as they can just rush round and get finished. Of course there's always bad posties too in any office.

OK posties, a couple of questions, why do you have to wait 48 hours before you can collect a parcel you have had a red card for?
Why does our postie never come until after 1pm?
This isn't a dig, I'm just curious how things work these days.I suspect it is a result of our leaders obsession with making fewer people work far harder for less money.

The reason posties dont come till late they start later now 6.30am instead of 5.am.They have started 2 men in one van to do 2 jobs with all the over size packets as well which takes more time and use to be done separate by someone else.Alot more items are signed for which takes longer with a PDA than it did with a card.
The reason why you have to wait 24hrs where i work is that more posties are slip lefting stuff[red card]because you are not aloud to leave it anywhere not even with a neighbour crazy i know.The green boxes were brill.So alot more packets are coming back into the office and the indoor staff cant cope.Plus the rounds are bigger.Hope thats helps abit and has not sent you to sleep.

Yep, same in our office. I used to do my job on a bike in around 3hrs. I'm now van sharing 2 jobs which now takes us approx 4 1/2rs with all the extras dobiejessmo has said. We start at 6.40 and by the time we've sorted the mail and then got our rounds ready we don't get out the office till around 10am. finish time is varied from 2pm till 2.50pm as set by management. Big difference to when i started 20yrs ago! we were out on 2nd delivery at 10am then, remember them?

We have the best postie in the world. He knows I hate trailing round picking up stuff that needs signing for etc so he signs for it and shoves it through our cat flap. Anything that won't go through the catflap he hides in random dry hiding places round our back garden and leaves a note.

The reason why you have to wait 24hrs where i work is that more posties are slip lefting stuff[red card]because you are not aloud to leave it anywhere not even with a neighbour crazy i know.

Well round here they clearly break the rules - lots of stuff left with neighbours, or if nobody's in he'll just leave it under the mat. Not every area you could do that in, but it works for here - I had to smirk the other day when I took in a parcel for a neighbour, and postie told me not to worry about signing as he'd do that (can't remember the last time I had to sign for a recorded delivery!)

Got to say our Posties are excellent also. Happy to leave stuff in the porch or with a neighbour. They work bloody hard & deserve a lot of respect, likewise the guys at the depot whenever I have to collect.

I must clearly be a rule breaker then!If I know the customer I'll sign for it myself and hide it if it wont go through the box,it makes sense and it suits both parties. If punters would rather troop down to the office to collect the item then I;m sure that can be arranged

It's handy having a decent postie.

Ours puts oversize things through the front window then pushes it shut again. Saves us loads of time running back and forth to the sorting office to collect stuff.
You can tell when the regular postie is off as we seem to be down the sorting office every other day collecting parcels!

our postie is great, big things are put in the wendy house often with a note through our door and another through the wendy house letter slot if its for the girls!

yetidave - is your postman Mr Zebra?

Hi Robbieh those were the days walking the dog over the fields at 10.40am with the second delivery done.

The reason why in our office it kick off someone nearly lost there job over signing something for someone and they tryed to claim they never had it and tryed to claim for it. That was in a rural area which he had done for years for them.So he rang them up saying he was going to lose his job over this and suddenly the people found the item after 2 months.I wont say what was in the item but it was worth alot.
ODD THAT.SO none of us take that chance now.
Sometimes you can help people out and they s--t on you.

[quote="Northwind"]We, on the other hand, got a door with a big-ass letterbox.

Ditto, it's paid for itself many times over in saved trips to the nearest parcelfarce depot approx 10 light years from our house.

These were the biggest I could find at the time...

http://www.screwfix.com/p/victorian-letter-plate-polished-chrome-306-x-97mm/92286#

http://www.screwfix.com/p/vp3l51nltgdeccsthzocfga/43303?ts=96722

OK posties, a couple of questions, why do you have to wait 48 hours before you can collect a parcel you have had a red card for?

According to my postie mate, the posties round ours go straight home after deliveries (issues with overtime etc. hence don't have to go back to office to 'clock out') and they are not allowed to take parcels home with them.

So they get dropped off at the local Post Office where they are collected along with the other sent post and basically put back into the big sorting office as if they were just new post.

So crazily it gets sorted again, sent to the local depot, resorted etc. so it's just like being resent hence the two day 'delay' and put away for you.

My postie goes back to the office to pick up his car so he seems to just put the parcel away there so I can often get them earlier.

breatheeasy your postie mate must work in the only D.O. in the UK that mixes carded items with new mail, that believe me is total stupidity!

I know what he means i use to do it for postmen and women.When i collected from a PO they would leave there slip-lefts with the ladies behind the counter.I would take them back and put them in the callers locker not mix them with outwould bound mail.Now they have to come back at are office to dump the van off .