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14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

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L8Hatter
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14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by L8Hatter »

14 packets for one customer today. All clothes off ebay. That's at least 30 for him in the last week.

And 50 minutes waiting for a bag from our permanently befuddled relief driver.

Any tales of woe that can beat these?
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by daveyeff »

L8Hatter wrote:14 packets for one customer today. All clothes off ebay. That's at least 30 for him in the last week.

And 50 minutes waiting for a bag from our permanently befuddled relief driver.

Any tales of woe that can beat these?
no more waiting for bags now,,, park & shyte.
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by olilew »

not quite the same as yours but i had 3 brimmin packet bags, (all for different houses). i was told the walk should take 3hrs30. what i was not told was that i had to do 20 mins lapsin and have a 20 min wait for my 1st bag! took me 4hrs10! 45mins on the docket for me!
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by sidewinder »

I used to do one bloke who must of lived on amazon and play.com. Everyday he would have 10+ individual DVD/cd sized packets which my driver just refused to take( every excuse going from yellow lines to not passing the place). This bloke was never in and he had one of them wall hanging post boxes. 739 without fail everyday.
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by eastie »

had 15 recorded's for one house last week, and she was out .
Was tempted to stick all 15 stickers on one 739 but put the top one on only and put x15
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by maninred »

There are a couple of things 3 or 4 years ago when I was on delivery. One house was getting about 40-50 HMV boxes EVERY day (the driver had to take them). It was getting to the stage where I was going to ask for a fitting in the drop bag frame for him!

On another occasion there was a recorded A4 letter for 60 consecutive houses in a street. This street used to take me about 40 minutes normally, it took me an hour and a half that day. Surprisingly I only had to P739 10 of them.
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Re: 14 packets and 50 minutes, A couple of personal records

Post by POSTMAN »

Play dot fecking com,they had a £3 sale or summin couple of years back,this dude must of had in all about 4 full to the top packet backs over a week,done my head in.
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