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wow busy day

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bigal383
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wow busy day

Post by bigal383 »

one of the busiest days ive seen on mail for a very long time 4 full jammed packed boxes of sequence first thing, then 3 full boxes for the second lot of sequence.

not at all moaning good to see !been with rm 4 years .

any reasons why this happened?
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bigal383 wrote:one of the busiest days ive seen on mail for a very long time 4 full jammed packed boxes of sequence first thing, then 3 full boxes for the second lot of sequence.

not at all moaning good to see !been with rm 4 years .

any reasons why this happened?
end of the financial year and start of new one. With an election coming up soon it won't slacken off for a while.
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Post by buckrogers »

Yesterday I had 6 full trays on the first and 2 1/2 on the second! Bloomin long day.
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Post by wacko74 »

Yeah, got absolutely battered here as well, must have had more mail today than mon and tues combined.

I find it almost impossible to believe that every company who's mail we delivered today insisted that it had to go out on precisely Thurs 13/3 and not a couple of days earlier or later (i.e. this mon-tues or next mon-tues)... why oh why our glorious leaders can't have the intelligence to spread the workload through-out the week is completely beyond me.
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Post by scoobydo79 »

Busy day here too. Council Tax's due any time now as well :roll:
haddie
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Post by haddie »

council tax bills. we had it yesterday 12th but hardly any parcels but got slaughtered with parcels today 13th as they must have been held back
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Post by krussel »

Its been tough the last few weeks. The misses came home from work yesterday and found me sparked out asleep. I sat down for 20 mins and just went out like a light. :shock:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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Post by haddie »

I usually go for 30 min lie down when I get home even if not sleeping it helps
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Re: wow busy day

Post by Rudolph_Hucker »

Very heavy day Wednesday with hundreds of Tesco leaflets and loads of parcels. Today, lighter on parcels, mail average for a Thursday.

Council tax due, guesstimate is for Saturday. :mad
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Re: wow busy day

Post by red666bear »

Rudolph_Hucker wrote:Very heavy day Wednesday with hundreds of Tesco leaflets and loads of parcels. Today, lighter on parcels, mail average for a Thursday.

Council tax due, guesstimate is for Saturday. :mad
Why guess? Go on your council's website and see if they have been issued.
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Rudolph_Hucker wrote:Very heavy day Wednesday with hundreds of Tesco leaflets and loads of parcels. Today, lighter on parcels, mail average for a Thursday.

Council tax due, guesstimate is for Saturday. :mad
Yes, the bvggers came out on a Saturday last year as I remember. We had a stupid junk Tesco blue card for about 2/3 of our calls Wednesday, today was busy as was Monday, and even Tuesday was heavier than expected. This has been a heavy week no doubt....

Election leaflets earn you a premium somebody told me? (I was on rota week last year when they came out.)
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Re: wow busy day

Post by wabbithunta »

Already had our Council Tax mail in our postcode area.. it would appear that they held back the flats to allow us to get it all done and then clobbered us with two days worth of flats plus leftovers of the Council Tax mail today and topped that lot up with SD's, Tracked, SF's and normal packets, been a heavy week so far, am so glad it's nearly over. Got home yesterday around 4pm and sparked out in front of the TV and woke up at 11pm! Got back earlier today and snoozed for a couple of hours..
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Weller1
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Post by Weller1 »

Council tax, been told by DOM/DIM that we've got 3 days to do them!..but don't forget to do your lapsed!!!???...thanks!!!
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Post by wabbithunta »

We have to do our Council Tax mail on the day we get it. The DIM wouldn't let us spread it over 2-3 days either. Why don't RM have consistency over deliveries on items like this? Surely it makes sense to spread these over a 2-3 days and make the loads even each day rather than get buried under a massive amount all in one day.

I know... I'm pissing in to the wind with this one! :arrrghhh
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Post by Lounge Lizard »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
bigal383 wrote:one of the busiest days ive seen on mail for a very long time 4 full jammed packed boxes of sequence first thing, then 3 full boxes for the second lot of sequence.

not at all moaning good to see !been with rm 4 years .

any reasons why this happened?
end of the financial year and start of new one. With an election coming up soon it won't slacken off for a while.
Election coming up soon means poll cards and leaflets we get paid for. :nana :nana