Doing the rounds on FB
f***ing hilariously dumb idea.
Royal Mail are encouraging you to post any unwanted elastic bands in their post boxes! They will be reused by the team, and the broken ones will be recycled!
Even if an elastic band is ‘biodegradable’ they can still take many years to degrade. That's why we love this simple idea of Reusing & Recycling, to stop bands ending up on our floors and making their way into the ocean.
#plasticpollution #reuserecycle #recyclingbusiness #savetheocean #zerowaste #royalmail
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Is this a wind up?
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Woody Guthrie
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Is this a wind up?
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Only dead fish follow the current
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ssdd
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Re: Is this a wind up?
Come on now Woody, we need to band together on this issue. This is where the rubber meets the road...or metal in this case. 
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SpacePhoenix
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Re: Is this a wind up?
That'll probably result in a lot more jams for IMPs and CFCs, on a busy day that could have the knock-on effect of more mail going as manual. They won't get recycled in the MC, any bands found in the CFCs and IMPs will just go straight in the bin
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stripeypaw
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Re: Is this a wind up?
Hands up who has time to root around in a pillar box for used bands.
Advertising a pillar box as a bin I think is another own goal !!
Advertising a pillar box as a bin I think is another own goal !!
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: Is this a wind up?
Unfortunately it's not a wind-up, there have been a few News articles about it.
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yellowbelly
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Re: Is this a wind up?
Some of the ones round our area are already used as bins, needle and dog poo receptacles....stripeypaw wrote: ↑11 Aug 2021, 20:53Hands up who has time to root around in a pillar box for used bands.
Advertising a pillar box as a bin I think is another own goal !!
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POSTMAN
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Re: Is this a wind up?
It was posted by RM Twitter peeps a while back and has since gone viral, it was after a query and the answer was, post them in a post box and the posties will reuse them.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Dorset Plodder
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Re: Is this a wind up?
We just need to partner up the people that get stressed with finding elastic bands on the street ..... with the people who keep asking "Have you got any spare elastic bands"! 
Like all Wage Slaves, he had two crosses to bear: The people he worked for and the people he worked with! (Stephen Vizinczey.)
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Murdoch
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Re: Is this a wind up?
I mean if you're going to do this, use a separate box, not the bloody collection boxes.
It's bad enough when they're being filled incorrectly of Covid-19 test kits.
It's bad enough when they're being filled incorrectly of Covid-19 test kits.
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masterblaster
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Re: Is this a wind up?
sorting through old dog s*** and old buritos for elastic bands!
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POSTMAN
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Re: Is this a wind up?
Seems it's been deleted.
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I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Tman
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Re: Is this a wind up?
People posting bands back into the boxes has been going on for many years judging by the amount of them that end up in the CFC Ist Settledown/coin trap area under tray.
There was an idea to clean and recycle them (from there) back in the days when TPM was seen as worthwhile but that came to nothing, and no-one was going to manually root through the dust, lolly sticks, hypo needles, sweet wrappers and other assorted shite to save 10p's worth of bands.
There was an idea to clean and recycle them (from there) back in the days when TPM was seen as worthwhile but that came to nothing, and no-one was going to manually root through the dust, lolly sticks, hypo needles, sweet wrappers and other assorted shite to save 10p's worth of bands.