Published on 14/02/2007
Source : North West evening Mail
I AM a postman and recently the Royal Mail has been getting written complaints from certain councillors.
They claim postmen are discarding elastic bands on Barrow streets. One councillor even went to the trouble of counting the number of elastic bands found on one street. Another one followed a postman doing his walk and confronted him.
Do we pay these people their inflated wages to go around doing things like this?
How about following dogs to note where they leave their visiting cards, or people dropping litter all over the place?
I challenge one of these people to get up at 4am every working day to come and do a real job for a change.
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Pointless criticism (Dropping Elastic Bands)
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Its amazing the things that people notice, have they got nothing else better to do? I myself have had it from customers about elastic bands i can see there point if your dropping them on there door step,also with the finacial state of the business it does make sense to put them in your bag,pocket or trolley and if possible use them again
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I think it all started when Leighton went on Radio 2 about it about 6 months ago.
I do notice them more on my round when I've been off and my regulars point this out to me too. One "old dear" even kept them for me till I got back, mind you she is a bit odd.
I do notice them more on my round when I've been off and my regulars point this out to me too. One "old dear" even kept them for me till I got back, mind you she is a bit odd.
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A few years back there was this letter that was shown to me by one of my guvnors,it was from some tv presenter,can't rem who she was now but she used to be on Blue Peter.
Anyway the boring bitch had written to the RM chairman about her postie dropping lakki bands outside her house,bad for the environment and the birds blah blah boring bitch bloody blah.
The thing is the ACTUAL letter had been faxed to ALL offices showing her proper address phone number shoe and knicker size
The chairman had asked for all posties to be more carefull and to stop dropping 'em ect.
I rem thinking right ya bitch i'll send you tons of 'em throught the post but i forgot
Anyway my kids love 'em,they collect 'em on the way to school.
Anyway the boring bitch had written to the RM chairman about her postie dropping lakki bands outside her house,bad for the environment and the birds blah blah boring bitch bloody blah.
The thing is the ACTUAL letter had been faxed to ALL offices showing her proper address phone number shoe and knicker size
The chairman had asked for all posties to be more carefull and to stop dropping 'em ect.
I rem thinking right ya bitch i'll send you tons of 'em throught the post but i forgot
Anyway my kids love 'em,they collect 'em on the way to school.
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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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Re: Pointless criticism (Dropping Elastic Bands)
Pick em up lads
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Re: Pointless criticism (Dropping Elastic Bands)
I see you've been raising the dead lately with your posts twoloops. Nice work. Is this going to be a new Mumsnet thread?twoloops wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 17:05Pick em up lads https://twitter.com/louisemorjaria/stat ... 24738?s=21
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Re: Pointless criticism (Dropping Elastic Bands)
It's heartwarming to note your concern for the environment.ssdd wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 19:23I see you've been raising the dead lately with your posts twoloops. Nice work. Is this going to be a new Mumsnet thread?twoloops wrote: ↑22 Nov 2021, 17:05Pick em up lads https://twitter.com/louisemorjaria/stat ... 24738?s=21
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Re: Pointless criticism (Dropping Elastic Bands)
Legend. Well done that manLovin Posties wrote: ↑14 Feb 2007, 16:29Published on 14/02/2007
Source : North West evening Mail
I AM a postman and recently the Royal Mail has been getting written complaints from certain councillors.
They claim postmen are discarding elastic bands on Barrow streets. One councillor even went to the trouble of counting the number of elastic bands found on one street. Another one followed a postman doing his walk and confronted him.
Do we pay these people their inflated wages to go around doing things like this?
How about following dogs to note where they leave their visiting cards, or people dropping litter all over the place?
I challenge one of these people to get up at 4am every working day to come and do a real job for a change.
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