Must be a slow news week
POSTBOXES in Docklands have been sealed shut for more than a week - because the red-faced Royal Mail lost a set of keys.
Steel shutters were put across the slots of 10 boxes on the Isle of Dogs after the postal service misplaced the keys used to open them to collect mail.
Bemused residents were given no explanation for the sudden closures. Many claim the postboxes have been closed for a month, but Royal Mail says they have only been shut for just over a week.
The steel gags have been placed on boxes at Cascade Tower, the Quarterdeck, Dock Gate, Westferry Road, Manchester Road, Castalia Square, Narrow Street, Spert Street, Bate Street and Crossharbour.
Cascade Tower resident Richard Sandmand said: "We weren't given any reason for the closure whatsoever.
"No one seemed to know what was going on.
"I'm a regular user, and I've been walking up to the postbox near the Canary Wharf Jubilee line station, which is a fair distance.
"It's a mad situation. Maybe they should get a locksmith in."
A spokesman for Royal Mail said the shutters had been screwed on as a security measure, even though the company did have a spare set of keys on hand.
The Royal Mail spokesman added that the postboxes would have been emptied before they were sealed, and there were several alternative postboxes on the Isle of Dogs available to residents.
The national mail company, which operates 115,000 boxes across the country, pointed Islanders to alternative slots in Chapel House Street, Pier Road, Manchester Road and Westferry Road.
A statement from the company this week said: "Royal Mail apologises to customers for any inconvenience caused.
"The boxes have been sealed for security reasons and we will be replacing the locks on these boxes by the end of this week."
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That's Romec for ya,well it's not their fault,there just aint enough of them guys around to do jobs!!
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.
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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.
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.
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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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They are only yuppie bastards anyways!!! Feck em its only there Letter for There swiss banker...
AND that aint Cockney Rhyming slang either... Should be though...
Bet there wouldnt be a stink like this if it was GROTBAG TOWERS E14??????
Bollox to em!!
RM are shite lets face it and i blame these two as always... :lfo :cfo
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AND that aint Cockney Rhyming slang either... Should be though...
Bet there wouldnt be a stink like this if it was GROTBAG TOWERS E14??????
Bollox to em!!
RM are shite lets face it and i blame these two as always... :lfo :cfo
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I could have been a Yuppie
I nearly bought a studio flat in the Docklands at Surrey Docks,£30,000 for a shoe boxL Tommo wrote:They are only yuppie bastards anyways!!! Feck em its only there Letter for There swiss banker...
AND that aint Cockney Rhyming slang either... Should be though...
Bet there wouldnt be a stink like this if it was GROTBAG TOWERS E14??????
Bollox to em!!
RM are shite lets face it and i blame these two as always... :lfo :cfo
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Feck that i thought,stay with mum 
That was 20 years ago,what would that be worth now Tommo mate 
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Johnny mate... I know a few boys over the Island and they get the ump with most of the Suits.. I go to a few boozers over there and its always the suits starting a row.. Posties In E1 used to never get on with them lot.. But the student nurses out of the London Hospital... Now theres a different turn out!!! 
Good to hear you call the Surrey Docks as there Old REAL name... Not fecking QUAYS... Bollox more like QUAYS!!
I do like a beer or two over Greenwich nown again... And b4 u ask... I never burnt down the Cutty Sark!!
Got a good story about it tho but it might get me banned???
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PS.. Hows the golf going mate???
Im shite lately... Not played enough... Skint...
Good to hear you call the Surrey Docks as there Old REAL name... Not fecking QUAYS... Bollox more like QUAYS!!
I do like a beer or two over Greenwich nown again... And b4 u ask... I never burnt down the Cutty Sark!!
Got a good story about it tho but it might get me banned???
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PS.. Hows the golf going mate???
Im shite lately... Not played enough... Skint...
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Not really played much to be honest mateL Tommo wrote:Johnny mate... I know a few boys over the Island and they get the ump with most of the Suits.. I go to a few boozers over there and its always the suits starting a row.. Posties In E1 used to never get on with them lot.. But the student nurses out of the London Hospital... Now theres a different turn out!!!
Good to hear you call the Surrey Docks as there Old REAL name... Not fecking QUAYS... Bollox more like QUAYS!!
I do like a beer or two over Greenwich nown again... And b4 u ask... I never burnt down the Cutty Sark!!
Got a good story about it tho but it might get me banned???
Out...
PS.. Hows the golf going mate???
Im shite lately... Not played enough... Skint...
Winter puts me right off,but springs almost here and the clubs will be coming out very very soon 