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i love mail sort
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Post by i love mail sort »

theres a Woman on my round i cover once a week, she gets about 50 con letters (mostly lottery wins LOL) i have to knock on here door every time as it takes ages to post through her letter box. Some people are so gullible these days.
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Post by BELIAL »

L Tommo wrote:Still Breath... yep.. Still whineds me up!!


OUT :crazy:
DGP1
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Post by DGP1 »

i love mail sort wrote:theres a Woman on my round i cover once a week, she gets about 50 con letters (mostly lottery wins LOL) i have to knock on here door every time as it takes ages to post through her letter box. Some people are so gullible these days.
Those would be the ones that are decreasing in volume.
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ten_mile
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Post by ten_mile »

Hike up 8 flights of stairs, knock/ring bell on door, no answer, wait, knock again, no answer, write out a shut notice, endorse the packet, walk down 8 flights of stairs and just as your about to open the entrance door and make your escape you hear a voice from the top of the stairs..."Postie! Postie! Hello? Hello? Are you there? Did you knock at the door? Do you have a packet for me??!??! Helllllloooooooooo????!!!"....... :wave

how annoying is that? :arrrghhh

I swear they do it on purpose... :shock:

.....of course you could just ignore them and pretend you didn't hear them.... :whistle


:chuckle
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pinstripe
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Post by pinstripe »

People who get at least 5-6 special deliveries a week from eBay and are always at work. These packets are never big enough for the driver to take, except on a Saturday when they are being re-delivered and even then they've gone out for the day. What, did they forget they phoned on Friday to have them all redelivered on the Saturday!

The other one that annoys me are the people who are waiting for parcels and seem to blame me when the sender hasn't even posted the thing yet. Moan, moan, moan, where's my parcel, every day. Then when it arrives they're either not in, or they don't apologise when you point out that it was only posted the day before.
DGP1
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Post by DGP1 »

ten_mile wrote:Hike up 8 flights of stairs, knock/ring bell on door, no answer, wait, knock again, no answer, write out a shut notice, endorse the packet, walk down 8 flights of stairs and just as your about to open the entrance door and make your escape you hear a voice from the top of the stairs..."Postie! Postie! Hello? Hello? Are you there? Did you knock at the door? Do you have a packet for me??!??! Helllllloooooooooo????!!!"....... :wave

how annoying is that? :arrrghhh

I swear they do it on purpose... :shock:

.....of course you could just ignore them and pretend you didn't hear them.... :whistle


:chuckle
That's what Ipods are for :whistle
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ten_mile
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Post by ten_mile »

Oh and gates yeah, I can never get my head around that one. The best ones are the folk that go mental about leaving their garden path gate open but leave their driveway/garage gates open permanently themselves? :crazy:
coaster
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Post by coaster »

ten_mile wrote:Oh and gates yeah, I can never get my head around that one. The best ones are the folk that go mental about leaving their garden path gate open but leave their driveway/garage gates open permanently themselves? :crazy:
I hate gates, it's just territorial pissing
Barry Trotter
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Post by Barry Trotter »

I've had a couple of customers who have buggered off on holiday and never bothered saying. On one occasion I went to the neighbour all concerned thinking some old biddy had pegged it because of all the mail behind her glass door only to find out she was sunning herself in majorca. The other one complained because of all the mail when he came home saying his house could have been burgled due to my stupidity in continuing to deliver the mail when it should have been obvious no one was at home.
I am a postman and I kept the faith and I kept voting, not for new labour but for the working man.
coaster
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Post by coaster »

Of course, you were only doing your job in reality. They wanted a free keep safe service then?
If you're going away for a short while, Keepsafe™ helps you avoid that tell-tale pile of unopened mail on your doormat. We can hold your mail for up to two months, and deliver it when you ask us to. All we need from you is a week's notice to set up the service, the names of all the people in the house whose mail you want holding, and a small fee - for example, two weeks use of Keepsafe™ costs just £5.70
And if not you get shedloads of mail on your doorstep doh!
phantompostmaster
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Post by phantompostmaster »

oh man this could go on forever!! iv waited for somewhere to post this sort of gripe for ages!!

1) the man right at the start of my round that shouts "no one called BILL lives here mate wuhhhahahahah" DICKHEAD

2) The women that gets me EVERYDAY & for some reason thinks we are best mates, and asks anything for me?? is it hate mail? right...
A) just f***ing wait for your mail you no i have 3 houses to deliver to before i get to you its not like its gonna take weeks!!
B) how the f**k would i no what mail it is? maybe if you wasnt such a cod head then you wouldnt get hate mail!
C) no your dog dont just wanna play its a crazed savage mutt that wants me dead ill feed it chicken bones next time it tries to "play"

3) the whoe f***ing road that just seems to think its a free for all on mail and tends to be home to people that think i have no order that my mail is in and that if they shout "hey postie got out for me!?" im gonna just say "yeah ya dizzy twat cum here and fill your boots!!"

4) the two crazy dogs that roam the estate like best mates jut to savage me and make my life hell, for f***s sake who lets the dogs out alllllll day!! and wen there savage twats aswell
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Post by DGP1 »

phantompostmaster wrote:oh man this could go on forever!! iv waited for somewhere to post this sort of gripe for ages!!

1) the man right at the start of my round that shouts "no one called BILL lives here mate wuhhhahahahah" DICKHEAD

2) The women that gets me EVERYDAY & for some reason thinks we are best mates, and asks anything for me?? is it hate mail? right...
A) just f***ing wait for your mail you no i have 3 houses to deliver to before i get to you its not like its gonna take weeks!!
B) how the f**k would i no what mail it is? maybe if you wasnt such a cod head then you wouldnt get hate mail!
C) no your dog dont just wanna play its a crazed savage mutt that wants me dead ill feed it chicken bones next time it tries to "play"

3) the whoe f***ing road that just seems to think its a free for all on mail and tends to be home to people that think i have no order that my mail is in and that if they shout "hey postie got out for me!?" im gonna just say "yeah ya dizzy twat cum here and fill your boots!!"

4) the two crazy dogs that roam the estate like best mates jut to savage me and make my life hell, for f***s sake who lets the dogs out alllllll day!! and wen there savage twats aswell
And breathe -aaaaaaaaah!!!
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leiwolf
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Post by leiwolf »

on one duty (I use to live on this street) we got one carabean bloke, I swear he speaks worst then I do, like zed off police acadamy, the only way you can understand a blooming word he says is if you add 10, subtract 50, divide by an 100 times 0 and then ignore what the bloody hell he saying. He rambles on for 30mins and all the sense I got out of him was you open the gate then shut the gate. He calls me postie even tho I was one of his neighbours and he knows my name, and hes that stoned all the time you should see his front garden, its an ecstacy trip, with any other drug you can think of. I take a pic one day and show you.
reedy
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Post by reedy »

Customers who answer the door using their cordless phones and just take a packet or sign , completely ignoring you.
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Post by smokerjim »

leiwolf wrote:on one duty (I use to live on this street) we got one carabean bloke, I swear he speaks worst then I do, like zed off police acadamy, the only way you can understand a blooming word he says is if you add 10, subtract 50, divide by an 100 times 0 and then ignore what the bloody hell he saying. He rambles on for 30mins and all the sense I got out of him was you open the gate then shut the gate. He calls me postie even tho I was one of his neighbours and he knows my name, and hes that stoned all the time you should see his front garden, its an ecstacy trip, with any other drug you can think of. I take a pic one day and show you.
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