When mail is intentionally delayed.....

Post by **POSTMAN** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:37

...............what do you call it.
Down here in my part of the smoke we call it SHABBING.
I shabbed......i'm gonna shab......he shabbed...ect.
You guys?

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:42

Is that bringing mail back to the office to deliver it the next day? If it is then it doesn't happen in my DO therefore we've no nickname for it.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:46

Sort of,like when you cant be bothered to say deliver at the top of some flats,you either put it through the system by putting it in a post box or sneak it in your bag the next morning.

Bit like on the old 2nd delivery when you had naff all to deliver,you would 'shabb those flats as they only had one letter'

Disclaimer:This is a hypothetical thread.

royalwud · Post by **royalwud** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:52

Boiling we call it in nottingham

Post by **POSTMAN** » 01 Apr 2008, 22:56

royalwud wrote:Boiling we call it in nottingham

Got sacked for 'boiling',not a very good ring to it,is it.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 01 Apr 2008, 23:42

We don't have aname for it, we do the job properly.

alangate · Post by **alangate** » 02 Apr 2008, 00:31

Spedley wrote:We don't have aname for it, we do the job properly.

So do we in our office, peeps thats dump mail, give us good postmen a bad name.

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 02 Apr 2008, 07:29

What a saintly bunch

so you are 3/4 round your delivery and you find a missorted bit of mailsort 3 for you 1st road, you would go back and deliver it not shab it?

horrible · Post by **horrible** » 02 Apr 2008, 09:07

Got told to shab is short for Straight Home And Bed.

norbert · Post by **norbert** » 02 Apr 2008, 09:42

alangate wrote:
Spedley wrote:We don't have aname for it, we do the job properly.
So do we in our office, peeps thats dump mail, give us good postmen a bad name.

got fireproof people promotion to management on delivery at one time in a Lancs County town, a typical RM tactic

.Seen this with another union , there was the usual fiddles and dodges that got done , provided that you didn't take the p*** or make it too obvious , a blind eye was turned .Probably a bit too lax .

Then you got the poachers turned gamekeepers , a army of s****hawks , people looking for any little thing to make mountains out of molehills and make a name for themselves so the only way was by the book and give the overzealous b**tards nowt .

The pettiness was a union bashing agenda to create a culture of fear , plenty of reps got neutralized with promotion.

Night Tonic · Post by **Night Tonic** » 02 Apr 2008, 10:32

Seems a dangerous and foolhardy thread. i have to question the rationale for even starting it.

The Postal Avenger · Post by **The Postal Avenger** » 02 Apr 2008, 11:20

POSTMAN wrote:...............what do you call it.
Down here in my part of the smoke we call it SHABBING.
I shabbed......i'm gonna shab......he shabbed...ect.
You guys?

We're slamming, I hope you like slamming too!

(As sung to Bob marley song We're jammin'!)

dawatticus · Post by **dawatticus** » 02 Apr 2008, 12:22

" taking it back because it wasnt my bloody fault, so they can bugger off and sort it out themselves "

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 02 Apr 2008, 14:16

Dogging it - not that kind of dogging

- but cos people who do it (and I don't

) claim a dog was loose.

Of course no one on this website does it Night Tonic, Alangate and Spedley we are just trying to educate ourselves so that we can tell when others do something naughty. As in Forewarned is forearmed. Also POSTMAN did say it was hypothetical.

Just wondering Night Tonic, Alangate and Spedley if your office has a name for it or have you never heard of it happening at all ever.

dohnut · Post by **dohnut** » 02 Apr 2008, 14:16

Is it not called pouching off ?, or is that something different?

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When mail is intentionally delayed.....

When mail is intentionally delayed.....

Boiling

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Dumping

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