My crewbus driver 17 years ago still had his blue bag. I must ask him if he uses it to this day.
To the best of my knowledge the red ones were introduced around 1995. You can see a mix of blue and red in use in this video from 1997. The old old canvas satchels were still kicking about into the 90s too in certain corners.
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My crewbus driver 17 years ago still had his blue bag. I must ask him if he uses it to this day.
To the best of my knowledge the red ones were introduced around 1995. You can see a mix of blue and red in use in this video from 1997. The old old canvas satchels were still kicking about into the 90s too in certain corners.
Wow so the blue bags are going to be at least 30 years old! That’s incredible
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
Oh what a long week it's been. Bravissimo, please, a working stiff can only endure such visual delights for so long. Go back to taping the catalogues shut
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Most of the electoral register bulk posting that's been trickling in all week hit its DTS limit today. What I thought was odd was that a particular address received a small 1C Moonpig card on the 7th but the bulk letter did not get released until today. Algorithmic shenanigans afoot in the run up to DM26 deployment?
Most of the electoral register bulk posting that's been trickling in all week hit its DTS limit today. What I thought was odd was that a particular address received a small 1C Moonpig card on the 7th but the bulk letter did not get released until today. Algorithmic shenanigans afoot in the run up to DM26 deployment?
Moonpig cards get run on a basic office breakdown plan. Because they've not been through a machine before they reach the Inward MC, when the CSS sees them, it doesn't know that they are 1C as there's no barcode for them, so it treats them as 2C. The DTS algorithm doesn't know they exist as they have to have been seen by a machine running an outward sort plan by 22:00.
Wonderful day today. Fittingly, it's ten years and a day since my last great Tuesday when I dropped my last letter at 1039. Walked back to the unit to ditch my PDA and almost slipped out unnoticed until my manager stepped out of the toilets. He did a double take but ultimately said nothing. Then I got what was left of the hot food in the canteen at a hefty discount at 11AM
That's twenty minutes earlier than I started my duty today and there hasn't been a canteen in eight years, but I'll take what little pleasure I can find in these terrible times.
Wonderful day today. Fittingly, it's ten years and a day since my last great Tuesday when I dropped my last letter at 1039. Walked back to the unit to ditch my PDA and almost slipped out unnoticed until my manager stepped out of the toilets. He did a double take but ultimately said nothing. Then I got what was left of the hot food in the canteen at a hefty discount at 11AM
That's twenty minutes earlier than I started my duty today and there hasn't been a canteen in eight years, but I'll take what little pleasure I can find in these terrible times.
I've heard people talking about those glory days back when posties finished mega early but got paid until some time later in the day.... sounds great for workers back then, but also sounds like tax payer money was being thrown down the drain.
Wonderful day today. Fittingly, it's ten years and a day since my last great Tuesday when I dropped my last letter at 1039. Walked back to the unit to ditch my PDA and almost slipped out unnoticed until my manager stepped out of the toilets. He did a double take but ultimately said nothing. Then I got what was left of the hot food in the canteen at a hefty discount at 11AM
That's twenty minutes earlier than I started my duty today and there hasn't been a canteen in eight years, but I'll take what little pleasure I can find in these terrible times.
I've heard people talking about those glory days back when posties finished mega early but got paid until some time later in the day.... sounds great for workers back then, but also sounds like tax payer money was being thrown down the drain.
How was it thrown down the drain? You did your job and went home. Nothing was getting thrown down the drain.
Wonderful day today. Fittingly, it's ten years and a day since my last great Tuesday when I dropped my last letter at 1039. Walked back to the unit to ditch my PDA and almost slipped out unnoticed until my manager stepped out of the toilets. He did a double take but ultimately said nothing. Then I got what was left of the hot food in the canteen at a hefty discount at 11AM
That's twenty minutes earlier than I started my duty today and there hasn't been a canteen in eight years, but I'll take what little pleasure I can find in these terrible times.
I've heard people talking about those glory days back when posties finished mega early but got paid until some time later in the day.... sounds great for workers back then, but also sounds like tax payer money was being thrown down the drain.
How was it thrown down the drain? You did your job and went home. Nothing was getting thrown down the drain.
How was it thrown down the drain? You did your job and went home. Nothing was getting thrown down the drain.
The whole office cleared back then, which is now what is so weird when I visually recall it in my mind. Frame after frame empty after 10AM. Obviously that day was highly untypical (most days I was getting back just on time), but I would suggest after years of relentless cuts that the real cost of a properly functioning service was accepting the occassional underutilisation of resources. They've gone so far in the other direction stuffing every day with work that the damn basics can't be done.
F*****g awful. Just found out that I'm being displaced in the revision and we're not having a resign. Gonna be a floater. 30 years and treated like a new entrant.
