What type of customers annoy you most

[majeed]

...and there's one house with a letter box so small you can't get a magazine or lightly-packed CD through, but they say they can't change it as the building's listed.

I call them, "Gnat's a**ses" - or GA's, for short:

...hello? We're living in the 21st century - it's not Victorian England anymore: people send flats and all sorts of other large items in the post!

And while we're at it, on one walk, they had the GA right at the bottom of the door AND it had a large letter box flap placed over it, to give the impression that it was a larger letterbox aperture than it actually was. WHAT IT THE POINT IN PUTTING A LARGE LETTER BOX FLAP OVER A TINY HOLE? I always had to screw the mail up to get it through the hole. I always had to bend down, and at that point on the walk, my bag was always heaviest!

[DGP1]

...and there's one house with a letter box so small you can't get a magazine or lightly-packed CD through, but they say they can't change it as the building's listed.

I call them, "Gnat's a**ses" - or GA's, for short:

...hello? We're living in the 21st century - it's not Victorian England anymore: people send flats and all sorts of other large items in the post!

And while we're at it, on one walk, they had the GA right at the bottom of the door AND it had a large letter box flap placed over it, to give the impression that it was a larger letterbox aperture than it actually was. WHAT IT THE POINT IN PUTTING A LARGE LETTER BOX FLAP OVER A TINY HOLE? I always had to screw the mail up to get it through the hole. I always had to bend down, and at that point on the walk, my bag was always heaviest!

What exactly are you talking about

[majeed]

The ones that let thier dogs sit behind the letter box and go for the mail and your hand,the best thing i was taught by a 30 year postman was how to let the dog get hold of the mail and let it fight it and just as its getting to grips with it you let go and see the dog fly ive managed to get the dog at one house demolish the whole stand of ornaments and having the pleasure of saying to her face that i'll learn you.

THAT is a good one!

[majeed]

Or what about the people that put plants etc. in front of their low level letterboxes or those that put things behind their letterboxes that you have no option but to knock them down and break them.

What is the point of those stupid flaps fixed behind the letterbox that catch any mail you try to push through? It's like they are saying, "We have a letterbox - BUT WE DON'T WANT ANY MAIL!".

[majeed]

The sad sacks who get shite every single day, no let up, every single day, you'll go up their path, up to their door, every day, every single day, with an
armfull of shite, catalogues, brochures, more feckin catalogues, that shite with "IMPORTANT" stamped across it, telling the stupid buggers they've won a
zillion quid...But. And the tits who get packets every day, every single feckin day without fail, they've got packets, for the love of God, have a feckin day
off you twisted bleeders.

I have several of the above on my round.

I think there`s a couple on every walk.

Usually middle aged men in scruffy clothes who look like they should get out more...

... what about the old lady pensioners who are house-bound?

we're really building up a profile of Reader's Digest subscribers, here, aren't we?

[majeed]

I get pissed off when I deliver a packet and the person says " What is it?"

I say "Its a packet"

and they say "I know but I dont remember ordering anything"

So I say "Funny, I don t remember you ordering anything either?"

Doesn't normally get a laugh then either.

That is funny!

[majeed]

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????!!!"....... how annoying is that? I swear they do it on purpose... .....of course you could just ignore them and pretend you didn't hear them....

Yes: you can bet that one way to get them to come to the door it to start (or complete!) writing-out a red card: always works! You spend half-an-hour, knocking on the door, writing one out (attaching the little recorded sticker, if necessary), signing-off the item and then... just as you walk away... they come to the door!

I've started pacifying myself by saying to them, "Oh great! You're in! I'm glad you you're in, because it means that you won't have to go to the delivery office to collect it!"

[majeed]

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.

Yeah - it's like those little kids that ride around the street on a bike and say to you, "No one lives there", as you attempt a delivery: I either blank them or say, "I deliver to addresses - not people". Obviously, there is more in the house than in the child's head.

[majeed]

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

This one had my crying!

[kwf166]

Lots of things

1) The most annoying is postie, why is the post so late, god if I got a pound for each time someone ask me that I be rich by now, customers, you need to realise that the days of getting post early are sadly over, life has change, blame all these leaflets, junk mail, thousands of packets, light bulbs, council stuff, postie don't even get out till after 10/11am so forget about getting your post around 8am

2) Annoying long paths, to get to next house, cars blocking your way to the door, letters boxes right at the bottom of the door.

3) People calling you from the other side of the road, asking for directions, I am busy, sorry I haven't got time to stop and chat.

4)Customers who don't say thank you when handing over a parcel, people in the streets, who just give you a odd look, for no reason, probably can't understand why you are still delivering post around 3pm

5) Customers, who think they are the only ones expecting post, forget the other 600 than, who are also waiting for there post, you just jump the queue and delay the postman ever more.

6) Cusomers who ask are you new? no I am not just new to your area.

[majeed]

...and there's one house with a letter box so small you can't get a magazine or lightly-packed CD through, but they say they can't change it as the building's listed.

I call them, "Gnat's a**ses" - or GA's, for short:

...hello? We're living in the 21st century - it's not Victorian England anymore: people send flats and all sorts of other large items in the post!

And while we're at it, on one walk, they had the GA right at the bottom of the door AND it had a large letter box flap placed over it, to give the impression that it was a larger letterbox aperture than it actually was. WHAT IT THE POINT IN PUTTING A LARGE LETTER BOX FLAP OVER A TINY HOLE? I always had to screw the mail up to get it through the hole. I always had to bend down, and at that point on the walk, my bag was always heaviest!

What exactly are you talking about

...what did you think I was talking about?

[Stormproof]

Handed mail over to a customer the other day, he said 'I don't want them if they are bill's', I said 'Bill has already had his mail', he gave me a blank look, that one obviously went straight over his head

[k979aaa]

Handed mail over to a customer the other day, he said 'I don't want them if they are bill's', I said 'Bill has already had his mail', he gave me a blank look, that one obviously went straight over his head

He would have looked even more blank if you said "bill has already had his mail and the pie truck was behind me"

[majeed]

Handed mail over to a customer the other day, he said 'I don't want them if they are bill's', I said 'Bill has already had his mail', he gave me a blank look, that one obviously went straight over his head

He would have looked even more blank if you said "bill has already had his mail and the pie truck was behind me"

Eh? Even I don't get that one....(?)

[k979aaa]

Handed mail over to a customer the other day, he said 'I don't want them if they are bill's', I said 'Bill has already had his mail', he gave me a blank look, that one obviously went straight over his head

He would have looked even more blank if you said "bill has already had his mail and the pie truck was behind me"

Eh? Even I don't get that one....(?)

BIILy HAYES!.