All I wanted was a parcel. I got an earful

[Lounge Lizard]

The delivery was probably from a TNT or DHL van but he changed it to Parcelforce to make it more newsworthy while privatisation and strikes are the issues of the day.

[dvbuk55]

Well - joking aside, I would be bloody irate myself if someone pulled up outside my house with ANY sort of music blaring out of the vehicle, obscene or not, man, woman or in betweeny - I would ask them politely to turn it off - or as polite as the day permitted - and I'm not known as a pleasant person In fact I can't think of any retail or public utility customer relations who hasn't slammed the phone down on me at one time or another.

Would this still be the case if it was D.G.P playing the dancing Queen?

Do you mean "playing" the dancing queen or playing the "Dancing Queen" - there is a difference you know

[stokes11eg]

you being the expert, will need to decide this.

[stokes11eg]

you being the expert, will need to decide this.

[dvbuk55]

you being the expert, will need to decide this.

Yep - that's the one right enough - although it looks more like rocky horror - I'm not certain but there is a hint of fishnet there

[stokes11eg]

O'K. you win. i'll o back to being serious now.

[Post Off]

Obviously, this Giles Coren has no regard for anyone but himself -- he's simply looking to bolster his column.

...All we ever wanted was the truth, but we got was an arseh*le with a big mouthful.

[norbert]

Obviously, this Giles Coren has no regard for anyone but himself -- he's simply looking to bolster his column.

...All we ever wanted was the truth, but we got was an arseh*le with a big mouthful.

just melodramatic self obsessed waffle , but he's giving his Political Editor what he wants to hear , you have to look at that paper's stance on privatization / RM IR or even on Mandy / New Labour .

The Drip Effect - it's been done a thousand times before , any little thing i.e. Postman jumps out of the park bushes in his mac and frightens somebody's maiden Aunty Joan to death ( Could be Disgruntled ) , he's in front of the beak , normally it would be a small column in a poxy local rag but the nationals put it in as a novelty item .

[Tman]

You lot do like to over- dramatise any little event or story, don't you?

As if RM staff haven't got enough "real-world" issues to be going on with.

[stokes11eg]

Obviously, this Giles Coren has no regard for anyone but himself -- he's simply looking to bolster his column.

...All we ever wanted was the truth, but we got was an arseh*le with a big mouthful.

just melodramatic self obsessed waffle , but he's giving his Political Editor what he wants to hear , you have to look at that paper's stance on privatization / RM IR or even on Mandy / New Labour .

The Drip Effect - it's been done a thousand times before , any little thing i.e. Postman jumps out of the park bushes in his mac and frightens somebody's maiden Aunty Joan to death ( Could be Disgruntled ) , he's in front of the beak , normally it would be a small column in a poxy local rag but the nationals put it in as a novelty item .

Poor disgruntled, his reputatin proceeds him.

[stokes11eg]

Should read REPUTATION.

[norbert]

Should read REPUTATION.

the unusual way of spreading christmas cheer upset a few people

[Post Off]

You lot do like to over- dramatise any little event or story, don't you?

As if RM staff haven't got enough "real-world" issues to be going on with.

We're just defending our stance. Should we just stand aside and let observations like yours' belittle who we are because of what we do?

norbert's observations are quite right of course, but from the majority of commenting on the article itself there is now such a sophistication of like-wise minds that one wonders if a column like Giles's can carry on perpetuating these same old burned out and tarnished views.

[dvbuk55]

Should read REPUTATION.

No - of course it shouldn't - he no longer has a reputation It hangs in tatters....................

[Tman]

We're just defending our stance. Should we just stand aside and let observations like yours' belittle who we are because of what we do?

Who's "belittling who we are because of what we do", then? Don't see that in my post, but then are you another one who sees slights in every situation?
I'm just saying there's bigger issues to worry about than some hack columnist writing about some chav delivery driver.