My post wheelie stinks!

[Geezer]

My post wheelie stinks!
By Tom Latchem, 25/10/2009

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/56 ... e-bin.html

Postman dumps veterans parcel in his wheelie bin

FORMER soldier Arnold Williams came home to find a "Sorry, you were out" note telling him: "Your parcel is in the WHEELIE-BIN."

When the 62-year-old fished it out, he found it covered in SLIME and festering vegetation, with the box DECOMPOSING.

Arnold had ordered some specs for his daughter from Glasses Direct. He went away for the weekend and returned to find the binned parcel, which was ruined.

In the week Royal Mail was rocked by strikes, Arnold said: I can't imagine what the postman was thinking. I could have been away for longer.

"Why didn't he just leave it with my neighbours?"

Glasses Direct have replaced the slimed specs and Royal Mail have launched an investigation.

COMMENTS

This article has 2 comments

Happens a lot to me, I'm out a lot, although they tend to leave it in our recycling bin.

I have no issue with it, but maybe they should think about setting times to arrive so we can plan to be in?

Our postman never seems to arrive at the same time everyday, I can push work till a later time but generally have to be out the door by 10 latest. There have been times it hasn't arrived till about 3/4

By Martin. Posted October 25 2009 at 3:42 PM.

He was just trying to do you a favour you miserable old git. You'd have been the first one to complain if he'd taken your parcel back to the office and you then had to drive down there to pick it up, only to find out it's shut, because you didn't read the office opening times on the card. Or he left it with the wrong neighbours who nicked the parcel and denied he gave it to them. This isn't news.

By Will. Posted October 25 2009 at 12:34 PM.

[OnAFlyer]

He was away for a weekend and the box had started to decompose? Who covered it in slime if there was nobody in the house to throw anything on top of the parcel?

Lying old fart.

[*The Lone Postie*]

LoLthat's why i only use the recycle blue wheelies not the black waste one's

[Ahebban]

the postie is to blame for putting the parcel in the wheelie bin ..
the bin man is to blame for not emptying the wheelie bin correctly ..
the council is to blame for insisting that wheelie bins are used ..
the government is to blame for insisting on its green policy that requires wheelie bins ..
the country is to blame for voting in this current government ..

... the 'blame game' can go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

[axeman]

bio-degradeable specs thats novel wonder who though that idea up the old ..twa*

[dell]

shoulda gone to specsavers

[ExSG]

Should have gone to Specsavers reminds me!

I used to collect packets of specs and lenses etc from them in Stevenage a few years ago but they changed their deliveries to EXPRESS DAIRIES

Is this still the case?

[kwf166]

The News of the World is a pile of s**t, I am just waiting for their next stupid bias story against posties,from this garbish piece of s**t paper, anyway what do you expect from these s**t journalism, isn't it time all posties boycot this paper

Infact there is a facebook group called don't buy the news of the world or Sun, we should all go on there, and slag them off, just like they are doing to us

Slag this paper off!, link below.
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=news+ ... 7739206..1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[opgpat]

Find this one hard to believe. Where's the photo of the 'veteran 62 year old'? Looks like they sourced a form-left card and made up the rest.

[kwf166]

Find this one hard to believe. Where's the photo of the 'veteran 62 year old'? Looks like they sourced a form-left card and made up the rest.

It because isn't true, just like the other story they ran a few weeks ago, about mail piling up, and than they removed the story, the unfortunately problem is the dim wits who buy this paper believe anything they say

[Acca Dacca]

And WTF does it matter that hes a ''Veteran''

[Thorby Bislam]

Another example of why we should never leave packets in a bin.

[*The Lone Postie*]

Just use common sense,and don't use em on collection day,in my case Tues my round.Also leave a P739 FFS!!I've had no probs as yet