eian687 wrote:what really p*sses me off is when they snap when in your pouch and you have to try and get the mail out without it going all over the effing place
Surely when they are in the pouch they are not exposed to sunlight and if they are in a drop box they are in the dark,so why do they break even in these circumstances?They are just useless.
Did you not see the bit that said they are affected by exposure to the air??
anTi wrote:A few weeks ago there was a box with extra long red bands, they were perfect to put long ways round the bundle after 2 regular sized ones round width ways. I asked my manger when we were getting some more as they were great...his responce was "oh they were ordered by mistake". I'm still using the same ones. their looking a bit ropey now tho ...
THA LARGE ONES ARE ALL WE LIKE.BUT THEY ARE RARE(GOLDUST)
AND OTHERS SEEK OUT YOUR STASH AND NICK THEM..regular bands are pointless.
we are fairing better than some of you guys in supply though.we have five boxes of this s**t in our do,and there is only 10 rounds
they will be gone within the month
Ricky Bruch wrote:First off, I bet (like the rest of our useless uniform/kit) the bands come from China, the home of cheap inferior imitations which took over tram Taiwan.
You get what you pay for
They come directly from Sri Lanka, so not far off. And as RM say in the courier ' obviously cost is an issue'
lazyjack wrote:I've started collecting and using all the brown bands that come with the bulk postings and the bundled mail in the morning, last a lot longer and are just the ideal size
I've been adopting this approach for years, although with myself it was the added incentive of not being blamed for littering my walk with the small red bands as favoured by my floater... Only trouble is hiding them from the vultures in my aisle that predate them for banding up multiple packets for the same address!
You do the work, they get the loot. The men with the smiles and the 3 piece suits.
chunk wrote:Rubber bands naturally degrade when exposed to sunlight they become more brittle less elastic.
we all know these red ones are borderline to begin with. so virtually any exposure to sunlight will quickly make them unusable.
No prolonged use is achievable unless you keep them in the dark!
No problem with the red bands north of the border it's never f#ckin sunny
I have brought this up with my line manager on many occasions and get the usual response as stated in the other posts.
Apart from one time when he said and I quote "Bands are expensive, rubber doesnt grow on trees you know" and stormed off.
Never mind the sunlight, in the harsh low temperatures of winter they become utterly useless, they dont snap as such, they just stretch and become stringy.
i used to read evry page,but the last year or so ive noticed a very deep propoganda core running though it.today i just scan it for important info and the letters.now and again a real peach slips the net
Speaking of the Courier, the letters page always reminds of the hay day of Viz , where some yahoo ( obviously a plant from Royal Mail) from a small village, that cannot be found on any O.S map, normally called something like Feltmebum in Dorset ,always writes how the amount of D2D's they receive are not nearly enough and how he's always being told by his customers ( normally from the same village that he's been serving for over twenty years on his bike) that they wish he'd shove more of these imaginative and highly informative leaflets through their doors and that he'd willing take out up to ten sets every week and how he and his family make a game of it when they prep them up at home in the garden every Sunday whilst listening to Slayer on their portable cassette player.
I love the Courier, every single shred of it is true and no tone word is Propaganda. True story..it was in the Courier!
eian687 wrote:what really p*sses me off is when they snap when in your pouch and you have to try and get the mail out without it going all over the effing place
Surely when they are in the pouch they are not exposed to sunlight and if they are in a drop box they are in the dark,so why do they break even in these circumstances?They are just useless.
Maybe we should dress each one individually in sun hats eh?? possibly rub abit of factor 15 over em that should stop the f***ers from snapping. Royal mail=thick as f**k!!
where did i go wrong should i carry them one by one. that made me p1$$ myself, yea there crap funny when one snaps though and twats your mate in the face.
lazyjack wrote:I've started collecting and using all the brown bands that come with the bulk postings and the bundled mail in the morning, last a lot longer and are just the ideal size
The only decent thing we get from RM now is the footwear, Uniform is an absolute joke, cheapest of the cheap, You just need to wash the trousers twice and they start fadeing
cheap indigo dye on the cotton mix part of the trousers - hence the funny colours when the dye fades - I think ? Indigo used to be popular in the 70's on jeans etc , they'd have a slight purple tint to them ??
For example Marks & Sparks put their clothes through up to 100 washes , if they don't launder well ; they bin their supplier . Even on their lightweight Budget range " Blue Harbour " - which isn't much cop , at least black stays as a decent black not dirty grey or charcoal .
I don't bother with RM trousers - it's a WAFT, even if I do have to buy my own. Shirts I like, but the red polos are a WAFT, and I do use issue footwear, cos it's PPE ( but for the first 18 months I used my own, cos I don't like falling on my arse ) - the worst thing RM ever done was getting rid of the Harringtons ( phased out just as I joined.....good job I picked up a load of cast offs from around the DO )......but that would be a whole different thread
I don't suppose your mouth bleeds every 28 days, does it?
Mail delivery; those that can, do, those that can't, MANAGE!
I'm still using the same ones. their looking a bit ropey now tho ...
Only trouble is hiding them from the vultures in my aisle that predate them for banding up multiple packets for the same address!
it's never f#ckin sunny 
