"It's better than walking the streets": Keeping spirits up

[Pat Ostman]

Not sure if its been posted before, could not find it anywhere.

“It’s better than walking the streets”:
Keeping spirits up in a Royal Mail Delivery Office

Slogging your guts out
I am a delivery postman in a Somerset village, Woolavington, on the Polden Hills. There are three of us and we work from a wooden shed at the back of a Co-op Post Office and Store. Our main office, 120 strong, is Bridgwater, five miles away, where I perform overtime once a week.

Working for Royal Mail can still be an enjoyable and worthwhile job. Last year in a single daily delivery duty, Woolavington 1, the council estate, 559 ‘calls’, I gingerly moved to safety two frogs f***ing on a doorstep, heard three skylarks singing over different streets, and heard a ‘weep weep!’ cry over my head and looked two hundred feet up to see a raven chasing off a buzzard……..and people, overwhelmingly working-class Somerset, are friendly and fine, except when the clichés come popping out:

‘You’re late today postman!’
‘You can take it back if it’s a bill!’
‘All junk mail I expect, you know where that’s going!’
‘Where’s my lottery cheque?’

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[Stormproof]

I got on the bus to come home today and the bloody bus driver said he did'nt want any bills, i just and said I don't hear that very often.........only about 20 times a day

[number one]

If it's bills you can take it back to which I reply who is Bill?? Fun watching their puzzled look on their faces!

[morleyposty]

sick and tired of hearing on the words 'if it's a bill i dont want it'

[Viewfindergeneral]

I'd recommend reading the full post from the link. It makes sense to me anyway.

[Pat Ostman]

I'd recommend reading the full post from the link. It makes sense to me anyway.

Yep, please read from the link
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[TrueBlueTerrier]

I'd recommend reading the full post from the link. It makes sense to me anyway.

Yep, please read from the link
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its a cracking piece

[Pegman]

Someone should print that out and send it (in triplicate) to Dave Ward and the Royal Mail Hierarchy. Fantastic piece

[krussel]

All makes sense to me

Its funny but how we are all spread around the country but all share the same worries as to where the job is going and what we have already lost.

[Dee Plish]

"If it's a bill you can keep it - hahahahahahhahahaha"

Amazing how so many people think they have told the most unique and funny joke ever when they say that.

They look flattened, and upset in a childlike way when you reply, "everybody says that to me".

[stokes11eg]

"If it's a bill you can keep it - hahahahahahhahahaha"

Amazing how so many people think they have told the most unique and funny joke ever when they say that.

They look flattened, and upset in a childlike way when you reply, "everybody says that to me".

I always reply with' I call it an accout;sounds more up marke!