Postmen in ‘not doing their job properly’ shocker

[coca cola]

brilliant wigan postie !

[the dragon]

Fantastic post from Wigan

[smokerjim]

I said my piece....

As a postman myself, all I'll say to the author and supporters of this poorly researched, hackneyed and cliched rubbish is "Come and have a go, if you think you're hard enough!"

Seriously look for a "postman - delivery" job on RM's site (http://rmg.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_royalmail ... ulnhgfmxdj" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - I found 4 within 25 miles of where I live ), live the life for a few weeks at least, just so you get a good rounded experience of the job, then tell me that postal workers are all lazy, half arsed, idle shirkers.

But wait a minute, I suppose you'll now tell me that you already have a job, and it's vitally important you do it, as you have many arduous duties to complete in your day.....such as talking about last night's football at the water cooler for an hour, surf the net and play games for 3 hours, and stare at your secretary's breasts for as long as it takes you to get bored and slope off home early.....hey, it's not just lazy journalists and correspondants that can write poorly researched hackneyed and cliched rubbish, postmen can do it too!

I won't trouble their site hit counter anymore, but if anyone sees a reaction to my comment, please post it up so we can all have a good laugh!

[Caniel]

My response, which is awaiting moderation (I doubt it'll get published) is as follows:

What a frivolous, pointless article – the only good thing about it is that it is mercilessly short, undoubtedly influenced by the writer’s goldfish-like attention span. As for the contentious claim made in its scant content, as a postman I can tell you that on countless occasions I have hammered on doors at a volume that would wake the dead, to no avail. Usually, I then begin to write out one of those ‘while you were out cards’, and invariably, just as I finish writing it, some bleary eyed, oblivious cretin comes to the door with an annoyed look on his/her face as if I’ve just killed their first born. While delivering parcels, I’ve had brainless morons stare at me through their windows with no acknowledgment of my presence, and some of them just wander off and don’t bother to answer the door. I even had one jobless, 40-something waste of space ask me to hold on for a minute while he finished a game on his Playstation, which I could see him playing through the window.

Here’s some edification to prevent you from posting further clueless ramblings about the supposed laziness of postmen – we each have a 3 hour and 30 minute span to deliver mail to around 650 houses – that works out at about 19 seconds for each house. In an average day I have between 30 to 50 parcels, each taking between 10 seconds to 3 minutes to deliver depending on the relative alertness/ age /closeness to death of the intended recipient. Because Royal Mail managament have cut our delivery span to the bone, all it takes is a run of a few slow-to-respond customers to throw our schedule out of whack, which heaps further pressure on tired, over-worked postal workers.

But what do you care, you’re just an unimaginitive hack whose idea of wit is to jump on the Royal Mail bashing bandwagon.

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[motherhubbard]

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[LJR]

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