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Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

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gj1023
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Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by gj1023 »

Well I got my letter today, ending 8 months of fun and games with Atos. I will be officially unemployed on the 29th May, my last day of service being the 28th May.
I am being ill health retired with immediate pension. after over 35 years service. So after starting as a Telegram boy for the GPO at the age of 16 , thats it then. Thank you Royal Mail and goodbye, I wont miss what you have become.
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by dblad »

Enjoy your retirement
stokes11eg
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by stokes11eg »

:Very Happy Very good Luck! No matter how bad this company is now--once a postie always a postie EH?
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by weirdo »

All the best. Good luck
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by Stormproof »

All the best in whatever you've got planned. You will probably one of the last to get ill health retirement, the rest of us will no doubt get sacked for health reasons.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by andy2007 »

They can't do that, it'd be unfair dismissal. :hmmmm Although, I wouldn't put it past RM to find some other excuse to get rid of people with a bad sick record. :nervous
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plainpat
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by plainpat »

stokes11eg wrote::Very Happy Very good Luck! No matter how bad this company is now--once a postie always a postie EH?
Ah, that explains why I trawl through this site every day, 21 months after leaving RM :chuckle


Good Luck, and Happy times ahead gj :wave
stokes11eg
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by stokes11eg »

:Very Happy Yip--I've seen so many people come and go over the years, but even though some only stay for a brief time. it's one job they do not forget!
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by TeeferTiger »

Enjoy your retirement (as much as you can anyway!) and best wishes for the future x

I got asked today how long I'd been a postie by a taxi driver (who was asking me where the house he was parked next to was...) and he said he'd been a postie for 27 years. I congratulated him for escaping!
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gj1023
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by gj1023 »

Thank you for all your good wishes, being a postman is all i`ve known. So yes in my blood, my dad did 50 years. Lol Andy this is a good result , i`ve got the the best I can out of the circumstances mate.

Time for me to get a motorhome and drive off into the sunset while Dvla still let me drive (they`ve. taken my C1 away already, lol)
madelin4
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by madelin4 »

stokes11eg wrote::Very Happy Very good Luck! No matter how bad this company is now--once a postie always a postie EH?

True:-) thats what i always say, the fast walk still with me :Very Happy Hate slow walkers in the shops!!!
madelin4
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by madelin4 »

Have a happy retirement pal :Applause
madelin4
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by madelin4 »

stokes11eg wrote::Very Happy Yip--I've seen so many people come and go over the years, but even though some only stay for a brief time. it's one job they do not forget!
I cant forget it, i dream about it still :sad: serious i do. Have dreams that im back and trying to get a good working deal :crazy:
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by DGP1 »

madelin4 wrote:
stokes11eg wrote::Very Happy Yip--I've seen so many people come and go over the years, but even though some only stay for a brief time. it's one job they do not forget!
I cant forget it, i dream about it still :sad: serious i do. Have dreams that im back and trying to get a good working deal :crazy:
Do you not mean 'nightmare' with the weeble chasing you around the office :wink: :nervous
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Re: Good bye RM and thank you, it use to be fun

Post by Judgee »

Stormproof wrote:All the best in whatever you've got planned. You will probably one of the last to get ill health retirement, the rest of us will no doubt get sacked for health reasons.

No most of us will probably die of exhaustion way before that :sad:

Gratz on getting out alive, retirement for you will surely be fantastic as anything after RM has to be good :Applause
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