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Advice needed.
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mclovin
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- Gender: Male
Advice needed.
An old lady on my delivery accused me a few months ago of tampering with her mail.
First of all I was told this by the warden of the resi home, also telling me this woman was mentally unstable. My reply was that if she has a complaint she must ring cust services, meanwhile I informed manager of the accusation. Warden also phoned manager and explained the situation with this ladies mental health.
So she does this and a special instruction is put among my gear saying I have to take all her mail to the manager before bundling up, fine.
She gets absolutely tons of stuff, 15-20 letters per day from those scammers from all around the world.
So the manager checks it for about a month, then tells me to leave the special instruction but not to do it any more, only cover should do it from now on he says.
Now this morning, the warden informs me, the lady is going ape, same accusations, but she cant calm her down. Now she tells me if the lady questions me, come find me she says, or pull the emergency cord, but dont get into an argument with her, she could do anything. Also that she is going to get onto Social Services again about her as she is crazy.
Bit worried about delivering her mail now, if the warden is seriously worried about what she may do, there must be cause for concern.
First of all I was told this by the warden of the resi home, also telling me this woman was mentally unstable. My reply was that if she has a complaint she must ring cust services, meanwhile I informed manager of the accusation. Warden also phoned manager and explained the situation with this ladies mental health.
So she does this and a special instruction is put among my gear saying I have to take all her mail to the manager before bundling up, fine.
She gets absolutely tons of stuff, 15-20 letters per day from those scammers from all around the world.
So the manager checks it for about a month, then tells me to leave the special instruction but not to do it any more, only cover should do it from now on he says.
Now this morning, the warden informs me, the lady is going ape, same accusations, but she cant calm her down. Now she tells me if the lady questions me, come find me she says, or pull the emergency cord, but dont get into an argument with her, she could do anything. Also that she is going to get onto Social Services again about her as she is crazy.
Bit worried about delivering her mail now, if the warden is seriously worried about what she may do, there must be cause for concern.
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stokes11eg
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Advice needed.
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IcanthelpthewayIam
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Re: Advice needed.
this could be why theres a problem, the reason she gets soo many is cause she has sent money off to one of them in the past, she is probably doing it on a regular basis and thinks your nicking the winning cheques! a quiet word with the warden explaining she is on a mugs list might helpmclovin wrote: She gets absolutely tons of stuff, 15-20 letters per day from those scammers from all around the world.
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mclovin
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Re: Advice needed.
The warden knows this, as does the manager. I know she replies to them because she sends them back in the envelope they came in, meaning I get them again in my coded tray. These I put in the missorts.
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smelly_cat_lady
- Posts: 341
- Joined: 22 Nov 2009, 15:08
- Gender: Female
- Location: On the delivery office floor looking up shorts
Re: Advice needed.
Bundle her mail up separately and get the manager to check it everyday without fail (and tell your cover to do it too) then next time it goes wrong give the warden your manger's name and number and let him sort it out. You're paid to deliver mail not manage customers? Top marks for trying to help but I think you need to get your manager to be a bit more 'hands on'. Mind you don't get the blame for anything going wrong here
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mclovin
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Re: Advice needed.
Maybe I should refuse to deliver her mail on the grounds she might stick a screwdriver in me neck.
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smelly_cat_lady
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- Location: On the delivery office floor looking up shorts
Re: Advice needed.
Make sure you're wearing RM footwear when she does 
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wiganpostie
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Re: Advice needed.
You could try rolling a Saga magazine into a cylinder and suffocating the mad old bat with it, as attempted by the android 'Ash' in the 1979 sci-fi horror movie "Alien", which starred Sigourney Weaver.
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Lounge Lizard
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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- Joined: 06 Aug 2007, 21:54
Re: Advice needed.
She needs a one way ticket to Zurich
Dignitas could sort her out.

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creedscat
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Re: Advice needed.
Just bang her out.
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fishtank
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Re: Advice needed.
Well all i can say is don't any of you dare get old and suffer from mental illness
and if you do.....expect roughly the same treatment. 
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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smelly_cat_lady
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- Location: On the delivery office floor looking up shorts
Re: Advice needed.
Surely if you get old and suffer from mental illness.......you get a job as a RM manager............don't you? 
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Advice needed.
Precisely. When I get older and suffer worse from mental illness I will need a one way ticket to Zurich Dignitas woll sort me out.fishtank wrote:Well all i can say is don't any of you dare get old and suffer from mental illnessand if you do.....expect roughly the same treatment.
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dvbuk55
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Re: Advice needed.
Yeah go on laugh and scoff at .......................forgot what I was going to.............what day is it?Lounge Lizard wrote:Precisely. When I get older and suffer worse from mental illness I will need a one way ticket to Zurich Dignitas woll sort me out.fishtank wrote:Well all i can say is don't any of you dare get old and suffer from mental illnessand if you do.....expect roughly the same treatment.
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Lounge Lizard
- EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Advice needed.
No, not lauighingdvbuk55 wrote:Yeah go on laugh and scoff at .......................forgot what I was going to.............what day is it?Lounge Lizard wrote:Precisely. When I get older and suffer worse from mental illness I will need a one way ticket to Zurich Dignitas woll sort me out.fishtank wrote:Well all i can say is don't any of you dare get old and suffer from mental illnessand if you do.....expect roughly the same treatment.
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