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Silly Season has started !!

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taurus88
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by taurus88 »

I'm dreading tomorrow. It's going to be rough. I had seven or eight epic parcels per bag today, so if I get that again plus more catalogues, I might end up having a nervous breakdown.
Straight4ward
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by Straight4ward »

Don't go having a nervous breakdown yet.

Wait until September, when it gets busy.
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mrbungle83
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by mrbungle83 »

Just wait for the National Trust flats to come out
Straight4ward
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by Straight4ward »

Don't panic!
Those f**kers don't come out until January. Of course, by then we'll be doing 6 D2Ds a week.
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
pinstripe
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by pinstripe »

I've said before that this is the busiest 'summer lull' I can remember. What with the summer fall off and the drop in mail volumes, it soon won't be worth going into work. Although in the real world, it won't be worth going home.
mclovin
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by mclovin »

Dont forget you get a week for big books (bb where the stamp should be).

And dont let any gaffer tell you otherwise.
da'bunny
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Joined: 08 May 2007, 20:47

Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by da'bunny »

Re: the above post , we had xmas catalogues in on mon ..the sticker on them said deliver by friday yet our dim said we had till today to do them...whats the point of these stickers if it ends up being the dom who decides when it has to go by :arrrghhh
Just say NO ....to the new agreement.
dblad
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by dblad »

Had those bloody awful studio catalogues plus they've got a new one called ace, same company as studio but it meant i was putting two of the bleeding things in a letterbox instead of one
Glenno
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by Glenno »

mclovin wrote:Dont forget you get a week for big books (bb where the stamp should be).

And dont let any gaffer tell you otherwise.
Can I ask where you get this info from :wave :wave
mclovin
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by mclovin »

Glenno wrote:
mclovin wrote:Dont forget you get a week for big books (bb where the stamp should be).

And dont let any gaffer tell you otherwise.
Can I ask where you get this info from :wave :wave
Years and years of experience mate.
Glenno
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Post by Glenno »

Yer got quite a few years in too
But at the same time, the Q still stands: where do you get your info from?
If its a Local thing then fair doos, youve got it sorted
The reason I ask is that there was an issue over this recently and I am on
a info finding mission :wave :wave
ldsposti
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by ldsposti »

Ha Ha all my studio books are piled at the side of my fitting told the wight issuse your problem not mine :nana :nana :nana
mclovin
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by mclovin »

The bb (big books) catalogues have ALWAYS been a week to deliver, since the inception of bb.

Its not local agreement either its nationally agreed.
ldsposti
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by ldsposti »

F**k got that wrong, my studio books are piled at the side of the fitting told the dom a weight issue your problem :nana :nana :nana
wiganpostie
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Re: Silly Season has started !!

Post by wiganpostie »

mclovin wrote:Dont forget you get a week for big books (bb where the stamp should be).

And dont let any gaffer tell you otherwise.
I always thought the 'bb' stood for "back breaker".