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Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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This week,funny as f**k i've only got 2...
In the Red corner we have Virgin media and in the Blue corner we have Sky,the competition's hotting up. :crazy:
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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dvbuk55 wrote:
chelseachris wrote:I was a couple of streets behind a couple of polish guys delivering ikea catalogues and every one of them where sticking out of the doors some people thought i was delivering them when i got their distance. :evil/mad
Yes I think it's the same bast*rd who delivers my newspaper and leaves it sticking out of the l/box when it's p*ssing down :evil/mad
just pull the f***ers out and throw them on the floor ,thats what i do
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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Every other week we get d2ds for a small Supermarket about 10 miles away. Who's going to travel there when all the big supermarkets are only a few miles away :crazy:
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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How strange,is someone watching me? :nervous
Got co-op D2D's next week! :nervous
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

Post by gofi »

The other day I distributing the aforementioned D2D's and I opened a "mixed box" which contained in its contents a bundle of TWO D2D's (Yes TWO individual D2D's) for one of driving duties. The D2D's had a label on them and an elastic band doubled round it. This leads to believe that there is someone in D2D HQ who actually does this every week. Is this an example of how D2D's are saving jobs perhaps?.
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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We're always getting British Gas D2D's.......for a rural area where there is no gas. And Artagniano fashion brochures for 80 YO women.
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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I've got 5 d2d's next week, well it should be 4, but because 1 didn't turn up this week, they say we have to take it next week. 1 of the d2d's is a free sachet of salad cream! I can just imagine the complaints when i'm ramming all the mail through a letter box and the sachet shoots it load all over the place!!
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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Five each week for us now, and heavy it gets when that includes a council magazine and a charity collection bag. :sad: and it'll only get worse :sad: We're all doomed. :sad:
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Just before I left office today I saw two D2D sheets in the IPS for each round, one the normal non-addressed for residents only and one for every drop...
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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IloveMYredTROLLEY! wrote:Just before I left office today I saw two D2D sheets in the IPS for each round, one the normal non-addressed for residents only and one for every drop...
That's not unusual. Customers can specify 'Residential only' or all addresses and pay accordingly. :Very Happy
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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This seems to be a nation wide marketing campaign, we've had them here in Jockland. Re: Sachets bursting and going over the mail, don't worry according to the RM if it happens as the mail is leaving your hand i.e.being rammed through a letter box with a draught excluder on , its not our fault as we no longer have control over it!.I wonder who thought this one up!.
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Post by chunk »

50% off compost bins.
you guessed it ...large number of flats with no gardens.
with addressed mailshots virgin media are the laziest at checking if an address actually exists.
eg if highest street number 99 = print 99 mailshots. :arrrghhh .
I'm a postman-and i know where you live.....
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

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Another example of the how the "Elves" are using the unique knowledge and data to provide a high quality targeted service for the customer!. Perhaps they haven't heard of goggle maps satellite function, lets hope the customer is expecting a poor return for their D2D campaign.
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

Post by Spmcintyre »

Clearly you boys haven't experienced the salad cream sample D2Ds yet! Delicious thinking RM...
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Re: Has there ever been a more pointless D2D ?.

Post by gofi »

Perhaps it could be used to lubricate those parcels which, when you try to put through the letterbox are a bit of a squeeze!.