At the end of the rainbow is a ... POt of gold.

[thebandit]

I was on a van delivery and snapped this on my return. I started to carry a little pocket camera around with me around 1980 ... as Forum members will continue to find out. Unless someone complains?

[plainpat]

Snap!

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Taken at a local rugby club where I used to park up for my break on rural duty


Great Posts the Bandit

[POSTMAN]

Gret pic guys but plain,how can you store mail in that,what with all them windows an all.

[plainpat]

Gret pic guys but plain,how can you store mail in that,what with all them windows an all.

Pic was taken back in 2003, before they tightened up on the rules.

Used it to do a (semi) Rural Delivery followed by a small Packet Delivery in town

Best van I ever drove

[plainpat]

I'll tell a little story which involved that van, and shows the foolishness of not thinking before you open your mouth.

The last call on my rural round was a house set in large grounds, with a long driveway which curved round behind the main house and ended up in a small courtyard. The usual procedure was to pull up, walk round to the main door, put in the mail, then walk back to the van, reverse it round, and drive out.

If the children of the house were home they would often come to the front door and take the mail, and eventually one of them asked the usual question you get from children "Where's your Cat?" My reply was "In the back of the van". Returning to the van I spent a minute tidying up the returns, docket card etc in the tray on the passenger seat as I usually did, then started it up, put it in reverse and....looked into the rear view mirror to see the children standing behind the van with their faces pressed up against the back window

I think i went whiter than the white cliffs of Dover From that day on it was reverse round BEFORE getting out with the mail and all around before doing so!

[thebandit]

Snap!

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Taken at a local rugby club where I used to park up for my break on rural duty


Great Posts the Bandit

Cheers - and that's a cracker, too. We used to call these Popemobiles.

[plainpat]

Snap!

2003_1020(007)Reduced.jpg

Taken at a local rugby club where I used to park up for my break on rural duty


Great Posts the Bandit

Cheers - and that's a cracker, too. We used to call these Popemobiles.

Same here

[plainpat]

Couple more pics of the Popemobile in action

This was what I was faced with many a morning, on the outskirts of town, at the start of the rural round

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This was my last call after I changed over to doing a Firms delivery in 2005

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