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National trust catalogues
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guldan
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National trust catalogues
Anyone else having fun with the National trust magazines with guide book cleverly put in so wont fit through most boxes, have to fold the magazine to make it fit !! Madness...
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taurus88
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Re: National trust catalogues
We had all ours over a week ago. Is your office stuck in time or something?
Anyway, seriously. They're an absolute nightmare. Even if I was to ignore the valid points that you made, I could still make a case for hating them. The shape of them is wrong for a start when they're in your bundles. The handbook sometimes moves around and creates a bulge that the other mail slips off and crash, it's on the floor. But the worst thing for me was how often the handbook decided that it was time that it was born and burst out of the plastic. This happened two or three times, sometimes when they were going into the frame and other times when they were in the bundle.
P.I.S.S.E.D. M.E. O.F.F. they did.
Anyway, seriously. They're an absolute nightmare. Even if I was to ignore the valid points that you made, I could still make a case for hating them. The shape of them is wrong for a start when they're in your bundles. The handbook sometimes moves around and creates a bulge that the other mail slips off and crash, it's on the floor. But the worst thing for me was how often the handbook decided that it was time that it was born and burst out of the plastic. This happened two or three times, sometimes when they were going into the frame and other times when they were in the bundle.
P.I.S.S.E.D. M.E. O.F.F. they did.
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johnnyp
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Re: National trust catalogues
Had about 25 today,some of the boys and girls a full packet bag 
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trythat
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Re: National trust catalogues
Delivered ours 3 weeks ago, took all week to get rid of them, a lot were left outside as they were waterproof, or just folded them up and shoved 'em in. Why can't they make the book A4 so it would then be thinner, they are a nightmare every year, and in my office we get 1000's of the things .
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fishtank
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Re: National trust catalogues
We don't get them.
The National Trust for Scotland are too cheap.
You have to love them.
The National Trust for Scotland are too cheap.
You have to love them.
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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Sippin40oz
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Re: National trust catalogues
Had ours last thursday and they were a major pain in the a**! Why they all had to go out the same day i will never know. Also saw a lad in my office with a full bag of them! Lino made him take every single one! 
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: National trust catalogues
National trust - only ever get 1 or 2
I don't think a giro stretches to a NT magazine,

I don't think a giro stretches to a NT magazine,
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malcolm3011
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Re: National trust catalogues
guldan wrote:Anyone else having fun with the National trust magazines with guide book cleverly put in so wont fit through most boxes, have to fold the magazine to make it fit !! Madness...
Most of the houses i deliver to are quite old so have a very small vertical slot letterboxes so no chance of getting National Trust magazines thru and end up doorstepping most of them
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DGP1
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Re: National trust catalogues
malcolm3011 wrote:guldan wrote:Anyone else having fun with the National trust magazines with guide book cleverly put in so wont fit through most boxes, have to fold the magazine to make it fit !! Madness...
Most of the houses i deliver to are quite old so have a very small vertical slot letterboxes so no chance of getting National Trust magazines thru and end up doorstepping most of them
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moyas slave
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Re: National trust catalogues
DGP1 wrote:malcolm3011 wrote:guldan wrote:Anyone else having fun with the National trust magazines with guide book cleverly put in so wont fit through most boxes, have to fold the magazine to make it fit !! Madness...
Most of the houses i deliver to are quite old so have a very small vertical slot letterboxes so no chance of getting National Trust magazines thru and end up doorstepping most of themP739 them and bring them back to the office, the rules are there to protect you.
agreed DGP1
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: National trust catalogues
National Trust to one in six houses on the rural part of my round.TrueBlueTerrier wrote:National trust - only ever get 1 or 2![]()
I don't think a giro stretches to a NT magazine,![]()
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John_B
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Re: National trust catalogues
Yup, had mine last week.
Even though I'm a rural driver and I get shed loads, I still had 2 days to clear them.
I notice someone said they had 20 !!! Try having one for almost every second house, in other words, I had and always get over 120 of the frigging things. 5 bags all weighing 11KG plus an obscene amount of trays.
Even though I'm a rural driver and I get shed loads, I still had 2 days to clear them.
I notice someone said they had 20 !!! Try having one for almost every second house, in other words, I had and always get over 120 of the frigging things. 5 bags all weighing 11KG plus an obscene amount of trays.
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malcolm3011
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Re: National trust catalogues
DGP1 wrote:malcolm3011 wrote:guldan wrote:Anyone else having fun with the National trust magazines with guide book cleverly put in so wont fit through most boxes, have to fold the magazine to make it fit !! Madness...
Most of the houses i deliver to are quite old so have a very small vertical slot letterboxes so no chance of getting National Trust magazines thru and end up doorstepping most of themP739 them and bring them back to the office, the rules are there to protect you.
Not when you have over 70 of them and 90% of the people are at work, you would not have time to write out all them P739s, anyway that is why they are sellophane wrapped to stay dry if needed to be left out.
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POSTMAN
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Re: National trust catalogues
Course you can Malcolm.Not when you have over 70 of them and 90% of the people are at work, you would not have time to write out all them P739s,
Course you can't Malcolm.anyway that is why they are sellophane wrapped to stay dry if needed to be left out.
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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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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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BELIAL
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