a present from royal mail

turkeyboy · Post by **turkeyboy** » 09 Jul 2007, 12:21

i still have my packet of lettuce seeds which was an extra gift to go with the xmas stamps,ive kept them to remind myself just what r/mail thinks of us its recommended to sow them by sept 1992. do you think i have left it to late

Post by **the beautiful bd south** » 09 Jul 2007, 12:32

lol i remember the packet of seeds although i was lucky enough to get flowers ffs.
I wonder which bright spark came up with the idea or i wonder if they were given for a bet?

mrlovepantsuk · Post by **mrlovepantsuk** » 09 Jul 2007, 12:42

haha, i heard about that but thought i was being wound up. mind it is not half as big a wind up as rm must have been on that year.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 09 Jul 2007, 13:33

At our office, we just sent them back as 'Refused'. I can still remember how stupid Royal Mail looked in the papers and on television. They seem to have a knack for this and the episode over the bagpipes and other RLB sell-off's shows they haven't lost it.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 09 Jul 2007, 13:35

I still laugh at the defecating Santa stamps they sent us this year.

Post by **the beautiful bd south** » 09 Jul 2007, 16:55

cant knock the free stamps lol

did anybody else get the hamper that was all packaging?

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 09 Jul 2007, 17:19

i remember the hampers they got smaller every year i think the last one had some strawberry preserve and a bottle of champagne substitute

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 09 Jul 2007, 18:34

We never got any hampers in the WA area. Perhaps they were sent out and they never reached us. A bit like the Red Cross parcels in those POW films, the screws swiped them.

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 09 Jul 2007, 20:02

sorry to hear that you really missed out towards the end, i can remember sticking the last one in my pocket wondering how it had cost that much they could not afford to do it anymore

overworked · Post by **overworked** » 13 Jul 2007, 16:38

I've still got the seeds somewhere, and a bottle of wine we were given by a local vineyard for Christmas in 1990! It was pretty undrinkable back then, so I hate to think what its like now.

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 13 Jul 2007, 20:05

I've still got my seeds somewhere and the RM sticker for the car, what a waste of time, i lived in a flat and owned a scooter

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 13 Jul 2007, 20:08

Has anyone still got the Penny Black anniversary pack, the one with the coin? Was thinking of putting mine on ebay but the postage would probably cost more than I'd get for the pack.

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 13 Jul 2007, 20:12

k66yla wrote:Has anyone still got the Penny Black anniversary pack, the one with the coin? Was thinking of putting mine on ebay but the postage would probably cost more than I'd get for the pack.

The coin is knocking about in my son's bedroom somewhere. He used to be quite the Subbuteo fan when he was a kid and used it when refereeing.

jmlr1971 · Post by **jmlr1971** » 23 Aug 2007, 18:15

mind one year we all got a box of thorntons chocolates at xmas time ,so that was the wives xmas pressie sorted

then the following year we got them again but unbeknown to us the twats put a " courtesy of royal mail " business card inside it, still get grief about it

Post by **POSTMAN** » 23 Aug 2007, 18:16

jmlr1971 wrote:mind one year we all got a box of thorntons chocolates at xmas time ,so that was the wives xmas pressie sorted then the following year we got them again but unbeknown to us the twats put a " courtesy of royal mail " business card inside it, still get grief about it

That's quality,and i've just clocked your location,figures.