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Paper cuts from D2D.

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krussel
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Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by krussel »

As title, this week has been a nightmare. I have 4 d2d's this week with 2 thick paper leaflets which keep slipping to the bottom of the bundle and then cutting my fingers. I got 3 cuts on tue and a further 2 today :sad: My hands are going to be slashed to ribbons of this keeps up. :crazy:

Today a was wearing fingerless gloves and the smeggers still got me. :left:
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by DGP1 »

Make sure you put it in the accident book :nervous :chuckle
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Wessex
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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by Wessex »

I always used to keep a few elastoplasts in my posties 'emergency kit' for this very reason. Nothing worse than posting letters

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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by Stormproof »

The thicker paper D2D's are the worse culprits. The corners of those aluminum letter boxes always get me, forever getting stabbed by them. Always in the same place, base of my thumb. But I must say neither compares to a cat shredding your fingers :nervous
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krussel
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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by krussel »

Stormproof wrote:The thicker paper D2D's are the worse culprits. The corners of those aluminum letter boxes always get me, forever getting stabbed by them. Always in the same place, base of my thumb. But I must say neither compares to a cat shredding your fingers :nervous

Your right those boxes are a nightmare as well. You would think when someone made the first template they would have rounded the edges off :roll:
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kawoxux
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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by kawoxux »

I've had to deliver a few bloodstained letters due to particularly vicious postboxes :chuckle
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Re: Paper cuts from D2D.

Post by Wessex »

Spot on with the base of the thumb comment :Applause After a while the slightest little knock and it starts bleeding again, glad it wasnt just me :Very Happy