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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
fng
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by fng »

Quite odd. I was looking at address no 27 on the envelope when the traffic lady on radio 2 said Junction 27. 1hr later I was reading No 16 , traffic lady said junction 16.......... no idea where i'm going with this, just thought i'd say. :crazy:
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IloveMYredTROLLEY!
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

Organised chaos, with yorks of ASAP from yesterday added to a heavy day already, it was "all hands to the IPS" deck at gone 0800 to help get everything done. The result? An awful lot of people could not complete inside contract hours and did not want extended.
Lounge Lizard
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Lounge Lizard »

clashcityrocker wrote:Found 7p.
- and you thought 'if this was 35 years ago I could have bought a second class stamp with that' :Very Happy
Postman Plodd
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Postman Plodd »

As usual out after everyone else, lino had to drop bags off, everything had fallen out of them, packets in wrong bags, packet missing, top brass long gone when i phoned, total f*cking balls up, finished past my time. f*ck this for a game of soldiers.
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

heapsy wrote:Bad day all round. Got back to the office absolutely exhausted.
Blue29
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Blue29 »

office looked like this today
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deanomac83
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by deanomac83 »

Stitched up and back-stabbed my so-called colleagues, a typical day in RM :roll:
dohnut
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by dohnut »

deanomac83 wrote:Stitched up and back-stabbed my so-called colleagues, a typical day in RM :roll:

Ohh do tell :wink:
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Better than usual for a Saturday. :wink:
IloveMYredTROLLEY!
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

Did anyone else love their unusual ~100% Monday call rate with green Scottish Power envelopes? I ligitimately left as much of my frame for the manager to deal with as an unachievable Friday, because on top of the call rate, I had to spend an hour finishing the prep. The management should consider themselves fortunate that the packet levels were low. :neutral:
krussel
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by krussel »

Tiring day for Kruss :sad:

Only got about 2.5 hours sleep so was hoping for an easy day. Nope 4 mech trays sitting on my frame :Boo hoo!
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..........
Postman Plodd
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Postman Plodd »

Everyone else was leaving as i arrived YET AGAIN, this time they'd outdone themselves by getting someone unfamiliar with the frame to prep it so it was still unfinished. They then put someone else who didnt know the frame on it to help complete it. Got out an hour after everyone else, driver didnt wait for my bags. Same again tomorrow but more so as tuesdays are lighter.
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Saturday was average. Today was busy for mail but unusually light for packets. Warm today.
BillyPosty
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by BillyPosty »

Saturday - heavy, Monday - fairly quiet, today was heavier than a normal Tuesday. Got man flu as well :Boo hoo!
BoxcarBob
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by BoxcarBob »

The walk I was on today has one long street that has more dogs then I have ever seen, almost every call there was a dog going mental at me over a fence/behind a door/on the street.

Got to a little cul de sac when this big angry dog came running out of a garden with its owner nowhere to be seen. Started barking and growling at me and I pretty much braced myself to get attacked, backed off slowly and thankfully it didnt come after me....needless to say that little cul de sac isnt getting its mail today!