If it's bills, you can keep them...

[ysbrydtawel]

Does anyone else find that this starts to get slightly annoying after the 405,687th time?

[Dee Plish]

So few times?

What RM delivery staff fail to realise is this: Saying "if it's a bill you can keep it" to a postman is the funniest thing that has ever been invented. It is still unique, original and witty, even when said thousands of times a day, every day.

In my early days on the post, we were discussing this particular saying. One of the senior men told a tale of how this woman on his delivery used to say it to him every time she saw him and fell about laughing after she said it ( it is the funniest thing that has ever been invented, remember). One day he had her electric bill. She said "if it's a bill you can keep it ha ha ha ha ha ha ha". He replied "OK love" and kept it. A couple of weeks later she collars him. "Ooh postman, I'm waiting for me electric bill, i am worried about it. All the neighbours have had theirs". Nowt so queer as folk is there?

[Darren Bent]

A lady ask me if I like to pay her bill yesterday

[fb1969]

I wish they'd stop saying it, I am delayed by about 20 minutes every day while I am sowing my sides back up. Mind you, if I see anyone washing their car I always tell them they can do mine when they've finished.

[postman nel]

Ahh yes....but remember. ..you laugh at that today....more chance of a tip a Christmas. ....

[cyclemech1]

Does anyone else find that this starts to get slightly annoying after the 405,687th time?

I miss it so much that I now say it to MY postie!

[Lazycarton]

I wish they'd stop saying it, I am delayed by about 20 minutes every day while I am sowing my sides back up. Mind you, if I see anyone washing their car I always tell them they can do mine when they've finished.

My rib buster is : Missed a bit there mate

[cyclemech1]

I wish they'd stop saying it, I am delayed by about 20 minutes every day while I am sowing my sides back up. Mind you, if I see anyone washing their car I always tell them they can do mine when they've finished.

My rib buster is : Missed a bit there mate

'Save yer legs, postie'!

[NWpostie]

I just give them a polite smile and roll with it, I have more important things to worry about, its a job and a pay check at the end of the day, you don't have to see these amateur comedians after work

[Cedar_Room]

When I first started (pre Park & Loopy) & was a Reserve getting shipped about here there & everywhere,I used to love it when,after a particularly hard day of not knowing where the funk you were going,you'd get the comedians at the back end of the duty asking 'if this was the nightshift'?

[ysbrydtawel]

Towards the end of my delivery, yesterday, while getting a signature:

"You were a bit late with the paper this morning, and you brought me the wrong one the other day!"

Errrmm Miss, I'm not your postie AND your paper boy... take your pick

[gand]

What gets to me is days when its been pissing down all day. But customers still feel the need to remind you about it.
"That's a terrible day for your job postman" know f***ing s**t Sherlock I've only been out in it all day!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

If it's bills, you can keep them...

I reply

"No its ok I have already given Bill his mail"
"But he asked me to leave them here"
"Are you sure, he won''t be upset"

I just love the look of confusion that they get when trying to make sense of it".

[kirakk]

It's always a quick reply from me,(especially with the older ones)OK no problems but it will come back red next time.

[saddlerposty]

"i dont want em if theyre bills" i look at the envolopes and say " no, bills had his, these are definatly yours .............Blank look ........woooooosh over there stupid cliche heads.