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Safe Driving Awards

Post by bigjames »

Do they still do safe driving awards? I have a load of my Dad's tucked away. They always published all the local Postie's names in the local rag when they gave them out. He got some for consecutive years, and others for his career total or something. Mind you he did permanent nights, so traffic was a bit lighter than usual, and if you'd seen him driving in the daytime you would wonder how he got any awards at all! He finally lost his spotless record when he ploughed into a wall at another delivery office. He did hit a deer one night near our local common. When he got back to the office he was told he had to report it to the police, something about the animal belonging to the Queen, so off he went down the nick, and all the coppers just stood and laughed at him!! apparently it was a wind up. The worst thing was that he just dragged the deer off the road and chucked it in the bushes, there was a friendly butcher up the road who could have dealt with it and we could have made a few bob!
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Nice on James.

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I got one once,yeah,just the once :neutral: :whistle

Don't think they do em anymore do they?
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Post by ROCKY »

ROSPA AWARD
THEY USED TO GET ISHUED TO THE OFFICE BUT NEVER MADE IT AS FAR AS THE DRIVER,MUST BE 12 YEARS SINCE WE LAST HAD THEM HANDED OUT
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dave7634
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Post by dave7634 »

ROCKY wrote:ROSPA AWARD
THEY USED TO GET ISHUED TO THE OFFICE BUT NEVER MADE IT AS FAR AS THE DRIVER,MUST BE 12 YEARS SINCE WE LAST HAD THEM HANDED OUT
Yeah I thought they were good. Nowdays they seem very fast to knock you when you've done something wrong but not so quick now when you've saved them countless thousands in repairs over the years you've been safe driving. Sad but true :Confused
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Safe Driveing Awards

Post by k979aaa »

All should benefit from the reintroduction of these awards including managers.! :neutral:
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Tread
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Post by Tread »

My Brother who persuaded me to leave my old job (Rocket Scientist) to work with him on the PO had a safe driving award once even though he'd wrecked 3 vans that year.
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Post by dave7634 »

Tread wrote:My Brother who persuaded me to leave my old job (Rocket Scientist) to work with him on the PO had a safe driving award once even though he'd wrecked 3 vans that year.
These were issued a year in advance. Hence he'd have gotten one that year but not the next as I remember.
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