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The day of the black hands !

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
krussel
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Location: Out on the streets.

The day of the black hands !

Post by krussel »

My hands were blacker with bloody news print ink than a miners today :crazy:
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..........
Kezroyalmail
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by Kezroyalmail »

It was all over my face.looked like a right twat
malcolm3011
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by malcolm3011 »

krussel wrote:My hands were blacker with bloody news print ink than a miners today :crazy:

Cheap crap newspaper with substandard printing :mad
pants123

Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by pants123 »

i think i might have an infection from the sun newspaper,,, feel really ill... :sad: :sad: :sad:
korky
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by korky »

i was too scared to pick my bogeys, and when i got home and changed the missus said "pft, that blows that rumour about black guys" :left:
Nigel1505
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by Nigel1505 »

After seven years with RM I have never had so many complaints in one day about a particular D2d, and there is still the other half to do tomorrow.
pinstripe
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by pinstripe »

malcolm3011 wrote:
krussel wrote:My hands were blacker with bloody news print ink than a miners today :crazy:

Cheap crap newspaper with substandard printing :mad
And then they put out a d2d as well.
bustedflush
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by bustedflush »

krussel wrote:My hands were blacker with bloody news print ink than a miners today :crazy:
How would you know - we haven't any miners left! :shock:
dazzlin72
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by dazzlin72 »

By the time I'd finished, I looked like papa lazarou! You're my wife now!
saddlerposty
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by saddlerposty »

Nigel1505 wrote:After seven years with RM I have never had so many complaints in one day about a particular D2d, and there is still the other half to do tomorrow.
same here nigel, although a lot of customers did say they felt sorry for us having to deliver such 5hite.
Kings Norton
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by Kings Norton »

I sat on the corner of a busy street knackered waiting for my driver took my baseball cap off a old lady through a £1 coin in the hat she thought I was homeless. Bless her!
lewesspudgun
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by lewesspudgun »

What do you do with 2000 gallons of coal ink left over from the good old days of Fleet Street ? Turn Royal Mail in to the minstrel show. With a song and dance show by RM managers
bigbazza
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by bigbazza »

dazzlin72 wrote:By the time I'd finished, I looked like papa lazarou! You're my wife now!
:Very Happy :Very Happy
Quality.
wabbithunta
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Location: On Planet Earth... Unlike the people who run RM!

Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by wabbithunta »

Washed my hands and arms six times today! Twice at work, three times out on delivery and then back at the office after we finished. Bloody cheap crappy printers ink. It was all over the mail as well, you only had to look at the bundles and black smudges everywhere on all those once nice formerlywhite envelopes! :arrrghhh
Bloody glad we've got them nearly completed. I pray, and hope, :pray we don't have to put up with a shite deal like that again! :no no Next time the soddin' Union agree to something like that we should be paid extra per item (5p min), and not just have it treated as a normal D2D either!
"Better to die on your feet than live a life time on your knees"
bustedflush
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Re: The day of the black hands !

Post by bustedflush »

I hold the bundles in my left hand (being right-handed) and they rest against my front - my hands were OK but my nice fresh light-blue short-sleeved shirt had turned a sick grey when I got back to the DO, like Rab Nesbitt's vest....