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how do you post a letter
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freelunch
- Posts: 358
- Joined: 14 Oct 2012, 20:39
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
use your posting peg, just sayin' 
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Jpro747
- Posts: 1342
- Joined: 23 Dec 2012, 10:22
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Some letter boxes are a bitch these days with the draught excluders etc, and those long thin ones are the worst somehow seem to rip and chew up anything you put through. I've never heard of anyone getting told off in the office for something as petty as this though, maybe your manager is just being unreasonable? The only option is to knock on the door and give it to her and if shes not there p739 it 
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Indy
- Posts: 977
- Joined: 03 May 2010, 07:05
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
What did the DIM say and what was his/her response to your reply?
I and other posties here have had similar issues here.
I and other posties here have had similar issues here.
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IcanthelpthewayIam
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- Joined: 26 May 2009, 13:37
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Did you ask him exactly how he wants you to post the letter?
The posting peg is ppe and should be issued to everyone with replacements available if needed
The posting peg is ppe and should be issued to everyone with replacements available if needed
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krussel
- Posts: 5300
- Joined: 26 Jan 2009, 18:03
- Gender: Male
- Location: Out on the streets.
Re: how do you post a letter
Ask him to visit the house and test the letterbox with a single d2d. 
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wannabeek
- Posts: 996
- Joined: 27 Apr 2011, 00:49
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
I have had a few ladies complain about their bent letters (why always old ladies, or is that just chance?). It only happens at letterboxes with issues like you've described.
One lady had a right go at me in the street so I politely apologised and accompanied her back to her letterbox , placed her single flimsy letter in my posting peg and asked her to try getting it through the letterbox with one hand, without it bending. It's impossible.
She huffed and said that the other postmen all manage it, so I just asked her to watch them and then she'd be able to show me another time. Over a year ago now and she still hasn't got back to me!
One lady had a right go at me in the street so I politely apologised and accompanied her back to her letterbox , placed her single flimsy letter in my posting peg and asked her to try getting it through the letterbox with one hand, without it bending. It's impossible.
She huffed and said that the other postmen all manage it, so I just asked her to watch them and then she'd be able to show me another time. Over a year ago now and she still hasn't got back to me!
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Kezroyalmail
- Posts: 15
- Joined: 01 Jun 2014, 19:01
- Gender: Female
Re: how do you post a letter
A posting peg is not used for this and is even worse for crumpling up the letters.Your Manager should go round and see what the fuss is about and if it's the shitty letterbox tell her to put up with it or change it or even better call in for it every morning.
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IcanthelpthewayIam
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- Joined: 26 May 2009, 13:37
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Not just for that, every postie should have one and have been issued onetolkien wrote:i thought that a posting peg was for houses with dogs to protect posties fingers ?zx135 wrote:Did you ask him exactly how he wants you to post the letter?
The posting peg is ppe and should be issued to everyone with replacements available if needed
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Lincox
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 3485
- Joined: 09 Jan 2008, 18:07
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Explain to your manager that you are having problems posting single flimsy items and could he please put in an intensive training course for you in order that this problem can be addressed. Send it by email or recorded delivery. It will fck him up entirely.
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DB1100
- Posts: 1976
- Joined: 10 Sep 2007, 14:30
Re: how do you post a letter
Also could for getting dog products off trolley wheels.Just ask for a new one when you get back,or just wipe it on some grass.zx135 wrote:Not just for that, every postie should have one and have been issued onetolkien wrote:i thought that a posting peg was for houses with dogs to protect posties fingers ?zx135 wrote:Did you ask him exactly how he wants you to post the letter?
The posting peg is ppe and should be issued to everyone with replacements available if needed
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IcanthelpthewayIam
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- Joined: 26 May 2009, 13:37
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
It's a pretty good ice scraper as we'll for the vanDB1100 wrote:Also could for getting dog products off trolley wheels.Just ask for a new one when you get back,or just wipe it on some grass.zx135 wrote:Not just for that, every postie should have one and have been issued onetolkien wrote:i thought that a posting peg was for houses with dogs to protect posties fingers ?zx135 wrote:Did you ask him exactly how he wants you to post the letter?
The posting peg is ppe and should be issued to everyone with replacements available if needed
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dave72
- Posts: 415
- Joined: 30 Nov 2010, 14:54
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Bump it off, inaccessible delivery point 
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Flashman_
- Posts: 363
- Joined: 05 Jan 2010, 00:08
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Only tried to use posting peg twice, both times one prong bent, making it useless, at that rate I would need a new one every day at least!. As already said they make the mail even more crumpled too.
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wannabeek
- Posts: 996
- Joined: 27 Apr 2011, 00:49
- Gender: Male
Re: how do you post a letter
Posting pegs are great for 2 uses beyond snappy dogs and finger-nipping letterboxes - very handy for 'persuading' those squidgy clothing parcels to fit through a letterbox with the blunt end, and also for retrieving a misdelivered letter from a wall-mounted box. That saved our bacon when a partner stupidly posted a special in one without thinking!
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Lounge Lizard
- EX ROYAL MAIL
- Posts: 9458
- Joined: 06 Aug 2007, 21:54
Re: how do you post a letter
What really annoys me is when householders complain that the letters are upside down on the doormat. 