What type of customers annoy you most

i love mail sort · Post by **i love mail sort** » 28 Dec 2007, 13:39

What do Customers do that annoy you at work, has anyone got any good stories?

98% percent of people i deliver to are fine but some people are just thick. Heres a few things that pissed me off over the few months.

1. I knocked on this door with a parcel (i heard someone talking) kept knocking but they wouldn't answer the door, so i got pissed off and put a docket through. Then when i was walking back down the drive they came out and said " I heard you but i was on the phone" this was a cordless one as well.

2. When i cover people walks, people coming up to me asking for their mail that isn't even in my bag. i have to explain to them i don't know who they are and can't give them the mail.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 28 Dec 2007, 13:43

I had one today - rain coming down like stair rods and I had a packet - knocked on the door and the woman comes to the glass door and says "Hang on" 3 minutes later she finds the key and I hand over the parcel - she then complains "Its wet" - I said "If you had unlocked the door straight away it would be drier" - waiting for a complaint when I get in Monday now.

i love mail sort · Post by **i love mail sort** » 28 Dec 2007, 13:48

People not finding there keys is a good example, i often say to them in my cheeky voice " you wouldn't last long in a fire"

newpostie · Post by **newpostie** » 28 Dec 2007, 14:05

1. when they give you the filthiest look wen u forget to close the gate!

2. how rude some people are not saying thank yu wen uv had to carry ther big parcel round with them.

3. people calling me postman pat!

4. complaining when mail is wet, 'have you seen the weather'. slightly obvious the reason why it is wet, hense theres nothing i can do bout it!

5. when somone on the other side of the road ask you for a piece of mail, and u look all the way through your bag and they aint got anything. I ask them if there expecting anything? 'no' they say.

could go on for days!

Post by **solcat** » 28 Dec 2007, 16:54

Any one shouting Oi, or whistling, I just carry on and how many people get out of their beds and try and open the front door straight away

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 28 Dec 2007, 17:01

solcat wrote:Any one shouting Oi, or whistling, I just carry on and how many people get out of their beds and try and open the front door straight away

Actually I don't mind waiting to hand over a packet or get a signature - all they have to do is knock on the window so I know they are there and I will wait a reasonable amount of time. After all its less hassle than taking it back.

I did have one woman shout Oi at me once and I ignored her - she then shouts out "F...ing Ignorant Bast.....rd" - Yeah I was bound to respond to that wasn't I.

gunners1 · Post by **gunners1** » 28 Dec 2007, 17:05

your late today over sleep (no just busy) oh

madelin4 · Post by **madelin4** » 28 Dec 2007, 17:09

None of my own customers stand out where they annoy me, i really like my bunch. But when i used to cover other walks it really annoys me when people rant about gates!!im lucky i dont have a lot of gates, any i do open i close behind me, and a lot would be left open for me anyhow. It annoys me when people say your late 2day!!i wud just say if only you knew the half of it!lol!! most of all i dont get really a lot that would annoy me while out walking.

leiwolf · Post by **leiwolf** » 28 Dec 2007, 18:41

Talk to you like your a piece of shite, tends to annoy me
Actually the was someone who annoy me big time, he phoned up to ask about the polish bloke who gave him a parcel, the most ironic thing about it was, that I am part german who great grandpa was in the nazi party (please no slating, most german people at that time had no choice but to be a member)

Post by **Lounge Lizard** » 28 Dec 2007, 19:43

Dozens of them when handed mail say "I hope it's not more bills" or "If they're bills you can keep them" and think it's really funny as if noone has ever said that to a postman before.

Post by **baldrick** » 28 Dec 2007, 20:24

When I was on firm's collections it was people in the street who would ask me where was the letter/parcel that they were expecting. Like every postperson knows where every one of the 80m items in the system is.
And when I am walking to work I get people asking me where the nearest pillar box is, or where number X or Y in the street is

- I usually point out that generally even numbers are on one side of the street, and odd numbers on the other, and they usually run from lowest to highest.
What especially gets me is when they ask when I am in a Square and the numbers run consecutively.

combocrasher · Post by **combocrasher** » 28 Dec 2007, 20:34

Had one today that really annoyed me, he clicked his fingers at me almst launched myself at him, told him never ever to click his fingers at me again, i even got an apology

hooniebagoonie · Post by **hooniebagoonie** » 28 Dec 2007, 21:22

what pisses me off is the tight fisted ones who never gave me an xmas tip....a year of shutting there gates waiting for them to answer the door while its pouring down....bloody dogs snatching the mail thru the letter box...never a word of thanks for leaving pkts with neighbours to save them going to the callers office etc etc etc.......well that all changes for 2008...i help nobody but me and the odd cpl that did tip me......they seem to think im scum for going on strike so i will be scum
rant over

newpostie · Post by **newpostie** » 29 Dec 2007, 14:14

what does my hed in aswell one someone asks you for directions in the next town, like you know where this is! or wen sumone pulls ova and asks me for directions to the hospital and theres a 20 ft signpost telling em, does ma hed in lol.

Also wen a customer says 'ur l8 today' the normal postmans normally here an hour ago! well maybe if you got ur facts right and realise that i aint the same postman, i start at 9 while hes in at 6, maybe thats your reason lol

dave7634 · Post by **dave7634** » 29 Dec 2007, 14:50

i love mail sort wrote:People not finding there keys is a good example, i often say to them in my cheeky voice " you wouldn't last long in a fire"

I used to collect from a house which ran a business within. I called every day and yet they used to have the door locked and you'd ring the ruddy bell and then hear them run downstairs. Through that wobbly glass you'd see them fumbling with a bunch of keys that a jailer would be proud of and then they'd shout, "Just a minute!" while you're freezing to death or getting p*ss wet through on the other side!