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What annoys you the most?

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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by postslippete »

Brown noser's and ar$e lickers vying for a bit of favouritism. Whatever that might be - overtime on their own round on their day off, IPS instead of trying to split 2 mega impossible duties in just 30 minutes, a conveniently overlooked customer complaint that could have warranted a bit of paperwork and kept on file that the manager didn't show you or get you to sign....ah the list is endless.

We got one or two in the section that are like "yes boss, no boss" and then when they are out on delivery then decide to talk against them, and I'm like, why didn't you just fecking tell them to do one like I would!!
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by grumpazoid »

Walking up a driveway, tracked PCR testing kit in hand, scanned on PDA, about to post it through the letterbox when...

Occupant opens the front door or appears from a side gate, alerted to my presence by the sound of my footsteps or the beep of the PDA. They approach me, getting to within arm's reach, before declaring "Ooh, don't come any closer, I've got Covid". The poxy thing would have gone straight through the letterbox, but they just couldn't resist.

This happened to me on two separate occasions yesterday.
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by Subman »

Breaking off today before 1:00 to go with an Amazon prime parcel. Amazon guy already left a parcel at the door when I arrived.The customer was delighted that i was delivering her 12 new, coloured plastic coat hangers.

Meanwhile about 20 delivery points got no letters, because I had lost soo much time breaking off for SD's.
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by *horcrux* »

Subman wrote: ↑
25 Oct 2021, 21:06
Meanwhile about 20 delivery points got no letters, because I had lost soo much time breaking off for SD's.
Ah well if they're bills you can keep them anyway
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by clashcityrocker »

People who use Special Delivery bags for items that aren't Special Deliveries.
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Selhurst
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by Selhurst »

Letterboxes at bottom of the door
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Breaking off to do specials towards end of the round, and the buggers are not in :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
Villadaft
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by Villadaft »

Clowns who cover letterbox with Halloween/Christmas decorations :arrrghhh
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by nightcrawler »

Villadaft wrote: ↑
26 Oct 2021, 21:28
Clowns who cover letterbox with Halloween/Christmas decorations :arrrghhh
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twoloops
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by twoloops »

Selfish bastards who put their shoes, bags & boxes behind the low level letter boxes without thinking about the poor postie :coolr
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Re: What annoys you the most?

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With RoyalMailChat the thing that annoys me most is the posters who complain about other posters complaining. It's as though they don't realise a forum like this is exactly where they should be complaining.
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Tank
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by Tank »

When you knock on the door and the customer says, is the doorbell not working? Don’t know love my knocks more efficient and I don’t won’t your silly ring doorbell recorome thanks!
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by Chelseablue »

Working in a very selfish office , usual people pre revision and after , still getting away with doing the bare minimum . Now even less to do after revision .
fly-catchers
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by fly-catchers »

Being told that the job keeps you fit! Tell that to my knees, hips, back etc! :sad:
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by General Mannerheim »

Being asked about 20 times a day and sometimes even before i've got my coat off what number are we up to in the resign. :roll:
Also all the moaning people who constantly tell me their walks are shite and then sign for the same one when i eventually get round to them in the resign. :arrrghhh
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Re: What annoys you the most?

Post by bustedflush »

PostmanBitesDog wrote: ↑
13 Dec 2020, 19:16
Not exactly work-related, but I do see it a lot while I'm out delivering: The godawful erroneous apostrophe on a sign. :d'oh!

Also known as The Greengrocer's Apostrophe.


Apostrophe Abuse.jpg


Really p*sses me off! :mad
If you read the full version of your linked Wikipedia page, that is not strictly an error as apostrophes can be can be accetable in plural abbreviations to substitute for missing letters in the final word.

You also have three different places St. James' Park, St. James's Park and St. James Park in England. One of them belongs to some mediocre soccer team in the N.E., one to a slightly better one in Devon and the other is a public park.