Confessions of a Postman -- the book

[rainmaker7]

have changed the closing line to:

Today, was the first day, after having been at the RMG for 10 months, that I was going to get home early.

Chapter 1 was set on my last day and after seven long years at the fictional Fort Apathe: the Cronx I had got wise to the scams

[wiganpostie]

Chapter 1: interesting, but also quite literally the stuff of nightmares - I read it just before bed last night, and had a dream where I was being chased by a postman hating lynch mob who impaled me through the heart on a rusty railing. Not even Barker or King ever managed to elicit that kind of a reaction.

[OnAFlyer]

have changed the closing line to:

Today, was the first day, after having been at the RMG for 10 months, that I was going to get home early.

Chapter 1 was set on my last day and after seven long years at the fictional Fort Apathe: the Cronx I had got wise to the scams

So 7 years on and you were knocking 3+ hours off deliveries? Some scams those

[rainmaker7]

Welcome to Fort Apathe: the Cronx. Confused you will be.

And I would have delivered all the letters. Well, most of them.

[farmboy]

Very very accurate the book will hit a note of reality for all posties in the London area the bigger the office the worse the climate/culture

[dvbuk55]

Very very accurate the book will hit a note of reality for all posties in the London area the bigger the office the worse the climate/culture

What? With such stalwart union support and solidarity.........it can't be surely

[rainmaker7]

chapter One

That £1,100 in union subs I had paid over the past 7 years was obviously money well spent then. Still, I got a CWU diary out of it each year.

[rainmaker7]

Another free chapter from the book While You Were Out. Remember: it's fiction -- the truth would too much to bear.

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[dvbuk55]

Another free chapter from the book While You Were Out. Remember: it's fiction -- the truth would too much to bear.

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Ah yes - I remember the film well - "The truth you can't handle the truth" delivered with such venom by Jack Nicholson in A few good men, brilliant - but try us anyway rainmaker - who knows maybe it will make men of the rest us outside London.

[rainmaker7]

Postmen are not allowed to tell the truth -- it's in their contract. No, really it is. That's the truth.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Postmen are not allowed to tell the truth -- it's in their contract. No, really it is. That's the truth.

A circular point if there ever was one.

[meercat]

Postmen are not allowed to tell the truth -- it's in their contract. No, really it is. That's the truth.

Well I'll tell the truth now then - this is a poor read and it's full of what I would call 'crap'.

e.g.-

'There is so little mail on the frame on a Tuesday that the postie will often stand there staring at it, and think, there’s hardly anything there, why bother delivering it? And so they don’t. And they get home early early early.'

I've been in the job 7 years done probablly 25 different walks and I've never ever seen someone do the above. You are making us look like dicks to any member of the public who may read this fiction. I can see straight through your lies - you are making us appear like work-shy ammateurs for the sake of adding a bit of controvery to an otherwise bland book in the hope that it will cause a 'stir' and actually be published. Good luck with that.

And I really can't see why you are on here trying to flog it when it paints the entire workforce in such a bad light. I like my job for what it is, I like my collegues and I like working to a professional standard and I go home satisfied I've earned my pay. Every postperson I know works damn hard for the money they get paid and to insinuate that 'the postie' will 'often' intentionally neglect to deliver a large portion of his round is an insult to the work we do day in day out.

More condecending BS-

'I love the way that posties think that there is someone, somewhere, that is in control of all this mailstrom; that there might be some huge lever up at head office with a sign above it that reads: MAILSORT'

Are you an ex-manager by any chance? Either that or you are a socio-path - you refer to 'these posties' as if you weren't actually one of them yourself for years?

[rainmaker7]

If it is all lies then you have nothing to worry about. The customers who get their mail 6 days a week and have a postman who always rings twice will then know that all this is lies. The proof is on the doormat.

To be honest, I can't believe most of what I saw and the reason I wrote this book (it ain't gonna make any money) is so that I can make sense of it all after all these years later.

I have taken poetic license (it is called a 'work of fiction') but the essential truth of what I saw is there on the page.

[dvbuk55]

If it is all lies then you have nothing to worry about. The customers who get their mail 6 days a week and have a postman who always rings twice will then know that all this is lies. The proof is on the doormat.

To be honest, I can't believe most of what I saw and the reason I wrote this book (it ain't gonna make any money) is so that I can make sense of it all after all these years later.

I have taken poetic license (it is called a 'work of fiction') but the essential truth of what I saw is there on the page.

Well TBH rainmaker anyone who put up with what you professed to have put up with for years speaks volumes, you must be a natural victim

[rainmaker7]

you must be a natural victim

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