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What type of customers annoy you most

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hunnybunny1690
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Re: Good one!

Post by hunnybunny1690 »

majeed wrote:
bandit650 wrote:The ones that let thier dogs sit behind the letter box and go for the mail and your hand,the best thing i was taught by a 30 year postman was how to let the dog get hold of the mail and let it fight it and just as its getting to grips with it you let go and see the dog fly ive managed to get the dog at one house demolish the whole stand of ornaments and having the pleasure of saying to her face that i'll learn you. :left:
for the really vicious ones who charge the door to grab either your hand or the mail, instead of inserting either of the previously mentioned, try a biro or better still, a steel barelled pen, the crazed mutts soon get the message
taurus88
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by taurus88 »

lr73 wrote:When folk think your their personal sat nav - dont live in the area just deliver there. Only need to know the streets that I deliver to then im out of there. They seem to think I should know the whole area including the local football pitches for their son's football training.... :arrrghhh
Always have people stopping asking me for directions. The thing is, I know most of the area now for about a mile around, it's when they ask me for directions to a street that I know by logical deduction MUST be miles away that I get really hacked off.
hunnybunny1690
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by hunnybunny1690 »

after almost 20 years of people saying it and schoolchildren singing the theme tune my partner got so fed up of hearing "postman pat...wheres your cat" he said "i strangled it, i f'in hate cats" , says the look on their faces was priceless, his other hate was school kids thinking he was a legitamate target for snowballs , once again he stopped it by telling a 16 year old that if he didnt stop it he'd rub his face down a rough cast wall ( he isnt a violent person and wouldnt have been so stupid as to do it but it had the desired effect) or another was junkies asking for their giro cheques years ago, when they asked have you any giro's postie he used to reply to some by saying "yes but i keep them all, how do you think i get out at the weekend" after years of crap he reached the end of his tether and gave as good as he got, he's never regretted taking ill health retirement and feels sorry for the guys left behind
Pat Ostman
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Pat Ostman »

Pegman wrote:I hate it when they look at a parcel or a packet and say "I wonder what that is " FFS YOU ORDERED IT !!!!!!!!
Or worse still, ask YOU what it is! :crazy:
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Acca Dacca
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Acca Dacca »

hunnybunny1690 wrote:after almost 20 years of people saying it and schoolchildren singing the theme tune my partner got so fed up of hearing "postman pat...wheres your cat" he said "i strangled it, i f'in hate cats" , says the look on their faces was priceless, his other hate was school kids thinking he was a legitamate target for snowballs , once again he stopped it by telling a 16 year old that if he didnt stop it he'd rub his face down a rough cast wall ( he isnt a violent person and wouldnt have been so stupid as to do it but it had the desired effect) or another was junkies asking for their giro cheques years ago, when they asked have you any giro's postie he used to reply to some by saying "yes but i keep them all, how do you think i get out at the weekend" after years of crap he reached the end of his tether and gave as good as he got, he's never regretted taking ill health retirement and feels sorry for the guys left behind
Nice username. Good to see you still live in the dark ages.
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Caniel
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Caniel »

Acca Dacca wrote:
hunnybunny1690 wrote:after almost 20 years of people saying it and schoolchildren singing the theme tune my partner got so fed up of hearing "postman pat...wheres your cat" he said "i strangled it, i f'in hate cats" , says the look on their faces was priceless, his other hate was school kids thinking he was a legitamate target for snowballs , once again he stopped it by telling a 16 year old that if he didnt stop it he'd rub his face down a rough cast wall ( he isnt a violent person and wouldnt have been so stupid as to do it but it had the desired effect) or another was junkies asking for their giro cheques years ago, when they asked have you any giro's postie he used to reply to some by saying "yes but i keep them all, how do you think i get out at the weekend" after years of crap he reached the end of his tether and gave as good as he got, he's never regretted taking ill health retirement and feels sorry for the guys left behind
Nice username. Good to see you still live in the dark ages.
I was thinking the same.
MAILMAN84
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by MAILMAN84 »

"Oh he's never done that before son" as the rottweiler tears ur arm off

or "it's the uniform son" .......really, i thought it was something i said :)
BELIAL
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by BELIAL »

Send all their s**t DSA so I have to work five years longer to deliver it on the cheap
Bye
jessiegirl
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by jessiegirl »

the other day i had a special delivery for this woman and her daughter lives next door.
i was walking round not quite at her house yet and she saw me but she got into her car and drove off so i had to put a 739 theo her door.
the next day her daughter stopped me and asked why i had put a 739 thro when i saw her mum drive off. well she (mother) didnt stop me did she??! if she was expecting something then she couldve at least waited for me rather than drive off and its all MY fault!! apparently the special was importnant too.
i mean come on 9 times out of 10 special deliveries are usually expected.
Terry Butcher
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Terry Butcher »

Earlier today i knocked on a door with a special, an Asian woman answered the door while screaming Urdu (or whatever it was) down the phone to someone. The usual: "Hi, can you print and sign here etc etc", she sighed and gave a loud groan, I had obviously knocked at a bad time! :Very Happy She took the card off me then literally did a tiny little scrible and practically threw the card and pen back at me, then tried to grab the special out of my hand! "HOLD ON!, Can you PLEASE print your name above your signature, or i can't give it to you!" Her eyes then rolled into the back of her head, followed by an even louder groan of frustration. She grabbed the card and pen and literally did exactly the same scribble in the box above, dropped the pen and card on the floor and grabbed the special out of my hand as i went to pick them up! Before i could say anything the door was slammed shut in my face! I felt like i had been robbed! :mad

Seriously, what is wrong with these morons? Methinks a pre-written red card is destined for her letterbox whenever she has a special or parcel in the future.
deekin
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by deekin »

Terry Butcher wrote:Earlier today i knocked on a door with a special, an Asian woman answered the door while screaming Urdu (or whatever it was) down the phone to someone. The usual: "Hi, can you print and sign here etc etc", she sighed and gave a loud groan, I had obviously knocked at a bad time! :Very Happy She took the card off me then literally did a tiny little scrible and practically threw the card and pen back at me, then tried to grab the special out of my hand! "HOLD ON!, Can you PLEASE print your name above your signature, or i can't give it to you!" Her eyes then rolled into the back of her head, followed by an even louder groan of frustration. She grabbed the card and pen and literally did exactly the same scribble in the box above, dropped the pen and card on the floor and grabbed the special out of my hand as i went to pick them up! Before i could say anything the door was slammed shut in my face! I felt like i had been robbed! :mad

Seriously, what is wrong with these morons? Methinks a pre-written red card is destined for her letterbox whenever she has a special or parcel in the future.
I think you did very well. I always struggle not to be rude to grumpy customers or customers who complain about stupid things.
Redyam
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Redyam »

The amount of people that leave keys in their door. If I had been a burglar I could have stolen your car and stuff from your house!!! arghh
NewPostieUK
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by NewPostieUK »

Shout after you to shut the gate when you are half way down the street. When it was open when you got there, so you left it open.
montriff
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by montriff »

Redyam wrote:The amount of people that leave keys in their door. If I had been a burglar I could have stolen your car and stuff from your house!!! arghh
its unreal how many people do that ,i bet half the so called walk in burglaries ,or fishing cane through the letterbox are people doing that .They just can't tell the insurance "oopppss i left my keys in the front door" ;liar
Stormproof
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Re: what do customers do that annoys you?

Post by Stormproof »

montriff wrote:
Redyam wrote:The amount of people that leave keys in their door. If I had been a burglar I could have stolen your car and stuff from your house!!! arghh
its unreal how many people do that ,i bet half the so called walk in burglaries ,or fishing cane through the letterbox are people doing that .They just can't tell the insurance "oopppss i left my keys in the front door" ;liar
One of my customers done that the other day. I knew she had gone out because she passed me in her car when I started on the street. Did'nt want to post them back through, so knocked on the neighbours door and told them. Think they took them in until she returned home............no thanks though :roll:
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