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Having someone else bag up for you...

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Mr Blonde
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Having someone else bag up for you...

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When someone else makes up bundles for your delivery does it piss you off when they make one bundle for the whole street meaning that you have to have hands like the Hulk to even hold them?

I don't see why people do that, is it a testosterone thing?
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Mr Blonde wrote: is it a testosterone thing?
No.
My park&loop partner is female.
I allegedly produce 10 times more testosterone than her.
She tries to get the entire duty in one bundle. :neutral:
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Not much more satisfying than taking a huge weight out of the bag in one go...
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kawoxux wrote:Not much more satisfying than taking a huge weight out of the bag in one go...
until you drop the bundle and it scatters.
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
kawoxux wrote:Not much more satisfying than taking a huge weight out of the bag in one go...
until you drop the bundle and it scatters.
...in the rain. :neutral:
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Overweight bundles can cause epicondylitis.

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Been there...got the Diclofenac. :cuppa
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fishtank wrote:
Mr Blonde wrote: is it a testosterone thing?
No.
My park&loop partner is female.
I allegedly produce 10 times more testosterone than her.
She tries to get the entire duty in one bundle. :neutral:
I think the clue is in the word "allegedly"......
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Post by BillyPosty »

I had a stand-in MANAGER buddle up my lapsing for me a few weeks ago like this in 2 massive bundles - not only that but it straight forward street from 1 to 2. Complete mess, I couldn't even work out how he had muddled up a simple job like that. I ended up sending most of the street back to the DO as it went something like 23, 25, 42, 29, 27, 50, 52, 31, 33, 35, 18, 20, 22, 37 etc.

He should have stuck to looking lost and running round the office rather than trying to help :crazy:
Syze
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Post by Syze »

I like to make my bundles big, just because I would rather have less in the bag. I know I'm in the minority here though and make small bundles when I'm partnered with someone...
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Post by Postman Plodd »

Less bundles = less time bundling ∴ quicker out of the door leaving the poor sap with gargantuan bundles.
I've had my walk bundled up only a couple of times in all the years and it's always a total balls up due to the bundler not knowing where the replenish points are/pissed off that he's been made to bundle up.