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Postby KonstantinL » Wed May 31, 2006 5:52 pm

JayKay wrote:I had it on good authority that the staff at a local mail office not a million miles from where I live check mail quite rigorously for cash or p0rn. If it looks like a card or a video/dvd they'll try to get a wee peek at the contents.

Once this had been pointed out i couldnt help notice the amount of mail that had a small tear in the corner, that no doubt happened accidentally...

Sadly the junk mail always makes it through intact.


Ha ha! This is completely true. My first job out of school was working for Royal Mail and the postmen in the sorting office had virtually a sixth sense for detecting packages with porn in them. It was uncanny and the chances of anything getting through were minimal. The same could be said for cash in cards.

One of the guys I worked with got a jail sentance for stealing £50,000 of goods and that was very much the tip of the iceberg. It was also to be noted that when I worked there I think I was the only employee who didn't have a King Billy tattoo.

It was a very, ahem, 'Protestant atmosphere' you might say.
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Postby Toby Dammit » Wed May 31, 2006 9:04 pm

Sydney Rosewater wrote:There has never been 4 (!!!) deliveries a day.


When the Penny post was introduced 166 years ago, there were 4 deliveries a day (or even more in some places), which is what I was on about. There was even one on Sundays in some cities. Where I live this has shrunk to one, and I live in bloody London.
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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:25 pm

Toby Dammit wrote:
Sydney Rosewater wrote:There has never been 4 (!!!) deliveries a day.


When the Penny post was introduced 166 years ago, there were 4 deliveries a day (or even more in some places), which is what I was on about. There was even one on Sundays in some cities. Where I live this has shrunk to one, and I live in bloody London.


All part of running Royal Mail's quality of service into the ground so that when complete privatisation eventually arrives peopl elike yourself will cheer it on. Then you will know what a REALLY shit mail service is.
See: British Rail, British Telecom, etc, etc, etc, etc...
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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:27 pm

KonstantinL wrote: It was also to be noted that when I worked there I think I was the only employee who didn't have a King Billy tattoo.

It was a very, ahem, 'Protestant atmosphere' you might say.


Think this must vary from office to office, same as any workplace.
Not the case in my gaff anyway.
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Postby marginalwalker » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:46 pm

Sydney Rosewater wrote:
KonstantinL wrote: It was also to be noted that when I worked there I think I was the only employee who didn't have a King Billy tattoo.

It was a very, ahem, 'Protestant atmosphere' you might say.


Think this must vary from office to office, same as any workplace.
Not the case in my gaff anyway.



Could be a new book muse for you Stuart, Protestant Posties I Have Worked With Or Not..
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Postby Toby Dammit » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:31 pm

Sydney Rosewater wrote:so that when complete privatisation eventually arrives peopl elike yourself will cheer it on. Then you will know what a REALLY shit mail service is.


Sydney. What is your major malfunction here? You said I'd made an error in my first post. When I showed there was no error you had another go at me, making an absurd assumption of what "people like me" are going to think. Based on what?

I would hate the privitisation of the Royal Mail, just as I would the National Health, so don't go anticipating what my opinons are in future.
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Postby Sydney Rosewater » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:54 pm

"people like you" = people who are (rightly) pissed of with how shit the quality of service provided by royal mail is these days.
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Postby BarrackroomLawyer » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:11 pm

Ach, the usual keech of people sitting in their swivel chairs saying how bad stuff is without lifting a finger to address the problem.

You're sick of the state of royal mail? Write to your MP and 10 Downing Street and complain about deregulation... or shut up.

If you can't see NewLabour is a bigger dry ride than Thatcher then you need a good bloody shake.

The postal service can only ever be as good as its budget. It functioned perfectly well for centuries, just like the water and electric board. Now a bunch of greedy cunts want to steal a publicly owned company off you and charge you even more for the service and all you can do is think about the wee tiny picture just like the policy advisors who study the focus groups want you to.

I'm glad I'm back to the wids tomorrow; people make me sick!
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Postby Toby Dammit » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:41 pm

BarrackroomLawyer wrote:Ach, the usual keech of people sitting in their swivel chairs saying how bad stuff is without lifting a finger to address the problem!


Aye. It's called "the internet". Brilliant in't it?

No point getting arsey with me pal, as I'm not an MP, counciler, mayor, procurator fiscal, MEP or even MSP, I'm just a bloke moaning on a forum that some of his post has gone AWOL. You're just some tit moaning on the same forum about me moaning. Well done, Tony Blair must be quaking in his tartan slippers.
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Postby BarrackroomLawyer » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:13 am

Oh aye? You're the fucking paranoid tit that took a general observation as a personal attack. Go fuck yersel pal.

If the cap fits...

At least I'm getting off my arse and actively trying to change things.
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Postby red_kola » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:33 pm

BarrackroomLawyer wrote:Oh aye? You're the fucking paranoid tit that took a general observation as a personal attack. Go fuck yersel pal.

Do you have anything positive to say ever? Lucky the trees can't answer back...
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Postby BarrackroomLawyer » Fri Jun 02, 2006 12:51 pm

Plenty, but nothing fur eejits.
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Postby marginalwalker » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:23 pm

Cool insults by the way..
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Postby red_kola » Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:09 pm

"Uh-huh-huh-huh...."

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Postby Toby Dammit » Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:59 pm

BarrackroomLawyer wrote:Go fuck yersel pal.


Oh dear. Perhaps you should change your name to "Playground Lawyer"?
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