Elastic bands dropped by Post people

[Venod]

I used to walk to work just over a mile each way, kept me in red rubber bands for years.

 

[Beebo]

That's far too subtle for me!

Long-dead Colombian coke smuggler needs lots of rubber bands...

Oh, would that be to tie up the bundles of banknotes?

It is rumoured that he spent $2500 a month on rubber bands just to bundle his cash.

 

[Drago]

I heard that posties traditionally leave a trail of rubber bands so if they go missing they can be easily tracked by specialist sniffer dogs.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

Couldn't they have a piece of string from their sacks to each rubber band?

Or a longer rubber band connecting all their rubber bands together

 

[neil_merseyside]

It's only ever the temp posties that drop them around here, might need the supposedly biodegradable red ones reissued and given only to the agency workers (-or +an).

 

[Accy cyclist]

I tend to pick them up and use them for things such as stopping my Ryvitas wrapper from opening up and letting them go all chewy.

 

[oldwheels]

I heard that posties traditionally leave a trail of rubber bands so if they go missing they can be easily tracked by specialist sniffer dogs.

When I was a postie I was sitting one morning in a hotel kitchen having my coffee [ one of the perks of a cycling postman] when I saw the gaffer cycling past looking puzzled. My bike was hidden and he was annoyed he could not find me on my walk. No rubber bands so we could do that.

 

[MontyVeda]

I collect them for my own use!

It's not just me then!

 

[MontyVeda]

I was left a red card for a parcel that was too big for the letter box. Went to the PO to collect it and it was four small parcels bound in two rubber bands, which would have easily fit through the letter box had the bands been removed

 

[Chris S]

Somebody on Radio 4 mentioned this. If it is a prank then the Royal Mail are going to find an awful lot of unwanted rubber bands in their post boxes.

 

[Drago]

Ive heard that anything the postie finds in a post box has to be handed in, be it dog poo, sandwiches, severed fingers, anything at all.

 

[swee'pea99]

People buy rubber bands?

 

[swee'pea99]

Ive heard that anything the postie finds in a post box has to be handed in, be it dog poo, sandwiches, severed fingers, anything at all.

It's just me that immediately pictures a dog poo & severed finger sandwich, right?



That's reassuring.



Sort of.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Somebody on Radio 4 mentioned this. If it is a prank then the Royal Mail are going to find an awful lot of unwanted rubber bands in their post boxes.

I did wonder if it was a bit like the infamous 1,000,000 AOL CDs campaign from the late 90s when some chaps tried to stop the provider from sending out mountains of the things by collecting a truckload to dump outside their HQ.

 

[Chris S]

I did wonder if it was a bit like the infamous 1,000,000 AOL CDs campaign from the late 90s when some chaps tried to stop the provider from sending out mountains of the things by collecting a truckload to dump outside their HQ.

What's a CD?