My helpful postman

[Plax]

Rather than leaving me a card and my having to collect my delivery from the local sorting office as usual has for some reason today left my delivery with a neighbour.

This has irked me as a) it has deprived me of a cycle ride to the sorting office in the morning before work and b) I work days and they seem to work funny shifts. Therefore it is going to be an unknown number of days before we actually are both home at the same time by the looks of it. I also don't think they are going to be home tonight at least as I saw their young son with grandad which usually means he is looking after him for the day/night.

It would have been much easier and far quicker for me if he has done the usual and taken it to the sorting office.


Now I'm going to have to wait much longer to re-tape my handlebars. I've just cleaned the bike, proofided the Brooks, lubed the cables and oiled the chain. Now I want to RE-TAPE MY HANDLEBARS!!!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Good Lord, you know how to live life to the full!

 

[fossyant]

You sound like my son..............chill...................

 

[Over The Hill]

My postie helpfully left my tenant's new cable decoder box thing in the recycling bin! It was in there for four days before it was found just before bin day.
You would think someone in the sorting office would put up a notice or something. I expect he did not fancy cycling all the way back with the extra weight.

 

[fossyant]

Oh, my helpful postman put a new BB for my MTB in the paper recycling bin last week......... really only just spotted it...no card through door .......... nearly was re-cycled............... not too happy..................

Grrr where has my old drinking buddy gone - he's not been delivering round my house the last 12 months - he was brill (as he was a mate for many years...).... stuff got left in great places, and a 'message' was delivered........... heh..heh.......

 

[Plax]

Good Lord, you know how to live life to the full!

Height of excitement me you know.


Lee - yes do have LBS but it's more expensive and a hassle to get to.


Can anyone get the multi quote to work?

 

[fossyant]

Height of excitement me you know.


Lee - yes do have LBS but it's more expensive and a hassle to get to.


Can anyone get the multi quote to work?

I could never do multi quote in the old forum..can't be ........bothered............

 

[fossyant]

PS I like new stuff in the POST....... even if it's some braids for the Scalextric cars that the kids hog................. cost me a fortune in bits this time..... oh and upgrades... bikes N+1....Scalextric N+1.5 +1.5. + 3............... + bits of track.......................

 

[TheDoctor]

Rather than leaving me a card and my having to collect my delivery from the local sorting office as usual has for some reason today left my delivery with a neighbour.

This has irked me as a) it has deprived me of a cycle ride to the sorting office in the morning before work and b) I work days and they seem to work funny shifts. Therefore it is going to be an unknown number of days before we actually are both home at the same time by the looks of it. I also don't think they are going to be home tonight at least as I saw their young son with grandad which usually means he is looking after him for the day/night.

It would have been much easier and far quicker for me if he has done the usual and taken it to the sorting office.


Now I'm going to have to wait much longer to re-tape my handlebars. I've just cleaned the bike, proofided the Brooks, lubed the cables and oiled the chain. Now I want to RE-TAPE MY HANDLEBARS!!!!

Height of excitement me you know.


Lee - yes do have LBS but it's more expensive and a hassle to get to.


Can anyone get the multi quote to work?

Yes, I can. Hit the multi-quote button in all the ones you want to quote, then click 'Use Full Editor'
I don't think you can multi-quote in the Quick Reply box.

 

[Plax]

I could multi quote with the old forum, This one has me perplexed though

 

[taxing]

Our postie is dead good, we know his mum. Our front door is usually unlocked so he just chucks things into the house. He even signs for them for us.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If there is anything too big to go through the letter box, our postie will usually dump it in the porch and ring the bell.

For things that need signed for and we have missed, or things that need paying for (Grrr!!)) going down to the sorting office used to involve walking the dog down, but chances for that have now gotten much smaller seeing as our remaining dog normally lives with my Sister, so I might just have to start cycling instead.

 

[Black Sheep]

I came home yesterday to find a card through my letter box saying that a parcel was in the bin to save me collecting.

I'm guessing he had actually looked and seen that the bin was pretty much empty so wasn't at risk of being collected as rubbish.

not sure what might had happened had I been away...

however I have heard, quite a few years ago about royal mail (could have been white arrow actually) leaving £400 of clothes in someone's bin which was then collected later that day.

 

[summerdays]

Can anyone get the multi quote to work?

To get multi-quote to work (took me a wee while to work it out), click the multiquote bit on each post then go down to the bottom and don't hit Reply on the last post as I used to do ... at the bottom there are 2 buttons on the right - start new topic and add reply - hit the add reply and then multiquotes appear in the editor read for you!

My postman is absolutely brilliant ... leaves stuff in the greenhouse and puts a note in saying he has done it.... and always calls me by my first name on the notes even when the parcels are addressed to Mr Summerdays - so he obviously has a brilliant memory.

As for your problem ... what about leaving them a note asking them to just pop it somewhere safe (you know your garden), unless you live in a really dodgy area.

 

[taxing]

Once a courier left a note saying that my parcel had been left in a safe place, by the back door. Odd, I thought, there's no access to the back door. I checked around the back gate but there was nothing there, then realised that he must have thrown it over the wall. I ran to check the bloody big pond we have in our garden, right by the wall, but couldn't see a floating Amazon parcel, or indeed a sunken one. As a last resort, I got the ladder out - it was on the roof of the shed.