Why are some people so friggin useless?

[Scoosh]

I live in 3rd floor Victorian flat (no lift). The postman does not like delivering and either waits till he has a decent bundle (weekly) or drops it at the bottom of the common stair. No amount of complaining to the 'customer service' stupid woman makes any difference.

I thought the Post office have a legally-enforcable duty to deliver to the letterbox on the front door. This is why the UK doesn't have the wee boxes on stands like the Americans, Oztralians etc.

I seem to remember being told that, strictly, a postman is not even allowed to give the mail to someone standing outside the house (even if they are the addressee).

But I could be wrong ......


*PING* - postman of CC fame - am I talking rubbish ?

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Shouldnt play the stupid game that is tennis then.
Smacking a ball back and forth as hard as you can is just pointless.

Bl**dy hell, I never thought I'd ever agree with anything you said Bonj er, sorry Joe24

 

[Joe24]

Bl**dy hell, I never thought I'd ever agree with anything you said Bonj er, sorry Joe24

Bonj is an idiot aswell.
Smacking a ball against a wall as hard as you can. WTF is the point in that?
Now, smacking pointed sticks at pigeons and pheasents and stuff for hunting, thats a real sport.

 

[gavintc]

I thought the Post office have a legally-enforcable duty to deliver to the letterbox on the front door. This is why the UK doesn't have the wee boxes on stands like the Americans, Oztralians etc.

I seem to remember being told that, strictly, a postman is not even allowed to give the mail to someone standing outside the house (even if they are the addressee).

But I could be wrong ......


*PING* - postman of CC fame - am I talking rubbish ?

Yes, even the Post Office agree to this - but the bloody postman still continues to do it. We complain every 2 weeks - no change.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I thought the Post office have a legally-enforcable duty to deliver to the letterbox on the front door. This is why the UK doesn't have the wee boxes on stands like the Americans, Oztralians etc.

I seem to remember being told that, strictly, a postman is not even allowed to give the mail to someone standing outside the house (even if they are the addressee).

But I could be wrong ......


*PING* - postman of CC fame - am I talking rubbish ?

on one occasion i came down from upstairs to find a card saying something needed a signature. knowing what it was, and sure that the card had just arrived, i raced up the road to ask the postie if i could have my post. he let me sign for it having seen the card.

glastonbury tickets…

 

[fossyant]

Get yourself a greenhouse... that's where the postman decided to leave all our parcels ... works really well.

Same here, and he's a mate of mine............

 

[sheddy]

Ask them to leave parcels in your shed, it works for me.

You have pets as well ?

 

[Auntie Helen]

I thought the Post office have a legally-enforcable duty to deliver to the letterbox on the front door. This is why the UK doesn't have the wee boxes on stands like the Americans, Oztralians etc.

We have a wee box on a stand and the postman delivers to it - saves him walking through the gate and up the drive and running the gauntlet of the guard dog. It even has a little flag that they put up when there's post in it, except the relief postman tends to bend the metal of the little flag so it has to be replaced occasionally.

 

[Amanda P]

We have two or three postmen who alternate on the round we're on.

Two of them are pretty useless when it comes to parcels. The third, if he does the round in the Post Office mandated order, he'll get to us about 11 - long after we're all out. But instead, he comes to us first, to drop a parcel before we leave for work, and then go on with the rest of the round.

Now I call that sensible.

 

[simonali]

Our one insists on folding every letter in half before putting them through the door, despite the fact that the letterbox is amply sized for the letters to pass through without being reduced in width by 50%!

 

[summerdays]

I thought the Post office have a legally-enforcable duty to deliver to the letterbox on the front door. This is why the UK doesn't have the wee boxes on stands like the Americans, Oztralians etc.

I seem to remember being told that, strictly, a postman is not even allowed to give the mail to someone standing outside the house (even if they are the addressee).

But I could be wrong ......


*PING* - postman of CC fame - am I talking rubbish ?

My postie is lovely (occasionally its not him), but he will stop me even half a mile away from the house if he has a parcel for me and always waves at me on the bike. And he even offers to pick up parcels for me sometimes.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

My postie is lovely (occasionally its not him), but he will stop me even half a mile away from the house if he has a parcel for me and always waves at me on the bike. And he even offers to pick up parcels for me sometimes.

I think you're in there, SD.

 

[bonj2]

solutions:

Oh and some twot of a kid I was playing tennis against seemed incapable of putting any effort into playing, making for a boooring tennis session - more of a waste of time.

Being let down by people who struggle to recruit more than th basic functional braincells irritates me.

Try direct at-the-body shots.

 

[Joe24]

Ahhhhhh Bonj.
Are you still playing the pointless game of squash?

 

[NickM]

Bonj is an idiot as well.