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41 minutes ago, mikel said:

The whole point of a strike is the inconvenience it causes, without that its a waste of time. Contact RM senior management and tell them to stop delivering junk mail. That may have some small effect. 

You think anyone gives a sh*t when you complain to RM management, it gets swept under the carpet..

43 minutes ago, mikel said:

Yep, but RM will make a lot of money from the deal. Dont blame the posties, its not their fault. 

When did I blame posties, and what makes you think I don't understand how profits work?

Wasn't easy to vote but managed 

On 23/12/2022 at 11:32, Lozz196 said:

Same - only change has been the need to make the letters bigger over the last few years to compensate for middle aged eyesight.

This is when bifocals or verifocals come handy 

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

We had the same with approx 6" snow around the house and then +12 the following day and all gone. I thought it strange to be honest but that's our weather for you LOL

Same here, about 6", enough to cause havoc haha

2 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Snow on Xmas Eve and Boxing Day but nothing on Xmas day. Would have been nice to wake up on Xmas morning to snow falling and a white Christmas but alas not to be but i do like snow at Xmas time especially when i dont need to go out.

Dave

I agree, I don't feel the Christmas without snow is the same. We had a snow 10 days or so before Christmas, then it went from -5 to +12 over night. 

21 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

Today Santa brought me snow. Its like a "Winter Wonderland" today.

I think the snow during Christmas makes a difference 

7 hours ago, blisters on my fingers said:

Poor you............ so sorry you have to put up with junk mail delivered to your letter box.

Just like everybody else in this country.

 

Because as @fleabag correctly states Royal Mail are contractually obliged to do this.

 

Do you really think the posties on their rounds want to waste their time and energy doing this ? Every single day?

 

Shouldn't your argument be directed elsewhere?

 

Glad your new postie is polite........ that makes such a difference. Hope he shows some due dligence.

 

 

Are you a postie? If you are I had no intention to offend you. I  pretty much know how things work. Royal Mail delivering junk mail makes extra income. Still nuisance, bad for environment. I may just keep my recycling bin outside my front door with a sign on.

I thought staff enjoyed carrying extra weigh in their bags, good for posture, keeps them fit. Of course I don't think that. Who would like to.

Should my argument be directed elsewhere? I don't argue. And I think my point was reasonable. All my important appointment letters were delivered after the actual appointment dates, but for good measure RM loads their staff with unnecessary junk mail rather than filter through mail and deliver important mail.

Our new postie is she, the previous was she too. Diligence, I had a chat with her the other day as I happened to be outside. But don't worry matey. I didn't bring up the strikes as I have respect for people, and I understand their needs. 

Poor you? Well I won't go into a conversation on this one.

I hope this satisfies your fiery answers.

6 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Hmm... I think I detect some small measure of sarcasm in this response. Not your finest post, methinks. Maybe, just maybe, there could be another way, rather than this 'contractual obligation' that's so wasteful, in so many respects. Maybe a system, used successfully in other countries, could be suggested instead..? In the present climate of reducing waste, and making best use of resources, is it beyond the wit of the UK collective to have a sign, a symbol, an expression of declination such as a sticker on the letterbox that all would recognise as being a refusal of unaddressed junk mail..? Keep the 'contractual obligation', but limit it to those not actively indicating that it is unwelcome. No dice..? Or must the status quo remain a fait accompli..?

This is my point, most of it ends up in a recycling bin the rest in general bin. 

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57 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

In France, there is a system whereby one puts a 'Stop Pub' sticker on the letterbox. The postie (and others...) will no longer post flyers, publicity or whatever that doesn't have the specific name and address on it. It's been decades since we last had anything of the sort; it works very well. I'm not sure quite how much of a 'legal obligation' is involved, but any dross that gets through would be up for a hefty fine I think...

I've seen people putting no junk mail , flyers or canvassing. If I did one wouldn't that make me a curmudgeon.

4 hours ago, fleabag said:

RM are contracted to put those leaflets/tramp's toilet paper through your letter box.

Blame the muppets who want you to buy their ' see through chastity briefs ' and whatnot

I'm aware of that, but it's purely nuisance 

6 hours ago, Velarian said:

A seasonally appropriate Paddy McAloon.

 

 

 

 

Royal mail is incompetent, mail is either not delivered on time, or we get next door neighbour's mail, which I diligently slip through their letter box. I wonder how much of our mail was delivered through someone else's letter box, and was then diligently binned. And the amount of leaflets they put through....I must say our new postie is very polite 

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12 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

They asked him not to sing "F**k you. I won't do what you tell me"

What did they expect???

Politics in music goes at least back to the blues. 

Apparently Bob Dylans lyrics political but all I hear is vowels 

Who's Bob Dylan?

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Some of the greatest artists have been very political. 

Like 99% of Rage Against the Machines lyrics. In 2009 BBC asked RATM not swear whilst performing Killing in The Name live but Zack de la Rocha had a different approach.....🤣

I had all my important documents posted through the letter box days after actual appointment dates. This did not help, but luckily the sender's/ originator's common sense prevailed due to postal strikes and phoned me regarding appointmens. If they hadn't it would have had a massive impact on my life.

Parcelforce...I have called them several times constructively ranting about their lies of claiming they attempted to deliver when they did not. 

I had the same issue with my Sony VAIO laptop, I replaced HD with SSD, I bought a new power cable, noise isolator (after watching YouTube and reading Amazon reviews, utterly useless, went back for refund), shielded guitars, new guitar cable and nothing. two years ago I bought a new gaming PC just for music playing, recording , and all problems disappeared. Problem solved. All I hear is my tinnitus now.

Done

It was a very quiet place 

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