Royal Mail has gone to the dogs since I left....
25-09-2020, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce
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Get the Boy Scouts to stencil the number on the kerb. They do that here on Bob a Job week to raise money (or at least they used to).
Then realspeed wouldn't have the same excuse.
25-09-2020, 10:28 AM
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When we buy anything from an on-line seller we contact the seller and request that they use a courier and not the post office. Sometimes costs a couple of quid but we've never had a seller refuse and with the big name couriers we've always had very prompt delivery and never once had anything lost.
25-09-2020, 12:25 PM
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Re: Post office yet again
Originally Posted by realspeed
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I don't have a front gate. The end of the cal de sac leads straight onto a three way shared drive with each house having their own drive from it. dead posh it sounds don't it? the photo gives some ideadon't want to appear grand but as soon as you get into this part of the estate you straight away known you are talking about houses in another higher price bracket.
My place ends well before where that bush is on the right well back from the cal de sac so can't or pointless putting my house number there
all the houses are 4 bed and different styles and layouts but match each other.
Well I'm not going to disagree with Marge as we all admire her. But you do have a funny address.
25-09-2020, 09:16 PM
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Re: Post office yet again
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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In Gold leaf. 
25-09-2020, 10:09 PM
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Sorry if this strays slightly off-topic - still about the Post Office, though.Yesterday, Marge and I went to the main post office in Cheadle as she wanted to post an oversized envelope.
The post office must employ the slowest counter staff in the country, if not the world. They really do dawdle. It may not be entirely their fault though, I suppose, as they have to follow all sorts of lengthy procedures: tapping on screens, making hand-written notes, looking up information, etc, etc. Still, they do seem to move with the speed of a somnolent sloth.
When we arrived, the queue wasn't too long; just half-way around the shop. By the time we were attended to, it had stretched out on to the street.
I suspect that part of the reason must be that they have no competition, at least for letters. Parcels, of course, are now handled by any number of courier companies.
On the plus side, though, you can now do other things in the post office, such as cash cheques and other such banking procedures.
I just wish that someone would put a firework up some of their arses now and again!
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