View Full Version : Gawd bless Brixton's posties
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Great message as well:
Written by "Pete", it tells his pals he's "having a great time on the coast" and is "p***** as a newt".
Better than weather is nice, wish you were here!
gaijingirl
22-09-2006, 14:21
Absolutely classic!
I have a friend who frequents that particular area.. I will show him this!
aurora green
22-09-2006, 14:21
Sweet.
Herbsman.
22-09-2006, 14:23
That' brilliant. It's a shame about all the letters that have proper addresses on but go undelivered though.
I remember a thread on here a while back, which had some pretty cool examples similar to the above one.
doesnt hamstead heath actually have a postal address for people to collect letters addressed to them?
mate of mine in desperation addressed a letter to 'the red headed woman with 6yo twins' with just an area of brum and it arrived :D
poster342002
22-09-2006, 15:05
Legend had it that you could send letters addressed to homeless people in the Bullring in Waterloo (when it was still there) and they would get delivered - even though they were not official addresses.
Donna Ferentes
22-09-2006, 15:13
Legend has it that you used to be able to send money or passports to people living in the SW2 area and they wouldn't get nicked in the sorting office.
superdoopa
22-09-2006, 15:34
Best thing I've heard all day!
Shame they wouldn't have a fridge to stick it on..
brixtonvilla
22-09-2006, 18:41
Fuck Brixton's posties. Lazy thieving cunts to a man. Shoving "While you were out..." notices through the letterbox when they can't be arsed to ring the doorbell (because I really don't have anything better to do on a Saturday morning), ripping off credit cards & chequebooks in the mail... still, as long as the jakeys get their postcard, eh? Like I say, cunts.
Steady, I'm sure my postie doesn't do those things. He just delivers other people's letters to me.
Seriously though, I understand that, for a while, the Post Office stopped doing background checks on job applicants. Hence the problems which are not specific to Brixton.
They're now taking things a little more seriously, and taking some care not to employ people with a history of dishonesty. Bad news for Tony I guess :D
brixtonvilla
22-09-2006, 20:35
Steady be fucked. They've done all of those things to me. And they deliver me other people's post too...
suzee blue cheese
22-09-2006, 22:06
A very good mate of mine has been a postie in Brixton for years. I've heard enough stories from him about how the Post Office are prepared to employ people seemingly on the basis that they've bothered applying for the job. The Post Office are a nightmare to work for btw
gaijingirl
22-09-2006, 22:35
My postman is really nice. He always stops for a chat and goes right out of his way to get our stuff to us.
For a week there was a parcel in our bathroom and nobody knew why - turned out we hadn't been in so he posted it through the bathroom window. :D
dogmatique
22-09-2006, 22:35
Posties can always follow the Hansel and Gretel like trail of red rubber bands they leave everywhere so that they can find their way home...
It's not laziness, it's a useful business practice. ;)
gaijingirl
22-09-2006, 22:36
Posties can always follow the Hansel and Gretel like trail of red rubber bands they leave everywhere so that they can find their way home...
It's not laziness, it's a useful business practice. ;)
YES!!!!! I have a huge collection of those from off my estate - they're very useful you know... :D
Shoving "While you were out..." notices through the letterbox when they can't be arsed to ring the doorbell
That happened to me once when I was in and only a few feet from the door, so not a chance of missing the knock. I can't figure it out though, since surely filling in a card and posting it is much more work than ringing the bell and giving me the parcel :confused:
Fuck Brixton's posties. Lazy thieving cunts to a man. Shoving "While you were out..." notices through the letterbox when they can't be arsed to ring the doorbell ...........
Indeed. Last time I stood in a queue of 20 at the sorting office, snaking its way out into the rain, a conversation struck up about this. Turned out about half the queue had had exactly that experience. It seems to be standard practice. If you ask at the sorting office why they do it, they give you the telephone number for customer services.
I can't figure it out though, since surely filling in a card and posting it is much more work than ringing the bell and giving me the parcel
Perhaps they don't take the packages out in the first place?
Sweet story, but......
Fuck Brixton's posties. Lazy thieving cunts to a man. Shoving "While you were out..." notices through the letterbox when they can't be arsed to ring the doorbell , ripping off credit cards & chequebooks in the mail...
After 3 cheque frauds involving nicked books from the mail, a cancelled subscription to LoveFilm as only about 1 in 5 DVD's ever made it not to mention cd's& dvd's from ebay & amazon never appearing...I'm kinda with BV I'm afraid. :(
Donna Ferentes
23-09-2006, 08:48
It's what happens if you offload most of your full-time employees and replace them with casuals, temps and what you will. When it's your proper job with a pension and everything you're far less likely to nick stuff and rather more likely to have some concern for the job. If it's not, it's a magnet for thieves.
gaijingirl
23-09-2006, 09:41
I should add though to my post above saying how nice my postman is. He delivers the things that don't need signing for, or won't fit through the letter box.
Even he slags off the guys who come round in vans and drop the red cards through the doors - we had one of these dropped through our door this week. And when I say dropped through our door I mean - our front door was actually open at the time as we were doing work on the flat and there were people everywhere! They obviously sailed past and threw the red card on the floor in the hall without actually asking someone to speak to me. :mad:
I wouldn't mind if someone actually picked the phone up when you call to redeliver. :(
I presume they don't take packages out anymore, on the basis that they're a bit heavy and it makes their job harder. Much better you take time out to come and get them. Good of them to bother with the card, actually.
sheothebudworths
24-09-2006, 09:02
It's what happens if you offload most of your full-time employees and replace them with casuals, temps and what you will. When it's your proper job with a pension and everything you're far less likely to nick stuff and rather more likely to have some concern for the job. If it's not, it's a magnet for thieves.
Yes.
chriswill
24-09-2006, 09:37
OI you lot.
I'm a postie and would never even consider ripping off cards, passports and the like.
In fact anything sent by special delivery is virtually impossible to steal becasue the are signed out of the office and then back in if not delivered.
As for not delivering parcels because I cant be arsed to ring the bell??.
I'd rather deliver it than lug it around for another six miles
Mrs Magpie
24-09-2006, 09:41
Yes, but sadly you are the vanishing face of British posties.....for a while everyone in my Mums village was getting the wrong mail....turned out the postman couldn't actually read......he was a temp....
Orang Utan
24-09-2006, 09:43
Legend has it that you used to be able to send money or passports to people living in the SW2 area and they wouldn't get nicked in the sorting office.
Did the rhyming become too much effort then?
In fact anything sent by special delivery is virtually impossible to steal becasue the are signed out of the office and then back in if not delivered.
ah that's useful to know. What about all those passports lost on their way to the DVLA though
chriswill
24-09-2006, 09:54
Well, not everyone is a honest as my good self.
My advise, if its valuable (monetary or otherwise) send it special.
Its kept seperate from all the other mail and is accounted for on every step of its journey. You are also then entiltled to compo and consequential loss if it does go missing.
Donna Ferentes
24-09-2006, 10:15
As for not delivering parcels because I cant be arsed to ring the bell??It's not urban myth though, because you see it happening. I remember once sitting in the front room hearing the postman's footsteps approaching the door and then watching the card come through. No bell, no nothing. He was most surprised when in the next two seconds the door opened and somebody came out to give him a hard time.
This was in Loughborough six years ago.
chriswill
24-09-2006, 10:34
Its not something that I would do, I deliver between 5 - 7 bags on my round if your parcel was in my first bag and you are not in to accept it then I have to then transfer it bag to bag untill I have finished to take it back to the office.
Can someone send me a postcard next saturday addressed to:
Tendril in the Ket Hole and see if it gets to me :D :D
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