Originally posted by oddoneout
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Our entire box is about as big as a shoe box.
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Thank you for that piece of missed news. Parcels as big as a shoe box? Our entire box is about as big as a shoe box.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
So I assume you will miss out on this 'improvement to customer service', and won't experience the delights of a big 'ole, even if the sun does shine...Originally posted by french frank View Post
Thank you for that piece of missed news. Parcels as big as a shoe box? Our entire box is about as big as a shoe box.
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The slot for posting letters is now much narrower on our local postbox. I suspect that people might now prefer to simply take their parcels into the adjacent PO and hand them over the counter.Originally posted by french frank View Post
Thank you for that piece of missed news. Parcels as big as a shoe box? Our entire box is about as big as a shoe box.Comment
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Annoyed to realise today that the calendar I posted yesterday cost me 65p more for a lesser service than it should have done, thanks to a less than clued up counter assistant. Circumstances meant that I had to use the PO counter in a Coop branch rather than the main PO in town. The girl was thrown by the address on the item - "Is that this country?"(I resisted the temptation to say "No, it's Scotland") - and(benefit of the doubt, it is Christmas etc.) that's perhaps why she didn't give me the run down of options for posting, as they do in the big branch, just 1st or 2nd prices. It's been quite some time since I had occasion to post anything other than letters or cards and so didn't know that there is now a Tracked option that would have better served my purpose and cost less. All I can say is the calendar had better get to its destination...Comment
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I've had the reverse experience. Some years ago I wanted to post a small parcel and used the post room at work to weigh the parcel and calculate how much it would be. As we weren't allowed to post personal items at work, I took it round to our local main post office. The girl at the counter weighed the parcel and gave a price way in excess of that which our post room had given. I knew their game. They'd charged me for the most expensive option available without actually saying what the other options were. Needless to say, I put her right but i wondered how many other people were unwittingly being ripped off.Originally posted by oddoneout View Post"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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...and yet my usual online music supplier is still offering delivery before Christmas. I feel sorry for anyone working for the Post Office or Royal Mail. One day there'll be a TV documentary: 'What went wrong? How did WE (yes,it's always our fault) allow it to happen?'Comment
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'Winter wonderland' makes me cringe. Something mawkish about this kind of advertising language for a natural landscape in winter.Comment
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No, oddoneout,they use DPD or DHL.Comment
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... but the one thing those commercial 'winter wonderlands' will not be is - 'natural'Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
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No, Winter Wonderland round here refers to people's front windows decorated with lights, Christmas trees, stars, candles, decorated trees, wreaths, paper chains &c.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
... but the one thing those commercial 'winter wonderlands' will not be is - 'natural'
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but my brother and I carry out our annual tradition of placing holly wreaths on ancestral graves. One of them has had no burials since 1935, before my brother was born (or me). A great-uncle who lived with us for a while was the last to be buried in another grave (in 1956).
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I ordered some CDs online from Oxfam yesterday and at least part of my order (the discs are sent from different shops) is to be delivered on Monday. I've never had problems with World of Books or Amazon either.Originally posted by smittims View Post
Perhaps ITV could give us a music-based follow-up to 'Mr Bates versus the Post Office'.Comment
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Main post office in our local market town: Its own website says it closes at 1600h today.
Drive down about 10 minutes ago (1422)...
...already closed!!!
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There was a notice by the counter in our local Coop saying that PO services were available only until 3 this afternoon.Originally posted by Old Grumpy View PostMain post office in our local market town: Its own website says it closes at 1600h today.
Drive down about 10 minutes ago (1422)...
...already closed!!!
No idea if that's a PO decree or because the staff serving in the shop after then won't have been trained in PO duties.Comment
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