Senior_AP

Cashier number 3 please

Cashier number 6 please

Cashier number 4 please

Silvafox

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Just been to the Nottingham one. Must have been 30-40 people in the queue. Half of them look like bloody dregs of society too, it bladdy wreaks of sweat in there as well. Hate the setup now, only one post office in the whole of Nottingham city centre.

Senior_AP

Yep. All the scum, shuffling along in a peasant little queue claiming everything under the sun. Prime opportunity for a mass culling with machine guns.

Lets clean this place up!!!

FASTER MIKE!!

well what do you expect when every old fekers spent the whole weekend writing out there 5000000 christmas cards for frikin CANADA yea i've been busy too.....

micky the postmaster

StickyMicky

classic

last week i was stuck in a massive que, due to a ebay bloke delivering about 40 parcels, to lighten the mood

i asked him if he was santas brother or sumthing, and he just ignored me, even tho everybody else was laughing

anyway, he eventualy walked out after his posting session and the que felt a sigh of relief, until i walked up with about £200 in coins to pay into an acount pmsl

gotta laugh about it dont you

FASTER MIKE!!

do they not weigh the bags of coin? we have a fella who emptys slot machines though not as bad as it sounds

StickyMicky

yes they weigh them

but when i pulled them all out of the cloth bag and put all them on the counter i heard noises from the que

FASTER MIKE!!

pbee

What you need is a small village post office like mine.

home made apple pies, chutneys, jam for sale fresh bread, if there is a que of more than 2 people the old lady makes tea. fantastic. the postmaster takes his time to make sure you are getting the best deal, what you ask for isnt always good depending on insurance, weights ect. polite, freindly. can always park outside.

I hate going into Cambridge central post office once a year for road tax it churns me over inside so i know what the other extreme is.

Scoob99

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It'sonly gonna get worse, WHEN IT'S SOLD OFF

ajm

I'm going to make another attempt to retrieve my property today.... it could get ugly!

King RA

1 thing that gets my goat is collecting recorded deliveries from the post office. 'You may collect between the hours of 7am and 2pm', do they not realise some people in this country actually go to work. Why not stay open until frigging 7 o clock the b4stards. I HATE THEM AAAARRRGGGGHHH!!!!! (this is not a personal attack on those that work for the post office, but the post office as a whole).

Leslie

This has been an outstanding thread for self centred and hypocritical posts

Les

DaveD

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lmao @ajm

Living in Portishead too, I often get stuck in post office queues... you should have seen the one yesterday morning... snaking out of the door!

Trouble is, Darling Tony has just closed 2 (count 'em) yes 2 sub post -offices in P'head. (or they're about to...) And the high street branch is tiny AND it's Christmas, with cards, letters and parcels going everywhere! Nightmare!

Ajm... if you can't get your parcel today, PM me (at DaveD's addy) and I can pick it up for you. (not working this week! )

Rachael

ajm

Thanks Rachael... I'm going to try again in about an hour so I'll post up the outcome. Listen out for the shouting!

Iwan

I'm sorry sir, can i see some kind of identification please?

ajm

VERY good point!!! I can't have those jobsworths getting one over on me!!!

I'll bring my passport, birth certificate,a utility bill, deeds to my house and a urine sample!

Iwan

I've been caught out by this one before, even "you delivered this card to the house that i own and nobody else lives there - i can even tell you what's inside the parcel if you like" doesn't cut it.

I have to pick a parcel up after work as it happens, so i have my passport with me.

Hate the post office with a vengeance i do, much like yourself.

It'll be much better when they're all sold off and people have to use decent couriers (i.e. not Parcelfarce or $hittylink) instead.

ajm

Update:

I now have my parcel!!!

Parked up outside on the yellows (behind the blue rinse who had a disabled badge, yet walked in fine) and there were just 3 people infront of me. Two left immediately and I was at the counter in just a couple of minutes.

I handed over the delivery card and the jobsworth went over to 3 parcels. One had amazon.co.uk plastered all over it, but he ignored that one and spent ages looking at the other two (purposefully in my opinion ) before finally picking up the right parcel. He asked me for the address, which I duly imparted, and then he gave me the parcel. No further checks made!

So there we have it, go to the post office at 14:20. No earlier, no later!

King RA

I'd love to, but my sorting office closes at 14:00

Brendan Hughes

sssh wait everybody... he hasn't opened the parcel yet....

ajm

Don't go there.... its my family's only chance of getting any presents this year!

<goes off to check contents....>

unclebuck

I had to go and post a recorded delivery today (the Pink Floyd concert programme I flogged for 35 quid on eBay ). My heart sank as I tagged onto the end of the 40-50 'person' queue in front of me. However it moved very quickly and I was through in just a couple of mins thankfully.

I did notice some fat a**ehole slumped in one of those mobility devices just deliberately picking an argument for the sake of it with the long suffering woman behind the counter. TBH dealing with the people they have to, I'm not really surprised they adopt the attitude they do. They must just assume that everyone is an idiot until proven otherwise - and in the majority of cases they're right.

FASTER MIKE!!

lol@unclebuck your right we can get some right ignorate b@rstards in the post office, you would'nt believe the amount of people who just don't speak to you. say hello 3 times and no reaction only thing they'll say is "cheapest" no please thank you kiss my ***.

mike

john banks

It took about an hour for me to send a turbo insured to Sweden ( think it was Sweden). The third post office I tried (the others being closed on a Wednesday afternoon or not offering that service) took about 40 minutes to sort it out. Tiny little edge of town post office, with liberal use of beige paint, and the walls clad in that delightful perforated fibreboard. They had completely out of date tariffs, out of date phone numbers, and no labels of the right sort The two poor dears were really struggling over this for ages. Meanwhile a stream of people came through and got served as I dutifully stood aside to avoid delaying all these good people from their important business, not one of them was posting something, and not one was doing anything they actually needed to be in the post office for. None of them looked like they could have been in gainful employment, partly influenced by the salubrious district of a town that salube forgot. The poor dears were really quite efficient at working the lottery machine, standing over each other telling the other they were doing it wrong. It was like a Monty Python sketch. So, it wasted about 50 minutes of my time where 10 would do. The cost to me? Should have added it on to the bloke's turbo

Buckrogers

SmartStamps work well. Instead of the old dears trying to do simple stuff slooooowly, now all they do is stamp the ticket, remove the special del stickers, sign and off I go.
6 or so items now take less than 5 mins, whereas before 15mins to 20mins.

Still need to keep reminding them the parcels are FRANKED, do not charge me!

I even start the peeling of the special del stickers for them, I hate to see them struggle

Lum

"I want that one!" *points randomly*

This thread reminds me of a Viz-style top-tip I saw once

"Post offices - Pretend it's no-longer the 19th century by accepting credit cards and opening on a ******* Staurday"

Why do they still not accept credit cards? surely they have been around long enough and have enough turnover to meet the requirements of the banks, or is it just that that would be helpful so they don't do it.

I'm sick of having to go to the Rip-U-off cash machine in the chav-filled Bargain Booze around the corner and then rejoin the queues of biddies getting their pension.

When I was a kid the biddies would start queueing for their pension an hour before it opened, literally down the road blocking all the shop entrances.... why! have they nothing better to do? (oh, wait)

BTW, where's the online car tax thingie, would have improved things. The DVLA site didn't mention it, but then again it still says 12 months tax is 160 quid.

Scoob99

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ajm you might think we are only a jobs worth but we do a pretty good job, would love to see how some of the members of public would cope this time of year, so stick your jobs worth title where the sun don't shine
Cheers
Colin

ajm

Do you work behind the counter at a Post Office? Do you wear beige clothes, look over horn rimmed spectacles and take an inordinate amount of time to serve people? Do you take delight in finding reasons for not being able to process people's requests? Do you love the feel of reams of pointless paper forms?

No? Then I'm not calling YOU a jobsworth!

and you can stick that where you want!