Post Offices - what the f*ck?!?
15 December 2004, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
Lum - they DO accept credit cards! Well, actually, they accept debit cards but they're the ones most people use when they don't have the cash on them.
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Not that there's any point. Any money left iny my account a week after payday goes to pay off the cards.
15 December 2004, 08:51 PM
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lum EVERY post office does debit cards if they don't they are rather incompetent. we don't accept credit cards, i think its because of the cost, to do the transaction, though i think this is about to change when chip and pin comes into play in the new year
and again to anyone who get there postage online i hope your stickers fall off
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and again to anyone who get there postage online i hope your stickers fall off
mike
17 December 2004, 01:58 PM
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Posted in the right thread this time! 
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oh ffs.... I've just been home briefly and found another fricking "we tried to deliver while you were out" card.
I couldn't work out what it was at first, the last thing I had delivered was some aquarium equipment (including some 3 pin power plugs to plug into a power distribution system) two days ago to my work address. On closer inspection I found a note in the bag of plugs saying "sorry - 1 plug to follow".
I am assuming they must have tried to post the remaining plug to my billing address - now the question that remains to be answered is thus:
Is it really worth the hassle of going through it all again for the sake of a plug worth £2.50?.....
....oh ffs.... I've just been home briefly and found another fricking "we tried to deliver while you were out" card.
I couldn't work out what it was at first, the last thing I had delivered was some aquarium equipment (including some 3 pin power plugs to plug into a power distribution system) two days ago to my work address. On closer inspection I found a note in the bag of plugs saying "sorry - 1 plug to follow".
I am assuming they must have tried to post the remaining plug to my billing address - now the question that remains to be answered is thus:
Is it really worth the hassle of going through it all again for the sake of a plug worth £2.50?.....
17 December 2004, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ajm
I hate post offices with a passion.
1) They symbolise everything that is wrong with excess beaurocracy and inefficiency: endless paper forms that should all be on the internet, certificates, taxes and dusty old jobsworths behind the counter
2) There is always a huge queue, the longer the queue the slower the jobsworths work, glancing up every now and then to revel in the snaking queue they have created round the shop and out the door.
3) Blue rinses congregate for no reason other to natter with other blue rinses or to perform functions that can be done by other means, like paying bills. Go to a pub, use the phone, learn to use the fricking internet!!!! They all arrive at lunchtime too, to make sure people working 9-5 are inconvenienced the most during the only hour they can make it to the post office
4) I just want to mail a parcel. What on EARTH do the two people being served infront of me want? They have been there for AGES!!!! They are surrounded in reams of paper and forms and there is no end in sight!!!!
Close down all post offices apart from the postal functions. OAP's pay your bills by cheque or online. Pay giros direct to their accounts. Put all the damn forms on the internet and FIRE the dusty unhelpful jobsworths.
1) They symbolise everything that is wrong with excess beaurocracy and inefficiency: endless paper forms that should all be on the internet, certificates, taxes and dusty old jobsworths behind the counter
2) There is always a huge queue, the longer the queue the slower the jobsworths work, glancing up every now and then to revel in the snaking queue they have created round the shop and out the door.
3) Blue rinses congregate for no reason other to natter with other blue rinses or to perform functions that can be done by other means, like paying bills. Go to a pub, use the phone, learn to use the fricking internet!!!! They all arrive at lunchtime too, to make sure people working 9-5 are inconvenienced the most during the only hour they can make it to the post office
4) I just want to mail a parcel. What on EARTH do the two people being served infront of me want? They have been there for AGES!!!! They are surrounded in reams of paper and forms and there is no end in sight!!!!
Close down all post offices apart from the postal functions. OAP's pay your bills by cheque or online. Pay giros direct to their accounts. Put all the damn forms on the internet and FIRE the dusty unhelpful jobsworths.
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