VOT : British Comedy Awards (ish)

Right......rant time... the PO having nearly cost me a load of
dosh. Again. [1]

I've just been the PO with todays small parcels. As the new
"volumetic" charging system is comming in just in time to
cause total chaos for the Christmas post we've been trying
out plans to pack things, safely (i.e. to withstand being
thrown 30ft), as small as possible.

Very Pleasant Bloke In Small Rural PO: "Er, I can't get the
label on the front of this jiffy bag."

Me: "We're practicing for the new volumetic charging - not
my problem".

Very Pleasant Bloke In Small Rural PO: "Ah right, that's going
to cause total chaos.".

Me : "How's it goimg to work then".

Very Pleasant Bloke In Small Rural PO: "They've sent us some
templates. We have to put the parcel through them. Everyone's
going to be cramming them through saying Look I told you it
would fit."

Me: "You are joking?"

Very Pleasant Bloke In Small Rural PO: "No, really. They should
get the clown who came up with the idea to work here for 6
weeks over Christmas".

Last posting day for Christmas : August 1st. Sandwiches and tents
required for the queues!

Mind you, you might as well chuck your parcels in the bin and save
Royal Mail the bother.......


Richard

[1] three parcels went AWOL just for a change. Complaint made.
Parcels miraculously turn up. Now, call me MR. Suspicious, but....
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 18:02:52 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Very Pleasant Bloke In Small Rural PO: "They've sent us some
> templates. We have to put the parcel through them. Everyone's
> going to be cramming them through saying Look I told you it
> would fit."
>
>Me: "You are joking?"


No joke - we've had five or six of these cardboard templates sent
through now.


>Mind you, you might as well chuck your parcels in the bin and save
>Royal Mail the bother.......


When asked about secure data destruction for hard drives I generally
recommend sending it to yourself via Parcel Force, then resend it to
yourself via CityLink - total destruction and disposal - I wonder if
they're getting a Euro subsidy for the WEEEEEEEE directive?



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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote:

> ...
> When asked about secure data destruction for hard drives I generally
> recommend sending it to yourself via Parcel Force, then resend it to
> yourself via CityLink - total destruction and disposal

that is too funny - I wish there were no more than a grain of truth there.

--
William Tasso

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