My good lady wife bought a couple of books of the new 2nd class with the coded section on them. We already had lots of the 'old' style and I told her to use those first. She asked me to take cards to the post box today and they all had the new stamps on them!
It occurs to me that there's no point in buying first class stamps. Why would the post office hold onto letters for a few days rather than despatch them? I ordered something from Amazon yesterday. I didn't opt for fast delivery so I was told to expect it Monday. No problem. It arrived today. They obviously saw no reason to hang on to it for a few days. However, a small package ( hearing aid batteries) is two weeks late. It would have been sent by royal mail and is probably stuck in a depot somewhere. I'll have to get them elsewhere. Hopefully the Amazon ones will arrive before the use by date.
No wonder stamps have gone up and postal workers are on strike, no one writes letters anymore, a lot of people are giving up sending Christmas cards and people do so much online. It is all starting to mean death for the Post Office.
I like sending Christmas cards and I put letters in them. It's a very good way to keep in touch with friends and family, especially after I moved to France. I like receiving them too. Cards are part of my decorations. Cards a very expensive in France as it isn't such a pooular thing to do here. I always buy cheap charity English cards.my mother used to send about 200, I send about 60.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I send one to my mum and that's it. She likes to get them and she even reads the verse!. I've tried to train myself not to just look at the picture. It's usually crap picture/ appropriate verse she will appreciate and vice versa. I used to buy cards for my students. They were probably wasted. Those who weren't Jehovah witnesses were probably Muslim but they all ate the chocolate Santa enclosed.
My niece's husband is a postie and has never supported strike action before this one. He doesn't have a problem accepting the offered pay rise, but the change to employment T&C is simply unacceptable to staff. Management want 'flexible working' but their interpretation of that is that if workload is low on Tuesday for example, staff can be sent home after 4 hours, and then expected to work 12 the following day. It would be impossible to plan anything during the week if that was brought in, and many people do have commitments outside work. Would anybody here be happy with that setup?
If Sunak wasn't hiding in the freezer with his fingers in his ears, we wouldn't be in this situation. Employers make these unfair conditions of employment just because they can. The government does nothing to stop them.
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I ordered something from Amazon yesterday. I didn't opt for fast delivery so I was told to expect it Monday. No problem.
It arrived today. They obviously saw no reason to hang on to it for a few days. However, a small package ( hearing aid batteries) is two weeks late. It would have been sent by royal mail and is probably stuck in a depot somewhere. I'll have to get them elsewhere. Hopefully the Amazon ones will arrive before the use by date.
I like sending Christmas cards and I put letters in them. It's a very good way to keep in touch with friends and family, especially after I moved to France. I like receiving them too. Cards are part of my decorations. Cards a very expensive in France as it isn't such a pooular thing to do here. I always buy cheap charity English cards.my mother used to send about 200, I send about 60.
I used to buy cards for my students. They were probably wasted. Those who weren't Jehovah witnesses were probably Muslim but they all ate the chocolate Santa enclosed.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@raisingirl The difference being that you presumably signed up to a zero hours contract, from choice or otherwise, Royal Mail staff didn't.
I would also have assumed the workload is fairly even as well, why would it be slacker on a Tuesday rather than a Wednesday or Thursday, I'm puzzled.