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Friggin Xmas dinner is stuffed up.
We ordered a fresh goose. The one that's been delivered is half the size of the one we ordered and so not big enough to feed everyone.
One of the parcels from England hasn't been delivered yet - and it's last post day today. So I've got no mincemeat to make mince pies. And no xmas pud! And no selection box for one of the kids!
Another parcel with pressies for the kids didn't arrive either. I swear the post gets worse every year. It might help if the machines and post-people could actually read and not keep sending stuff via australia.. I swear they see the austr and assume the rest.. It really is amazing how much of out international mail goes on holiday to australia before it comes to us.
At least one parcel did arrive.. so we've got xmas crackers to pull with our stingy xmas dinner, and a tin of roses to drown the sorrows in LOL
ciggiez
12-22-06, 02:31 PM
It really is amazing how much of out international mail goes on holiday to australia before it comes to us.
At least your mail goes somewhere nice for its holidays.
The last thing my parents sent to me went to Luanda in Zambia.
Poor little envelope must have been bloody terrified for the entire journey.
Friggin Xmas dinner is stuffed up.
Why didn't you just buy locally?
Fog in the UK means very few european flights over the past 3 days......
but at least you've got the important stuff... crackers and roses....
Why didn't you just buy locally?
Cos locally doesn't have english stuff like xmas pudding, xmas crackers, mincemeat, and selection boxes and tins of roses etc etc etc.
Being a bi-national household we have 2 days, the 24th we do the local christmas like everyone else here. Then the 25th we do an English xmas and I have all the needed trimmings sent from england to do it.
I have Bailey's and after 8 mints, Im good to go for two days or so, untill the Indian is open again
Fog in the UK means very few european flights over the past 3 days......
but at least you've got the important stuff... crackers and roses....
I'd have taken that as a decent excuse.. except the two parcels containing trimmings were posted at exactly the same time, in the same place, by the same person, and the one that arrived, did so on monday.
We'd already decided we're flying over and doing the shopping ourselves next year and bringing everything back in suitcases. And that was before the post failure.
The Austria & Australia postage always cracks me up how world post always manage to fcuk those two up. Still hope you have a rocking Christmas minus the stuff ups. :)
-N
Royal Mail delivered a xmas card to me last week addressed to someone living in the same number house, in a different road .. in a different town .. in a different county. I'm in Devon, letter was addressed to Yorkshire. So I made sure there wasnt any money in there and threw it away.
We've had our post redirected from England (and it cost a fucking fortune) - so far they've forwarded three letters that weren't addressed to us.
Wankers
We've had our post redirected from England (and it cost a fucking fortune) - so far they've forwarded three letters that weren't addressed to us.
Wankers
Why would you want to redirect debt collection agency letters? :gaylords:
redwhiteandblue
12-23-06, 12:14 PM
Being able to read or count house numbers has never been a prerequisite for working in the Royal Mail.
Why would you want to redirect debt collection agency letters? :gaylords:
Well we gotta have our giros redirected
mOBSCENE
12-23-06, 12:55 PM
Royal Mail delivered a xmas card to me last week addressed to someone living in the same number house, in a different road .. in a different town .. in a different county. I'm in Devon, letter was addressed to Yorkshire. So I made sure there wasnt any money in there and threw it away.
Was probably the only card DVtimes sent - to himself. He will cry now it's gone astray :)
Johnny Kleenexxx
12-23-06, 04:09 PM
Christmas is a bag of shite unless you're a kid .. end of chat
Being able to read or count house numbers has never been a prerequisite for working in the Royal Mail.
Saw a great Smith & Jones sketch a few years back set in a sorting office, showing all the workers sorting letters and putting them into the correct pigeon holes, and Jones on the other side pushing a big trolley smoking a fag and bunging them all in together :)
Order earlier...problem solved. Or just make this stuff. It is not that hard.
I had a reply typed out. You don't deserve it though.
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