The grumpy thread

[overrun]

Ludicrous pricing aside, I hate Royal Mail.

Does anyone remember when they last sent or received an item the next day, when it was sent first class/fc recorded as opposed to special delivery?

 

I never do now.

[Pillock]

I still seem to get stuff delivered next day, but I have this thing about going out of my way to use a postbox somewhere busy. I'll often drive 15 miles to Sainsburys as that's the last collection, so in my mind it means it's guaranteed to be collected. It's someone's job to stay late to drive out to the supermarket at 6pm rather than be part of a round earlier on.

 

Plus, the postbox over the road has a 4.45pm last collection, I've dropped stuff in at 6pm before and it's been almost full (serving only a few hundred houses), clearly not emptied. 

[Richard]

You won't have to worry about Royal Mail for much longer, it'll be gone within a couple of years.

[Cavcraft]

Then you'll have to worry.

[Ghosty]

TwatWest sending me a letter telling me they're charging me £6 for overdrawing, because random eBay listing fee rape bounced (why is it always later than they say it's going to be? and why can't they just take it at point of sale?). I wouldn't mind, but I was only £1.18 off being able to pay, and it randomly charged my mum's credit card instead... and it took th best part of a week to tell me that.

[autofive]

you can pay your ebay fees at any time, i always pay as soon as i get the invoice

[Ghosty]

Really? They don't make anything obvious in fairness, all the site redesigns are just ways of hiding the useful features to make selling an even bigger PITA.

[warren t claim]

£18.60 to cross a bridge that only ends up in fucking Wales. Bargain. Any wages experts here? A client I was slaving for has docked £30 out of my expenses because I allegedly went in a bus lane in Luton. I've not seen any proof of this at all.

[retrogeezer]

£18.60?? Is that what it costs to go across in a car?

[Jim Bergerac]

Brilliant. Fucking Hotmail are being absolute arses now. They won't let me access the ONE account I need to access, they are holding it to ransom until I give them my phone number. They can fuck off and shove thier account up thier arses, nosey cunts. The other account I have with them doesnt seem to need this nosey info (so far) I've had this account for more than 10 years and now suddenly because they want everthing including my inside leg measurement they'll suddenly 'lock' my account until they get want they want?

 

This is something that boils my piss too. Facebook and Paypal also have started chase people to give their phone number. Can't they just have an 'I'll take my chances with online security option'?

[cort16]

I send a ps3 game the other day wanting it signed for and it was 4 pissing quid. I'm sure that it'll be 24 quid once it's privatised. Is there anyone who thinks privatising the mail is a good idea cis I've not met one.

[Doctormop]

Privatisation is always a good thing, when I think back to British Rail/Steel, National Coal Board, Post Office telephones I can't believe how much better things are these days, am sure the Mail will be the same, prices will drop service will improve etc

[warren t claim]

£18.60?? Is that what it costs to go across in a car?

Transit sized and above.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'm fairly sure that once the royal mail is gone and we all have to rely on privately run courier services for delivering anything we'll be regretting 'our' decision, as no courier company that has been invented so far is anything other than a FUCKING NIGHTMARE to deal with, the whole industry is a massive compendium of wankers all of whom should be gassed.

[Cavcraft]

Privatisation is always a good thing, when I think back to British Rail/Steel, National Coal Board, Post Office telephones I can't believe how much better things are these days, am sure the Mail will be the same, prices will drop service will improve etc

 

Oh aye, train services are really reliable* these days and at least the f*cking companies aren't still getting propped up by our money.

National coal? What f*cking coal?

Post Office telephones? Went to shit when BT took over.

 

Oh wait...

[Wilko220]

The vast majority of the many, many companies that have been privatised over the past 30-40 years, people don't even remember were ever in state ownership. There were hundreds of them, dating back to the wacky "commanding heights" policies of the early-mid 20th century Labour Party. So I agree that, in general, privatisation has been a good thing.

 

That said, there are some things (like the railways, like electricity supply, like the postal service) which are simply always going to be a natural monopoly - and I have never understood how privatising them and injecting fake, subsidised "competition" into them has made any sense.

 

Any good idea can be taken too far.

[autofive]

Privatisation is always a good thing, when I think back to British Rail/Steel, National Coal Board, Post Office telephones I can't believe how much better things are these days, am sure the Mail will be the same, prices will drop service will improve etc

 

i notice you forgot to include british leyland, british gas or the water board

 

privitisation is an excuse for the tory bastards to line their own pockets at the publics expense, as usual

[Richard]

I think there was a degree of irony in Doctormop's post, that's how I read it anyway.

[Station]

First class stamp? 64p?!

[chaseracer]

A combination of degree-level economics training, life experience and left-leaning politics (I'll get my coat in a moment...) tells me that a 'mixed economy' is the way forward. Nationalised utilities and major public transport (the 'natural monopolies') operated for the benefit of the public (instead of grossly subsidised by them as now) not for the enrichment of large shareholders, combined with open competition everywhere else.

I have my Nomex suit on now...
 

[skattrd]

My experience tells me .... Don't talk politics on Autoshite

[mattblack]

OH FFS...

 

I've had this week off work to do some work on the Cortina. Been scraping the loose crap off the underneath on the offside, cutting out some bits of grot and welding some patches on. Now bear in mind that I didn't actually start until late Tuesday morning and I've been starting at 9.00 - 9.30 and finishing any noisy work by 5.30 - 6.00 and having about an hour between about 12.30 and 1.30 for my dinner. This morning the woman over the road come over ranting about how "she's sick of all the noise, I've no consideration, the classic 'my son's a policeman', I'll get on to the council, the woman next door has to take the baby out to get it sleep" (but apparently hasn't complained herself because 'she's too polite'). She then come out with the 'I'm a trader' bollocks, the evidence for which is that about 2 1/2 years ago I parked a car on next doors drive (which they invited me to do as they were going away for a while) and some pikeys came round and bought it. Oh yes, that would by my late fathers Mondeo, which I sold for him as he had to give up driving because he had dementia, thanks for reminding me.

 

Oh well, I await the knock at the door...

[Rocket88]

Dog turd through letter box?

[purplebargeken]

My classic response is a steely eyed glare and 'fuck off'. 

[chaseracer]

Must try that.

[trigger]

She's sounds like a total kunt. As Watanabe would say.

[RobT]

Is she retired by any chance?  Some of the old gits where I live have fuck all else to do but nose around and complain about others.

[RedSparrow]

I like to ignore them as if they're not there. After a while all they can hear is themselves repeating themselves and walk off in a huff feeling stupid.

Passive aggressive.

[Mr Lobster]

I send a ps3 game the other day wanting it signed for and it was 4 pissing quid. I'm sure that it'll be 24 quid once it's privatised. Is there anyone who thinks privatising the mail is a good idea cis I've not met one.

I'm not against privatisation in some circumstances but Royal Mail should be left alone. I don't buy this bollocks that they need the money to invest anyway, they still made a very handsome profit last year as it is. Privatisation will only bring greater costs for the users and a poorer service. And if you live somewhere remote (Scotland, the Isle of Wight, Cornwall) then you're probably shafted. The current situation whereby Royal Mail and the Post Office are entirely seperate organisations is stupid enough as it is.

 

BTW, the Post Office (as seperate from RM) are going to scrap all that medium /. large packet silliness they introduced a few months back and bring prices back down. Apparently they have lost a lot of over the counter business because of it.

[autofive]

I like to ignore them as if they're not there. After a while all they can hear is themselves repeating themselves and walk off in a huff feeling stupid.

Passive aggressive.

 

ignoring them works a treat

 

like the dumb bitch who complained that 'my husbands disabled' when i lit a weed and bush fire, in a metal container, in my own back garden, for the first time in about 2 years

 

i completely ignored her and slowly walked away. This made her unbelievably enraged.

 

 

on the other hand....

 

sometimes.....

 

screaming at them to fuck off is also fun, especially if others are out in the street to hear

 

if you have an audience; maybe you could try shouting "no, i dont want to see your underwear" or 'that is disgusting, its no wonder your husband goes cottaging" at her when she starts moaning