Things I see at the PO

soolin

I now use a sorting office to drop my items off pre stamped but they do also run a limited counter service. Todya a fellow ebayer was in there with a single item, she explained that she had taken her stuff to the PO as usual but they couldn't take one of her items as it was a mirror and they were afraid it would break. So she decided to bring it direct to the sorting office as it then doesn't have to be manhandled in the PO van and will be safer.

The mirror was wrapped in a single black bin liner, with normal sellotape and with the end of it poking out where the bag didn't quite fit. There was no protection, no box and no padding, just a bin liner.

The thing was the counter lady started down the route of 'it isn't any safer here and I am sure the PO meant it needed to be re wrapped' but the ebayer was adamant that as she was handing it in direct it would easily now just travel to the buyer and be fine, so the counter staff took it as a standard parcel as requested. The staff member then carefully took the mirror and chucked it straight into the bottom of a large cage, and proceeded to dump my books (one of them over a kilo) directly on top.

So if anyone is expecting a 'nursery mirror' (It had some sort of figures, round the edge), I wouldn't hold your breath.

fridayschild_2

and she's going to be so shocked when the buyer tells her it didn't arrive in one piece!

Oh poor posties, all that bad luck................

martindow

Hope my book is not going to have shards of glass impaled in it.

soolin

martindow wrote: »

Hope my book is not going to have shards of glass impaled in it.

If it was the large book about the Somme it will be fine, I packed it very well :rotfl:

Anyway, whats a bit of shrapnel between friends.

DirtPoorGuy

I was in the Post Office yesterday and I was shocked to see the Woman on the counter throwing several boxes belonging to a customer about 10 feet in to a cage from where she was sitting at the counter, she did this in front of the customer and they never complained, the counter asisstant was all smiling and proud of herself because she hadn't missed. :eek:

custardy

soolin wrote: »

I now use a sorting office to drop my items off pre stamped but they do also run a limited counter service. Todya a fellow ebayer was in there with a single item, she explained that she had taken her stuff to the PO as usual but they couldn't take one of her items as it was a mirror and they were afraid it would break. So she decided to bring it direct to the sorting office as it then doesn't have to be manhandled in the PO van and will be safer.

The mirror was wrapped in a single black bin liner, with normal sellotape and with the end of it poking out where the bag didn't quite fit. There was no protection, no box and no padding, just a bin liner.

The thing was the counter lady started down the route of 'it isn't any safer here and I am sure the PO meant it needed to be re wrapped' but the ebayer was adamant that as she was handing it in direct it would easily now just travel to the buyer and be fine, so the counter staff took it as a standard parcel as requested. The staff member then carefully took the mirror and chucked it straight into the bottom of a large cage, and proceeded to dump my books (one of them over a kilo) directly on top.

So if anyone is expecting a 'nursery mirror' (It had some sort of figures, round the edge), I wouldn't hold your breath.

because people think the item goes into a van at the PO,and is then driven to its destination
after all ,you have seen Pat and he only has a few items a day

soolin

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

I was in the Post Office yesterday and I was shocked to see the Woman on the counter throwing several boxes belonging to a customer about 10 feet in to a cage from where she was sitting at the counter, she did this in front of the customer and they never complained, the counter asisstant was all smiling and proud of herself because she hadn't missed. :eek:

That would be considered normal at the pOs i use. At the sorting office the cages are about 6 ft high and everything is tossed in from a great distance as though they were playing basketball.

It certainly teaches you to wrap well, the first time you see a fragile item go in with 5ft of stuff piled on top......

hermum

custardy wrote: »

because people think the item goes into a van at the PO,and is then driven to its destination
after all ,you have seen Pat and he only has a few items a day

Isn't that how it happens then? Next you're going to tell me that they don't take their cats with them as well.

Owain_Moneysaver

DirtPoorGuy wrote: »

I was in the Post Office yesterday and I was shocked to see the Woman on the counter throwing several boxes belonging to a customer about 10 feet in to a cage from where she was sitting at the counter, she did this in front of the customer and they never complained, the counter asisstant was all smiling and proud of herself because she hadn't missed. :eek:

:rotfl:If you can't play rugby with it, you shouldn't post it :rotfl: