how legal is it for Post Office staff to refuse to serve ppl on mobies?

onetwothree123

shaun you are so practical and logical, good one!

onetwothree123

not a new user, it is a illegal if you speak into one when driving ! But no ones had any court case against them yet for reminding the wife to get the dinner on at the counter of the post office still you just never know!

vuvuzela

onetwothree123 wrote: »

not a new user, it is a illegal if you speak into one when driving ! But no ones had any court case against them yet for reminding the wife to get the dinner on at the counter of the post office still you just never know!

...and no-one ever will.
No-one has suggested that this will ever happen, they have just said that it should be a basic right for the staff in places to be able to deal with customers that are courteous enough to not use a mobile while they are dealing with them.
To encourage this, some places have put up signs, which if you look at it, is a pretty sad indictment of how selfish and rude some of British society has become.

RFW

notanewuser wrote: »

You have a very odd idea of how the law works. It isn't illegal to use a mobile phone in either of those places, but you will be asked not to. Likewise cinemas, theatres, aeroplanes, GP surgeries etc etc. You can't end up in prison for using a phone, but anybody has the right to refuse to serve you if you are.

The amount of threads that start "is it legal..." is amazing. We have enough daft laws in this country, we don't need any more.

Mostly for "is it legal" we can substitute "Does it get on anyone else's wick...". Thinking something is out of order doesn't mean it should be illegal.

As far as the Post Office goes, I'd say it depends on how long they make you wait in a queue. If you're spending half an hour queuing up whilst the two cashiers discuss what happened in Coronation Street last night then they should expect the odd punter to call home to have their dinner put in the oven.

onetwothree123

RFW the winner of the award of solid old fashioned logic applications and modern interwebbingnesses of reasonings !

and tell her sternly "...it's a wig Hayley Cropper wears..."

charlies_mum

First delivery from yodel today. Driver walks down the drive talking on his phone, thrusts the machine a me and says "sign", which I do, then asks "name" while continuing his conversation and walks off still talking

Had an email from yodel asking what i thought of their service. They really don't want to know.

stclair

Its seems to be a regular occurrence now a days:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2353581/Sainsburys-customer-shocked-checkout-assistant-refuses-serve-mobile.html

RFW

charlies_mum wrote: »

First delivery from yodel today. Driver walks down the drive talking on his phone, thrusts the machine a me and says "sign", which I do, then asks "name" while continuing his conversation and walks off still talking

Had an email from yodel asking what i thought of their service. They really don't want to know.

Yodel got the right address and a signature? The driver was probably calling the Guinness Book of Records;)

BigJonnyB

I own a large village post office. We handle any undelivered items for Royal Mail rather than them going to the nearest town - for which we are unpaid, but do as goodwill to the village.

My last customer at 5:28pm came up to the counter talking on his phone. He slid a collection card under the window, he didn't even make eye contact. I went and fetched the item, came back and he was still talking on the phone. I needed a signature so interupted him to ask him to sign a slip - he tutted at me! I passed the item through the parcel hatch, he carried on talking, I didn't even get a thank you. Off he went.

Well done to those offices that stand up to people like this. I have enough confrontation as it is. I wish I was able to stand there waiting for them to finish, and then pick up MY phone and call someone for a chat to see how they like it. Alas, I don't drink on the counter so don't have the nerve :rotfl:

mrcol1000

I think you will find that as someone else as said, as long as they don't discriminate on sexuality, race or gender they can do as they please. Post Offices are private property and so you can not just do as you wish. They could also ask you to leave their private property if they so wished as long as it is not because of racial, gender or sexuality reasons.

Sadly people are too used to doing as they please when they please hence the need for signs asking people to do what should be an obvious thing.