The Post Office. can they get any greedier... yes they can.....

Newbird

Yeh, Greenwich thats what I was saying too...above for Bluemonkey of course.

blue_monkey_2

I do, thank you. I have two kiddies under 3 and the thing that worries me is having to go back 'out' to work and leave them. I have worked so hard and built this up from nothing so I could be at home with them and the thought of having to close because of stupid postal charges is mad.

I guess you are right and if someone offered another service I would use it like a shot. Hey, I am not old enough to remember the BT thing (LOL, well, kind of). Yes you are right though and seeing it there made a lot of sense. Maybe we will get our mail then before 2.00 most days, our postman has a sleep before he comes up to deliver our mail - we have even seem him asleep outside our house! Of course he is too busy, LOL.

Thanks for putting some stuff into perspective for me though and I won't dwell on it for now. I am sure you are right though, they are greedy and it will probably be their downfall. Thanks.

Newbird

Aww, glad to help, I know something like this can get out of proportion when the kids and your livelihood are concernd. Good on ya for acheiving what you have done, I too stayed home to raise my kids, and it was a lot harder then....no ebay to make work from home actually a choice. We just struggled and had to penny pinch to pay the mortgage, and make meals out of leftovers and virtually nothing.

BT raised their prices and the whole range of telecom new companies took a huge share of their market until they were forced to back pedal and lower charges again to attract customers back. In fact they are still doing it, so have BritishGas...so there is hope. Take care, nice cup of cocoa now :coffee:

djohn2002uk

Wont a bra go in a large letter? The cost for 140gms=61p and as a packet=119p.
Don't see where your prices come from.

blue_monkey_2

Hi DJohn, No, they are too big, especially the padded ones and the ones I sell that have gel inside. I am thinking of buying some sort of vacuum packing machine though to suck the air out, they become too fat becuase of the material and packaging. The other option though is to take it out of the packaging but people expect them to be new and in the packaging because this is how I always offered my bras in the past. I know this will now get a bit technical for you men but the plunge bras are quite heavily padded so they are quite big and this will make it more than 25mm thick - we thought of all this today, but after Newbird posted I did start to think of things in a different light.

Newbird, yes, I do understand completely, without work it is for the same for us now with money being very tight and I realise I am very lucky and I appreciate this every day I promise. As for us as a family though, we don't have the mortgage to worry about because we are living in mums house. We cannot afford to live around here really, this was supposed to be our start to build up to something and maybe think about being able to afford somewhere. However, with just hubbies salary we can only get 80k and that does not even buy a shed around here so we live in mums house and she lives around the corner with her boyfriend. But, although it would be nice to have somewhere of our own, houses can come later, my babies need a mum for now, not a nanny, I did not have them for someone else to look after 12 hours a day and they need me!! It just helps I can keep my sanity by being able to do something else as well as change nappies and wipe food off the floor (and walls!!) and that is just my husband, I won't start on the kdis, LOL!! Thanks again for everything. xx

Newbird

LOL, yup, it all sounds really familiar, my boys are now 22,21 and 19. I had 3 in 4.5 years!

Heard about an aquaintance who has fab house, ripped out a gorgeous expensive kitchen there to put in new one, has a nanny, housesitter and pet sitters when they holiday. She doesn't work, gets changed and make-up on in time for hubby to come home....the nanny cooks for the kids but has to bring her own sandwiches! You name it they have it twice...however the strangest thing and more importantly SADDEST thing I think I have ever heard - is that the kids don't do much with mum/dad at all, to the extent that she got pet rabbit out of hutch on her own lap stroking it and when the daughter (age about 4) asked 'Mummy, can i stroke the rabbit please?' was told 'No, not today but maybe tomorrow' ....Maybe???

I still can't get over it, bad enough to have the pets the kids can see and can't play with, she gets it out of the hutch and they are denied even touch, I just can't imagine what that little girl went to bed thinking, and how badly she must want to stroke the fluffy bunny..

You are doing the right thing, put your kids first...how much richer they are, and you for being a proper Mum to them. I don't know what she will do when the kids are old enough to develop ideas against their parents view of things...I suppose they'll be packed off to boarding school at the first chance, tho they will surely have more opportunity there, so not a bad thing.

Oh, getting off subject here, err, yes ....damn the Royal mail and love your kids!

Al_Mac

Our postie is great, lives up the road.

Wednesday popped in, at tea time, with a sign for parcel, if anyone asks you got it a lunch time. Just to save us a trip in to town.

Turned up tonight with another parcel.

Good postie and a good neighbour. Mind you he wont be getting any extra cash out of this.

Newbird

BTW ... I'm not against working mums, we all do what we have to do. But those staying at home working using the post service are just having it made even more difficult to earn a few pennies, by the Royal Mail. No, I don't suppose the posties will be getting a wage rise out of the hiked up prices...

My post lady is good to, she signs for me on recorded mail, (she is allowed to, to confirm it's delivery,) to save me a trip into the village to pick up stuff if I'm not home, or I don't hear her, as I've a post box at the gate.

blue_monkey_2

Newbird, I had to laugh at your mail - it really is absurd isn't it. Someone I used to work with used to have a nanny for her 3 kids and just after I left to have my daughter got pregnant again. My boss told me that when the baby was 5 days old they went to see her and she was talking about stopping breastfeeding and coming back to work. The baby was 5 days old. Why have a baby you do not want?? Might as well let the nanny have the baby for her and cut out the middle man!! You have to wonder what world some people live in. There was a woman in front of me in the local shop today who told the shopkeeper that she could nto take the £5 note becuase it was 'too dirty and tatty'. I had to hold back the snort of laughter - when it was my turn to pay he said to me 'is this OK for you?' handing me this grubby £5 note, I said as long as I can spend it it is - even the bloke was holding back his laughter. Gosh, would not want it ruining the look of her Gucci Purse now!! LOL. :rotfl:

Oh, I am not against working mums, people do what they have to do in this day and age and with the cost of living I can understand it. Like I say, we do not even have somewhere to live let alone paying for the mortgage - what I cannot understand, and I suppose disapprove of, is people who have more than one child they never see day to day. That makes no sense, you either want kids or you don't. My sister has had her nanny booked since my daughter was born (yes, I have one so she wants one too - money can't by babies yet though), she has no intention of looking after the child, she just wants a baby because I have one. Sad, sad, sad!! I really do not see the point?? At playgroup there is a childminder with a 4 week old baby.

Back onto the subject though. What great postmen/ladies you all have - if ours gets here early we think he must be on a promise later on in the round!! NO, I doubt they would get a pay rise out of any of this but the bloke who thought it up must have been on his hefty salary and has had nothing else to do since drewaming up the name consigna....... ah, who were they again!!

Well, bedtime calls, hubby on night, no tutting and signed becuase I am on the PC all night!! Heaven!! The double bonus being that the TV is on the channel I want it to be!!

soolin

djohn2002uk wrote:

Wont a bra go in a large letter? The cost for 140gms=61p and as a packet=119p.
Don't see where your prices come from.

It's the maximum depth that is the problem, it has to be almost flat to qualify as a letter.

Out of interest I checked how big 25mm is, and it is tiny. You'd have trouble sending a nicely folded handkerchief in a padded envelope as a letter with a 25mm depth restriction.

I suppose the little 'barely there' bras might just be able to squash into a letter rate, but for a real bra, like the ones I wear that are a feat of engineering (long live the wonderbra!!) you coudn't squash them if you tried.

What a strange discussion to be having on a Saturday morning!

Soo