The "How was your day" thread.

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 13 Mar 2019, 21:42

Storm Gareth was pretty nasty today.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 14 Mar 2019, 19:35

ewancurze wrote:One of our new guys quit today after 1 week, his line was "They don't give you time to s**t yourself here"
Shame he didn't make it, seems he would have been good at the banter.
He was unlucky, last week was a spectacularly crap one!

I hear a second has gone now, need to confirm that though.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 14 Mar 2019, 20:26

When are the council tax letters due out by? No sign of them yet here for any council

Post by **CPTNemoUK** » 14 Mar 2019, 23:08

SpacePhoenix wrote:When are the council tax letters due out by? No sign of them yet here for any council

We got the main bulk of ours on Saturday just gone. With other chunks of them the rest of this week.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 15 Mar 2019, 16:58

We were told they were coming Wednesday....then Thursday......then Friday,no sign of them at all.
We all just know they will be in Saturday!

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 17 Mar 2019, 17:53

I've been feeling pretty shocked and depressed since Friday.

I have friends and family members living in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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norris9 · Post by **norris9** » 06 Apr 2019, 15:24

I hate people that can't put a house number on their house. Why the heck don't you have a number? pain in the butt.

ewancurze · Post by **ewancurze** » 07 Apr 2019, 11:13

I have one with no number, no doorbell and no door knocker......and he moaned at me for not knocking the other day, so next time I will knock his door in!
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(Not his back door though!)

norris9 · Post by **norris9** » 07 Apr 2019, 12:37

ewancurze wrote:I have one with no number, no doorbell and no door knocker......and he moaned at me for not knocking the other day, so next time I will knock his door in!
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(Not his back door though!)

lol

Imagine if everyone was like these people and didn't bother putting a number on their house....you wouldn't know where the hell you were going.

I am a newbie....

-Next in my pile I had a letter for number 20....
-I had just been to number 19, the next house along had no number so I assumed it was number 20, so I put this letter through the door.
-Next in my pile I had letters for number 21, the next house also had no number, so again I assumed it was number 21...I put the letters through.
-Next I had letters for 23 and walked along the road and I expected to see number 22 next, but it was number 25....

Then I realised my balls up. The combination of a rogue number 20 letter and 2 homes in a row with no house numbers had thrown me off.

To come to a house with no number and have to go 2+ doors up or 2+ doors down to work out which house number it is....is ridiculous.

Anyway it's something I need to keep an eye on. It's my fault, I was not paying attention to it being an alternate/odd numbered street, partly because I am new to the road and partly due to other houses on the street also having no number / I wasn't delivering to every house. These people don't do any visitors/delivery workers/taxi drivers any favours. And what does a house number cost to buy, a few quid?

PostmanBitesDog · Post by **PostmanBitesDog** » 07 Apr 2019, 14:03

It is actually a legal requirement for houses to have a clearly visible number to be displayed. But the legislation is fairly old and doesn't appear to be updated or even enforced very much.

Legislation.gov.uk

Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847

Section 65: Numbers of Houses to be Renewed by Occupiers

"The occupiers of houses and other buildings in the streets shall mark their houses with such numbers as the commissioners approve of, and shall renew such numbers as often as they become obliterated or defaced; and every such occupier who fails, within one week after notice for that purpose from the commissioners, to mark his house with a number approved of by the commissioners, or to renew such number when obliterated, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [£20], and the commissioners shall cause such numbers to be marked or to be renewed, as the case may require, and the expense thereof shall be repaid to them by such occupier, and shall be recoverable as damages."

I'd expect it would also help emergency services such as fire, ambulance, and police to find the right address.

norris9 · Post by **norris9** » 07 Apr 2019, 15:33

PostmanBitesDog wrote:
I'd expect it would also help emergency services such as fire, ambulance, and police to find the right address.

Oh yes - of course.

It's really unhelpful for many reasons, especially for those you mentioned above.

Roccat4 · Post by **Roccat4** » 07 Apr 2019, 19:29

My second favorite (after "missing" numbers) will be adventurous owners, who renovate their 10 in a row type bungalow, and put letter box on the back door, so you have to go around all their neighbors houses and back of course. Guess they just want to be special.

glass joe · Post by **glass joe** » 09 Apr 2019, 14:16

Easy today. Last letter in at 11.55am paid till 2.15pm, managers were already gone home when I got back. We don't get a late run anymore so people are out the office by 8.45am. Eventually, everyone going to get an extra loop added on. I come in on time and finish an hour before my duty so i am only doing 31 hours a week or so.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 09 Apr 2019, 19:28

glass joe wrote:Easy today. Last letter in at 11.55am paid till 2.15pm, managers were already gone home when I got back. We don't get a late run anymore so people are out the office by 8.45am. Eventually, everyone going to get an extra loop added on. I come in on time and finish an hour before my duty so i am only doing 31 hours a week or so.

Not necessarily, RM have got to factor in timed deliveries (the system is now live)

Tinoblade · Post by **Tinoblade** » 09 Apr 2019, 19:42

Amazed to see that our section has apparently had its walks all re assessed and our supposed to be 4 hours walks. yet looking at the bullshit sheet they put up for the week nothing is allocated less than 4:20. What the?