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The "How was your day" thread.

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greengiant
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by greengiant »

Very busy, didn't get out till 10am, last letter at 4:35! :shock: Cold feet all day too! :sad: YDS trainers are not particularly warm!
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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Sod of a day, and to make matters worse, not only have we got D2D's next week on the busiest week of the year, but one of them is a half-inch thick Red Cross envelope containing coasters and a pen. The slots will be full before we've chucked a single letter in. Congratulations to which ever genius agreed to that :evil/mad
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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ShropshireLad wrote: Congratulations to which ever genius agreed to that :evil/mad
That'll be some pen-pusher sat on their lard-arse, in a warm office, counting down the days to the office Xmas party :roll:
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by manboss »

Got out at 10 and got back at 430, along with couple of other walks. Poor sod, one of the lads doing extra had just loaded van up with oversized and still 2 more yorks of oversized packets left in office, don't know what time he's going to finish.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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a crap day ended up on my arse twice dammed black ice
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by jimmynailsalive »

terry2972 wrote:a crap day ended up on my arse twice dammed black ice
Wore spikes today and they done the job, first light day in a while, out early and back for 2:30, going to be manic on monday I guess to make up for it.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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terry2972 wrote:a crap day ended up on my arse twice dammed black ice

Brought quite a bit of my mail back today because of this....... I wouldn't like to have risked my health and safety..! :dance
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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ShropshireLad wrote:Sod of a day, and to make matters worse, not only have we got D2D's next week on the busiest week of the year, but one of them is a half-inch thick Red Cross envelope containing coasters and a pen. The slots will be full before we've chucked a single letter in. Congratulations to which ever genius agreed to that :evil/mad
We had these last december. Can't imagine doing them this time of year though, we'd need 4 or 5 bags per loop. They came in november this year and I just took them all loose in my bag, only way of doing it really.

You'd think there'd be a size limit for D2Ds considering those things are literally packets rather than mail.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by ewancurze »

We have sorters going in on Saturday night,Sunday day and Sunday night,god knows what Monday is going to be like......loads of docket if I want it....
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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Guy asked me yesterday what I drank at Christmas (He's about 9 doors into my loop) and the thought of trying to balance a bottle or cans into an already overflowing bag led me to admit to being tee-total.

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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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Easy 8 hours docket today doing parcels and the callers office. Did the Sunday collection yesterday which was a nightmare.
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Finally, the fabled easy Tuesday appeared :nana
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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dave72 wrote:Finally, the fabled easy Tuesday appeared :nana
Calm before the storm?
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by krussel »

It was ok today. Mail very light other than packets which is expected.

Still went 40 mins over (OT) but a chilled walk around in the sunshine.

Back to cutting off tomorrow no doubt.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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worryingly light today. Waiting for the packet storm to hit :nervous