Crazed Evil Rant

[smokingboot]

Oh I am well irritated right now!

So apart from one present, nothing I have ordered has turned up yet, and it's getting a bit late. Just how rubbish is the Royal Mail? I am sick of this crap postal service. The doorbell rings, you rush to it and if you're not there fast enough, they slip a note through your door telling you to come and collect your post which will be in such-and-such office - but phone first cos it can take up to 3 days to get back there, and don't try on the weekend (in fairness, I think some places do Saturday morning) but if you want an all day service, you have to go during the week. How can that be an issue? Surely there's always one person in the house, anyone would think Britain was a country of couples who go out to work...nonsense really. We all know little Mrs Homemaker has nothing better to do than wait for letters, and picking up parcels is a nice break from getting high on Cillit Bang or making a victoria sandwich for when the real earner comes home. I wonder if there's a whole population out there who keep small dogs just for the specific purpose of nipping posties' recalcitrant ankles. I think a German Shepherd's a better idea, I think the next postman to walk past my house with that smug its-not-my-problem smirk on his face needs an enormous German Shephard attached to his behind and I'm not convinced I mean a dog.

And no, I didn't order late, nor are the shipping instructions dodgy, nor any other bloody stupid excuse except that the Post Office is always horrifically busy at this time of year, well, in that case why not plan for it? Morons.

Maybe it's not just the Royal Mail, maybe it's anything to do with the concept of posting. My last lj post has disappeared. So have most of my icons since I stopped paying for a full account (trying to save! Oh the pathos!) you want to know what I have more of since I stopped paying? Adverts. Who are these people advertising on my lj? I am tempted to fill with my posts with incendiary folly just to get them a bad name!

It's half past 10, still no news from the post. I think I'm going to wander out into the street, kill some Xmas trees and eat some babies. RRRAAAAAAAARRRR!

Comments

[ian-wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I've just put in a complaint to the Royal Mail, as the postman put a 'you were out when we tried to deliver' card thought the door without even bothering to ring the doorbell first.

[ravenrigan.livejournal.com]

Yep, sounds about right. My final somewhat astringently worded complaint occurred when we actually watched the postman saunter up to the door with nothing more burdensome than a "while you were out" card from the front room, yelled at him before he got back to his van, and were ignored, and then had to go to the post office to collect a particularly large and heavy parcel.

They have been good as gold (apart from being slow at the moment, but that is generic) ever since.