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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012
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Frumious B.
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Why do you need her to do that? When I send things SD I just write the address on the parcel and she does everything else.Yes, she is very good. She still won't type in the destination address for the prof of postage, though.
Are there any time-saving dodges which you could be using? I suppose you've checked them all, but I'm curious about the Drop and Go service. www.postoffice.co.uk/drop-and-go-branch-service My reading of it is that if you spend more than £20 per week you can jump the queue at Ferndale Road.
Onket
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The receipt they should be issuing as proof of postage has the destination address (postcode & door number or building name) on it. This is what every other Post Office I have used does. Instead they tell me to write it on myself. I can't really see Royal Mail accepting proof of postage where I've just hand written the address on the receipt.
When I queried it with the shortarse in there, he said they won't do it because 'it takes too long'.
Once, he issued me with 3 identical receipts for the 3 different sized parcels I was sending. When I queried the weights he told me 'we don't weigh them'.
I took my kids to see the Rasta Santa pantomime he was in last Christmas at the lido. Well recommended.
Onket
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Where is the button? I can't find it!
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Onket
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If one of the quotes you want is on the next/previous page, you'll need to open that page in a new tab, then hit "reply" and copy & paste that quote into the reply you're still working on.Nice one, cheers.
Brixton Hatter
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@onket
In Ferndale Road you can jump the queue and go to the parcels desk (on the right hand side) if your parcel is ready to send.
Don't bother queuing in the post office - print your postage off the Royal Mail website here:
http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/print-postage-online
...stick it on your parcel, and bob's your uncle. (Obviously if it can fit in the letterbox you don't even need to go in to the Post Office.)
In Ferndale Road you can jump the queue and go to the parcels desk (on the right hand side) if your parcel is ready to send.
Don't bother queuing in the post office - print your postage off the Royal Mail website here:
http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/print-postage-online
...stick it on your parcel, and bob's your uncle. (Obviously if it can fit in the letterbox you don't even need to go in to the Post Office.)
Rushy
basically a scrotum
@onket
In Ferndale Road you can jump the queue and go to the parcels desk (on the right hand side) if your parcel is ready to send.
Don't bother queuing in the post office - print your postage off the Royal Mail website here:
http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/print-postage-online
...stick it on your parcel, and bob's your uncle. (Obviously if it can fit in the letterbox you don't even need to go in to the Post Office.)
@Onket
Yep - I do that. Much easier. You can also print off a postal receipt and they stamp it at the post office.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
why didn't we think of it before?
Poor old Onky has gone to the post office about 30 times in the past few weeks....
Poor old Onky has gone to the post office about 30 times in the past few weeks....
Frumious B.
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But he needs proof of postage, which means waiting for a receipt.
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No.
Onket
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Exactly. Unless the wise old owls on this thread can think of a way round that one.
Onket
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@Onket does not mind waiting, it is the rudeness he hates
I don't mind getting a receipt, it's the not getting one that's of any use that I hate.
But credit where credit is due, you weren't that far off.
Frumious B.
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How about printing the postage and a certificate of posting http://www.royalmail.com/customer-service/certificate-posting, taking the parcel to the parcel desk at Ferndale Road and standing there waving your certificate until someone nips over to stamp it? You would have to type the address etc on the certificate at home, but all you really need as proof of posting is to get the certificate stamped.
I bet you could also do this at NISA - jump the queue, go to the parcel window at the side, slide your certificate in and the nice lady can lean across to stamp it in a nanosecond without pissing off the people waiting. You could carry your parcels in a post office plastic sack to make you look extra-entitled.
Onket
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How about printing the postage and a certificate of posting http://www.royalmail.com/customer-service/certificate-posting, taking the parcel to the parcel desk at Ferndale Road and standing there waving your certificate until someone nips over to stamp it? You would have to type the address etc on the certificate at home, but all you really need as proof of posting is to get the certificate stamped.
I bet you could also do this at NISA - jump the queue, go to the parcel window at the side, slide your certificate in and the nice lady can lean across to stamp it in a nanosecond without pissing off the people waiting. You could carry your parcels in a post office plastic sack to make you look extra-entitled.
Yes, I can't see either of those options going wrong in any way.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
Fireworks are in sale on all the local shops now. Get ready for the annual onslaught of kids following the fireworks code: light it, lob it, leg it.
twistedAM
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I could imagine the face that would be pulled at Option 2. Would be about the same effect as being tazered I imagine.
Frumious B.
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If you won't test it, I will!
Rushy
basically a scrotum
You print off your own stamped address label and receipt when you pay for the postage online - that way the address label and the receipt both have all the correct info you need. They just validate the receipt for you when you hand it over. Yes you might have to queue if you want to have the receipt validated - but the queue is rarely long at Nisa. You don't have to rely on them putting the info you want on the receipt.
I thought the receipt info was your problem and this info solves it for you. You didn't mention queuing as an issue. You can't really expect expect the wise old owls to solve your problems if you struggle to express them clearly.
You're not very proactive, are you? Did you mention that you work for Lambeth?
Onket
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Onket
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No, I didn't mention that.
You are suggesting that to overcome the problem of Post Office staff not doing their job correctly, I shoudl do it for them?
I've got a lot of stamps to use up, so printing my own labels & paying online isn't really an option. Plus I presume the item would have to be weighed pretty exactly to get the postage correct and avoid a surcharge at the other end.
The Post Office is set up for all this to be done.
I see our political masters are aspiring for better things - Lambeth Leader Steve Reed and Lambeth London Assembly Member Valerie Shawcross are both putting themselves forward to be selected as Labour candidate for MP in the forthcoming Croydon byelection - http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/...er_and_Assembly_Member_apply_for_by_election/
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Yes. It is standard now to pay online, print your own stuff and just drop it off. Several people on here have said that's what they do.
It is also more considerate to other post office users as they don't have to queue behind you waiting for the post office chap to type out every delivery address and receipt for each and every one of your ebay sale parcels.
If it's just a matter of using up a few old stamps - just put up with it until you can catch up with the times.
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You still have to queue up if it's a recorded delivery or whatever.
Onket
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You've not really answered the points I raised, but thanks anyway.
You go ahead and use the online method, I'll just find a Post Office with half decent staff.
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