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I hate waiting for the postman.

Massive mail backlog after postal strikes end
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A huge backlog of almost 50 million letters was being cleared today after postal workers accepted a deal to end a dispute which sparked wildcat strikes across the country.
But post boxes in cities including London and Liverpool remained sealed amid estimates that it could take up to two weeks to deliver all the mail held up by the industrial action.
Around 15,000 workers joined the unofficial walkouts in several regions, including London, the North West, the North East and Kent, paralysing 19 mail centres and 72 delivery offices.
Fresh walkouts on Wednesday night sparked fears of the first national strike since 1996, but a peace deal thrashed out between officials of the Communication Workers Union and the Royal Mail was accepted by the Watford workers.
They had objected to changes in working patterns and staged an official strike last week, which quickly spread when other workers refused to accept mail held up in Watford.
Postal staff began returning to work shortly after hearing of the Watford vote yesterday and CWU officials said they hoped that most of their members would be back at work by last night.
Derek Hodgson, the union's general secretary, said a previously announced review of industrial relations in the organisation would have to consider this week's unrest.
"The industrial relations record is abysmal and we cannot go on putting a sticking plaster over the problems - we need a proper cure.
"The situation has to be sorted out because with competition opening up, customers will march with their feet and we will lose jobs."
Watford CWU branch secretary David Baulch predicted it would take "a couple of weeks" for the backlog of mail to be dealt with but he was confident that general election post would not be affected.
"I don't think there will be a problem and I should think they will work something out nationally to deal with that.
"Of course we will help clear that backlog. We certainly hope there will be no more strikes in Watford.
"No one has ever wanted to lose money or disrupt any services but you can see how angry they have been and how difficult it has been."
A leading left-winger caused a shock when he won a ballot to be the union's new general secretary from July.
Billy Hayes, 47, a CWU national official, beat the union's deputy general secretary John Keggie, who had been expected to win.
Liverpool-born Mr Hayes is the officer responsible for postal sorting and delivery workers.


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fuck all came so sulking :(
Thursday 18 December is the last date for 2nd Class and 2nd Class Royal Mail Signed For®.
Saturday 20 December is last date for 1st Class and 1st Class Signed For®.
Tuesday 23 December is the last for Special Delivery Guaranteed®.
 
Fucking great to hear about the strikes and massive backlog, that on top of the usual christmas delays is just great:\

I've got several tempting goodies due any time now, infact they are already overdue. The postman hasnt even been round yet today, unless i got no mail atall, he's been turning up at any time between 8 am and 2.30pm, and i will have to wait in as one of the packages will be too big too fit through my letter box.

Thank heavens for DHL, ordered some goodies yesterday around 3 pm, and they arrived by 12:00pm today. So at least i have some goodies to play with and wont be left completely high and dry over the weekend.

Edit: yay postie has just delivered 3 things, so got more than enough 'stuff' to see me through for some time now. At least nearly everything has arrived now. I'm still waiting on the most prized delivery of them all though. 8(
 
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headfuck123 said:
received some kratom i ordered yesterday, they gave me some free stuff and even added a personal christmas card, today is a good day! :)
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A certain Kratom supplier went through a spell of sending me several 10g free samples, asking for my feedback on them. Damn it, how I regret not bothering to email them with my feedback. I could have been receiving loads more free samples had i bothered to do so, as i was reading their website yesterday and it seems to be quite a regular thing they do for regular customers when they get new strains, to make sure that they are up to scratch before releasing them on general sale.

I've only got myself to blame for this one too which makes it even more annoying.:sus:
 
Foolsgold - Google "Royal Mail detailed tracking". Can track SDs from the moment collected through to being loaded on the delivery van. Very useful. Also works to a lesser extent with other RM tracked services.
 
Waterfall said:
Exactly. I might even watch some foreign artsy films on netflix. Definitely equivalent to doing uni work i terms of expanding one's mental horizons.

felix- i mean if some etiz or codeine arrive i will sit at my desk and read some books etc. Otherwise the latter option because fuck dealing with life without something to chill me the fuck out.
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I thought those foreign films were more about expanding a different type of 'horizon'.
 
curious_24 said:
Foolsgold - Google "Royal Mail detailed tracking". Can track SDs from the moment collected through to being loaded on the delivery van. Very useful. Also works to a lesser extent with other RM tracked services.
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cheers :) got my package from <snip> nothing from <snip> hopefully <snip> will be tomorrow

so now on 1.5mg of flubromazolam
 
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Erikmen said:
So you get this by mail, how interesting. What else can you get by mail?
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erm, as near as damn it practically anything and everything you could possibly think of.

I was in a city centre post office the other day and the whole room reeked of mephedrone. 8o Best to stick to professionals when ordering "smelly drugs", the 'amateurs' sometimes dont even seem to try to bother to seal up their deliveries well enough so that they dont stink.

That notorious website that sounded like a chocolate bar was full of scammers but it did have a small handfull of real dealers that werent scammers if only you looked hard enough and studied things for long enough to find them. One guy i got some speed off once didnt take enough care with sealing his parcels to make them air-tight and to try to prevent the strong chemical smell escaping. I have a hunch that when he disappeared off the radar it was because he had been sent to prison for carelessly sending class B substances to hundreds of punters, some of whome may have been 'undercover' LE.:\
 
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