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I collect stamps G can I have the penny black please:D

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I got a card through the door from the GPO saying there was a package that needed collecting from there infirmary st depot but there was something to pay
we where expecting a package from New Zealand so thought it was that me and the wife was calling our mates for under paying.
anyway the following day i went to the depot and gave the guy the card
oh yes its here there is £1:19p to pay er OK i said its from New Zealand so not too much extra.
he said no this package is from Preston and when he gave it me it was just a Christmas card i opened it then and there and found it was from my 80 year old mum who had put a second class stamp on but because it was a big card it should have been first class i asked why £1:19p he said there was 19p extra on the card and £1 handling charge

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Surely the moral of all these stories is not to waste time & dosh sending cards and pressy's in the first instance; spend your money down the pub instead.

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Not everybody is called Ebenezer Tealeaf:D

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he finally received it today .....

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I feel I have to wade in here with a positive comment to defend our poor Post Offices! It's Royal Mail that is to blame here, let's not forget.

I'll forgive a little slippage in service over the Christmas period, no doubt exacerbated by the poor weather conditions, and just point out that a First Class stamp still gets things from A to B in an extremely cheap manner. I often have to send out parcel batches of over 50 items and the Postmistress in Rishton will simply take everything and do it over the course of the day so as not to hold up the queues. It saves me waiting, it saves holding everyone up and the cost is a damn sight cheaper than driving each parcel to its location.

If you think there are problems now, pray that it never gets privatised. I was watching part of the debate yesterday on BBC Parliament and it was briefly mentioned that a Post Bank is not out of the question.

I personally still feel this to be the best all-round solution to the problem and would give the high street banks a good hard kick in the nuts too.

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Hey Up Ken - from one of your previous posts, I thought you'd set up competition with the Royal Mail - Red Ken's Rishy Snail Mail (all junk delivered).

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I've just received my first Christmas card for 2011.

Unless it was meant for Christmas 2010. Seeing as it was posted in Essex on December 6th.

All the best.

:D