Category: Uncategorised

Some readers may recall my letter to the Post Office. Well, I got a reply this morning. Surprise, surprise, it’s a form letter which doesn’t answer all the issues raised on my initial complaint.

All it says is that they’ve now settled on a single delivery (I know – I don’t care. I only ever got one a day anyway) and that this reorganisation means that some deliveries will be “a little earlier, some a little later”. I don’t call 3 hours “a little”. I also want to know how my deliveries could even possibly ever be a little earlier when the posties have been told they can’t start delivering till 9am. That’s 90 minutes later than I used to get my mail delivered.

The alternative offered was to use their free “Mail Collect” service. This involves me going to the sorting office and picking my post up. What they don’t mention is that this service is only free if you pick your post up after 8:30am (it may be 8:00, I’m not sure) and that’s not possible as I need to be on my way to work by then.

In addition, as I pointed out on my original mail, the sorting office is nowhere near my bloody house despite there being another one opposite the end of the street. Wrong postcode. Now, were they to drop my mail at the local one then fine. It would be about 100 yards out of my way in the morning. For that, I’ll stop by and pick my post up. But no way can I get into Bradford town centre for 8:30 and then expect to make Wakefield by 9:00.

Of course, if they’d actually read my original mail then this wouldn’t have even been suggested.

Think I’ll send another letter. I wonder if I’ll get the same bloody reply again. Useless.

You are industrial/hardcore metal. Conventional
songwriting goes out the window and is replaced
by something quite bizarre. You singer pretends
to be a robot and sings about how in the
future, earth will be taken over by “the
machines”.

What sub-genre of metal (music) are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

It’s not far off, actually. I was thinking “Fear Factory” through most of the quiz.

This letter is just so redneck, it’s amazing. It all reads like so much god-bothering hyperbole until you get to the end of the last sentence. Judging by the rest of the site, it’s a genuine letter, too.

I just asked a guy in the office who’s very much a churchgoer and he assures me that Jesus was never a registered member of the NRA.

Scotland will be no-smoking in “enclosed public spaces” by Spring of 2006.

So, not only can I get pissed in a pub any time of the day, any day of the week… I can do it while only damaging my liver and not my lungs courtesy of all the selfish, nicotine-addicted *******. Add to that the fact that I can wander over to Asda any time of the day or night – again, on any day of the week – and a shift north is looking very enticing.

Unless England follow suit? Mind, we’re still in the dark ages on all three fronts. How shameful that the country in the UK which houses the major seat of political power for the entire of the British Isles isn’t the one leading the way.

The tobacco companies as usual are crying that only 50% of people want a total ban. Well, the poll on this page doesn’t agree (73% of over 10,000 votes when I looked). Thing is, one poll will be fudged one way, one another and so on.

Publicans as well are whimpering about it destroying their businesses. I have no figures, but has this happened in Ireland or New York? Surely that’s a simple way to get an idea.

Well done Scotland. What are your house prices and IT employment opportunities like up there?

Boy, 13, gets 6 points for driving a battery-powered scooter on the pavement. They even mention that the points will expire by the time he gets a license anyway. So what’s the bloody point?

How much did this cost the taxpayer? How much inconvenience was there for his parents to attend court? All to give him penalty points on a license he doesn’t ******* have. I think his dad was somewhat lenient by only describing this farce as “bonkers”.