US postal service creed for a UK article?
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It's still sorta pathetic.

Newman.

How awfully strange. I drove past Booze this morning, right next to the village of Crackpot. You can't beat the Dales for great place names.

So rather than reassign the mailman to another area they just say screw it? Why don't they put a mailbox at the bottom of the hill?

Yesterday residents of Booze - which despite its name has no pub - said the decision had cut off a vital lifeline.

What a gyp.

I live next to a 31.5 degree grade so I really am getting a kick out of these replies.

My post LADY walks it while pushing a cart.

/suck it, you Limey nancies.

Royal Mail stops village's post deliveries because its roads are 'too steep''s too expensive

Elfnsafety, the get out of gaol free card of the C21st.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't they put a mailbox at the bottom of the hill?

TFA:They were offered free-standing postboxes at the end of the road instead - a very long walk for the elderly residents.

FarkinNortherner: Royal Mail stops village's post deliveries because its roads are 'too steep's too expensive

Elfnsafety, the get out of gaol free card of the C21st.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't they put a mailbox at the bottom of the hill?

TFA:They were offered free-standing postboxes at the end of the road instead - a very long walk for the elderly residents.

WOW! I need some reading comprehension lessons.

/Me = Fail

They are required by law to have their mail delivered by something like 10am or 11am... everyday. I could only hope my mailperson has it here by farkin 4:55 in their words "because of the streetlight (UFO). I have had two of you postal guys straight up FIRED because of tossing my bills in the TRASH. Get bent. You make 50g a year to deliver paper. I have no use for that. I didn't file Fed charges... my apartment complex did after that shiate. I can only hope the guy didn't have family but ya know, $10 or $50 an hour I would make sure shiate got there. Go XBL interaction with people from other continents!

Pony express, anyone?

I hope that they at least allow villagers to pick up mail for each other rather than making the entire populace go to the post office.

Well, maybe we should send the packages via trebuchet.

It doesn't make sense for them to drive 45 minutes to drop off mail to 11 people. I agree with putting a road side mail box up the road that residents can go to, the elderly can get someone else to pick up their mail.
In Rural Manitoba they don't always have door to door mail pickup. Somewhere along the highway will be a few columns of big green mail boxes that the guy drops off the mail to, and residents are expected to pick it up themselves. Not a difficult concept.

hipster_slayer
Get bent. You make 50g a year to deliver paper


Have you ever carried a mail bag? Especially those double ones where you either have mail on both your front and back, or hanging from each side? Each side can easily weigh in at 30-40lbs making carrying a huge ass mailbag up and down hills difficult.

I definately dont think the mail guy should be throwing out mail, thats bullshiat, considering their job isn't difficult, and our mail guys get fringe benefits like icecream, slurpees and bottled water on the job from the post office.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't they put a mailbox at the bottom of the hill?

Is this the hand, the hand that takes?

\hahahahaha
\oh souverien

The Angry Hand of God: So rather than reassign the mailman to another area they just say screw it?

This is the public sector. They're there to serve their interest, not yours.

hipster_slayer: They are required by law to have their mail delivered by something like 10am or 11am... everyday.

That, sadly, is no longer true.

farkeruk: This is the public sector. They're there to serve their interest, not yours.

I appreciate that this conflicts with your worldview, but the Royal Mail worked when it really was in the public sector, rather than the pseudo-corporate kludge it now labours under.

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legendary: US postal service creed for a UK article?
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It's not the US postal service creed and it was written by a Greek in 440BC.

/the more you know

hipster_slayer<: They are required by law to have their mail delivered by something like 10am or 11am... everyday. I could only hope my mailperson has it here by farkin 4:55 in their words "because of the streetlight (UFO). I have had two of you postal guys straight up FIRED because of tossing my bills in the TRASH. Get bent. You make 50g a year to deliver paper. I have no use for that. I didn't file Fed charges... my apartment complex did after that shiate. I can only hope the guy didn't have family but ya know, $10 or $50 an hour I would make sure shiate got there. Go XBL interaction with people from other continents!

I must so get the name of your finishing school.

proof that Booze doesn't mix with winding roads and steep grades

FarkinNortherner: I appreciate that this conflicts with your worldview, but the Royal Mail worked when it really was in the public sector, rather than the pseudo-corporate kludge it now labours under.

Throw enough money at anything and it will "work." Both RM and BR were effectively massive welfare programs for rural / Tory Daily Mail reading types.

While there's not much good that can be said about the price of a rail ticket these days ("pound for mile, easily the worst in the world"), the frequency of trains for routes that actually carry people has gone up nicely, and even with the post office closures I still have no less than 7 post offices within about a mile of where I live.

Furthermore, because I live in a town with actual people in it, I get prompt and efficient mail service every day. I have no problems whatsoever with a fair policy of villages of 11 people getting their mail service in fair proportion - for example, a postman in our town can probably deliver for 110 houses and flats in a typical hour on his route. Given that it takes an hour of time to deliver to Booze, for example, they should be limited to mail once every ten days. A common post box at the top of the hill might reduce the time required to fifteen minutes, so then once ever two or three days is fair.

There are few recipients of greater welfare in the world then those who live in greenbelt britain, especially anybody who has anything to do with farming.

I zoned out 4 times reading subby's headline before saying 'ah fark it' and clicking on the comments.

I say the mailmen get it too tough. If you want your mail that bad in bad weather or if you live up a steep hill then get it your own damn self. Serves you right for living in the most inconvenient place ever.

when you control the....... just forget it

chiark: legendary: US postal service creed for a UK article?
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It's not the US postal service creed and it was written by a Greek in 440BC.

/the more you know

^ Yeah, if it wasn't for public oversight/funding, do people really think that sparsely population places like this would get better service for the same price? Urban areas heavily subsidize mail carrier services for rural areas. I don't understand why those in the countryside are constantly complaining about a service they don't even pay their fair share for.

It's the same thing here in Canada; rural areas are complaining because the postal service is starting to create centralized boxes instead of door to door delivery. Considering you can send a letter hundreds of miles away for the same price as sending it next door, I really don't understand why people would call for privitisation.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't they put a mailbox at the bottom of the hill?

It's human nature to complain about change. The villagers should take the post office up on it's offer of mailboxes at the end of the road. It beats a 45 minute trip to the mail sorting station.

If only there were some sort of animal you could use to carry people and things through unforgiving terrain....

T-Luv: If only there were some sort of animal you could use to carry people and things through unforgiving terrain....

Maybe their horse had a bad back.

Maybe their horse had a bad back.

I would name it "Glue". "Glue" is a good name for a horse. It gives the horse something to look forward to. "Edgar" is also a good name for a horse, but not "Steve". "Steve" would be a stupid name for a horse, but a good name for a cat.

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...
/Amerian planes. Made in America.

Hey wait a minute. This is a Daily Fail article. So this means this never happened.

hipster_slayer: They are required by law to have their mail delivered by something like 10am or 11am... everyday. I could only hope my mailperson has it here by farkin 4:55 in their words "because of the streetlight (UFO). I have had two of you postal guys straight up FIRED because of tossing my bills in the TRASH. Get bent. You make 50g a year to deliver paper. I have no use for that. I didn't file Fed charges... my apartment complex did after that shiate. I can only hope the guy didn't have family but ya know, $10 or $50 an hour I would make sure shiate got there. Go XBL interaction with people from other continents!

This is the Royal Mail service, not the U.S. Postal service, so any mail delivery rules do not apply. As for required deliver time, I've never heard of that. Do you have some proof citing that mail must be delivered within a certain time frame?

Open a Pub & offer the mailman a free pint or 2. Problem solved.

T-Luv: If only there were some sort of animal you could use to carry people and things Mexicans through unforgiving terrain....

based on your picture

p00p6: T-Luv: If only there were some sort of animal you could use to carry people and things Mexicans through unforgiving terrain....

based on your picture

Oh ya, I forgot. Mexicans aren't people. Thanks for pointing that out.

Take some advice from an American old enough to remember the 70's and 80's: Do. Not. Disgruntle. The. Postal. Workers.

Bomb Head Mohammed: While there's not much good that can be said about the price of a rail ticket these days ("pound for mile, easily the worst in the world"), the frequency of trains for routes that actually carry people has gone up nicely

The fact that it's taken renationalisation of the track operator and a huge subsidy to reach that point tells us what... ?

Bomb Head Mohammed: Furthermore, because I live in a town with actual people in it, I get prompt and efficient mail service every day.

Lucky you. My company, in central Manchester, is just under the threshold that would permit us to use TNT and, as a consequence, we suffer the Royal Mail for our mass mailings. As with my home, in a town of 70,000, the service is neither prompt nor efficient.

What you've seemingly failed to take into account, in your formula, is that a theoretical market driven postal service (you'll be hard pressed to find a real one) isn't interested in Booze's post or yours.

When you live in BFE, people do not want to deliver services to you when it is vastly more expensive per person than in more populated areas.

Has Ric Romero been notified of this stunning development?

Royal Mail has written to the 11 homes in the tiny hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, telling them that the only road linking them with the outside world is too narrow and dangerous for its vans.

Interesting. And how do they propose to get those 11 letters to those 11 homes?

Id love to live in a small hamlet like that. I wonder what homes go for there?

Bomb Head Mohammed: While there's not much good that can be said about the price of a rail ticket these days ("pound for mile, easily the worst in the world")

I disagree, long-distance (if you book early) tickets are astonishingly cheap. You can travel for half the cost of the petrol and the trains are clean and usually on time. OK a daily commute to work in a city will be a royal pain in the arse and probably as expensive as driving.

Single White Male: Yesterday residents of Booze - which despite its name has no pub - said the decision had cut off a vital lifeline.

What a gyp.

Yeah. The should write a letter to the Prime Minister.

At least in the UK, the postal carriers are a diffrent sort of "professional" than the US postal carriers. UK postal carriers may be lazy, but a US postal carrier is one snide comment away from letting you find out the magazine capactiy of a Glock 17 the hard way.

84Charlie: At least in the UK, the postal carriers are a diffrent sort of "professional" than the US postal carriers. UK postal carriers may be lazy, but a US postal carrier is one snide comment away from letting you find out the magazine capactiy of a Glock 17 the hard way.

By mailing you the answer??

Hack Patooey: Id love to live in a small hamlet like that. I wonder what homes go for there?

A vast amount. This is the cheapest house I could find within a mile of the village:

* Character Dales Semi-detached Cottage
* 2 Double Bedrooms
* 2 Bathrooms
* Lounge
* Kitchen. Cellar

£185,000

Fark doesn't like the direct link, but you can search here. The classic 'roses round the door' cottage would set you back at least £300k.

'The road is extremely narrow, and if you have to reverse down, this is potentially an accident waiting to happen.'

Not trying to split hairs, but isn't any sort of driving pretty much an accident waiting to happen?

Carrying the mail on foot is also out of the question, because the postman has a 'bad back'.

Just in case the postman might be feeling a little litigious, it might be best not to fire him. But what about reassigning him, say, to a route that doesn't require walking hills?

Last week, residents received a letter signed by delivery office manager Colin Appleby

Let's hope no lives were risked delivering these letters.

farmers that live in so called BFE should just not give there products to those who live in cities. then they'll find out the importance of BFE.

/cant wait to have my parents place when they retire
//screw the city

FTA: "Royal Mail has written to the 11 homes in the tiny hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, telling them that the only road linking them with the outside world is too narrow and dangerous for its vans."

So... they WROTE to them to tell them they had stopped deliving their mail... *snicker*

Z1P2: FTA: "Royal Mail has written to the 11 homes in the tiny hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales, telling them that the only road linking them with the outside world is too narrow and dangerous for its vans."

So... they WROTE to them to tell them they had stopped deliving their mail... *snicker*

I once had a supervisor tell me to send out an e-mail telling everyone our e-mail was down.

The guy was an IQ waiting to happen.

As a resident of Canada, I really have to say that I much prefer the service of Royal Mail over the USPS.

I buy a lot of things over the internet and it usually takes about 2-3 weeks for me to receive stuff from the States. When I order stuff from the UK it's always here in a week. Well, once it took a whole 10 days but every other time it's been a week.

Since packages from both have to travel via Canada Post to get to me at the end (so they have an equal probability being screwed up), the only explanation for the difference in delivery times is that the originating postal system is the culprit.