| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service 12:56 - Mar 9 with 32232 views | Konk |
Does anyone else here watch Postman Pat (Special Delivery Service) in the mornings? I have to say that he is absolutely fu cking useless at his job. Every parcel he has to deliver, something goes wrong. His deliveries are always late, the cargo’s usually damaged and invariably he has to rope in at least one of his neighbours to dig him out of a hole (sometimes, literally). He’s a fu cking liability and getting up early every morning, only to then have to watch this clown fu cking up what should be a pretty straight forward task, is really beginning to get on my ti ts.
Greendale’s not a big place, he knows his way around it, and only about six people ever receive parcels; yet still this fu cking idiot can’t manage to deliver even a single package on time and without some melodrama along the way. I’ve only been watching this for the past few months, but can anyone confirm whether or not the service was as woeful pre-privatisation, because he is a seriously sh it postman and at 63p for a 1st Class stamp, he's winding me right up.
This is typical of the bloke's sheer idiocy: He's stuck in a tree. How the fu ck, do you get your head stuck in a tree whilst delivering a parcel from the sorting office to someone's house?
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:06 - Mar 9 with 14111 views | Mytch_QPR |
I've written countless letters to the Royal Mail to point out the Health & Safety dangers of having a cat within the vehicle whilst working (or indeed at any other time). Frankly, it's potentially cruel to the animal itself as well as being a distraction. As you have pointed out, however, if Pat's standard of f*ckwittery is par for the course in the modern postal service then my letters are probably still in the van and being used to mop up cat wee.
I have not seen 'Special Delivery Service' - is it in some way enhanced from the original series - or more like a 'Directors Cut'? (frankly, it sounds vaguely porno-ish)
Edit: now I have seen the photo, I can see where the 'special delivery' bit comes in. There are lay-bys off the A3 where this sort of thing happens (allegedly). [Post edited 9 Mar 2016 13:11]
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:12 - Mar 9 with 14071 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:06 - Mar 9 by Mytch_QPR |
I've written countless letters to the Royal Mail to point out the Health & Safety dangers of having a cat within the vehicle whilst working (or indeed at any other time). Frankly, it's potentially cruel to the animal itself as well as being a distraction. As you have pointed out, however, if Pat's standard of f*ckwittery is par for the course in the modern postal service then my letters are probably still in the van and being used to mop up cat wee.
I have not seen 'Special Delivery Service' - is it in some way enhanced from the original series - or more like a 'Directors Cut'? (frankly, it sounds vaguely porno-ish)
Edit: now I have seen the photo, I can see where the 'special delivery' bit comes in. There are lay-bys off the A3 where this sort of thing happens (allegedly). [Post edited 9 Mar 2016 13:11]
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As far as I can tell, it's probably just a marketing/branding scam to squeeze more money out of the punters. Everything's still late and broken. Never mind Dispatches on the Royal Mail/Yodel, someone at Mount Pleasant wants to take a look at this clown.
I think he now has a helicopter and a sidecar and is focusing more on parcels than letters etc. That's presumably the special bit.
And you're right about Jess (who I actually like) - what sort of idiot drives around with a cat in a van? | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:19 - Mar 9 with 14037 views | onlyrinmoray |
Im with you Konk dreadful inefficiency typical of British workers. However my problem is The Post Train on Baby TV . Every time Fast Frank arrives at the Station the Station master loses the address YES EVERYTIME !! and poor Frank has to find out where Zoe the Zebra lives or Bert the Bear its ridiculous I discuss this with Harris my 18month grandson every Tues and Thursday on the settee, neither of us can understand it
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:27 - Mar 9 with 14002 views | Mytch_QPR |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:12 - Mar 9 by Konk |
As far as I can tell, it's probably just a marketing/branding scam to squeeze more money out of the punters. Everything's still late and broken. Never mind Dispatches on the Royal Mail/Yodel, someone at Mount Pleasant wants to take a look at this clown.
I think he now has a helicopter and a sidecar and is focusing more on parcels than letters etc. That's presumably the special bit.
And you're right about Jess (who I actually like) - what sort of idiot drives around with a cat in a van? |
Well, you've answered your own question about the 63p stamp - even a basic helicopter costs around £350,000 and that's before maintenance / fuel costs.
If you tell me that he takes Jess in the copter I am going to be absolutely livid. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:30 - Mar 9 with 13990 views | londonscottish |
Whilst we're laying into public sector workers let's focus on the Welsh. Specifically Fireman Sam. Here's a man living in a town of 23 people where fires and other emergencies mean that no less that 25% of the population work for the Fire Service!
And it's not just me who has concerns, oh no. According to his Wikipedia entry "Sam spends his spare time in his inventing shed, in which he makes devices ranging from a potato picker made from old bicycle parts to a machine capable of replacing the town band. On occasion his inventive streak can undermine his emphasis on fire safety".
And this from the Guardian;
"Sam now looks and sounds more like a stripper who happens to be wearing the fireman’s outfit for this particular booking. All the characters now specifically say they’ll call Sam. Not the fire brigade or the emergency services; Sam specifically. And I've not witnessed one occasion where he tackles an issue single-handed. Yet he’s happy to take the credit, never correcting anyone when they thank him specifically, when his colleagues have all risked their lives as much as he has. His fellow firefighters once sang a song praising him specifically in front of the whole town and he just accepted this as normal. Part of me thinks he causes all of the calamities himself, for the attention. He’s probably got Munchausen by proxy, but with an entire town."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/feb/07/fireman-sam-the-w
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:31 - Mar 9 with 13977 views | Mick_S |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:27 - Mar 9 by Mytch_QPR |
Well, you've answered your own question about the 63p stamp - even a basic helicopter costs around £350,000 and that's before maintenance / fuel costs.
If you tell me that he takes Jess in the copter I am going to be absolutely livid. |
I hear you regarding the costs - this may be the soloution:
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:36 - Mar 9 with 13953 views | hopphoops |
Don't be starting me on Ivor the Engine and the frankly unsustainable subsidies borne by the hardworking English public to keep going a minor branch line in the economically non-strategic top-left hand corner of Merioneth.
If you thought that was the only tenner of yours going to Bank of Blob... |  |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:38 - Mar 9 with 13931 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:19 - Mar 9 by onlyrinmoray |
Im with you Konk dreadful inefficiency typical of British workers. However my problem is The Post Train on Baby TV . Every time Fast Frank arrives at the Station the Station master loses the address YES EVERYTIME !! and poor Frank has to find out where Zoe the Zebra lives or Bert the Bear its ridiculous I discuss this with Harris my 18month grandson every Tues and Thursday on the settee, neither of us can understand it
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If I was Fast Frank, I think I’d lose the plot. It’s criminal what these people get away with. Subliminally, there’s a whole generation growing-up with the lesson that it doesn’t matter how sh it you are at your job, you’ll be okay. There’s no professional pride, no aspiration to provide a decent service or sanction for rank incompetency. I think the government probably need to seize control of cbeebies — have Postman Pat on a zero hours contract and given a formal warning every time he’s late.
On a more positive note, Hey Duggee is the best bit of telly since the Wire/Sopranos and Topsy and Tim are fantastic role models in what’s a staggeringly wholesome and realistic slice of suburban life. If my son doesn’t grow-up to be the next Jon Snow/Michael Palin/David Attenburgh/Paul Smith* then I’ll settle for him being as affable and curious as Tim (or Topsy).
*I evidently have a thing for nice blokes of a certain age in beige chinos and light blue Oxford cotton shirts. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:45 - Mar 9 with 13907 views | A40Bosh |
On the subject of deliveries I had great fun this morning online tracking my daughter's new Oasis coat (Oasis the shop not a green parka with RAF roundels stinking of scummy Manc Charlatan wannabes)
I got an email saying that DPD would be delivering my parcel between 11:18 and 12:18 and you can track it online and that your delivery driver today was Mohammad
WOW!
Not only that but if you refresh the screen you get a map of he local area and it shows you exactly what road Mohammad is currently in and that he is currently delivering item number 19 and mine is number 30 and the estimate for his arrival was 43mins.
GO Mohammad
GO Mohammad
A few times he seemed to be getting nearer but then cunningly he must have taken a sneaky left I wasn't expecting and he was back over to Ruislip Gardens.
"You've had a busy morning" I told him when he arrived.
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:52 - Mar 9 with 13876 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:30 - Mar 9 by londonscottish |
Whilst we're laying into public sector workers let's focus on the Welsh. Specifically Fireman Sam. Here's a man living in a town of 23 people where fires and other emergencies mean that no less that 25% of the population work for the Fire Service!
And it's not just me who has concerns, oh no. According to his Wikipedia entry "Sam spends his spare time in his inventing shed, in which he makes devices ranging from a potato picker made from old bicycle parts to a machine capable of replacing the town band. On occasion his inventive streak can undermine his emphasis on fire safety".
And this from the Guardian;
"Sam now looks and sounds more like a stripper who happens to be wearing the fireman’s outfit for this particular booking. All the characters now specifically say they’ll call Sam. Not the fire brigade or the emergency services; Sam specifically. And I've not witnessed one occasion where he tackles an issue single-handed. Yet he’s happy to take the credit, never correcting anyone when they thank him specifically, when his colleagues have all risked their lives as much as he has. His fellow firefighters once sang a song praising him specifically in front of the whole town and he just accepted this as normal. Part of me thinks he causes all of the calamities himself, for the attention. He’s probably got Munchausen by proxy, but with an entire town."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/feb/07/fireman-sam-the-w
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I work with someone like that, she's an effing nightmare. Never takes the "credit" when something goes wrong, though. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:00 - Mar 9 with 13837 views | simmo |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:00 - Mar 9 with 13835 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:45 - Mar 9 by A40Bosh |
On the subject of deliveries I had great fun this morning online tracking my daughter's new Oasis coat (Oasis the shop not a green parka with RAF roundels stinking of scummy Manc Charlatan wannabes)
I got an email saying that DPD would be delivering my parcel between 11:18 and 12:18 and you can track it online and that your delivery driver today was Mohammad
WOW!
Not only that but if you refresh the screen you get a map of he local area and it shows you exactly what road Mohammad is currently in and that he is currently delivering item number 19 and mine is number 30 and the estimate for his arrival was 43mins.
GO Mohammad
GO Mohammad
A few times he seemed to be getting nearer but then cunningly he must have taken a sneaky left I wasn't expecting and he was back over to Ruislip Gardens.
"You've had a busy morning" I told him when he arrived.
I might become his stalker |
We had something similar with a power cut the other evening - I got about 800 SMS messages giving me a blow by blow account of the engineer's whereabouts, progress and plans for the weekend. I liked it - made me feel like I was at Mission Control and orchestrating the whole recovery process. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:03 - Mar 9 with 13813 views | loftboy |
What about pc plum from.balamory, completely inept, blatantly thick, how he passed the entrance exams I'll never know. |  |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:26 - Mar 9 with 13767 views | Mytch_QPR |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:03 - Mar 9 by loftboy |
What about pc plum from.balamory, completely inept, blatantly thick, how he passed the entrance exams I'll never know. |
I read somewhere that the population of Scotland is declining (not just because they are all killing themselves with deep fried food and super strength lager), so it's possible that Plum secured the job by being the only applicant. Let's face it, you'd probably be moaning if he was Slovenian or Polish.
On the Fireman Sam thing, there seems to be a lot of arson in Wales - I'm not generalising (I'm half Welsh myself and every time I visit the local paper seems full of stories about buildings getting gutted by fires) - so maybe it's vital that a high percentage of the village population are trained / retained firefighters? Blob may be able to shed some light (not literally, we hope) on the subject.
I'd still like someone to confirm the helicopter / Pat situation. I'm drafting another letter to the Royal Mail. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:31 - Mar 9 with 13742 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:26 - Mar 9 by Mytch_QPR |
I read somewhere that the population of Scotland is declining (not just because they are all killing themselves with deep fried food and super strength lager), so it's possible that Plum secured the job by being the only applicant. Let's face it, you'd probably be moaning if he was Slovenian or Polish.
On the Fireman Sam thing, there seems to be a lot of arson in Wales - I'm not generalising (I'm half Welsh myself and every time I visit the local paper seems full of stories about buildings getting gutted by fires) - so maybe it's vital that a high percentage of the village population are trained / retained firefighters? Blob may be able to shed some light (not literally, we hope) on the subject.
I'd still like someone to confirm the helicopter / Pat situation. I'm drafting another letter to the Royal Mail. |
Goggles, but no helmet. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:36 - Mar 9 with 13725 views | Mick_S |
Mytch, before you draft your letter, have you considered this as an option?
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:38 - Mar 9 with 13711 views | Mytch_QPR |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:31 - Mar 9 by Konk |
Goggles, but no helmet. |
Words fail me. You can see what's happened - they've issued the goggles to Pat and he has given them to Jess. Fair play to him to some extent, but an experience such as this would have traumatised the cat, of that I am sure - particularly as the aircraft seems to have lost its windscreen. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:44 - Mar 9 with 13685 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:38 - Mar 9 by Mytch_QPR |
Words fail me. You can see what's happened - they've issued the goggles to Pat and he has given them to Jess. Fair play to him to some extent, but an experience such as this would have traumatised the cat, of that I am sure - particularly as the aircraft seems to have lost its windscreen. |
Post Office H&S Rule 134.65a specifies that glasses and goggles cannot be worn together, which means that Jess is wearing Pat's prescription goggles. Only a matter of time before a blinded Jess stumbles onto the controls and brings the Postiecopter down on Greendale's school or hospital. |  |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:47 - Mar 9 with 13673 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:38 - Mar 9 by Mytch_QPR |
Words fail me. You can see what's happened - they've issued the goggles to Pat and he has given them to Jess. Fair play to him to some extent, but an experience such as this would have traumatised the cat, of that I am sure - particularly as the aircraft seems to have lost its windscreen. |
Well, given that Ted (handyman/motor mechanic) is responsible for the helicopter's maintenance, I don't suppose we should be too surprised at the lack of a cockpit windscreen. Fair enough, let him have a crack at the van and sidecar, but a helicopter's a completely different kettle of fish. Intuition and being handy will only take you so far. It's the sort of cost-cutting "efficiency" we invariably see after privatisation. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:57 - Mar 9 with 13623 views | TheChef |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 13:38 - Mar 9 by Konk |
If I was Fast Frank, I think I’d lose the plot. It’s criminal what these people get away with. Subliminally, there’s a whole generation growing-up with the lesson that it doesn’t matter how sh it you are at your job, you’ll be okay. There’s no professional pride, no aspiration to provide a decent service or sanction for rank incompetency. I think the government probably need to seize control of cbeebies — have Postman Pat on a zero hours contract and given a formal warning every time he’s late.
On a more positive note, Hey Duggee is the best bit of telly since the Wire/Sopranos and Topsy and Tim are fantastic role models in what’s a staggeringly wholesome and realistic slice of suburban life. If my son doesn’t grow-up to be the next Jon Snow/Michael Palin/David Attenburgh/Paul Smith* then I’ll settle for him being as affable and curious as Tim (or Topsy).
*I evidently have a thing for nice blokes of a certain age in beige chinos and light blue Oxford cotton shirts. |
I love a bit of Hey Duggee, except it never seems to be on CBeebies when I get home from work so have to make do with sodding Charlie and Lola or Tree-Fu Tom.
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 15:05 - Mar 9 with 13580 views | DWQPR |
I would imagine these lots are now retired and drawing their fire brigade pension and tending their allotments
Never a moments panic in Trumpton when they were on duty. They knew how to fight fires, were dedicated to their job and were a credit to their profession. No second job malarky either. |  |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 15:11 - Mar 9 with 13559 views | Konk |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 14:57 - Mar 9 by TheChef |
I love a bit of Hey Duggee, except it never seems to be on CBeebies when I get home from work so have to make do with sodding Charlie and Lola or Tree-Fu Tom.
Will have to series link it I reckon. |
I think it's only on in the morning. I think it's ace, but my son doesn't seem that fussed at the moment, but he does like a Duggee hug.
Can't warm to Tree Fu Tom because the kid (Tom?) has the sort of spikey barnet people make their kids have before weddings/parties and school photos. Better off going down the Topsy and Tim route, with a nice natural barnet.
Worthy mention for Timmy Time, which is also good fun. He's a little lamb, with a lot to learn...
And the kid, Isaac's, facial expression at the start of Baby Jake, when he asks Jake if he wants to go on an adventure is great. Cracks me up every time. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 15:29 - Mar 9 with 13520 views | stonebridgers |
Wow several posts on here about Topsy and Tim and no one has mentioned that the Mum is a sort. Standards are slipping Gentleman.
Also with Fireman Sam why is Norman Price still allowed out on his own. Surely he should be on some sort of ASBO for all the shenanigans he has been involved in. I suppose with all the Police cuts the local station has been closed down giving Pricey a free run on the village so he can commit mayhem and disorder. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 16:31 - Mar 9 with 13458 views | TheChef |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 15:11 - Mar 9 by Konk |
I think it's only on in the morning. I think it's ace, but my son doesn't seem that fussed at the moment, but he does like a Duggee hug.
Can't warm to Tree Fu Tom because the kid (Tom?) has the sort of spikey barnet people make their kids have before weddings/parties and school photos. Better off going down the Topsy and Tim route, with a nice natural barnet.
Worthy mention for Timmy Time, which is also good fun. He's a little lamb, with a lot to learn...
And the kid, Isaac's, facial expression at the start of Baby Jake, when he asks Jake if he wants to go on an adventure is great. Cracks me up every time. |
I think Tim might be Rangers as he wears a blue and white hooped top at the end of each episode. | |
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| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 16:42 - Mar 9 with 13435 views | LongsufferingR |
| Postman Pat - Special Delivery Service on 16:31 - Mar 9 by TheChef |
I think Tim might be Rangers as he wears a blue and white hooped top at the end of each episode. |
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