I've just had this phone conversation with Royal Mail

[wellinghall]

Me (after pressing eighteen different numbers): "I've got a problem with a letter I've just received. It was addressed correctly, but it has the remains of a redirection label on it, and someone has written on the envelope, '"Incorrectly re-directed; pleased send as originally addressed.' "

RM: "That'll be what's happened, then. It was incorrectly re-directed, and the recipient has written on the envelope and put it back in the post."

Me: "Yes, I know that." (Thinks: this would be obvious to a blind baboon, with the literacy skills of a celebrity who has just got someone to ghost-write their autobiography.) "I'd like to make sure it doesn't happen again."

RM: "I'm sure it won't." (Pause, while he realises I'm not going to be fobbed off.) "But I can ask the delivery office to flag up your address, and put a note on it."

Me: "Thank you".


On a different note, did anyone (else) see Have I Got News For You last night, with Bob Crowe?

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That would be a good idea - thanks.

I don't mind the original error too much - without knowing the fine details of how redirections work, I can see that the very odd letter can get caught up incorrectly. And it was sheer bad luck that this should have happened to a moderately important letter, rather than one of the innumerable Christmas catalogues we have been getting. But the person I was speaking to did seem a little ... divvy, as you say.

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

I saw HIGNFY and thought Crowe came across rather badly and I think he read the mood of the audience badly as well

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

But where was the News Quiz? I need my News Quiz fix!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I enjoy The Now Show as well.

How are you, BTW? We don't seem to ahve been in contact much of late.

[emperor]

Well, they aren't called the Royal Fail for nothing...

I'll iplayer the slightly-extended HIGNFY later in the week.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'll try to catch the extended version, too.

[sammee42.livejournal.com]

Wow. Words cannot express the level of incompetency. Are they *still* on strike?! Clearly they should be glad that someone will hire them..!!

[purplecat]

I... err.. know someone competent in Royal Mail redirections. I can have a word and he can check the computer...

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I've picked up the extended HIGNFY half-way through. I've heard Bob Crow on Any Questions before, and found myself agreeing with him on several points. Here, he was out of his depth and a mismatch for the programme - everyone else seemed anxious for the show to be over.