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Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:22 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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65p for a first class stamp? 65p?
That's thirteen shillings. Who'd have thought back in 1970 that it'd cost thirteen shillings to send a letter?
In 1965, me and my mate Tim Emery found half a crown in a jamjar full of foreign coins in our sideboard. We though about putting it back, but for no more than half a second.
We spent it on Blackjacks and Fruit Salads down the corner shop.
They were four a penny back then, so we walked out with a hundred and twenty of them in a big paper bag. Mr Read, the bloke who owned the shop, held the bag aloft by its corners and turned it over in front of him three or four times to twist them up.
You don't see that any more.
We ate them all within an hour 
The price of a first class stamp today would buy us six hundred and twenty four.
That's probably more than there were in the whole jar up there on the shelf next to the humbugs, barley sugars and aniseed balls.
Sigh...
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yy-R56kh
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RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:34 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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You're quite right. I should have said that thirteen shillings would have bought us six hundred and twenty four.
Tenses, old fruit, tenses.
I do apologise 
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yy-R56kh
Funny really....I don't go out much to do the shopping but I had the same experience in the post office where I asked for a first class stamp
to post a letter. I was asked did I want the one or would I prefer a book? I thought might as well buy a book until she told me the price,
'HOW MUCH' I exclaimed ! 
I can't remember how much it was now and I haven't been out shopping since.
Ian
Lovely 1998 Eriba Troll 530GT
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:02 amby Randa france •
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Quote: hob wrote in post #8
Meaning that they have to charge realisticly add to that the fact that they still have to deliver the less profitable stuff the couriers don't want (letters) etc
Slightly off topic I know, but last off, while I was officially retired but Mrs R was still working, I was working as a part-time self employed courier.
I gave it up when I saw the writing on the wall, or rather, the side of the "NEXT" wagon. Order before midnight and have it tomorrow morning? GREAT
. So "MRS I want to go to a party in 10 days time" gets her frock 9 days before the ball thanks to the efforts of a little man in a van/car having to drive 10 miles out of his way to ensure it happens. 
Next time your friendly courier delivers an Amazon parcel to you, ask him or her about how the round is organised and how much he gets (approx. 60p when I last looked).
Randa
1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match 
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:19 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #9Being a multi-drop driver isn't compulsory.
Slightly off topic I know, but last off, while I was officially retired but Mrs R was still working, I was working as a part-time self employed courier.
I gave it up when I saw the writing on the wall, or rather, the side of the "NEXT" wagon. Order before midnight and have it tomorrow morning? GREAT
Next time your friendly courier delivers an Amazon parcel to you, ask him or her about how the round is organised and how much he gets (approx. 60p when I last looked).
I appreciate that for many people there may not be that much in the way of alternative employment, but the fact remains that it's their choice to do it.
There's an argument for saying that nobody should sign up for a job - any job - without knowing exactly what it involves.
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yy-R56kh
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:10 pmby Randa france •
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1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:29 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #11I can't disagree with that.
I was just making the point that it isn't always necessary to have everything delivered immediately.
I didn't quite understand towards whom your ire was directed. This happens every time your simmering incandescence boils over. You become unintelligible
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yy-R56kh
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:51 pmby Randa france •
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It's not my fault you don't understand Welsh. 
1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:54 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #13How do you know I don't?
It's not my fault you don't understand Welsh.
You never asked, and I never said
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yy-R56kh
RE: Good Lord!
in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:17 pmby Randa france •
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I did ask but you didn't understand me........
I trump your smug with a Double
1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match
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