Pointless
Posted: Wed 6 September, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Getting Organised, Work-related |3 Comments »I have to say, I love getting utterly pointless bits of post. Particularly when I’ve paid for them, in one way or another.
I’m not talking about junk mail, because that just gets ignored, shredded, and binned. Simple. I don’t particularly care about that – although we will be opting out of the Royal Mail’s junk mail service (email optout@royalmail.co.uk for more information) in order to reduce the amount of crap we do receive once we’ve moved. But no, the stuff I’m talking about is stuff from organisations and government groups that has absolutely no use in being sent, and just costs money.
Today’s fine example of this came from Inland Revenue. A statement of my account with the money-grabbing incompetent shit-for-brains jobsworth cock-knockers. Having finally sorted out the fucking about they did with me over the last three years (which reminds me, really must fill in that form this week and get it sent off) I’ve got a statement of account again.
Right at the top of it?
You have nothing to pay
Well, that’s just bloody brilliant, isn’t it? I know that already. You’ve told me twice already, and the next set of bullshit demands don’t come due ’til the end of the year (roughly). And what’s the point of sending out repeated statements saying I owe nothing?
Cool, that’s just saved me the effort of having to find out how to stop Royal Mail’s own junk mailouts. Now all I have to do is nuke Capital One/NTL and I’ll be extremely happy… as will be the environment.
I’ll see your “You have nothing to pay” and raise you one cheque for the amount of £0.00. I still have it, I’ll cash it when we REALLY need the money… idiots.
Just accidentally logged on to your site and have been laughing my tits off at your comments…..great to find another fellow ‘Victor Meldrew’ who is also totally hacked off with the inefficiency that passes for service in this fast failing country !!
Ref the postie’s crap; all junk flyers that they abuse their position with and get paid to deliver with my mail simply get ripped in half and dumped back into my nearest post box when I’m next out of the house – that way they can have some of their own medicine. If everyone in the country were to do that and clog up the post boxes, the tossers may actually start to take notice !
Secondly, shite mail from thieving credit card coys etc; rip off your name, address etc and post all remaining crap back to said company in their own post paid envelope. Again, they get their own crap back and pay for the privilege….a few million of us doing that would cause them to change their tactics.
Onwards and upwards !!