{"id":475,"date":"2008-11-24T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=475"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:09:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:09:11","slug":"royal-mail-isnt-it-quicker-to-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2008\/11\/24\/royal-mail-isnt-it-quicker-to-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail: isn&#8217;t it quicker to knock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/10\/04\/royal-mail-strike\/2nd-class\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2nd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"150,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"2nd class\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2nd.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-198\" title=\"2nd class\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/2nd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"77\" \/>A quick search shows I&#8217;m not the only one this has happened to: having been in all day long I discover a card from Royal Mail has come through the door saying &#8220;Sorry you were out&#8221; and telling me to pick up a parcel the next day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the card are the following pieces of information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some kind of parcel ID number<\/li>\n<li>The time<\/li>\n<li>The date<\/li>\n<li>My name<\/li>\n<li>The first line of my address<\/li>\n<li>The type of item (checked box)<\/li>\n<li>The number of items (there are several this time)<\/li>\n<li>A check in the box saying it&#8217;s too big for the letterbox<\/li>\n<li>The photo ID serial card number of the postman<\/li>\n<li>A check in the box telling me to pick them up from the delivery office<\/li>\n<li>The date I should pick them up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I coudn&#8217;t write it all in less than 27 seconds.\u00a0 <strong>Surely<\/strong> it would have been quicker to just ring the bell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick search shows I&#8217;m not the only one this has happened to: having been in all day long I discover a card from Royal Mail has come through the door saying &#8220;Sorry you were out&#8221; and telling me to pick up a parcel the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-royal-mail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Royal Mail: isn&#039;t it quicker to knock? 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