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Title: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 11:16:33 AM
I have just been to the post office

So what you may ask  Shrugs:

It has recently been 'done up'

As you enter you are met by a concierge type person ..."what service would you like madam "I was asked .

If you wanted a counter service you are given a ticket ( just like the deli counter at Sainsbury's ) and directed to go and sit in the comfy leather chair seating area until your number is called  eeek:

"I just want to post a parcel abroad " I said

I was then told that I didn't need to wait ....and directed to the self serve machines.

Plonk it onto the weighing machine ...type into the screen where you want it to go to and then choose from the menu your delivery options.

Out pops the printed stamp label. Stick it on and pop it into the box right next to machine  eeek:

Less than 2 minutes all in all  eeek:

I appreciate it's no guarantee that it is going to get there but nevertheless a totally different experience than the one I had been prepared for  cloud9:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Nick on November 26, 2009, 11:18:09 AM
So what are you sending to Cyprus this time?  ::)
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2009, 11:20:44 AM
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Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 11:22:19 AM
Sod all   lol:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 26, 2009, 01:31:54 PM
I have just been to the post office

So what you may ask  Shrugs:

It has recently been 'done up'

As you enter you are met by a concierge type person ..."what service would you like madam "I was asked .

If you wanted a counter service you are given a ticket ( just like the deli counter at Sainsbury's ) and directed to go and sit in the comfy leather chair seating area until your number is called  eeek:

"I just want to post a parcel abroad " I said

I was then told that I didn't need to wait ....and directed to the self serve machines.

Plonk it onto the weighing machine ...type into the screen where you want it to go to and then choose from the menu your delivery options.

Out pops the printed stamp label. Stick it on and pop it into the box right next to machine  eeek:

Less than 2 minutes all in all  eeek:

I appreciate it's no guarantee that it is going to get there but nevertheless a totally different experience than the one I had been prepared for  cloud9:


eeek: Good grief does this mean I will no longer have to queue behind wrinklies dressed in beige and smelling of stale urine, them not me you understand, well, possibly me one or twice. redface:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 01:43:26 PM
Nope ...no queueing ...or untidy like queues

People waiting but sitting comfortably until their number was called...

I might go back later - just to sit  cloud9:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 26, 2009, 01:47:42 PM
I have just been to the post office

So what you may ask  Shrugs:

It has recently been 'done up'

As you enter you are met by a concierge type person ..."what service would you like madam "I was asked .

If you wanted a counter service you are given a ticket ( just like the deli counter at Sainsbury's ) and directed to go and sit in the comfy leather chair seating area until your number is called  eeek:

"I just want to post a parcel abroad " I said

I was then told that I didn't need to wait ....and directed to the self serve machines.

Plonk it onto the weighing machine ...type into the screen where you want it to go to and then choose from the menu your delivery options.

Out pops the printed stamp label. Stick it on and pop it into the box right next to machine  eeek:

Less than 2 minutes all in all  eeek:

I appreciate it's no guarantee that it is going to get there but nevertheless a totally different experience than the one I had been prepared for  cloud9:


eeek: Good grief does this mean I will no longer have to queue behind wrinklies dressed in beige and smelling of stale urine, them not me you understand, well, possibly me one or twice. redface:


Of the course the comfy sofas will probably end up smelling of stale wee.
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Sod all   lol:
evil:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 26, 2009, 03:03:36 PM
Nope ...no queueing ...or untidy like queues

People waiting but sitting comfortably until their number was called...

I might go back later - just to sit  cloud9:

Take a Thermos flask and a tartan trolly just to set the mood like. whistle:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 03:15:33 PM
Sod all   lol:
evil:

Don't worry - your crimbo pressy will get there in time  lol:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on November 26, 2009, 03:18:59 PM

Take a Thermos flask and a tartan trolly just to set the mood like. whistle:

and a travel blanky ...wot a good idea.

You are sheer genius Miss C  cloud9:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on November 26, 2009, 03:21:28 PM
Sod all   lol:
evil:

Don't worry - your crimbo pressy will get there in time  lol:
cloud9:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on November 26, 2009, 04:56:51 PM

Take a Thermos flask and a tartan trolly just to set the mood like. whistle:

and a travel blanky ...wot a good idea.

You are sheer genius Miss C  cloud9:

I am a wrinklie and I claim my ?5.00... surrender:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2009, 11:59:56 AM
I've been to the post office of the past today in Limassol...

Posted fifty assorted cards  Xmas3: - had to lick and stick three stamps on each... I can barely speak now with glue mouth...   Yuk:

Why can't they invent a machine that simply prints the value of the stamp on the card...?  Shrugs:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Snoopy on December 09, 2009, 12:01:54 PM
Here in the UK we can buy self adhesive stamps or we can buy postage on-line and print the "stamp" direct to a sticky label  whistle:


But of course according to Lord Rumba of Rio our postal service needs updating.  ::)
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2009, 12:21:04 PM
I should drop Stamp-O-PrinterTM then...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Nick on December 09, 2009, 12:54:17 PM
Next time take a bucket of water and a sponge
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2009, 01:09:01 PM
Next time take a bucket of water and a sponge

You think they'd stick them on for me if I cleaned the windows...?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on December 09, 2009, 01:54:05 PM
You dribble enough normally - i would have thought licking a few stamps wouldn't have been much of a problem for you  whistle:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 09, 2009, 01:59:19 PM
Perhaps he only dribbles when you're about?  eeek:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: The Moan Ranger on December 09, 2009, 02:01:59 PM
Perhaps he only dribbles when you're about?  eeek:

No, he was dribbling when we went on the OH piss-up OH stroll to the HoC.
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 09, 2009, 02:04:15 PM
 eeek:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: The Moan Ranger on December 09, 2009, 02:08:47 PM
eeek:

Too much Spitfire methinks, nothing else.
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Uncle Mort on December 09, 2009, 02:11:18 PM
Phew!
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Miss Demeanour on December 09, 2009, 02:21:58 PM
proof positive he is a constant dribbler  whistle:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2009, 02:50:07 PM
I do not dribble!  cussing:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Nick on December 09, 2009, 06:10:01 PM
 char048
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 09, 2009, 07:04:52 PM
I don't tho....  noooo:
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Pirate on December 09, 2009, 07:25:22 PM
 Drool:  Xmas1:  No dribbling
Title: Re: Post Office of the future
Post by: Barman on December 10, 2009, 06:16:51 AM
Drooling is not dribbling...  noooo: