OK so I appreciate it is austerity measures a go go but I despair with our procurement people about, of all things , envelopes !!!
Procurement are now outsourced and so all orders have to go through a 'portal' type system .
I went to send off some letters yesterday which were responses to MP's and found all the envelopes were incapable of being stuck down , either through self adhesive methods ( preferable ) or licky licky.
After speaking to our admin section who order the stuff they confirmed they are not allowed to order anything but the cheapest through procurement.
Even if they are not fit for purpose
So contacted procurement this morning and asked if could we have some that actually work - trying not to be sarcastic
Their response was that storage over Christmas may have meant the glue stuff on the envelopes may have dried up
- oh FFS purleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee