Royal Mail scared stiff of staples

[Baron von Lotsov]

If the postmen managed for all this time and so did their machines, then the dodos are going backwards in the evolutionary sense.



Of course you forget this extremely obvious point. The both of you!

[Barry]

A bit of tape across the staples seems an obvious way of avoiding the pack being caught up on other post or sorting equipment, let alone nipping fingers if they get bent by rough handling

Anyone not realising this seems a bit dim...

You beat me to it.



I just wish they could deliver the mail. I'm currently in a court action against Hereford Council and sent a letter a week ago, first class signed for and it has not yet been delivered. I need it done to prove service of papers.

So I visited the Post Office and they said I have to wait 15 days before I fill in the form to say it is lost.

They took £1.90 off me for this pleasure.  :rant:

[Baron von Lotsov]

A bit of tape across the staples seems an obvious way of avoiding the pack being caught up on other post or sorting equipment, let alone nipping fingers if they get bent by rough handling

Anyone not realising this seems a bit dim...

I see, so this must be wrong then.



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Britain is going the other way.

[patman post]

Yes, it was jiffy bag with three small staples holding the end of it closed, as the bag was designed to be used.

A bit of tape across the staples seems an obvious way of avoiding the pack being caught up on other post or sorting equipment, let alone nipping fingers if they get bent by rough handling

Anyone not realising this seems a bit dim...

[Baron von Lotsov]

Like he said, they're very rare nowdays.



We used to get RAM, other sensitive bits & parts in them, in an additional staticproof foil bag.



I can't ever recall seeing staples on any of them. Can't you just use tape or something or am I being silly?

The end has a natural fold. You fold the end and shove a large staple through it, since this is efficient. The new ones are self-adhesive so they do not need it.



Anyhow this is not the problem. The problem is with the idiots who work in this business. I don't mean the the ones on the shop floor, but the management. What has happened to the brains of managers? My research indicates this is widespread. I always knew a lot were very stupid at the university i went to and spent most of their time getting drunk. Anyhow this is the pits. These universities, where you have to go to in order to be H & S rule thinker-upper, require the degree for eligibility. They write long essays on the history of outer Mongolia and still can't operate a stapler.

[Borg Refinery]

Yes, it was jiffy bag with three small staples holding the end of it closed, as the bag was designed to be used.

Like he said, they're very rare nowdays.



We used to get RAM, other sensitive bits & parts in them, in an additional staticproof foil bag.



I can't ever recall seeing staples on any of them. Can't you just use tape or something or am I being silly?

[Baron von Lotsov]

I haven't seen one of those for years.

Yes well I have a big box of them because I bought them wholesale. Interestingly a couple of weeks ago I did the same thing and the post office never mentioned it. I think it is a new rule.

[papasmurf]

Yes, it was jiffy bag with three small staples holding the end of it closed, as the bag was designed to be used.

I haven't seen one of those for years.

[Baron von Lotsov]

So a package not an envelope? With staples protruding from it?



...what?

Yes, it was jiffy bag with three small staples holding the end of it closed, as the bag was designed to be used.

[Borg Refinery]

They mean any metal showing on the outside of the package. I trust the bloke who told me this because he knows his stuff and never makes a mistake. So I was not blaming the staff, although i have to say, I was shocked by the experience. This guy pretty much recited the rule to me, and like i say, its a catch-all lawyer statement. Certainly it would protect them against any legal claim of medical injury, but if there were any such claim it is bound to be fraudulent. It's another example of this country going absolutely mental.

So a package not an envelope? With staples protruding from it?



...what?

[Baron von Lotsov]

Do you mean docs stapled together and put in an envelope that properly fits?



They are talking rot, I've posted stuff like that many times and it was received by the recipient. They haven't a clue.

They mean any metal showing on the outside of the package. I trust the bloke who told me this because he knows his stuff and never makes a mistake. So I was not blaming the staff, although i have to say, I was shocked by the experience. This guy pretty much recited the rule to me, and like i say, its a catch-all lawyer statement. Certainly it would protect them against any legal claim of medical injury, but if there were any such claim it is bound to be fraudulent. It's another example of this country going absolutely mental.

[Borg Refinery]

According to Health and Safety, nothing must be sent through the post with any protruding metal.



It's a lawyer catch-all rule to make sure nothing even remotely like a staple can attack staff and leave them fingerless.

Do you mean docs stapled together and put in an envelope that properly fits?



They are talking rot, I've posted stuff like that many times and it was received by the recipient. They haven't a clue.

[Baron von Lotsov]

What are the Royal Mail using staples for?

According to Health and Safety, nothing must be sent through the post with any protruding metal.



It's a lawyer catch-all rule to make sure nothing even remotely like a staple can attack staff and leave them fingerless.

[papasmurf]

What are the Royal Mail using staples for?

[Baron von Lotsov]

They fear a staple could attack their finger when not looking and cause it to go septic, whereupon the kindly NHS would amputate it.



I've just had a huge row in the post office about it. Some other customer was looking highly bemused. The staff have been using staples for their entire life and managed to survive with fingers intact though.



We don't know who thought up the rule, but I was told it is someone in "Health and Safety".



It appears to me Health and Safety are the same destructive socialists as their fathers were in the unions before Maggie sorted the unions out. They are destroying commerce.