tommybs

a_m Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On a related note, why don't the posties round > here ever put the item reference number on the > back of the "While you were out, we tried to > deliver" cards like they're supposed to so you can > arrange re-delivery online. That would make things > a lot easier for most people who work during the > day. Or maybe it's just my postie...has anyone > ever been able to arrange re-delivery? The redelivery thing only applies to special/tracked deliveries from Royal Mail, I think. Normal post (assuming that's what you're talking about) doesn't have a reference number, and you have to go and collect it from the Delivery Office.

What nasty people some of you are. Chuggers themselves are usually kids with not very much money trying to earn a little bit of extra, if anything. The charities for which they chug are likely to be doing a hell of a lot more good in the world than most of us are (unless they're collecting for Eton or something, and not withstanding a few hefty directors' salaries, which they all have to declare and probably can't avoid). And we are all free to ignore them or even smile and say "no thanks I'm in a rush, have a nice day" and get on with our Lordship Lane shopping. I've encountered these folks as many times as anyone else, and never found them to be any more of an inconvenience than that. I've also encountered many people who are so emotionally underdeveloped that they find being looked in the eye and asked nicely to do something they don't want to do almost as distressing as being waterboarded, and are only capable of dealing with the trauma by recourse to anonymous message boards. And others whose strictly private guilt when gently obliged to consider the amount they earn and the amount they give away to those in need is similar distressing, and similarly dealt with. No doubt these people find chuggers more disturbing than the rest of us. If you ask me, making a few small-minded ED residents feel a bit awkward is hopefully way down the list of "cons" when those evil charities consider the case for chugging to raise money for war refugees, drought victims and cancer sufferers.