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Postmaster Councilor doesn't seem to know price of a stamp

  • 16-02-2011 9:49am
    #1
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    anyone read this in the Sentinel yesterday.

    A certain postmaster in the labour party sent a letter to a paper - when the letter arrived it had a sticker on it saying that the letter was delayed due to insufficient postage.

    The councilor in questions RUNS A POST OFFICE.

    Doesn't bode well for trying to run the country if they can't do their own job properly :D:D


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  • #2
    TristanPeter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 717 ✭✭✭TristanPeter


    Was it Councilor Billy Cameron? He runs a post office on Newcastle Road. I'm not sure if he's still a councilor anymore though.


  • #3
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    He is a councillor and he could have handed a letter into the Sentinel just as quick :)


  • #4
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    ya it must be him if he runs the newcastle post office. maybe he was just saving his pennies :D


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Was this really a newsworthy story?


  • #6
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Was this really a newsworthy story?

    Well the reporter seems to think so. Just goes to show who we have representing us - they don't seem to be able to do their day jobs properly so how on earth can they try and run a country. just highlights the fact that these guys are no better than anyone else (although they seem to think they are).


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    dolphin city wrote: »
    Well the reporter seems to think so. Just goes to show who we have representing us - they don't seem to be able to do their day jobs properly so how on earth can they try and run a country. just highlights the fact that these guys are no better than anyone else (although they seem to think they are).

    So people aren't allowed to make mistakes then? Jaysis.


  • #8
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    i guess we should be thankful he's not a brain surgeon.
    :D


  • #9
    Pure Sound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Pure Sound


    dolphin city wrote: »
    they don't seem to be able to do their day jobs properly so how on earth can they try and run a country.

    Billy Cameron is a counciler not a TD so he is not responsible for running the country, he sits on a panel that represents and proposes local issues to the City Manager. If the Labour Party thought he was good enough to become a TD they would have put him forward for the upcoming election as he topped the poll in 2009 locals, but they obviously don't think he is. If true it was a bit stupid of him from a professional point of view to make that mistake. Looks to me though that the author has a problem with him because its definately not something that should be published.


  • #10
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    We Need Community wrote: »
    Billy Cameron is a counciler not a TD so he is not responsible for running the country, he sits on a panel that represents and proposes local issues to the City Manager. If the Labour Party thought he was good enough to become a TD they would have put him forward for the upcoming election as he topped the poll in 2009 locals, but they obviously don't think he is. If true it was a bit stupid of him from a professional point of view to make that mistake. Looks to me though that the author has a problem with him because its definately not something that should be published.

    I dont' have a problem with him at all (well no more than any other councilor or wannabe TD) - but I did think it made for an enlightened read that he didn't know the basics of his job. :D


  • #11
    Pure Sound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Pure Sound


    dolphin city wrote: »
    I dont' have a problem with him at all (well no more than any other councilor or wannabe TD) - but I did think it made for an enlightened read that he didn't know the basics of his job. :D
    I agree he shouldnt have made that mistake but it had nothing to do with him being a councillor, it was foolish from a postmaster point of view, I did find it amusing though :)


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  • #12
    emptybladder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭emptybladder


    OP where is it? Had a flick and cant find the article. Sure it was this week?


  • #13
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    emptybladder wrote: »
    OP where is it? Had a flick and cant find the article. Sure it was this week?

    I saw it too. It was on page 2.


  • #14
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    I suspect he may have given the Trib some gip for not publishing his letter 'on time' and this is how they got back at him :)


  • #15
    Madame Razz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭Madame Razz


    In fairness, it could happen to anybody, even a postmaster, it's an honest mistake. I had a load of letters franked at the post office, told that they would be fine at the usual rate(they even double checked this) and it turned out that in fact they didn't have adequate postage on them at all. The post office said they were fine, the sorting office said otherwise; sh*t happens.

    Shouldn't be a news story at IMO, more in the paper's line to focus on something more important.


  • #16
    dolphin city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭dolphin city


    Madame Razz wrote: »
    In fairness, it could happen to anybody, even a postmaster, it's an honest mistake. I had a load of letters franked at the post office, told that they would be fine at the usual rate(they even double checked this) and it turned out that in fact they didn't have adequate postage on them at all. The post office said they were fine, the sorting office said otherwise; sh*t happens.

    Shouldn't be a news story at IMO, more in the paper's line to focus on something more important.

    well I guess if the postmasters dont know they job how do you expect the run of the mill worker to know his job - maybe that person dealing with you was trained at the newcastle post office :D


  • #17
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    This is like 10 Watergates, the Pulitzer prizes will rain down for this one.


  • #18
    Madame Razz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭Madame Razz


    dolphin city wrote: »
    well I guess if the postmasters dont know they job how do you expect the run of the mill worker to know his job - maybe that person dealing with you was trained at the newcastle post office :D

    Hello, Mr Mountain, have you met Mr Molehill?

    It must be wonderful to be the sort of person that is so perfect that they never makes a mistake. Truly. :rolleyes:


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