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Free postage to the North Pole no more....

  • 27-11-2012 12:03PM
    #1
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭


    what a bunch of clowns an post are! :rolleyes:

    _________________________________________________

    26/11/2012 - 08:32:57
    An Post wants everyone to put 55c stamps on their Santa letters this year.

    The company has been explaining that, while they normally take bags of post to the North Pole for free, the recession's effecting everyone equally.

    An Post has also pointed out they are competing with other online Santa services that all charge for delivery to the big man.

    If your letter does not have a stamp, An Post will still deliver it.


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  • #2
    upstairs for coffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭upstairs for coffee


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    If your letter does not have a stamp, An Post will still deliver it.

    So it's a voluntary tax? What incentive is there to buy the 55c stamp if they'll still deliver it anyway?


  • #3
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    If your letter does not have a stamp, An Post will still deliver it.

    Problem solved.


  • #4
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    An Post can suck my balls.


  • #5
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Where exactly do they deliver it to?


  • #6
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    ArtyM wrote: »
    Where exactly do they deliver it to?

    a shredder


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  • #7
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,885 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    If your letter does not have a stamp, An Post will still deliver it.

    Deliver it where? A fire?


  • #8
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    ArtyM wrote: »
    Where exactly do they deliver it to?
    To an inferno


  • #9
    Porkchop McGee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Porkchop McGee


    Jaysus, 55c to have them chuck a letter into an incinerator, I'm in the wrong trade.


  • #10
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Do they still do the return letters from santa to the kids?

    Anyone remember them?


  • #11
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    ArtyM wrote: »
    Where exactly do they deliver it to?
    MidlandsM wrote: »
    a shredder
    Penn wrote: »
    Deliver it where? A fire?
    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    To an inferno

    That's not how it is at all, lads. :)


    They people in the post office all sit around reading out the letters, joylessly mocking the children's poor grammar and syntax, their sense of entitlement and ignorance of life's true capacity for the misery they will grow up into.

    The laughter becomes more hollow with each letter as it dawns on the postpeople that they too had joy, expectations and hope in their lives once upon a time. Every crayon mark and every poorly drawn picture of a family pet all serve as reminders of what once was, and what could've been.


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  • #12
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If you don't pay the 55c the letter is sent back to the child marked 'recipient deceased'.


  • #13
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    Cory Enough Children wrote: »
    That's not how it is at all, lads. :)


    They people in the post office all sit around reading out the letters, joylessly mocking the children's poor grammar and syntax, their sense of entitlement and ignorance of life's true capacity for the misery they will grow up into.

    The laughter becomes more hollow with each letter as it dawns on the postpeople that they too had joy, expectations and hope in their lives once upon a time. Every crayon mark and every poorly drawn picture of a family pet all serve as reminders of what once was, and what could've been.

    post people


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Cory Enough Children wrote: »
    That's not how it is at all, lads. :)


    They people in the post office all sit around reading out the letters, joylessly mocking the children's poor grammar and syntax, their sense of entitlement and ignorance of life's true capacity for the misery they will grow up into.

    The laughter becomes more hollow with each letter as it dawns on the postpeople that they too had joy, expectations and hope in their lives once upon a time. Every crayon mark and every poorly drawn picture of a family pet all serve as reminders of what once was, and what could've been.

    Men..postmen.


  • #15
    The Cool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭The Cool


    I wouldn't mind having to pay something like a euro for a kid's Santa letter for the time that someone in the post office spends going through all the letters, noting down the kids names and addresses and sending out letters from Santa - a friend's mum works in a PO and has been assigned to doing that. I think it's so worthwhile as well when you see the kids' faces when Santa has written back! Paying for a stamp though - whose pockets is that going to? Better still, there could be some kind of Santa letter system whereby you pay and the money goes to a children's charity.


  • #16
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    When you go will you send back, a letter from America.

    Greenland no more, Finland no more, Alaska no more, Lapland no more...


  • #17
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I hate to break it to you lads, but Santa doesn't do all this for free. The big man demands payment. So why should An Post be subsidising his monopoly?


  • #18
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    I only see my postman once a year:(


  • #19
    DB21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭DB21


    RoyalMarine wrote: »
    post people

    RIP :(



















    :pac:


  • #20
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Bollocks, bought a stamp every time I sent a letter to Satan er Santa back in the day.

    Didn't know it was Freepost all along!


  • #21
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Are Skynet doing the tracking system again this year?


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  • #22
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Are Skynet doing the tracking system again this year?

    I dunno about Skynet. I usually follow the NORAD one and they've done it since the beginning so I doubt they'd stop this year.


  • #23
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    In my day the folks would make me write my letter (read it so they would know what to get me) then we had a ritual where we put them in the fire and we, being stupid kids, believed that the letters flew up the chimney and went to Santa.

    Hey it was on the snow man animation so that backed that up.

    My neighbours were having trouble getting their son to actually pick what he wanted so the dad brought him out back, pointed to the north star, which he informed his son is the satellite watching him to make sure he's being good and that he had to shout up to the star what he wanted and he got one chance and one chance only. There was the poor fella screaming at the top of his lungs "I want a bmx, a leather football and I.. I... Want a ben ten walkie talkie and I've been reeeeeeaaaallllly good but I hit my sister but she started it, okay??
    Hilarious!

    Fup that sending a stamped letter to nowhere.


  • #24
    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Christmas Police haven't copped this thread yet.....


  • #25
    CillianL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭CillianL


    Fedex, UPS and DHL must hate christmas eve, the one night of the year they lose all the package business to Santa Logistical Corporation which has no overheads from all that little elf slave labour.


  • #26
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    CillianL wrote: »
    Fedex, UPS and DHL must hate christmas eve, the one night of the year they lose all the package business to Santa Logistical Corporation which has no overheads from all that little elf slave labour.

    Those elfs need to unionise, to be honest. Santa's rolling in it from all the cheques left up the chimney, he needs to share the wealth. And they shouldn't just settle for less whipping, a proper profit-share needs to be setup. Maybe even stock options in Santa PLC.


  • #27
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Cory Enough Children wrote: »
    That's not how it is at all, lads. :)


    They people in the post office all sit around reading out the letters, joylessly mocking the children's poor grammar and syntax, their sense of entitlement and ignorance of life's true capacity for the misery they will grow up into.

    The laughter becomes more hollow with each letter as it dawns on the postpeople that they too had joy, expectations and hope in their lives once upon a time. Every crayon mark and every poorly drawn picture of a family pet all serve as reminders of what once was, and what could've been.

    :rolleyes:


  • #28
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,848 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    I dunno about Skynet. I usually follow the NORAD one and they've done it since the beginning so I doubt they'd stop this year.


    1955 was when they first started it.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa


    I know it's wiki but i've heard this from a couple of different sources too.


  • #29
    CillianL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 138 ✭✭CillianL


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    Those elfs need to unionise, to be honest. Santa's rolling in it from all the cheques left up the chimney, he needs to share the wealth. And they shouldn't just settle for less whipping, a proper profit-share needs to be setup. Maybe even stock options in Santa PLC.

    Maybe ICTU could do something useful for a change and extend their base to the the North Pole where Santa's monopolistic corporation has all those little elves destined to a life of 24/7 toy manufacturing with only candy cane wages while the evil capitalistic Santa Claus works one day a year and keeps all the profits.


  • #30
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    The Cool wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind having to pay something like a euro for a kid's Santa letter for the time that someone in the post office spends going through all the letters, noting down the kids names and addresses and sending out letters from Santa - a friend's mum works in a PO and has been assigned to doing that. I think it's so worthwhile as well when you see the kids' faces when Santa has written back! Paying for a stamp though - whose pockets is that going to? Better still, there could be some kind of Santa letter system whereby you pay and the money goes to a children's charity.

    What? :confused:

    Santa never sent me any letters. :(


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  • #31
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    CillianL wrote: »
    Maybe ICTU could do something useful for a change and extend their base to the the North Pole where Santa's monopolistic corporation has all those little elves destined to a life of 24/7 toy manufacturing with only candy cane wages while the evil capitalistic Santa Claus works one day a year and keeps all the profits.

    The greedy bollix keeps them in line by saying he'd outsource to China where they'd happy to work for half a sugar cube. That's rubbish though because one of the biggest selling points in Santa Industries is their North Pole base in the Arctic. If he moves he's going to suffer a lot of publicity problems.


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