to think that the recent Royal Mail price increases are all down to Postman bloody Pat?

[KirstyJC]

OK, so I ended up watching Postman Pat Special Delivery Service earlier on and I just couldn't believe it!

Postman Pat had a small parcel to deliver. Due to his bloody cat causing trouble (not for the first time I might add) the parcel, which was a bouncy castle, inflated in the sorting office.

Now, instead of doing the obvious thing and deflating it, Pat decides to deliver it by helicopter, fully inflated, flying over the fields of Greendale. I mean really?!?! How much did that cost then Pat - I bet it was less than a tenner paid by the sender, and you go out in a bleeding helicopter to deliver it?

AND then let your cat bounce on it, causing it to have numerous holes and deflate. Then you buy all the plasters for sale in the village (which by an amazingly fortunate co-incidence were over-delivered to the shop that very morning) and patch up the bouncy castle with them.

I very much doubt that these costs would be covered by the sender, and rightly so - Pat's incompetence and staggering disregard for resources is hardly their fault.

So it's us, the consumer, who end up paying in the form of increased postal charges all round. Thanks a lot, Pat.

And yes, as the song says - he is a very lucky man - if he worked in the private sector he would have been sacked years ago!

Worse than yodel - almost an achievement in incompetance!

So glad to have found this - was shouting at Pointless Pat only this morning.

1. He can't deliver anything without a drama or a ridiculous impractical vehicle
2. What idiot gives him fragile items to deliver & then is surprised when they get broken (& no Pat, 5 plates will not feed an entire village - unless it's Pontipandy clearly)
3. Who are these wafty other characters who accept his incompetence???
4. Why does Sarah sound like a 60 yo man with a 40 a day fag habit who is called Bert in rl?

And breathe.... Thank you for letting me get that off my chest - 14 hours & clearly still seething

The theory is that Pat does the mail in the morning and the special delivery after. But I saw one where he was at the Post Office getting letters from Mrs Goggins when he got the call to go on a Special Delivery so just abandoned the letters.

He also never apologises when he answers his phone. Even if he was mid-conversation with someone.

I frequently find myself not only irritated by his incompetence butvalso by the rest of the villagers inability to see him as anything but a hero.

The film night one drove me nuts. he lost the film cos he didn't shut the van door properly, it landed in a puddle so when he found it (using the helicopter, obviously) it was damaged and wouldn't play. So he suggests they all watch some crappy home video the kids made and they all hail him a hero for saving film night??! No, he ruined film night.

And the one where Dr G and PC Selby organised a surprise for Lucy. Pat delivers the huge fake cake for PC Selby to jump out of - late, obviously - and then he announces to Lucy that they have a surprise for her. If I'd been making that episode Dr G and PC Selby would have got all pissed off that he'd muscled in, but no. They stand there grinning affectionately at him while he takes the credit for their surprise.

I need to learn to just switch my brain off when it's on. The old ones were much better.

Oh & sorry op YANBU! Was so busy ranting I forgot to agree

YANBU

Watched a very old one the other day (Miss Rebecca Hubbard was in it!) and DD was perplexed at the lack of helicopter, bellows of "SDS!", spinning mobile phones and the resultant general level of calm competence.

Too old for Pat and Sam anymore in this house - thank fuck - but Fireman Sam would be far more enjoyable if it was like every week instead

tootsweet the plate one also gave me the rage yesterday.

YAdefinitely NBU. Though pathetic Pat is at least less creepy than Rosie & Jim. They freak me out.

less creepy but still creepy

there is an episode where the Rev shows Pat his scarred palms and says it is the result of 'overenthusiastic bell ringing in my youth'

kid you not

YANBU, the post office also needs to stop wasting money on submarines.

"Mummy, if PP were our postman he'd get sacked, wouldn't he?"

Sacked? Prosecuted, more like, for repeatedly opening other people's mail.

I fucking hate PP.

YANBU...it is terrible now, he is shockingly incompetent

Every time he balls things up and gets treated like he is the dogs knob by the villagers.

Aww, Miss Hubbard! do you think she died?!

Pat probably fucking murdered her and pocketed her winter fuel allowance.

"Well done Pat" exclaim the villagers, as he pats down the earth on her shallow grave. "We never liked her anyway."

I have the original Rosie and jim on VHS, my dd loves them.

Postman pat is just crap at his job

why can he not wrap up any parcel adequately, for the love of god? Those plates were ridiculous. He wrapped and tied them and they came undone every time he went over a bump

I've never felt he was entirely trustworthy around Mrs Goggins.

The plate one yesterday made me stabby, Ben or whatever his bloody name is was at the school FGS if he was going anyway why could he not put the plates in the back of his frigging car.

Also no Pat it really isn't on for you to play with peoples belongings, if i order a metal detector i would like to be the first one to use it.

"Naughty naughty robots, doing what they ought not."

Bonkers episode that one. Kids being terrorised by crazed machines that Pat had somehow fucked up.

Never mind PP & Rosie & Jim. Do any of you remember Sally & Jake? (Channelling 1970's childhood) Or even further back- the Woodentops?

The Woodentops made a come-back recently, didn't they?

Little Weed really need to up her game on the assertiveness front.

Isn't Weed in Bill & Ben? They have been re-invented recently- flobalob!!