aibu to think postman should not be changing tyres/ talking at length with people on his rounds?

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Waiting for an important letter which is dependent on what time I receive it today. So go for a stroll to see if postie is in area. There is he is in the next street changing some girl's tyre for her-I know this is not his car and ours is his last street. He then proceeds to chat to this girl for about 10 minutes, then another woman for about 5 minutes.

I am peed off about this. AIBU?

Or love is he taking his legally entilled break?

I got a full house on "I pay your wages", anyone else?

Who are all these bastard postmen who think they're entitled to breaks? Nail 'em up!

No, he is there for three hours in a row. (I have been spending a lot of time in the library researching, but leave at 2:30 to collect DC. He also leaves at 2:30 to collect his DD)

To be fair, LoveLikeaStarlightNeverDies, sounds like the guy is on a break to me.

Heartbrokenmum73, I dislike it when people drag comments from other threads here, but I guess that is your choice to do so. It's bad taste IMO.

I reported suspected troll, mostly because I just didn't want this to be true. Sorry.

Perhaps he doesn't drive and it's not worth going home only to have to go back out again to pick up his kids?

It's bad form, but rather relevant given your attitude on this thread, compared to the other one.

Well, I dislike it when people behave like utter prickwits towards someone who is helping someone else and also when they behave like arseholes towards someone who was asked 'how much for your daughter'.

Personally, I think everything you write is in 'bad taste'.

And I brought up the other thread to further illustrate what a cockwomble you truly are.

Hth

I would say that the Library Postman has finished his shift.

They work hard to finish their shifts in time, and there is no way he'd manage a 3 hour break without being noticed. He probably doesn't drive, and it's not worth him going home before picking his daughter up. Or he simply likes going to the library to read the papers, which he's perfectly entitled to do.

My dh is a postie.

He once waited for ambulance with a drunk woman who had fell and cut her head. He helped an old lady who fell over in the snow, drove her home, put her shopping away and rang her daughter. He has helped an old man carry a TV and set it up for him. oh! and helped a woman looking for her cat. they found him!

That is just off the top of my head.
All whilst he was working, because he is a good egg.

So yes. yabvvvu.

ooops, sorry I should not have asked a question when I have to go so soon (Cubs meeting), but it is more the library use that I think is wrong. There are signs up about how it is only for student use. He takes up lots of space and the students seem to be wary of him, sitting crammed together, a good distance from him. I cannot believe he has a 3 hour break, but it is possible. I am in Ireland, so not Royal Mail. Also, this is petty, but do postmen own their bikes- those High Nelly ones? Because I think some student might help himself to it, the way it is thrown in the bushes...

Is that you a amillionyears?

YAB hideously U - I dont think they are committed to getting the mail to you by a certain time are they?

Our postie pops his head into MIL and puts the post on a chair for her as he knows she is disabled and struggles to get it - I guess it throws his timings off a bit but its community spirit and how the world used to work when it was a nicer place and not run by killjoys with their eyes on the bottom line ££££££s

I guess the kind of people who complain about this sort of thing are the same ones who were always dobbing you in at school...killjoy hall monitors

amillion?

I was thinking more along the lines of the Lowing One.

So it's a student only library?

yes, giles and stratters have a good point. I asked one of the technicians in the library about this guy, since her husband is a postman, and she was like "Oh, yes, he has already been kicked out of Easons and Centra for spending hours reading the papers."

Hope you or yours never need a favour OP...........

Beeyump Thanks for that. I am not trolling here. I accept that I am in the minority, but my views are genuine and I am not trolling. Do you report everybody who disagrees with you? I've had a lot of abuse here on this thread but never have I retaliated with name-calling etc.

How can you get chucked out a library for spending too much time reading.

Also, yes, a student- only library. They was a problem with secondary school students meeting there and hanging out, so they have signs up and actually used to check student id/ library cards at the door. But |I accept the break is probably legit. Cubs on...

No, you just called the postie an arse. The one who isn't actually here to defend himself.

Bet you didn't say that to his face though, did you?