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    Thank you Basepoint.co.uk

    Arrived back home today to find a note from the postie informing me that a letter was waiting for me at the depot - it hadn't been delivered due to a 15p shortfall in the postage. So after driving out to the depot and handing over £1.15 (the other quid added on as a handling fee) I was presented with some marketing cr@p from Basepoint for their "virtual office" service.

    Muppets. They'll be getting a bill from me for wasting my time.
    Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

    #2
    THAT would have pissed me off! Imagine how many will also be having to do this if it was a mass mailout!

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      #3
      Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
      Arrived back home today to find a note from the postie informing me that a letter was waiting for me at the depot - it hadn't been delivered due to a 15p shortfall in the postage. So after driving out to the depot and handing over £1.15 (the other quid added on as a handling fee) I was presented with some marketing cr@p from Basepoint for their "virtual office" service.

      Muppets. They'll be getting a bill from me for wasting my time.
      Yes this is b****dy annoying the least they could do is write who send the b****dy thing so you know not to waste the trip.
      This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernames

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        #4
        Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Post
        Yes this is b****dy annoying the least they could do is write who send the b****dy thing so you know not to waste the trip.
        They won't do that because the "from name" could be the message.

        A trick I never did but know others who did was to phone home from overseas when a student. Ask the operator for a reverse charge call and have an agreed list of names meaning different things.

        "Will you accept a reverse charge call from Ima Broke?"
        "No."
        and Daddy puts another £100 in the student's bank account.

        "Will you accept a reverse charge call from Ima Lonely?"
        "No."
        and Daddy sends a plane ticket home to the hostel.

        "Will you accept a reverse charge call from Ima Fine?"
        "No."
        and Mummy knows her little baby is just checking in.
        Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

        Xenophon said: "CUK Geek of the Week". A gingerjedi certified "Elitist Tw@t". Posting rated @ 5 lard points

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          #5
          Originally posted by voodooflux View Post
          Arrived back home today to find a note from the postie informing me that a letter was waiting for me at the depot - it hadn't been delivered due to a 15p shortfall in the postage. So after driving out to the depot and handing over £1.15 (the other quid added on as a handling fee) I was presented with some marketing cr@p from Basepoint for their "virtual office" service.

          Muppets. They'll be getting a bill from me for wasting my time.
          And what was the letter about? Was it worth £1.15?

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            #6
            Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
            Was it worth £1.15?
            Not at all - it was on stiff paper too so no good as toilet paper.
            Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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              #7
              Moral = if the sender isnt arsed to pay the correct postage, ignore!

              I got a similar letter from the PO saying letter had 15p insufficient postage and I could collect by paying £1.15. Did I **** like!
              I couldn't give two fornicators! Yes, really!

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                #8
                I went to the PO to pick up an underpaid letter. I felt it, realised it was a CD and I was not expecting it, so let them keep it !!

                Their letter size system is crazy because it causes a lot more work for everybody, and just makes me want to avoid the PO all the more. It must also lose business for card companies, as I am sure I'm not the only person that never buys an oversize card due to the extra inconvenience and worry about whether it will ever arrive if understamped accidentally.

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