Southside delivery office

corblimey

An post are holding a package for ransom in the SDO. The surly postman refused to accept anything but exact change for the money due so I was forced to let him take it back to the depot. The amount is awkward (23.17) so does anybody know if the depot will accept a cheque or c/c, or at least be able to make change out of a 50?

Miaireland

In my experience you would be better off getting the correct change and then go to the Sorting Office. Depending who you get out there some can be very helpful and others not so. Don't waste your journey.

Papa_Lazarou

corblimey wrote: »

An post are holding a package for ransom in the SDO. The surly postman refused to accept anything but exact change for the money due so I was forced to let him take it back to the depot. The amount is awkward (23.17) so does anybody know if the depot will accept a cheque or c/c, or at least be able to make change out of a 50?

Go into a shop and buy a marsbar with the 50 and you should get the change you need.

Out of curiosity are you getting caught for duty tax?

corblimey

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Out of curiosity are you getting caught for duty tax?

Yeah, a package from eBay via the states. TBH, I thought the tax only applied to things you COULD get in this country, music, DVDs, books, etc but I'm not going to fight it. I need my "stuff".

Papa_Lazarou

corblimey wrote: »

Yeah, a package from eBay via the states. TBH, I thought the tax only applied to things you COULD get in this country, music, DVDs, books, etc but I'm not going to fight it. I need my "stuff".

Nah can get charged on anything at all pretty much. Sometimes you'll get away with and other times you won't. Half the time is seems to be the smaller things they do catch people out on.

murphym7

corblimey wrote: »

An post are holding a package for ransom in the SDO. The surly postman refused to accept anything but exact change for the money due so I was forced to let him take it back to the depot. The amount is awkward (23.17) so does anybody know if the depot will accept a cheque or c/c, or at least be able to make change out of a 50?

What's the big deal in bringing the correct money with you? What's awkward about 23.17? would a clean 25.00 be better? I just don't see the big issue here - maybe its just me, sorry.

corblimey

murphym7 wrote: »

What's the big deal in bringing the correct money with you? What's awkward about 23.17? would a clean 25.00 be better? I just don't see the big issue here - maybe its just me, sorry.

I don't know about you, but I live in a mostly cashless society, credit and debit cards for everything. If I do need cash, I go to the bank machine and they dispense 50s and 20s mostly, no 23.17. So I've got a 50 and need to find some way of making 23.17 exactly in small change. That's a 20, a 2, a 1, a 10c, a 5c, and 2c.

As it happened, the surly postman had put the wrong value on the delivery notice and it should have been 23.27. I arrived with 23.17, but I got a very friendly chap who made change for me out of the 30 quid I had on me. (It looked like he was going to let me away with the 10c if I didn't have any other money on me)

MunsterCycling

Bring it to the fu€kers mostly in 50c coins, and brown change and tell them to stuff their underworked arses

parsi

Why would you do that ?