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  • #52
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,970 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    SPDUB wrote: »
    It has only ever been the job of An Post or the P & T to provide a service delivering letters and packets .

    if other things happened because of that it was a accident and no member of staff could be disciplined for not doing those things .

    If you gave cash at Xmas that's actually bribery of an official in a public office and therefore illegal



    If you have signed a waiver and the local delivery office is aware of it then yes that should be sufficient for your circumstances to be taken into account .

    My point is no postman should be doing such things off their own bat because while you might be reasonable there are people who will complain at the drop at the slightest thing .

    To give an example years ago when I was on delivery duty I had a woman complain I was holding back her ESB bill because some of her neighbours got theirs before her .

    That was just the way they came into the office and she apparently ignored all the other post I put into her house at least every second day so why would I not bring out the ESB bill if I had it

    :eek: That is absolutely pathetic when you can't reward someone for going beyond the call of duty to actually help people. I will continue being a criminal.


  • #53
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Discodog wrote: »
    :eek: That is absolutely pathetic when you can't reward someone for going beyond the call of duty to actually help people. I will continue being a criminal.

    Alleluia! Me too! The legalism is truly sad and yes pathetic. JOBSWORTH award duly given.


  • #54
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,332 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Discodog wrote: »
    :eek: That is absolutely pathetic when you can't reward someone for going beyond the call of duty to actually help people. I will continue being a criminal.

    Rubbish.

    Public officials accepting bribes csuses no end of problems.


  • #55
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,970 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    Rubbish.

    Public officials accepting bribes csuses no end of problems.

    You really think that rewarding a Postman with €20 is the same as bribing a public official :rolleyes:


  • #56
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Discodog wrote: »
    You really think that rewarding a Postman with €20 is the same as bribing a public official :rolleyes:


    Bribe him for what?


  • #57
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,970 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    kneemos wrote: »
    Bribe him for what?

    I don't know. Ask OBumble


  • #58
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    We had a really good chuckle here about all this.. I once knitted a hat for my postman, and used to make him apple pies..... will freely admit it in court! That was up on a North Sea island and he did so many small kindnesses.

    A thankyou gift for kindness and good service is never a bribe.

    My postman here once came all the way up from the gate to check I was OK as I had forgotten to gather in the previous day's post.


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