Feckin' Gosport Post Orifice...
Yesterday I went in there to collect my Amazon parcel, and to post a parcel. There is a queue of 20+ people, and one person serving. i waited a couple of minutes and the queue didn't move at all, so I gave up. when I got back to the offic I checked opening times, and all I found was a Post Office statement say "when the new post office opens soon, it will be from 7am to 6pm" The new post orifice has indeed opened, right down the bottom of the High street, not up her near the Town Hall where Gosport's idea of action is.
So, I walked down there as soon as I got to work this morning, at around 7-40. was it open? No, it bloody wasn't. I got back here, looked it up again, get a different result from some independent information site, saying it opens at 9am. So that'll really improve the service over the previous much derided post orifice that opened at 9am and only had one person serving, then?
Today (weather permitting) there are supposed to be Spitfires etc, flying over Gosport at lunchtime, so I am otherwise occupied. Hopefully this time they will read their maps, unlike the recent alleged flypast when they were 5 miles off their published track, and totally avoided any populated areas, and the thousands of people waiting to see them in Portsmouth, Gosport, and the top of Portsdown Hill. If they screw it up this time as well, it may escalate into a full rant.
Maybe one day Mrs W will get her birthday gift sent my Amazon. The awkward thing is that I think they've only sent one of the two books, and my new headphones will arrive at the same place tomorrow, so I can see a lifetime of queueueueing at the post orifice ahead of me.