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Re: [OT] I dont understand the logic.......


  • Subject: Re: [OT] I dont understand the logic.......
  • From: Mark McCall
  • Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:20:00 +0000

Look here Keith...
<a href="http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/";>http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/</a>

M.


----- Original Message -----
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Subject: RE: [KAT5] [OT] I dont understand the logic.......


Keith,

See if you cab get a Viking Direct book from somewhere then you don't
even need to go near a PO! :-)

If you can't get one let me know and I'll get you contact details.

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:<a
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> Sent: 09 March 2002 17:03
> To: KAT5 (E-mail)
> Subject: [KAT5] [OT] I dont understand the logic.......
>
> ..... behind Consignia
>
> Let me explain....
>
> Current Affairs are not my strong point but I do know the following
>
> 1. Consignia is really the Post Office
> 2. Consignia are in deep doo-doo due to loss of business
> 3. KAT5 is delivered by the Post Office
>
> Why is this relevant, well, people who have already received KAT5
orders
> will know that they arrive in a sturdy cardboard box with "Post
Office"
> printed all over it. These are supplied as a sheet of precut cardboard
> with
> origami instructions to convert it into a rigid and robust cardboard
box,
> a
> task at which by now I have become quite adept.
>
> Now the problem......
>
> The KAT5 production line has developed a slight hiccup, I've run out
of
> boxes. Not to worry said I, on Saturday I will go the newly opened
Post
> Office in the town centre and buy another stock of them. Now its bad
> enough
> that the new Post Office is right in the middle of a pedestrianised
area
> unlike the old one where you could park outside, but.... the new Post
> Office
> DOESN'T SELL BOXES. What made it worse was the fact that it was the
second
> Post Office I had been in today that didnt sell them.
>
> <RANT MODE>
> How the hell can the Post Office (or more correctly "Consignia'd
to
> the
> dustbin") expect people to post parcels when they dont stock the
boxes
to
> put them in!
> </RANT MODE>
>
> I also tried WH Smith....zilch. Finally saw a similar box in Partners
but
> it
> was a different make, slightly smaller, and not such strong cardboard.
It
> was like one I tried before purchasing the Post Office ones.
>
> I didnt buy it though because I know a Post Office where I will be
able to
> get the "proper" ones, just have to wait til Monday or
Tuesday to get
> them.
> I absolutely REFUSE to pay £2-49 for a box that is inferior to the
ones I
> normally get at 79 pence each.
>
> This kind of hassle I can really do without :-((
>
> Keith
>
> www.diyha.co.uk
> www.kat5.tv
>
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