But it's not just the Ascot Ops folk......
When I was doing a spell in the Fuerza Aerea Malvinas Air Wing, yet again the mail didn't arrive from Blighty.... Some
extremely pi$$ed-off teddies indeed, so we did some delving.
It transpired that the load control people had filled up the Timmy, so that when the crew did their calculations (very low QNH at Brize), the required trip fuel plus the ZFW put them over RTOW. Only solution - reduce the ZFW. So off came the mail...
We needed to sort this, because the rumour had spread that the 'TriStar crew had forgotten the mail'. Clearly bolleaux, but when people are stuck miles away from civilisation spuriously defending the Bennies from the Argentine hordes
, not getting the mail is a very big issue indeed.
But what had made it worse was that an earlier TriShaw had been days late as well due to late dispatch, poor weather in the Malvinas etc......