Aren't scribblies wonderful.....
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Aren't scribblies wonderful.....
Having retrired recently, I was somewhat suprised to receive a letter from my ex-station wondering why I hadn't had a recent ECG. It was dated the day after I retired, some 4 months after my release medical...... Actually I had an ECG in March for my ATPL, but they could have found that out for themselves.
But what was even more amusing was to receive the official thankyougram from the AOC. A very nice letter, somewhat spoiled by the mean minded blunty who sent it out with a damn great 2nd class postage paid sticker on it.
35 years in the mob and some tight arse can't even afford a 1st class stamp. That just about sums up the way things are these days!
IiP - ooh yes......
But what was even more amusing was to receive the official thankyougram from the AOC. A very nice letter, somewhat spoiled by the mean minded blunty who sent it out with a damn great 2nd class postage paid sticker on it.
35 years in the mob and some tight arse can't even afford a 1st class stamp. That just about sums up the way things are these days!
IiP - ooh yes......
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To those who care about these things (and I don't), sending correspondence by first class post is considered rather 'lower deck' (posh people don't flap, apparently). Perhaps they were trying not to offend you, Beags.
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Really? Sounds like bolleaux to me. I don't think that I've ever used 2nd class post since it was first introduced as I rather like my post to be delivered........
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But...But....
35 Years dang-nabbit! Gotta be worth a first class stamp surely!
Still could have been worse mate....they could have sent it COD !
How's the retirement thing BEagle, scary concept really....guess you will be logging some serious PPrune time now (not that you didn't before).
Pop the feet up mate, keep the cold tinnies on hand and the remote with a poop load of cable channels to keep you entertained.
At Least now you will be home to say gudday to the Jehovah Witnesses when they pop around for tea and bikkies!
Still could have been worse mate....they could have sent it COD !
How's the retirement thing BEagle, scary concept really....guess you will be logging some serious PPrune time now (not that you didn't before).
Pop the feet up mate, keep the cold tinnies on hand and the remote with a poop load of cable channels to keep you entertained.
At Least now you will be home to say gudday to the Jehovah Witnesses when they pop around for tea and bikkies!
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BEagle,
Oh, how I know what you mean.
I left in April this year after a mere 32 yrss. Since then I have had a letter from my AOC, quite nice - shame the bluntie at the other end couldn't get my surname right!
I too have had a letter asking if I need a repeat prescription from the med centre! and lastly, I was informed by those wonderful people in handbrake house that they had 'overlooked' the fact that I was due a bar to my LS & GCM, and was it OK to send it in the post??!!!
I can't remember if they were send first class, second class or what, but I am astonished that even as a civvie, the blunties are still hounding me
As for the bar - well em, it just about sums things up really don't it??
Regards to all, EXCEPT BLUNTIES, who are a waste of valuable oxygen!!
The Swinging Monkey
'Caruthers, lets polish my medals shall we?'
Oh, how I know what you mean.
I left in April this year after a mere 32 yrss. Since then I have had a letter from my AOC, quite nice - shame the bluntie at the other end couldn't get my surname right!
I too have had a letter asking if I need a repeat prescription from the med centre! and lastly, I was informed by those wonderful people in handbrake house that they had 'overlooked' the fact that I was due a bar to my LS & GCM, and was it OK to send it in the post??!!!
I can't remember if they were send first class, second class or what, but I am astonished that even as a civvie, the blunties are still hounding me
As for the bar - well em, it just about sums things up really don't it??
Regards to all, EXCEPT BLUNTIES, who are a waste of valuable oxygen!!
The Swinging Monkey
'Caruthers, lets polish my medals shall we?'
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BEagle - I remember getting my "thank you" letter when I left in 1995. I was thanked for my valuable service - although surely if it had been THAT valuable they could have let me stay in, which was what I wanted!
By the way, mine arrived about 12 months after I left the RAF and was already on my second civvie job! Looks like second class has improved a bit.
By the way, mine arrived about 12 months after I left the RAF and was already on my second civvie job! Looks like second class has improved a bit.
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1st class 2nd class makes sod all difference to the speed of delivery.
I was retired recently from the reserve at the age of 45. I received a letter from RA manning and records office at Footscray Kent telling me that my obligations as a reservist were now over and that I was to hand in my kit at my nearest Army depot.
I wrote back to Colonel **** informing him that in civvy street it was customary to hold a leaving party after so many years of faithful service, where did he intend holding mine?
I never got a reply (not even 2nd class) and he never got his kit back.
Good luck
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1st class 2nd class makes sod all difference to the speed of delivery.
I was retired recently from the reserve at the age of 45. I received a letter from RA manning and records office at Footscray Kent telling me that my obligations as a reservist were now over and that I was to hand in my kit at my nearest Army depot.
I wrote back to Colonel **** informing him that in civvy street it was customary to hold a leaving party after so many years of faithful service, where did he intend holding mine?
I never got a reply (not even 2nd class) and he never got his kit back.
Good luck
FEBA
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Can't remember if I got a pro-forma letter, if I did it's in a box somewhere. Rubbish anyway, doubt if he could have picked me out of a crowd of two.
Don't care really, as long as the pension keeps rolling in each month.
Don't care really, as long as the pension keeps rolling in each month.
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3rd Class mail
All this postie-bashing reminds me of a story I heard on the box many years ago...
Matey receives a letter from his local library informing him that such-and-such a book is overdue and that there is a fine to be paid.
It had taken twenty-seven years to reach him.
Presumably the fine, by this time, would have been beyond the means of the average library member!
The supreme irony was that the librarian had had to walk past matey's front door to post it...
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Matey receives a letter from his local library informing him that such-and-such a book is overdue and that there is a fine to be paid.
It had taken twenty-seven years to reach him.
Presumably the fine, by this time, would have been beyond the means of the average library member!
The supreme irony was that the librarian had had to walk past matey's front door to post it...
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hey, you think the Post Office is bad.... just try one of the other carriers. Charge you 16 times more, and still chuck it in a postbox for Royal Mail to carry! 
Dont think their guaranteed services are any different!
At least you know if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!
Dont think their guaranteed services are any different!At least you know if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!
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Welcome to the Old Farts' Club!
My penultimate tour was AA Ankara. Towards the end of it I wrote (for the first time in my life) to the posters and suggested that, since I was clearly unpromotable, the RAF might like to get some useful work out of me in my final appointment. Since they were supposed to be short of pilots at that time and I was still A1G1Z1 I volunteered to occupy any pilot seat as a supernumerary. I got a short letter back saying that, if they did that, they would have to take some other bloke out of the front line and send him staff college to qualify him for the job they were warming up for me. Shortly after that I received my posting to a liaison job in the Army Department at MOD. I believe I was the first staff college graduate ever to fill that post! My predecessor was so taxed by it that, as a keen wood-carver, he kept a work-mate and his chisels in the office.
On retiring a couple of years later, the Sappers were very nice to me, but I heard not a dicky-bird from the RAF. After a bit I wrote a rather pointed letter direct to the Air Secretary reminding him that I had served two consecutive appointments outside the RAF's chain of command and that it would have been nice to have received some token recognition of my services. I very quickly received an emollient letter from the Air Marshal himself. I thought the system had been sorted out by now! Good luck!
Welcome to the Old Farts' Club!
My penultimate tour was AA Ankara. Towards the end of it I wrote (for the first time in my life) to the posters and suggested that, since I was clearly unpromotable, the RAF might like to get some useful work out of me in my final appointment. Since they were supposed to be short of pilots at that time and I was still A1G1Z1 I volunteered to occupy any pilot seat as a supernumerary. I got a short letter back saying that, if they did that, they would have to take some other bloke out of the front line and send him staff college to qualify him for the job they were warming up for me. Shortly after that I received my posting to a liaison job in the Army Department at MOD. I believe I was the first staff college graduate ever to fill that post! My predecessor was so taxed by it that, as a keen wood-carver, he kept a work-mate and his chisels in the office.
On retiring a couple of years later, the Sappers were very nice to me, but I heard not a dicky-bird from the RAF. After a bit I wrote a rather pointed letter direct to the Air Secretary reminding him that I had served two consecutive appointments outside the RAF's chain of command and that it would have been nice to have received some token recognition of my services. I very quickly received an emollient letter from the Air Marshal himself. I thought the system had been sorted out by now! Good luck!
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I was under the impression that one had to draft one's own 'thank you letter', therefore just finding it on your C: drive must beat any postal service (unless you still own a Sinclair spectrum or a 286.)
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My TY letter conveyed The Queen's thanks via the SofS and then AMP - and then, presumably, the bluntie who copied it out of APxxx in the first place and the typist who smudged it. Are they all that impersonal or was mine special?
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These letter-writers seem to be universally incompetent;mine from the CAS RNZAF [who knew me personally]was three years out of date in the rank department, and had the wrong initials.
I returned it, with appropriate comment to the effect that if they couldn't find anyone to do such a simple job correctly, then not to bother!
I returned it, with appropriate comment to the effect that if they couldn't find anyone to do such a simple job correctly, then not to bother!
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Things are looking up. Received my 1983-2003 engraved sqn goodies today.....
Brought round in a poly bag by a mate.
Thanks.
Brought round in a poly bag by a mate.
Thanks.