REVOLUTION is in the air at Weymouth’s main post office in St Thomas Street.
Changes do not involve free stamps, free gifts or a chance to win a free day out to the sorting office of your choice.
Instead the revolution is coming not from the business side but from its customers who are giving a stamp of disapproval to post office management.
Feelings boiled over among young and old alike when they were forced not just to queue to be served but to queue right out of the building and into the street.
One pensioner I talked to said service was as bad at the end of January as it had been during the Christmas rush when he said one queue reached Tesco.
He added that at the time of that queue only three counter staff could be seen working.
I heard all this as I joined my queue which stretched out into the street where a group of us stood on the pavement to wait our turn to shuffle into the building.
This queue actually had four counter staff dealing with it but it was the strength of feeling against management which interested me.
The pensioner said counter staff did their best but there weren’t enough of them which was management’s fault, others said management didn’t care about customers just about profits and one young woman said she felt sorry for the elderly or parents queueing with young children because it was such a long wait.
Universally there was sympathy for hard-working counter staff but a seething anger that management couldn’t seem to be bothered to do anything about queues. In these days of rival postal contracts it might be a public feeling that Post Office management ignores at its peril.
Beware the cyber rubbish police
IT comes to something when you can be spotted putting the household rubbish out from space.
A computer expert was chatting idly in Weymouth town centre about the delights of online services including one offered by Google.
This allows people to use satellite cameras orbiting 100 miles up to zoom in so much that it is possible to clearly view your own garden.
The expert added: “Oh yes, it’s very detailed. I looked once and I could see myself putting the rubbish out.”
Very impressive and, of course, such technology has been around for a while, but it got me thinking about how such expertise might develop.
Could we soon be taking our rubbish out only to be pulled up short by flashing lights in the sky warning us that we’ve been spotted about to put a piece of rubbish in the wrong bin? The possibilities are endless.
Supermarket speeders
SUPERMARKET speedsters are making life hazardous for shoppers in Weymouth.
The usual warren of lanes with banks of parking spaces packed in like sardines doesn’t force culprits to take their foot of the accelerator.
Instead they seem to spot some distant empty space and drive single-mindedly towards it regardless of whether the way is obscured by little old ladies or staff pushing rows of trolleys.
Wouldn’t it be nice if a few of these clowns could be ticked off by police or security staff so that the rest of us don’t have to add tranquilisers to our shopping list.
The fastest milk car in the west!
CRASH, bang, wallop went the vehicle as it whizzed over the bumps in Abbotsbury Road in Weymouth.
Following cars were swiftly outdistanced as the driver sped away towards Chickerell Road and people might be forgiven for thinking that the incident was just another speeding motorist.
But this was actually a milk float!
People stopped and stared because it was going so fast it seemed to be turbo charged.
Goods were clearly being bounced around a lot because you could hear things rattling about as the float hit potholes or road patches, but the driver was oblivious.
So if you’ve recently had a bottle of milk churned to butter you now know what caused it.
Sammy in Strictly
TELEVISION bosses have announced that one of the contestants for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing will be Sammy the Seagull from Weymouth.
He doesn’t wear sequins, he doesn’t do muscle-snapping lifts but he’ll dance the spots off any other bird on the show.
Sammy’s speciality is a sort of drum roll of the feet as he patters across a lawn.
Bird experts inform me that this is an unusual and cunning way of forcing worms to the surface so Sammy can eat them, something I actually saw him do at Bincleaves, but I still prefer to have visions of Sammy on Strictly.
That wickedly hooked beak of his could do wonderful damage to the judges in response to any low mark, so watch out for Sammy in the next series.
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