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Long distance Post office queue

On 29 Nov 2017 at 6:05pm skeleton wrote:

I have been standing in the Lewes post office queue for 3 weeks now. Each night they close WHSmiths and I hide behind the envelopes with the other queuers and carry on queuing when they open again in the morning. The queue is now only just over five miles long. I can see a light at the end but I've been queuing so long it may just be a hallucination. It's a slow journey but I've brought sandwiches and a flask. I wonder if they'd consider having a portaloo installed. By the time I get served they will have raised the price of stamps. It's good really because I have nothing else to do with my time of any importance whatsoever.

On 29 Nov 2017 at 7:03pm The Twister wrote:

I have also been queuing for some consider time now, Does anyone know the result of the US presidential election? Last I heard Hilary Clinton was nailed on to win. The upside is that I should be able to obtain gainful employment this Christmas as my white beard is now over 2 feet long and I have put on over 3 stones in weight from eating chocolate from the shelves whilst waiting...........

On 29 Nov 2017 at 7:24pm Waiter wrote:

I�m 5th in the queue (and have been since July). Hopefully I�ll get to the front soon because I want to post this get well soon card to David Bowie.

On 29 Nov 2017 at 7:42pm Puzzled wrote:

Is this supposed to be humourous?

On 29 Nov 2017 at 9:20pm skeleton wrote:

It's no joke freezing your n*ts off behind an envelope all night I can tell you that for nothing.

On 29 Nov 2017 at 11:08pm We'vehadourfun wrote:

Just buy some euros. You can then go straight to the front as one cashier leaves the desperate souls in seek of higher profit in the other window. Company policy.......

On 29 Nov 2017 at 11:18pm Bert wrote:

More houses, less post offices ! More people less everything!
Anyone getting the message ? FULL UP
Usually no one complaims

On 29 Nov 2017 at 11:39pm We'vehadourfun wrote:

Is complaiming what moaning benefit cheats do?

On 30 Nov 2017 at 9:42am Lewes Tourist Info wrote:

If you need to buy stamps (including worldwide and Special Edition Postcard ones, you can buy them from us at the Tourist Information Centre!

On 30 Nov 2017 at 10:15am Full up?!? wrote:

If they close all of the post offices in the UK, and there is only one left in Lewes, and the queue goes on for miles and miles would we think that Britain was 'full up' or that privatisation was not helpful in terms of improving efficiency because it was unregulated and controlled by a small bunch of greedy people who don't care if we get our post on time, or if it takes longer to get the train from Brighton to London than it did in Victorian times...

On 30 Nov 2017 at 5:03pm Mavis wrote:

It's quite obvious, we are not full up, just look at how empty the roads are, and the trains are empty most of the time. It's so easy to find a parking space too.

On 30 Nov 2017 at 5:17pm Sussex Jim wrote:

Brighton to London took an hour by fastest train in 1900. In 1932 Winston Churchill ( I am unsure which minister he was at the time) organised the first electrification of an inter-city main line, mainly to provide employment during a recession; and restored this timing.
Today it takes just over an hour from Victoria to Brighton- or Lewes- both fifty miles. (RMT permitting) .