I HATE ROYAL MAIL. I know that ‘Hate’ is a big word’, but this has gone beyond being annoyed. They tried to deliver a parcel they deemed was too big for the letter box. They knocked; no one answered, and chose to take it back to the sorting office (that’s their version of events!).

Well first things first they obviously didn’t knock very hard!! We were in the living room (right next to the door), and we didn’t hear a thing!! Secondly, they state it will take 24 hours to take it back to the sorting office. What are they doing, crawling the whole way!!! It shouldn’t take that long.. Surely.. I was prepared for it to take 4 or 5 hours, (after their delivery round), but 24 hours! Pathetic.

It’s really got my goat. It’s not like I’ve already waited 5 days for the dam parcel..

*calm thoughts*.

Whilst I’m on the ranting subject, there’s one other thing that I wanted to mention, which has really been bothering me for quite a while now. (I know I’m moaning overly, but I try not to do it too often..).

Tuesdays is bin day. I drag my bins down to the road, get them emptied and drag them back up the garden to my back door. End of bin day. Now what is so hard about that?? A certain house down the road seems to get the idea that you need to bring the bin outside to get it emptied, but doesn’t seem to get the idea that it has to be BROUGHT BACK IN AGAIN.

This stupid bin always gets left infront of my drive, and every single week I have to get out of my car to move the bin before I can reverse my car in to the drive. I swear one of these weeks I’m just going to run it over…

There was a news article about this a few weeks ago, Nottingham have in-forced a ban for people that leave their bins in the road (as it makes it hard for parents to push pushchairs down paths). Why can’t Coventry have a similar system! If it happens many more weeks, I’m going to attach a note to the owner stating the bin is designed to be brought back in again after bin day.

/End of rant.