But, apart from that little detail, it _still_ isn't anything to do with Royal Mail. Post Office Counters are the people who run post offices - Royal Mail do the postbox-to-letterbox bit. Completely separate organisations.
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Ooh, yet another "convenient" plastic card.
About half live round here! ;-)
By rights the populace has never been more intelligent, yet there is an appalling resistance to doing any actual thinking. It's the "we won two wars"-while-resting-on-the-laurels mentality we seem to have, which I suppose is why this country is sliding into a pit of being more 3rd world than the 3rd world. Certainly people confuse talking for thinking.
See "Bruce" passim.
Dave Liquorice :
If it asks for the month first it can offer you only valid days.
If it asks for the day first it can offer you only valid months.
I don't see much difference.
You always need a "go back" button.
Only in Bonkersland.
snipped-for-privacy@googlemail.com:
Not *so* simple.
Think of a better idea? Of *course* it would cost millions.
not necessarily true. Our village PO closed because one of the husband & wife owner became too ill to work. They wouldn't let anyone else in to help since the only toilet is in their flat upstairs, which they don't want to share.
the sad thing is that without the PO their other trade will drop off.
Not really needed. There's only three steps (here at least):
1) Choose gender 2) Choose day of month of birthday 3) Choose month of birthdayThen it says it's found you or not and you can start again if required.
Yes, I'm sure there are reasons like that. I'm just making the point that harry was trying to link the Royal Mail privatisation to the state of his village PO, as if the former caused the latter.
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I was thinking of:
Tim Streater :
IIUYC, when my finger hits the wrong button at step 2, I have to complete step 3 regardless. I don't like that. I'd rather have a button labelled "go back" or "start again" or something similar.
The Tube station for Moorfields Eye Hospital (can't recall which one it is) had a yellow line painted on the floor for patients to follow to find the hospital.
Interesting, thank you.
Doesn't the clinic have a receptionist? Why the need all this technology? Maybe my local hospital is still in the dark ages but they still employ human beings in the clinic here.
Tim
Well, for all I know, there may be. I've not needed one so I haven't looked.
Of course, but this system reduces the queue considerably and should save staff costs. While I was there, there was one bloke who after his doc appt had to go to the receptionist to, I suppose, book a follow-up or nurses appt. He was there for some minutes during which time a Q of
3 or 4 built up (including my yo-yo friend). Meanwhile lots of other klods came in and checked in no problem.In message , Tim Streater writes
I don't think it can be wrong to query the separation of Royal MAIL from POST Office, but the point in my earlier posting was that Royal Mail has set up a system that advertises "Just pay online and then drop it in to your local Post Office" and when I tried to do just that it didn't work.
My son tells me he has been refunded for his on-line payment.
I have no objection to privatisation - what I object to is the shredding of institutions that have evolved over the years and now don't seem to work as they should.
Ours does it on two particular Saturdays a week apart and you have to book. You get given a time to show up. Although the surgery does have check in screens on this occasion they are not used for the flu jabs. A standing receptionist checks your name against a list and gives you a paper ticket,next member of staff checks that the spot for the jab is not covered by clothing. Next stage a team of about 5 doctors or practise nurses in row are giving the jabs and you advance to the first free one. It's all a mix between delicatessen,Post office counter and sheep dip. Turn up with a short sleeve shirt while others are still removing cardigans and you can be through within a minute. They then encourage people to wait a few minutes in another area just in case they feel faint or something and this is encouraged by having some volunteers selling cups of Tea/Coffee and a biscuit for a donation. Usually they run ahead of schedule and when once I turned up an Hour early I just got processed,reason I was early was that I gave an elderly neighbour a lift in for theirs.
G.Harman
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