I'm a twat. I took myself off on holiday to Spain without reading the bloody awful reviews and the bloody awful terms and conditions for the Post Office's bloody awful Travel Money pre-paid Debit Card.So, I thought that the bloody awful Post Office might like to hear my opinion, whether they like it or not. Freepost.
Dear The Post Office®Not a real letter? Oh but it is - and it didn't even cost me a stamp this time.
Firstly - congratulations on registering your name and address as a trade mark. Nice touch. If you don't mind - and before we get down to business - I'm going to do the same with mine.
So, The Business: We went on holiday to Spain this year, and - foolishly, I now realise - we believed your advertising and got hold of one of your Post Office® Travel Money Cards.
If only I knew what a massive pain the whole thing would be, I frankly wouldn't have bothered.
If only I had read the terms and conditions which magically only fell into our hands after we got the card.
If only (and I blame myself for this woefully inept oversight) we read the pages and pages of poor reviews littering the internet.
Because when we arrived home with the best part of 400 Euros in our account, we were told by your helpless help line operators that it would take 15 working days to get a refund, and then, only after we receive a letter telling whoever-it-may-concern that we are entitled to retrieve our money.
That's fifteen working days. Or, in real-life-normal-people-count-the-weekends-as-well-oh-and-don't-forget-the-Bank-Holiday terms, twenty-two days.
Twenty-two days in which you task some learned scribe at a remote monastery to write a beautifully-illustrated letter of release on hand-made vellum, sealed with the wax from the very ears of St Julian of Norwich, before being sent - post haste and don't spare the horses! - on the Mail Coach to our residence in Dorset. Provided, of course, Dick Turpin or his lackeys don't get their hands on it.
In these days of computer-based and internet banking where moneys are debited and credited to accounts at the touch of a button, why - in the name of Satan's wrinkled testes - does it take the Post Office® three weeks to give me back MY hard-earned blunt which you so gleefully took from my savings account before the ink was even dry on the agreement?
I understand that times are hard, and record numbers of posties are living under railway arches, warming themselves in front of the flames of discarded Amazon mail cartons, waving signs saying "Wife and faithful cat Jess to support" at passers-by, but, if you'll excuse the rhyming slang, you're having a giraffe, right?
There has to be a perfectly logical explanation that doesn't involve the need to keep up with the interest payments on the Post Office®'s accidental and ill-advised purchase of the Russian Navy's entire Pacific Fleet, and I wouldn't mind hearing it. Please use simile, obscure cultural references and Google Image Search to illustrate your reply within the next - God, I love irony - fifteen working days.
Be lucky.
Albert O'Balsam®
16 comments:
See also: Travelex, Thomas Cook's travel card. The problem in getting one's hard earned back off that one, is that Thomas Cook is dead.
Next time I'll take cash and a big knife.
Oh I would love to see the face of the person who opens that letter.
Nice one.
Send 'em a pre-paid turd through the letter box. It's the only language these curs understand!
Of course, they won't be able to reply, as you've used "No fixed abode" for an address.
Twat.
You used a trampstamp?
Do you ever get replies to these things?
Debster: God, sometimes.
I am heartened as it means that in a couple of years ITV will go completely down the shitter along with the FA and the Post Office. Mr Adam Crozier, thank you.
Mind you the easy answer is dont go abroad. Enough of those Johnny Foreigners come here, all you need to do is go to Southall and pretend you are in India but you can still spend proper English Pounds.
How about publishing the replies?
@ Debster
But you can't really kick the servants, can you?
Just watch me ...
Tell them you'll take Postman Pat's black and white cat hostage. That'll send them a message in the only language these curs understand. To borrow a phrase.
Don't forget Royal mail are on a super economy drive at the moment
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