If the BBC interrupted Newsnight with toothpaste adverts, I’d be annoyed. Similarly, if the Houses of Parliament were renamed the Vodafone GovMax! Centre, I’d have a right old rant. Well, you would, wouldn’t you?
So when, having bought some Royal Mail stamps today, I was made to wait for my change while the Post Office assistant tried her utmost to sell me a BLOODY CREDIT CARD, I was not amused. I know Post Office Counters plc is now distinct from the Royal Mail, but still… I’d rather like to deal directly with the people who are delivering my mail, rather than through an advert-funded intermediary! I’d buy all of my stamps from the newsagents if I could, thus avoiding the endless Post Office queues, but that’s not an option when something has to be weighed.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened; I’ve turned down offers of credit cards and car insurance on four or five occasions. I don’t know whether the assistants have any choice in this (i.e. whether they’re doing it for commission) so I’ve been polite every time, but I’m now itching to give someone a piece of my mind. Let’s see how effective their complaints system is, shall we?
They didn’t do this to me the last three times I’ve been in (twice for car tax, and once for postage), though in each case they’ve waited to ask me if I wanted to make a cash withdrawal until the point where I had to put my PIN in again :).
The main reason for the comment is to mention my approval of the new colour scheme. Inspired by tictacs, one assumes.
Well, it was a condition of the sponsorship deal… ;-)
Funny that, I had three parcels to send on Wednesday and wasn’t offered anything. Obviously this is a good thing, I wonder if its region driven?
Oh, the “do you know math?” plug-in is class. Nice one Ade ;)