No, he collects and delivers them.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:55, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

So no one posts them, they're merely collected. I see.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:56, Reply)

What are you misunderstanding about the verb to post?
Or about the duties of a postman?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:58, Reply)

I'm not surprised your mail order record business is failing

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 10:59, Reply)

Well nothing, really. You said the postman collects them, so they haven't been posted. They have been collected.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:01, Reply)

VERB
1 [WITH OBJECT] chiefly British Send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:04, Reply)

ooo, quoting a dictionary on an internet forum
He's one step away from comparing you to Hitler here, Meatsnake.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:06, Reply)

Well, I have the haircut.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:07, Reply)

I'm pretty sure Hitler would've understood how these things work.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:08, Reply)

Yes, I understand this. Apart from the fact you keep saying the postman collects them.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:06, Reply)

Do you think there is another postman who delivers the post to his house or summat?
I'm not sure how you think the job works.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:08, Reply)

You could just say 'I post them' and everyone would understand this, but you insist on this contrived method where everything is 'collected'. I can't see much posting going on here.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:10, Reply)

You weren't able to infer from my hashtag that I'm the one who posts them?
And even if the postman walked right up to my desk, took the parcel from my hands and drove it straight to Kroney's house, this would still count as sending (a letter or parcel) via the postal system, or 'posting' it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:14, Reply)

ped·ant (pdnt)
n.
1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:17, Reply)

No, since your hashtag contained a question which I have mused over rather than a statement of fact.
All I'm saying is if you embrace the relatively simple postal system used for hundreds of years you might sell more than 6 records, instead of over complicating the matter for your legion of fans.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:18, Reply)

The question was intended to make you consider how I might already be aware if Kroney had bought my record.
I didn't realise it was going to throw up all manner of other queries as to what would happen once it left my possession.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:22, Reply)

Do you mean once you posted it or once it was collected?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:23, Reply)

Yes.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:23, Reply)

I don't even want your fucking record.
No offence.
( Kroney, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:23, Reply)

None taken, it's fairly unlikely you would like it.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:24, Reply)

I quite like it.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:25, Reply)

I am actually quite eclectic.

( Kroney, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:26, Reply)

That wouldn't make my record any less shit though

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:26, Reply)

dear god
this is shitter than cars chatting about mattresses whilst supping whisky.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:19, Reply)

Would you like an update on the veg' I am growing?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:20, Reply)

Not at all, Tangiers and I are playing out a very clever 'satire' on the boring chat usually available on off our topics.
I wouldn't expect you to understand as you can't do internet banking.
( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:22, Reply)

alright

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:23, Reply)

Pynchonesque

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:23, Reply)

This place would be dead on its arse if it wasn't for you and me

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:42, Reply)

send 1 (snd)
v. sent (snt), send·ing, sends
v.tr.
1. To cause to be conveyed by an intermediary to a destination: send goods by plane.
2. To dispatch, as by a communications medium: send a message by radio.
3.
a. To direct to go on a mission: sent troops into the Middle East.
b. To require or enable to go: sent her children to college.
c. To direct (a person) to a source of information; refer: sent the student to the reference section of the library.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 11:10, Reply)