Who's worse? binmen or postmen?
Back in the days when photos were taken on film we had amassed a collection of half a dozen undeveloped films from parties/holidays etc over about a year. Hard times had meant we'd not had them developed.

However when things turned we sent them off to "cheapo postal processing R us". When they hadn't arrived after 2 weeks we were a touch concerned but had to go away for a few days and had paid the extra for recorded delivery.

Now this is where it all went wrong... and I don't know who to blame. We had a bin cupboard outside the front door and had been told by the council if bin bags were not put out to the roadside at the end of the front drive they would not be collected.

So being away on bin day we had planned ahead and dropped the rubbish off at the tip before we left. Leaving a totally empty bin cupboad.

Now I remain speechless at what follows... the postman, being a lazy git was presented with a problem. He had a recorded delivery packet for us and we were not there. It was clear what it was as it was one of those bright photo bags with lots of advertising. So rather than take it back to the post office to be safely collected he took the lazy option and left it in the bin cupboard, scribbling a card for our letter box "parcel left in cupboard".

Then later along come the bin men. Again, like many council workers these chaps excelled in cutting corners. So upon discovering we had not put out a bin bag they obviously had time to kill and actually checked the bin cupboard for our black bag (be nice if they did this when there actually was a smelly dirty bag in there!).

The cupboard was bare, except for an upopened parcel delivered that day and clearly from the post office and containing someones photos. Naturally this was picked up and put out as rubbish!

In time we got home, discovered the postmans note but no parcel and eventually worked it out. The photo processors were no hope other than to offer us "some replacement blank films" (whoopie fucking do!). The council did a complete U-turn telling us anything in the bin cupboard can be regarded as waste and so chucked by the binmen, despite me pointing out their letter telling us if bins weren't out they didn't get collected.

Then the girlfriends dog died... the last pictures of him now lie in a landfill somewhere in their pristine unopened packet.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:16, 3 replies)

That's
a really sad story. A deserves a click.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 17:28, closed)

explination
I used to work next door to bonus print many moons ago . we all caught the same bus back into town after work so i got to talk to a few of them . Tales of interesting pics abound and duplicate copies run off for the staff album. But the thing that got to me most was that they employed a blind man in there!!! this may go a long way to explaining problems with your snaps. I am not joking here , yes a blind man complete with a white cane
(welgar, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 7:40, closed)

^^^
By all accounts the photos WERE actually delivered and I can't really fault that. It's just that the postman thought the best place to put them was in the bin cupboard and the binmen thought unopened post was a decent substitute for a black bag of rubbish.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:06, closed)