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Steve Voltage
27 Jun 23 12:16
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It still a decent job or gone like everything else and all about the spreadsheet?
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Report GLASGOWCALLING June 27, 2023 12:21 PM BST
Pat was about earlier.
Report Brian June 27, 2023 12:37 PM BST
I was unemployed for a while after leaving school and I was virtually enforced by social security to take a Xmas job as a Postman (I didn't mind) and when I told my father he said "Well, it's better than walking the streets"
Report DIE LINKE June 27, 2023 1:06 PM BST
My postie says only 1 card in ten contains money these days, barely worth his while opening them.
Report saddo June 27, 2023 1:13 PM BST
Years ago my postie was a happy smiley chatty man. Now he is a stone faced power walker.
Report geoff m June 27, 2023 1:36 PM BST
Getting paid to keep fit. Whats not to like(other than snow/wind/rain -6 degrees)
Report bluenose7 June 27, 2023 2:15 PM BST
Gone the same way as the milkman.
Don't replace the retiring postie,chop the walk in half give the two halfs to nearest walks.
Still delivering around here past 3pm.
I was in the pub by 11.00am doing two walks.
Those were the days  Crazy  Crazy

Cool
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 3:30 PM BST
done 36 years, handed in my notice last week. Its all about the money for the shareholders now.3 new starters last week, none of them made the second week. One sacked,2 gave up. I wouldnt recommend it to anyone.
Report freddiewilliams June 27, 2023 3:32 PM BST
Aw tame. Did u weear shorts regular like
Report freddiewilliams June 27, 2023 3:34 PM BST
U can't be obese either.great for fitness fanatic s
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 3:54 PM BST
the last few winters have been noticeably milder, so yes, shorts on all but the coldest days ( below zero )
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 3:56 PM BST
If I rode in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Id be putting up about a stone overweight. Id also fall off
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 4:08 PM BST
Why did you work for 36 years if you're shrood? Working is a mug's game.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 4:09 PM BST
Betfair wasnt around in 1986 you clown
Report BULLET TOOTH TONY June 27, 2023 4:15 PM BST

Jun 27, 2023 -- 4:08PM, Gaze733 wrote:


Why did you work for 36 years if you're shrood? Working is a mug's game.


Oh gaze…..: u don’t make it pay mate now get back to work

Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 4:17 PM BST

Jun 27, 2023 -- 4:09PM, TameTheTiger wrote:


Betfair wasnt around in 1986 you clown


It's been around for 23 years and you've handed in your notice last week. Sounds like someone was a mug.

Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 4:19 PM BST
Everyone here acts all high and mighty when you've all had at least 20 years more to bet.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 4:28 PM BST
I discovered Betfair in 2007, almost 16 years ago. It took me around 2 years to start turning a profit. Ive averaged 10k a year profit over that time (more now) and now have more than enough to retire early. Keep searching for those edges, they are there !
Report freddiewilliams June 27, 2023 4:31 PM BST
Welldone tame
Report SlippyBlue June 27, 2023 4:34 PM BST
Yes indeed, good work TTT.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 4:36 PM BST
Last 30 Days

(relates to event settlement date)
   
2023-05-27 16:35

(yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm)     to    
2023-06-27 16:35

(yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm)   
Download to Spreadsheet  ?
Football: £297.50 |
Golf: £40.01 |
Horse Racing: £1,479.71
Total P&L: £1,817.22

decent month to be honest...
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 4:47 PM BST
If you were so shrood to win 10k in 2010, you should have a million by now with proper staking. Sounds like you still operate with a 10k bank and this month is +18pts.
Report FOYLESWAR June 27, 2023 4:48 PM BST
i got a job as a postie but kept getting the sack.
Report jodean June 27, 2023 4:56 PM BST
Its a dreadful job atm and will only get worse , the last month of hot weather just grinds you down.
When you get home you just want to fall asleep.
When it was job and finish you got more done in less time , home earlier and felt better.
All about the shareholders now.
Report jodean June 27, 2023 4:58 PM BST
BTW , Good going TTT Cool
Report freddiewilliams June 27, 2023 4:59 PM BST
Walk all morning. Gamble all afternoon. Sleep all evening
Report jodean June 27, 2023 5:08 PM BST
Next year the racing will all be over by the time we finish , even on a Saturday.
Report FOYLESWAR June 27, 2023 5:21 PM BST
once the job an finish goes the motivation goes with it .
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 5:30 PM BST
told yesterday its a 3pm finish on Saturdays. Season ticket holders in uproar !


Gaze the clown clearly doesnt understand what "average" means. I did not make 10k in 2010
Report FOYLESWAR June 27, 2023 5:37 PM BST
joedean do the posties have to deliver small parcels as well as letters?
Report barstool June 27, 2023 5:47 PM BST
Must be a soul destroying job nowadays, carrying a bag full of junk round and one or two letters to go with it.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 5:57 PM BST
letters are on the decline, but still get bundles each day because the walks are so big, in fact too big. Mail left in every delivery office in the country every day, undelivered. Shocking service. Small packages have to be delivered too,aswell as larger ones at the moment, 20-30 a day of these, although the large ones will be taken off us in August and given to dedicated parcel delivery posties.
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 6:02 PM BST
Still tiger, if after 16 years on here +1800 is a decent month, you didn't manage your bank correctly. You could easily have at least 200k now so the decent month would be +18k. I see this all the time, some people deposit 1k, grow it to 10k, then withdraw everything to waste on some frivolous, fleeting BS and start over from 1k instead of growing it further to 100k.
Report DIE LINKE June 27, 2023 6:36 PM BST
How tight were the shorts?
Report Steve Voltage June 27, 2023 6:44 PM BST
Ok thanks for the replies TameTheTiger and jodean. Think I’ll give it a swerve though as don’t sound too good. Think my postman/woman changes every week so summut ain’t right.

Do you get much aggro from your ‘customers’ either takin the P or moaning because stuff is late etc?

Could do with a part-time job just go reach 12.5k something stress free. Thought about supermarket delivery driver but could imagine some of the customers being right twits.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 6:49 PM BST
Customers are fine, its the managers who are to ss ers
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 6:51 PM BST
My strategy wudnt scale up to those heights, not enough liquidity on a regular basis. Id end up having more on the bad bets than the good ones if I asked for more than say £100 at the price
Report BULLET TOOTH TONY June 27, 2023 6:59 PM BST
Don’t listen to Gaze.

He talks in telephone numbers - he hasn’t put any of his back fitting into practice and will not know that the more you get on the likelihood is that u won’t get the same price to make that ROI as his back fits suggest.

Longevity is all about not chasing the allusive milestones and sticking to the principles that make money continuously without rushing
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 6:59 PM BST
My strategy works at bsp so I can scale up as much as I want.
Report TameTheTiger June 27, 2023 6:59 PM BST
ask for a million at bfsp, see what odds u get
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 7:03 PM BST
Tony here are my public results, Bet365 Only, no BOG. https://snipboard.io/ZQ3A5c.jpg

Guess I got lucky with my 735 picks, backfitting clearly doesn't work.
Report FOYLESWAR June 27, 2023 7:07 PM BST
steve voltage the trouble with working for a firm is that for example  say they pay you £700 please yourself what hours you work and have no fook a week they want a grands worth of work out of you , go self employed if you can.
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 7:07 PM BST
Really tiger, you go from "can't bet more than 100" to "how would you bet 1000000"

Obviously stakes more than 5k are not needed.
Report FOYLESWAR June 27, 2023 7:09 PM BST
sorry fooked that 19.07 post up ,should read they pay you £700 they want a grands worth of work out of you^^^^^
Report layemall June 27, 2023 8:49 PM BST
Gaze you need to go back on your medication, you're getting far too lippy. Starting you're own numerous threads is one thing, starting to poke your nose in on other decent threads with nothing to offer but abuse is a different ball game.
Report layemall June 27, 2023 8:51 PM BST
should read...abuse/piss taking
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 9:20 PM BST
mind your own business clown
Report layemall June 27, 2023 9:27 PM BST
maybe I will when you foxtrot oscar out of here for goodWink
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 9:32 PM BST
foydc
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 9:32 PM BST
what are these "decent threads" you speak of? rico's lay at 459? world class thread indeed
Report layemall June 27, 2023 9:49 PM BST
Well I have come to the conclusion (took me a while admittedly, and cut you some slack for too long), that 99% of the threads on here are "decent", compared to yours.....simple as that.
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 10:25 PM BST
I'm one of the 5 people who occasionally post a pre-race bet, the rest are gutless cowards.
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 10:27 PM BST
And of course the cowards come into my thread after the race is over to tell me what a bad pick it was.
Report Gaze733 June 27, 2023 11:10 PM BST
I even posted a winner today and of course it was crickets after. The cowards come out of the woodwork only after a loss.
Report Steve Voltage July 19, 2023 2:14 PM BST
Well I applied for a Postie with driving experience. Have to say I found the online interview/questionnaire well over the top for a £11.39 an hour job. Think there was over 80 questions/scenarios to complete.
Anyway a crazy aloof woman calls, amazing this amazing that! 'congratulations I'm offering you the position of becoming a Postie.' I return all the required information as requested and then I get an email from another lady saying I will be your point of contact before you start. Again I return all the requested information i.e drivers license etc. and completed another ridiculously over-the-top online form.

A week later nothing so I login to my portal to see that the application has been withdrawn with no explanation or anything Laugh

Done me a favour to tbh as really didn't fancy do a glorified paper-round 5 days a week Laugh
Report tanglefoot July 19, 2023 2:18 PM BST
U most prob opined that u would kick the dog that bites u Laugh
Report Steve Voltage August 21, 2023 3:37 PM BST
Well I eventually started the job and man what a ball ache. I lasted 8 days. Laugh It was the parcels that broke me plus expected to walk 35-50 miles per week was too much for me so I quit. Hats off to those 30+ year pros that do this job with some even biking to and from work. I guess it takes years to build that kind of stamina.
Report freddiewilliams August 21, 2023 3:42 PM BST
Ub gave it a go. Anyways. Back to pro punting .
Tame hows retirement going
Report Steve Voltage August 21, 2023 5:42 PM BST
Have to say I was amazed at how many were on the long-term sick. Amazing that in todays world they still pay full sick pay like that.
Report TameTheTiger August 21, 2023 5:59 PM BST
Really hope you find something soon SV. Sick pay is part of what Royal Mail are changing.Everything is changing for the worse. Some do abuse the system, i suppose its the same in other jobs. Its not the same job now. I dont regret leaving 7 weeks ago, even though I missed out on back pay and the 2 lump sums (900+500)payable in September. I can make that on here if I need to. Good luck !
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