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Welllllll.. an update in case anyone sees it.
Just to prove that it was the postie being a lazy tw*t, i stayed home from work today to go and try and collect my parcels, ignoring the instruction to leave 48 hours.
Got there, grovelled a bit about coming before the 48 hours, and the bloke behind the counter said. "oh, dont know why it says 48 hours"..
Goes to get the parcels comes back, and they both would EASILY have fitted through the letter box, if the lazy berk had been bothered to take the red elastic band off and put them through separately!!!
I asked the man behind the counter why they were marked as being too big for the letter box, and he looked vaguely embarrassed, and shrugged, before running off to hide out the back.
But hey, got my parcels 24 hours sooner and only one of them had gone wilty.