Don’t get me wrong, a little deception can go a long way, particularly if it benefits me in some way. However, I find it infuriating when people are congratulated for ‘doing the right thing’ when it’s patently clear to anyone with half an ounce of common sense that in reality their actions were completely selfish.

Let us take the example of Welsh postman Roger Annies. He has kept his job after the Post Office found out he had advertised to his delivery route that there was a way of stopping unsolicited junk mail. The Post Office makes a lot of money from this so they were obviously peeved. Not so the people on good ‘ol Rogers delivery route though, oh no!

“We get loads of junk mail and we’re fed up with it!”

“The Post Office were unfair in reprimanding Roger!”

“He was doing us all a favour and unfortunately he’s gotten into trouble for it.”

“We love Roger and we all want to suck his balls.”

OK. One of those was made up. No-one is fed up with the amount of junk mail they get.

Roger’s note, which he put through peoples doors actually read, “You may be interested in reducing your unwanted advertising mail and reduce paper usage in order to help save the environment. If you complete the slip below and send it to the Royal Mail delivery office, you should not get any of the above mentioned unwanted advertising.”

Of course, what Roger’s first draft actually said was, “I am sick and tired of carrying loads of mail every day, even though that’s my job and it’s what I get paid for. I’d like to work less than the three hours a day I currently manage, so can I please have a note from you to the nasty Post Office managers so I only have to deliver absolutely essential mail from now on.”

Be honest about it Roger, you’re just being lazy and I’ll bet you wouldn’t know an environmental policy if it slapped you round the face with an oil-drenched seal.

I bet he’s also one of those Posties who ‘pretends’ to have tried to deliver your parcel when in reality it never left the depot.

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