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« on: May 15, 2011, 06:00:59 PM » |
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Sorry if I've posted in the wrong bit but I left a carrier bag with some food in it (a Waitrose quiche!!) and my ID card for work on a train the other day (Fri) and realised as soon I had disembarked at Newport that I'd left it in on there. Weighing up my options I decided not to hold the train up for the sake of some grub and an ID card. How chivalrous.
So nothing of real value but security in work had a call to say my property had been recovered in London. I am looking at FGW website just to be reunited with my ID card and note that it stipulates I, or someone representing me, has to go to Bristol Temple Meads to get my stuff. WIll FGW not send the ID card through the post, either to my home address or place of work if I ask politely?
Typically the Lost Property helpline shut at 5pm today!
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Glovidge
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 06:03:03 PM » |
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Whoops didn't read point 4:
4. Small items that can fit through a normal letter box can be posted if a self addressed, postage paid, padded envelope is provided.
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chris from nailsea
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 11:05:12 PM » |
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Well, you'll get the quiche back, then ...  |
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'Level crossings on the railway network are safe - unless they are used in an unsafe manner.' Discuss.
William Huskisson MP was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 11:39:41 PM » |
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Anything that is found at Paddington goes into the Network Rail lost property office there - even if it was on an FGW service. You need to find out if it is FGW or Network Rail that has your ID card!
The quiche should have been disposed of - standard practice with perishables.
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Ollie
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 11:48:54 PM » |
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If it is at Paddington it will be with the Excess Baggage Company.
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chris from nailsea
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 11:50:45 PM » |
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Hmm.  Putting aside my light-hearted banter about the possible fate of that particular quiche, see http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=7801 We do seem to be going round in circles again here, trying to track down specific items of lost property ...  |
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'Level crossings on the railway network are safe - unless they are used in an unsafe manner.' Discuss.
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chris from nailsea
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2011, 12:32:17 AM » |
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... I, or someone representing me, has to go to Bristol Temple Meads to get my stuff.
Glovidge: if it can be established that your ID card did indeed end up in the lost property office at Bristol Temple Meads, I'd be happy to collect it from there, on your behalf, and post it on to you - if all else fails ...  Please send me a PM, with sufficient details to enable me to do so, if this turns out to be the case.  Chris. |
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'Level crossings on the railway network are safe - unless they are used in an unsafe manner.' Discuss.
William Huskisson MP was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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Ollie
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« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2011, 12:45:47 AM » |
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... I, or someone representing me, has to go to Bristol Temple Meads to get my stuff.
Glovidge: if it can be established that your ID card did indeed end up in the lost property office at Bristol Temple Meads, I'd be happy to collect it from there, on your behalf, and post it on to you - if all else fails ... Please send me a PM, with sufficient details to enable me to do so, if this turns out to be the case. Chris. Chris that isn't what he was told, it's what he read on the FGW Website. Or that's how I read his post anyway  |
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chris from nailsea
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2011, 12:49:13 AM » |
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That's why I wrote if in bold. |
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'Level crossings on the railway network are safe - unless they are used in an unsafe manner.' Discuss.
William Huskisson MP was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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matt473
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« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2011, 11:10:21 PM » |
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If the train was heading in the Swansea direction it is possible that the bag may have been handed in at Swansea which ultimately means the bag should end up with ATW lost property which if I remember is Newport. THey may have your bag and not FGW
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Mookiemoo
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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2011, 11:23:27 PM » |
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Let me tell you an even stranger story........ I think I may have mentioned it on here but maybe not....
In January I left my purse on a taunton terminator after having a post temple meads head butt session with an RPI who hates me....forgot I had to move forward to get off at nailsea
I tried chasing up the purse - no joy and frankly after octobers experience with the pencil case I gave up..... In it were a load of receipts, a drivers licence registered to my moms address, 50 quid and some cards
Dealt with the cards and all........wrote the rest off
Roll on MArch 21st - phone call comes from my mom......
Hand dellivered through her door, because it was three hours AFTER the post had been, was a small envelope with a hand written note on the back "all other items distroyed" - and yes, thats how it was written.........No stamp on it, no post mark, it had never been throough the royal mail system......and for those who don't know, mom lives in liverpool
In it was the receipts and the drivers licence! No one at paddington, or bristol, can explain how in the name of anything holy that happened.
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Ditched former sig - now I need to think of something amusing - brain hurts -I'll steal from the master himself - Einstein:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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Glovidge
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2011, 03:39:50 AM » |
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Quiche UPDATE: I had a message from security in my works saying its at London Paddington and they couldn't send quiches (LOL!) through the post.  I think I have to go to Paddington to get my ID card though as they won't send items through the post. I tried phoning the number I was given earlier but to no avail (about 5:30pm) and couldn't leave a message. I've just remembered I also had some coffee in the bag. Ground coffee it was |
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Glovidge
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« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2011, 03:41:33 AM » |
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Let me tell you an even stranger story........ I think I may have mentioned it on here but maybe not....
In January I left my purse on a taunton terminator after having a post temple meads head butt session with an RPI who hates me....forgot I had to move forward to get off at nailsea
I tried chasing up the purse - no joy and frankly after octobers experience with the pencil case I gave up..... In it were a load of receipts, a drivers licence registered to my moms address, 50 quid and some cards
Dealt with the cards and all........wrote the rest off
Roll on MArch 21st - phone call comes from my mom......
Hand dellivered through her door, because it was three hours AFTER the post had been, was a small envelope with a hand written note on the back "all other items distroyed" - and yes, thats how it was written.........No stamp on it, no post mark, it had never been throough the royal mail system......and for those who don't know, mom lives in liverpool
In it was the receipts and the drivers licence! No one at paddington, or bristol, can explain how in the name of anything holy that happened.
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the void
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« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2011, 09:28:35 AM » |
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Roll on MArch 21st - phone call comes from my mom......
Hand dellivered through her door, because it was three hours AFTER the post had been, was a small envelope with a hand written note on the back "all other items distroyed" - and yes, thats how it was written.........No stamp on it, no post mark, it had never been throough the royal mail system......and for those who don't know, mom lives in liverpool
In it was the receipts and the drivers licence! No one at paddington, or bristol, can explain how in the name of anything holy that happened.
is it not possible that a fellow passenger located said purse, liberated it of it's money cash and dumped it. later it could have been located by another passenger just about to board a north bound xc service, who noted the liverpool address, so took it with them. not a great leap of imagination... the lost property procedure does ultimately rely on items being located by or handed in to staff, if anyone else intervenes, then there's no way for the correct procedure to be followed. |
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Mookiemoo
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« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2011, 10:18:40 AM » |
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yes possible, likely, no
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Ditched former sig - now I need to think of something amusing - brain hurts -I'll steal from the master himself - Einstein:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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