Talk:Chalmers/@comment-84.251.93.169-20180505234040

I have had fellow public servants with the same attitude and I always asked them in which manual it is said what to do if one has to pee.

I was a mailman in eighties and one thing that was stated to us in the schooling was that whenever we are on our rounds we are also civilians as well as public servants. I was working one summer a round in central Helsinki as a vacation temp. There was one shop that was own and run by an elderly lady. One day when I delivered her mail she asked if I could take couple of letters she was sending as she wolod need to close the shop if she took them out herself. I told her that of course I will. Then she told me that the regular mailman had said the we are not allowed to take letters for delivery. I told her that he was right in a sense that if I took the letters they weren't in postal handling the moment I took them but in my personal care and they would be in the postal system when I introduce them into it and that I'd do it by dropping them in the mailbox that was two blocks away. She said that that's the same mailbox she would use.

When the regular guy came back from vacation and had carried the round couple of days he came to ask me what have I told the old lady. I told him what and he told me that he knew that but he would tell it to her because she would ask himn  to carry her letters every week. I asked if that was so much bother and he didn't answer.