postie droppings

"The Royal Mail uses 342 million rubber bands a year to bundle up letters and. They are usually red." (Source: The Independant).

Most of which seem to end up on the floor of my lobby.

While this bothers me it does not bother me as much at it bothers the woman at the postal distrubution centre who gets really upset when I put the weeks collection of rubber bands on the counter in the parcel pick up office. Yes I am really that bloody petty.