Every day the postman brings me one of these:
Every day I remove the red elastic band and throw it away.
That’s about 300 red elastic bands per year.
Where do they all go? (answer = landfill)
Even when there’s only one envelope, it’s still normally held together with a red elastic band!
Am I:
- A Grumpy Old Man
- Worrying unnecessarily?
- Wasting my time?
Maybe I’ll save them up and take them back to the Post Office…
Update: 20-Feb-2011
It looks like I am “None of the above”! It took the Telegraph to ask the Royal Mail under the Freedom of Information Act: