ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 13th February 2025

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Fletch had a shock at the post office! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I saw you when I was at work going into the post shop. I was like, that's weird. I never go into the post shop. I saw you when I was at work going into the post shop. I was like, that's weird. I never go into the post shop. Is there more to this story or is it you just saying? No, that's it. And that's today's

little bit of pod. Enjoy the big pod. No, so I'm applying or renewing my UK passport because I'm half British. Oh my God, I can tell.

Well, I've got the funny teeth. I've got funny teeth and a fucking attitude and an attitude um and so yeah my 10-year passport is up so i've got a photo at the weekend that's all right it's a good photo oh how did it go yeah it's good i mean the thing is it just go ah it doesn't matter i hardly use this passport anyway it was a good photo it was all right okay um so i can we see it?

Well, it's too late. It's been uploaded. So I've sent the application away. But part of it is that you have to send back your old passport. Yeah. Whereas in New Zealand, do you know when you get your new one, they give you the sticker and they say, cut your passport edge. Yeah.

And you cut it off and it's cool. And then you put a sticker like invalid or whatever it is. But in the UK, you've got to send it back to them. So the only option for sending back a passport is by express mail. Could you say I lost it? You never want to say you've lost a passport because it's a fucking rigmarole. Then you've got to go through a whole thing. Because I did look online and someone had suggested that, but it's an absolute rigmarole then you gotta go through a whole thing it is up because i did look online and someone had

suggested that but it's an absolute rigmarole um and so uh 117 dollars oh to send an a5 envelope oh i know it's isn't that insane yeah but i i've kind of read that on i think there was a reddit thread about it so i i was kind of prepared that was the only option i was like look that's just part of the cost of the passport um but there was a guy in there and man though i tell you what the ladies at the post shop they must deal with these these kind of people every day first he was whinging about the size of the boxes that you had to write your name in on the customs form he did have a point i'll be honest he did have a little bit smaller the boxes are too small they're too small oh okay too small

but I'm not going to say anything no but just shut up the ladies working there they're not in charge of the boxes they don't design that shit and they're so nice exactly

and then so he'd written out this thing and he was taking quite a large box I would say 60 centimetres long by maybe 30 wide okay

well that's going to cost him a fortune where's he sending it well that's the thing so he fills out this customs form and he's bloody having a whinge. And I'm like, dude, they don't care. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, hurry up.

He goes to the desk, fills out the form, and then he goes back and they put it on the scales. And I don't know how much they wanted to charge for this box, but he took the box and walked out. Yeah, not worth it. He's just like, no, I'm not sending this. Oh. Like, mine was a tiny A5 letter. Yeah. I sent a bunch of shit to Ireland not too long ago. And you had to do all the tariff numbers and look at this and that.

And then, yeah, same thing. I waited and I was like, scur. I know because I sent a mate a while ago some after COVID, like some Whittaker's and some Kiwi snacks. I was like, yeah, I'll do you a favor. I was like, fucking, it was like 50 bucks. Yeah, a favor. 40, 50 bucks. Jesus. And that was like slow post, like two bucks yeah a favor 40, 50 bucks Jesus

and that was like slow post like two weeks or whatever oh yeah yeah oh no don't pay for the quick post oh god no but you can order

something from China off Timu it'll be here within three days it's come from the middle of nowhere and somehow the postage was free

and it cost a dollar and the thing you bought cost a dollar yeah that's wild wild eh we live in wild times it costs one dollar it And the thing you bought cost a dollar. Yeah. That's wild. Wild, eh? We live in wild times. But the good thing about it is it costs $1.

It'll break in a week, but the plastic will last forever. Yeah, that's what I like. Yeah. You can't use it anymore, but it's still here. It's still very present in an absolutely useless form, just like me in 2025. Oh.