Postman's Knock

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Blackkirk, Morecashire , a once industrious town in the north west, now, down on its luck, , and everyone who lives there, knows it, .The only place taking on staff this xmas is Regal Post Sorting & Delivery Office, , under staffed, over worked & fighting computerisation, job cuts, mergers with other , Offices & the inevitable xmas strike threat..With this scenario, welcome KEVIN WRIGHT , a young , well meaning veteran of government training schemes , , , about to start what he thinks is another dead end job , , , courtesy of his child support paying, , sci fi fan, brother BOB , , so thinks his over bearing MUM... , At Regal Post he meets CHRISTOPHER FORD, a , piss taking , Union boss & , father of five....OLIVER LITTLEJOHN, a grumpy, tired, , divorced, gentle giant who took up wrestling on the side, the day World of Sport was axed.....BARBARA BINT , A stunningly attractive brunettte with an Essex girl past....C.D., an elvis nut who spends his weekends singing in Working mens clubs, in areas that have no work...CHARLES DOUGLAS LAIRD & PENNY BLACK, mother & father figure of Regal Post, dreading, retirement as much as their work....ROY WALKER: , small, neat, workaholic, gopher & gossipmonger of Regal Post., though as he, ll tell you Its Not For Me To Say, , , ..unlike JOHN FERGUSON, smelly.sarcastic, lech, hates everyone, loves Babs (the feeling is not mutual) & thinks he should be chairman if not chief inspector.so does...ROBERT CLEMENTINE, sarcastic, back stabbing Postman, who became sarcastic, back stabbing ASSISTANT Inspector, He, s after Gills job & tries to do the postmen out of theirs, even though he, s no good at his own....unlike Mr GILL, worldly wise and weary Chief Inspector (boss).whose toneless voice , .hands behind back stance , ..& reply to everything being Thats No Excuse make him a much mocked figure.Secretly he longs for the seamingly simpler days of the old GPO too. All are fighting change in their home, working & sex lives, while trying to get through them & better them.Knowing like a pile of junkmail.Their lives promised so much but delivered so little. ..... . ..