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Just loading wheat for Ensus this morning
Two load away lovely... used up the last two stickers on the sheet.... where’s the envelope with the other new sticker sheets....( I know we have some). can’t find them
Lorry is loaded on the dock waiting to leave..... no stickers
frantic search of office, of my house office, of the farm foreman's office etc etc. Lots of swearing and gesticulating
the grain buyer trying to sort somat out.....
NSF answered the phone but no one is in the office, no stickers can be printed.... they sent me an email saying we are Assured and to write my number in the box on the passport as a stop gap. But Ensus won’t accept this
so..... at this point we can’t send corn off the farm, there’s a lorry loaded on the dock and another one on the way.... I’m panicing.... and there’s 400 ton to go this next two weeks which will give me the cash flow to pay the bills for the next 4 months
suddenly son and heir sees the corner of an envelope poking out from behind the desk.... the envelope slipped out of the back of the drawer and down the back. Phew crisis averted
except
how is the whole grain market reliant on a little 1” square sticker
When it’s online that we are assured
surely in this day and age we can print somat off at home, have a stamp or just digital.
Im fuming right now at the potential to ruin a business for the want of a sticker
( remember the proverb... about the kingdom being lost for the want of a horse shoe nail)
Two load away lovely... used up the last two stickers on the sheet.... where’s the envelope with the other new sticker sheets....( I know we have some). can’t find them
Lorry is loaded on the dock waiting to leave..... no stickers
frantic search of office, of my house office, of the farm foreman's office etc etc. Lots of swearing and gesticulating
the grain buyer trying to sort somat out.....
NSF answered the phone but no one is in the office, no stickers can be printed.... they sent me an email saying we are Assured and to write my number in the box on the passport as a stop gap. But Ensus won’t accept this
so..... at this point we can’t send corn off the farm, there’s a lorry loaded on the dock and another one on the way.... I’m panicing.... and there’s 400 ton to go this next two weeks which will give me the cash flow to pay the bills for the next 4 months
suddenly son and heir sees the corner of an envelope poking out from behind the desk.... the envelope slipped out of the back of the drawer and down the back. Phew crisis averted
except
how is the whole grain market reliant on a little 1” square sticker
When it’s online that we are assured
surely in this day and age we can print somat off at home, have a stamp or just digital.
Im fuming right now at the potential to ruin a business for the want of a sticker
( remember the proverb... about the kingdom being lost for the want of a horse shoe nail)