Small packet post from the US is extremely slow. Tracking shows that the items spend much more time than usual moving between hubs in the States.
A parcel from Sussex took three weeks.
Small packet post from the US is extremely slow. Tracking shows that the items spend much more time than usual moving between hubs in the States.
Thanks for that. I've been expecting something from the States for a while. I'll not write off the $150 just yet then.
Small packet post from the US is extremely slow. Tracking shows that the items spend much more time than usual moving between hubs in the States.
Thanks for that. I've been expecting something from the States for a while. I'll not write off the $150 just yet then.
Give it time - it won't be past its cell-by date.The problem with ordering batteries online is the delivery charge. I never give eBay sellers AAA, more like C or D. And I'm sure most of them have been nicd from the back of a lorry.
ordered a book 29 April, haven't even had an email to say its on its way. Bad seller, I think, not the post. Not responding to queries either.
We had deliveries last Saturday. I think I might have heard there will be no letter deliveries on Saturdays, only parcels? Or could have been vice versa...
1 (one) item in the last week – replacement debit card from Horseybank plc.
1 (one) item in the last week – replacement debit card from Horseybank plc.
I call it that too.
We've had few pizza leaflets but Just Eat does reveal some takeaways that are open and which are delivering.
My Graze box arrived today, 9 days late.
Batteries I ordered two days ago have arrived from Scotland.
The battery I ordered three weeks ago has not arrived and I have a refund.
SNAFU...
Wait, GP surgeries dispense hearing aid batteries?
Phoning audiology.... the rant thread is that way --->
I bought a load of Lithium Manganese batteries from RS a while ago.Wait, GP surgeries dispense hearing aid batteries?
Phoning audiology.... the rant thread is that way --->
How does that work in the post given royal mail don't accept lithium batteries in their system?
J
They're not lithium, they are zinc-air non-rechargeable.Wait, GP surgeries dispense hearing aid batteries?
Phoning audiology.... the rant thread is that way --->
How does that work in the post given royal mail don't accept lithium batteries in their system?
J
I, on the other hand, was not expecting a parcel so was somewhat puzzled to find a Jiffy bag on the mat, which I found to contain a copy of "Water Ways by one Jasper Winn. From Blackwell's. Which I most certainly had not ordered. Careful perusal of the accompanying paper finally revealed it to be a present from Professor Larrington :thumbsup:
China's probably going to be late because a) factories and warehouses were locked down b) flights out of China mostly carrying essential medical equipment c) for surface transport, containers were in short supply due to being "locked down" in the wrong place (eg containers in LA couldn't get back to Shanghai due to Calilockdown). In addition to all the normal reasons of course!
Just received two packages from the postman, who kindly came up and delivered them to me by hand, rather than leaving them on the mail box downstairs as some of his colleagues do. Both from aliexpress, the two packages were ordered on 2020-05-29 and 2020-04-12. Yet both arrived together. I appear to have a couple of dozen more packages en route from china still.
J
We had a postal delivery at 8.15 pm last week...Social distancing. Vans are single-crewed, but the volumes are constant or up.
China's probably going to be late because a) factories and warehouses were locked down b) flights out of China mostly carrying essential medical equipment c) for surface transport, containers were in short supply due to being "locked down" in the wrong place (eg containers in LA couldn't get back to Shanghai due to Calilockdown). In addition to all the normal reasons of course!
That's Royal Mail's new EcoPost. Items are carried by a small barefoot boy herding unruly goats in the general direction of the recipient, eating only porridge (for the boy) and whatever they want (for the goats). Large bodies of water present an obvious difficulty, as do wolves.
Having spent £13,599,999.99 on cocaine, prostitutes and dancing gnomes, the project is cancelled with the recommendation that we instead buy a ticket on the Eurostar.That's Royal Mail's new EcoPost. Items are carried by a small barefoot boy herding unruly goats in the general direction of the recipient, eating only porridge (for the boy) and whatever they want (for the goats). Large bodies of water present an obvious difficulty, as do wolves.
There is a ferry across the large body of water, but the ferry operator also has to transport a mountain of cabbages. The small barefoot boy cannot leave the cabbages in the care of the goats, nor the goats in the care of the wolves. And because the ferry operator was appointed by Chris Grayling, there is no boat.
Q1. Devise a strategy that will allow the small barefoot boy, the goats and quixoticgeek's parcel to cross the large body of water. Your budget is £14 million. Go!
That's Royal Mail's new EcoPost. Items are carried by a small barefoot boy herding unruly goats in the general direction of the recipient, eating only porridge (for the boy) and whatever they want (for the goats). Large bodies of water present an obvious difficulty, as do wolves.
There is a ferry across the large body of water, but the ferry operator also has to transport a mountain of cabbages. The small barefoot boy cannot leave the cabbages in the care of the goats, nor the goats in the care of the wolves. And because the ferry operator was appointed by Chris Grayling, there is no boat.
Q1. Devise a strategy that will allow the small barefoot boy, the goats and quixoticgeek's parcel to cross the large body of water. Your budget is £14 million. Go!
Package which was due to be delivered on Tuesday next week, turned up this morning. (Saturday)Package which was due on Tuesday last turned up yesterday (Friday) morning and it looked as though unlicenced Canadian rats* had been at it.
3 days for a first class letter to get here from Surrey and then it's so wet it is half way to papier-mâché >:(
CTC magazine may be unrecoverable
Ordered a book from Turkey. It arrived 6 days after despatch with excellent tracking info. The trains probably run on time, too.
Mr R has just had to deliver the mail for a house in a completely different street. We regularly get their post.
Not so much messed up post as wtf? the UK has 8.5p stamps!?!?!
J
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EogQhB9WEAke8yt?format=jpg&name=large)
Not so much messed up post as wtf? the UK has 8.5p stamps!?!?!
J
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EogQhB9WEAke8yt?format=jpg&name=large)
Not so much messed up post as wtf? the UK has 8.5p stamps!?!?!
J
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EogQhB9WEAke8yt?format=jpg&name=large)
Not so much messed up post as wtf? the UK has 8.5p stamps!?!?!
J
Whose hand is that on Fergie's shoulder?
Using old stamps obviously a thing this year. This from a mate of mine. ICBA to goggle, but IIRC the railway stamps date from 1980 (150th anniversary of proper railways in UK). Got some stashed away in old album somewhere.Sheesh. I have those railway stamps on a first day cover from Holy Island.
As for messed up post. *Three* deliveries today. Two letter deliveries, one before breakfast, and one parcel. Why it's quite like old times.(https://i.ibb.co/dczV1LS/Xmas2020.jpg) (https://ibb.co/b38Cq2x)
I was thinking about letter boxes and thus about the size of envelopes. My sister lives in a short but steep late-Victorian street. All the houses are very similar (apart from the one on the corner) and they've all retained their original front doors. But hers seems to be the only one with an original late-Victorian letter box. Shiny (or would be if she polished it) brass, with LETTERS cast into its flap in attractive capital, er, letters, in case late-Victorian posties were confused. But it's too small to get any modern post through! Every year, she displays a row of concave and convex Christmas cards.I did some leafleting a couple of years back. I reckon about one in three letterboxes is designed to damage or reject most post - with varying combinations of small flaps, tight brushes and powerful springs. In the latter case there’s also the risk to the poster - Mrs Dan has one slightly short finger after a childhood incident.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EogQhB9WEAke8yt?format=jpg&name=large)
Not so much messed up post as wtf? the UK has 8.5p stamps!?!?!
J
An interesting collection of twentieth century stamps there to whet the appetite of many a philatelist.
I was thinking about letter boxes and thus about the size of envelopes. My sister lives in a short but steep late-Victorian street. All the houses are very similar (apart from the one on the corner) and they've all retained their original front doors. But hers seems to be the only one with an original late-Victorian letter box. Shiny (or would be if she polished it) brass, with LETTERS cast into its flap in attractive capital, er, letters, in case late-Victorian posties were confused. But it's too small to get any modern post through! Every year, she displays a row of concave and convex Christmas cards.I did some leafleting a couple of years back. I reckon about one in three letterboxes is designed to damage or reject most post - with varying combinations of small flaps, tight brushes and powerful springs. In the latter case there’s also the risk to the poster - Mrs Dan has one slightly short finger after a childhood incident.
BRITISH posties do not grok the concept of external letterboxen, according to Miss von Brandenburg who has one.
If the postman comes tomorrow, it will be 8 days since he's last done this round. I assume the lazy bastards took off Boxing Day AND the bank holiday in lieu of Boxing Day. I am going to complain to RM tomorrow as this round is always the one that gets dropped. The sorting office must be full of Christmas cards.
When my son he started his paper round, he remarked that letterboxes with brushes were the worst for putting papers through. Height also makes a difference, too low being possibly worse than too high.From my paper round days, the ones almost at ground level, with an unnecessarily strong spring, were worst. Especially on Sundays when I was trying to wedge the News Of The Screws* into one.
When my son he started his paper round, he remarked that letterboxes with brushes were the worst for putting papers through. Height also makes a difference, too low being possibly worse than too high.From my paper round days, the ones almost at ground level, with an unnecessarily strong spring, were worst. Especially on Sundays when I was trying to wedge the News Of The Screws* into one.
*I did the big 50s council estate in the village and had a 100% tabloid round, which I suppose was a blessing.
I hated those floor-level snappers. I came to hate all letterboxes, to be honest, by my main round was the local advertiser free-sheet (the local newsagents had correctly ascertained that I couldn't be relied on for early starts, so this was the only alternative, and really there was no competition for the route) and I had an entire supermarket trolley full of them.SOP for free newspapers in my village was apparently to do the road of whoever was paying you, then dump the rest over a hedge somewhere. We used to find huge piles of the Newbury and District Journal when out on walks.
I hated those floor-level snappers. I came to hate all letterboxes, to be honest, by my main round was the local advertiser free-sheet (the local newsagents had correctly ascertained that I couldn't be relied on for early starts, so this was the only alternative, and really there was no competition for the route) and I had an entire supermarket trolley full of them.SOP for free newspapers in my village was apparently to do the road of whoever was paying you, then dump the rest over a hedge somewhere. We used to find huge piles of the Newbury and District Journal when out on walks.
Order placed 14:04 04/01/2021 amazon.fr
Order delivered 09:30 05/01/2021 Durham UK
Nice.
Leaflet delivery in the third millennium has embraced the digital age: employers use GPS trackers to keep tabs on the rounds.I hated those floor-level snappers. I came to hate all letterboxes, to be honest, by my main round was the local advertiser free-sheet (the local newsagents had correctly ascertained that I couldn't be relied on for early starts, so this was the only alternative, and really there was no competition for the route) and I had an entire supermarket trolley full of them.SOP for free newspapers in my village was apparently to do the road of whoever was paying you, then dump the rest over a hedge somewhere. We used to find huge piles of the Newbury and District Journal when out on walks.
I did grink the editor of the local one after I stumbled on a big pile in the local woods (not the sort of woodland grumble a refined chap like me appreciates). She went and cleared it up herself, poor thing.
The staff of my childhood freesheet took it seriously and they'd checked on any illicit disposals. I mostly didn't mind it, it was an epic round every Wednesday evening hence my stealing a supermarket trolley, and it got me a similar amount of cash for a once-weekly round than getting up every day at dawn.
Eventually, the Coop offered me an alternative more remunerative job, presumably to stop me nicking their trolleys.
Nothing for 3 days again. RM haven't published performance data since March 2020 and Ofcom (who are useless bastards) are allowing them not to. However, the last set of data showed they were only meeting half their target for daily deliveries.
Realistically, how many of their employees are sick at this point in the Covid cycle?
I've just received a parcel with an address ending in the two lines:
Bristol
Bristol, City of, Somerset
::-)