WAMT....what annoyed me today!

andya700 said:
Sadly, it seems this is a very common problem. I personally think that delivery firms should be obliged to leave parcels with a neighbour if the recipient is not at home. There is no excuse for stealing, but parcels just being left on doorsteps is just stupid.
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Yes, agree Andy but my point was the failure to ring the doorbell or use the door knocker to alert the householder especially when it was reasonable to assume that someone was at home. Car on the drive, lights on downstairs and upstairs.I still can''t get my head round why the driver didn't do that even if he/she was in a rush and didn't want to wait for a reply. Anyway..the speakers are great..lol.
 
JohnC6 said:
Yes, agree Andy but my point was the failure to ring the doorbell or use the door knocker to alert the householder especially when it was reasonable to assume that someone was at home. Car on the drive, lights on downstairs and upstairs.I still can''t get my head round why the driver didn't do that even if he/she was in a rush and didn't want to wait for a reply. Anyway..the speakers are great..lol.
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A lot of the delivery drivers round our way don’t ring or knock. The only one who regularly does and then waits is the postman. We have a loud doorbell and a Labrador who goes ballistic if anyone comes to the door but often we discover parcels left on the doorstep. Luckily we live in a cul de sac tucked away off a quiet village street : so far we’ve never lost anything.
 
ancient_mariner said:
We're clearing out paperwork in post-retirement phase. It's concerning how much paperwork with pensions contains personal information like account numbers and a small amount of financial data that could give a scammer opportunity to clone ID. I'm having to keep or shred many pages that contain little financial data that's useful but still represents a risk. It's also amazing how much paper is posted out along with fancy booklets that don't really tell you how to navigate the pension landscape in a useful way.
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We are in the same position 67 and 68. I have masses of paperwork with loads of personal information. I am just going to buy a shredder, despite my wife saying she can tear it all up. She doesn't have a clue how much there is, thirty six years of every kind of bank/credit card info plus all the utilities and everything else.
I totally agree about pensions, mine is sorted but my wife has four and is convinced they won't pay out until she is 70.
 
andya700 said:
totally agree about pensions, mine is sorted but my wife has four and is convinced they won't pay out until she is 70
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I have 6, and there's a simply amazing amount of paper after, like you, 36years.
 
JohnC6 said:
Yes, agree Andy but my point was the failure to ring the doorbell or use the door knocker to alert the householder especially when it was reasonable to assume that someone was at home. Car on the drive, lights on downstairs and upstairs.I still can''t get my head round why the driver didn't do that even if he/she was in a rush and didn't want to wait for a reply. Anyway..the speakers are great..lol.
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That gets me too. I've had a delivery when the first I know about it is an email saying your parcel has been delivered with a photo of the parcel on my doorstep. If they have enough time to take a photo(which I assume the delivery company requires) then they have enough time to knock on the door.

Dave
 
Sent off some speaker cable to a buyer, 48 hour delivery signed for, this signature costs extra. Buyer got in touch to say it hadn’t arrived yet ref number said delivered, on checking around his neighbour told him he’d seen a mail van outside so after some double checking there was the parcel under some of the contents of a wheelie bin! No attempt to deliver to either house or get a signature, I complained at the post office only to be told the sender and recipient must complain online to RM, Not worth the effort for the recovery of a little extra cost but with this level of service as well using one of the cheap couriers.
 
Had a parcel delivered to my "safe place - shed" by Royal Mail. Safe place? NOT in the shed (meter cupboard, as explained in their delivery instructions) but on the doorstep. Luckily, the rain had stopped by the time it was delivered. Maybe the extra fiver for DPD delivery would have been worth it!
 
Thinking about trying ‘inpost?’ The service that delivers to big yellow container of various boxes you collect from, local shop has one in the car park.
 
If all the other delivery companies can manage to deliver correctly to my door, as contracted to do, surely RM should be able to. I should not have to waste my time collecting something that should be delivered.
 
Came home from a rugby trip last night/this morning to find a card from the postie with a parcel delivered next door early Sat am, unexpected as the order only went in Thursday evening, good work by both firms.
 
andya700 said:
Sadly, it seems this is a very common problem. I personally think that delivery firms should be obliged to leave parcels with a neighbour if the recipient is not at home. There is no excuse for stealing, but parcels just being left on doorsteps is just stupid.
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I think it depends on where you live. No issue with parcels on the front door where I live, although normally they are left round the side behind the bins. Leaving with a neighbour would be a pain as mine are normally out - then you have the hassle of wanting to get parcel but neighbour is out. Personally prefer them to be left
 
Logging in to the government gateway. Had to call twice, once password reset, then a change of authentication method, Finally in! Then trying again just an hour or so later I can't log in with a similar set of problems as before. :mad:
 
Age verification systems are taking the mickey at the moment.

Following the latest update My iPad has decided to impose age restrictions unless we prove our age to the apply account, except it’s on my wife’s old iTunes account and she has neither a current passport or a credit card…

Amazon suddenly want id uploaded to order new blades for my Logan mount cutter, despite not needing it a few months back to buy the mount cutter including blades in the first place, and having had the same amazon account for over 20 years…
 
Mozthecat said:
Age verification systems are taking the mickey at the moment.

Following the latest update My iPad has decided to impose age restrictions unless we prove our age to the apply account, except it’s on my wife’s old iTunes account and she has neither a current passport or a credit card…

Amazon suddenly want id uploaded to order new blades for my Logan mount cutter, despite not needing it a few months back to buy the mount cutter including blades in the first place, and having had the same amazon account for over 20 years…
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I had a kitchen knife from Amazon a couple of years ago and had to be in to accept delivery.

A lot of supposedly alcohol free drinks still have a small amount of the fun stuff left in - about 0.5%.
 
Recently ordered a couple of Aerobond moisture capture devices from eBay, email arrived confirming delivery, no, not delivered, contacted seller who sent photographic proof? of item(s) on doorstep, fine but most definately not my-or any neighbours-doorstep, and only one box not two, sent the seller a picture of my doorstep to compare and they agreed there was an issue, so we agreed on a refund, just how much do companies lose like this due to incompetent couriers?
Sourced replacements from Screwfix at lower cost as a good result.
 
Mozthecat said:
Age verification systems are taking the mickey at the moment.

Following the latest update My iPad has decided to impose age restrictions unless we prove our age to the apply account, except it’s on my wife’s old iTunes account and she has neither a current passport or a credit card…
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I also had Apple demanding age verification after the last update. I have refused to cooperate as they do not need more details about me and I do not need to access whatever the age barrier is for.

Dave
 
Dave Canon said:
I also had Apple demanding age verification after the last update. I have refused to cooperate as they do not need more details about me and I do not need to access whatever the age barrier is for.

Dave
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In the end we found that by going to settings and clicking on the name it realised the apple account was over 18 years old (dating back to early iPod and iTunes days) and auto-verified itself.
 
Took a trip out from Norfolk to Woodbridge today, to see the ship build (Sutton Hoo style) in the Woodbridge boat shed. As soon as we got past the big wind turbine, below Lowestoft, the journey was a nightmare on the A12! Traffic restrictions due to the Sizewell fiasco. Great swathes of land, destroyed by huge roundabouts, storage and who knows what they are, being built! It was a horrible thing to see. The last time we went to the "Hoo", the journey was idyllic, with beautiful (Turner/Constable-esque) Suffolk scenery, all along the way. The villages have been brutalised. Arriving in Woodbridge station car park, we couldn't find a pay as you park machine working as they were all "app" controlled, yet there was no phone signal! We finally found a credit card payment machine that was working but was informed, after paying, that it was for the wrong car park! I've kept my receipt, so will wait for a bill through the post, to contest!

The boat was lovely to see and we then went to Sutton Hoo itself, to be confronted by coachloads of kids! I love kids but couldn't eat a whole one! :rolleyes:
 
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Pixbarmy said:
Great swathes of land, destroyed by huge roundabouts, storage and who knows what they are, being built! It was a horrible thing to see.
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On the other hand, the roundabouts keep the traffic moving and the storage is for the goods that the factories are making, to provide income for the workers.
Pixbarmy said:
The villages have been brutalised.
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Or perhaps greatly improved? I live in a house that's several hundred years old, in a village that also has many modern houses. The increased population keeps the village shop and the local pub open, so they benefit us all.
 
Royal Mail, ordered an item, company informed me it had been posted 24hr tracked with royal mail on Tuesday just after 9am. check tracking next day, nothing ,check again Thursday due for delivery Friday try checking today and their tracking page isn't working. So tracked 24 is really 72 if it arrives today. Surely false advertising.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
On the other hand, the roundabouts keep the traffic moving and the storage is for the goods that the factories are making, to provide income for the workers.

Or perhaps greatly improved? I live in a house that's several hundred years old, in a village that also has many modern houses. The increased population keeps the village shop and the local pub open, so they benefit us all.
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Go see it for yourself before you comment. These are not "normal" size! They are huge, even bigger than motorway interchanges!

The ones in the article are just a few of them.
 
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tarric said:
Royal Mail, ordered an item, company informed me it had been posted 24hr tracked with royal mail on Tuesday just after 9am. check tracking next day, nothing ,check again Thursday due for delivery Friday try checking today and their tracking page isn't working. So tracked 24 is really 72 if it arrives today. Surely false advertising.
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If seller buys postage online the app shows as posted at that point, but the item is not with RM till handed over at sorting office, often had this at weekends, or if seller only sends off in bundles every couple of days.
 
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