A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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They used to put extra trains on when there were big games but I supposed these days they even struggle to find enough rolling stock to run the timetable!

Brick Lane sounds interesting, I don't think I've been there.
 
Betsy said:
No we gave up with BT as they were useless! The problem was caused by a lightning strike to a mast meaning all the wires were fried and needing to be replaced.
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Yes I'm getting those vibes! Our phone still not working, despite it being promised to be done yesterday. They actually rang me today, its been passed to another department now and they will liaise with me until the case is closed. More like they are coverig their bottoms as I used the words formal complaint and finding a new supplier in conversation on Friday.
 
Sar said:
Yes I'm getting those vibes! Our phone still not working, despite it being promised to be done yesterday. They actually rang me today, its been passed to another department now and they will liaise with me until the case is closed. More like they are coverig their bottoms as I used the words formal complaint and finding a new supplier in conversation on Friday.
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Ask if you'll get compensation for being without a phone for such a long time. I'm sure we got it when we were with BT.
 
piggieminder said:
They used to put extra trains on when there were big games but I supposed these days they even struggle to find enough rolling stock to run the timetable!

Brick Lane sounds interesting, I don't think I've been there.
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Yes that’s true. We only paid £15 each as we got cheap tickets but there were people on there who had spent £60-£100 to be squashed like sardines

Brick Lane is good if you like markets and vintage stuff
 
Walked half a mile to charity shop with three bags of clothes/shoes to donate. Shop should have been open but wasn't so half a mile back home with them, to try again another day.

Came to Asda, first time in years. Asked for pizza meal deal in cafe at 11.45am. Woman slapped a pizza slice on a paper plate and slapped it on the counter. I mentioned wanted the deal (with chips and drink) she barked about chips don't start til 12. Where is the logic? Can eat pizza at 11.45 but chips not allowed?! Why didn't she explain this when I asked the first time!?
 
I don't know who needs to hear this*, but throwing boxes over my neighbour's locked gate does NOT COUNT AS DELIVERED.

Bonus points if they are clearly cardboard boxes full of something which needs to stay dry (in this case, loo roll and hay) when the ground is wet from rain and/or it's raining intermittently.

We're one of a few houses down a little driveway, but our postcode is on the road. I get that we're an annoying place to find but it doesn't seem to matter how many times I update my delivery instructions, people would rather wreck my stuff or leave it to be wrecked through their laziness.


*my local DPD and Evri guys this week, apparently. One of them even took a picture with a finger over the lens as "proof of delivery" after "handing the parcel to resident, NIA" (not in attendance?)
 
The saga continues...

Today, I was told to expect parcels before I went out (my piggie duvet cover... and some weaning supplies 😱). We're close with the neighbours so I made sure the gate was unlocked. I stayed home, doorbell plugged in - sorted.

Parcel one delivered perfectly this morning by another courier. Well, I went to make a cup of tea half hour ago and spotted parcel two outside getting drizzled on. Evri had decided to throw my parcel over the gate again. Even took a picture over the gate as proof of delivery - not realising they were proving their own laziness. Like, you can see in the picture that the bolt is pulled back. Hadn't even pretended to try to do a good job.

No words.
 
My Evri driver delivered a parcel tonight from @rp1993 and popped it in the porch, didn't bother to ring the doorbell or knock the door. The only reason I knew it was there was because I saw the light go on in the porch. The delivery driver couldn't even be bothered to do that to let me know there was a parcel there. Even Amazon ring on the doorbell!
 
Funnily enough, on Saturday I had my first ever delivery by Evri, and they arrived during the predicted time window, found the right house and came to the door! Most people coming to the house for the first time need to call for directions, because there are no numbers on my road and the postcode centres on a house 100 yards away with a very similar name, but this guy didn't. I don't know if he would have knocked or not, because I went out as soon as I saw him.

My worst ever delivery was a crazy thing - 8 sheets of roof insulation, about 6 foot by 3 foot, not exactly something you could drop over a fence or gate, or take delivery of by accident. But somehow this thing never arrived TWICE! In the end the tradesman who was ordering this stuff for me redid the order but organised his own courier to collect and deliver it, with full instructions. We never did find out what happened to the first two attempts; maybe the delivery driver purloined them, or the people to whom they were taken were dishonest and decided to pretend they were theirs so they could use or sell them on...
 
DPD and I are not friends, lol. Amazon get lost, but they'll ring. Royal Mail sometimes get lost if they're delivering a parcel and don't do the normal post rounds, but they turn up. Evri have managed to find their way on a few occasions (I don't have Evri deliver often). DHL know what they're doing.

DPD? I'm on an unofficial list in the local DPD depot. I probably have been since the sewing machine incident last year. "Sorry we missed you, we couldn't find your address" "Sorry we missed you, you were out" (with a photo of the wrong house). The guy who did the last couple of deliveries has been lovely though, not his fault he works with a bunch of morons.
 
Betsy said:
My Evri driver delivered a parcel tonight from @rp1993 and popped it in the porch, didn't bother to ring the doorbell or knock the door. The only reason I knew it was there was because I saw the light go on in the porch. The delivery driver couldn't even be bothered to do that to let me know there was a parcel there. Even Amazon ring on the doorbell!
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Five seconds is all it would have taken for that basic courtesy - I think that's the kind of thing that annoys me most. I know I should also be questioning whether the work culture is pressuring people too much, but I do think that's rude.

Qualcast&Flymo said:
Funnily enough, on Saturday I had my first ever delivery by Evri, and they arrived during the predicted time window, found the right house and came to the door! Most people coming to the house for the first time need to call for directions, because there are no numbers on my road and the postcode centres on a house 100 yards away with a very similar name, but this guy didn't. I don't know if he would have knocked or not, because I went out as soon as I saw him.
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Where I used to live, for about a year and a half we had a perfect Evri/Hermes driver. Always on time, read the notes, acted conscientiously and professionally. And then they overworked him over Christmas 2021 and we never saw him again. Tbf the next guy wasn't bad either, but then our front door was on the pavement in a new build estate :))

Qualcast&Flymo said:
My worst ever delivery was a crazy thing - 8 sheets of roof insulation, about 6 foot by 3 foot, not exactly something you could drop over a fence or gate, or take delivery of by accident. But somehow this thing never arrived TWICE! In the end the tradesman who was ordering this stuff for me redid the order but organised his own courier to collect and deliver it, with full instructions. We never did find out what happened to the first two attempts; maybe the delivery driver purloined them, or the people to whom they were taken were dishonest and decided to pretend they were theirs so they could use or sell them on...
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Hmmm, I don't like thinking the worst but... that sounds like something worth stealing. Seems like it would be hard to misplace something like that.

Lorcan said:
DPD and I are not friends, lol. Amazon get lost, but they'll ring. Royal Mail sometimes get lost if they're delivering a parcel and don't do the normal post rounds, but they turn up. Evri have managed to find their way on a few occasions (I don't have Evri deliver often). DHL know what they're doing.

DPD? I'm on an unofficial list in the local DPD depot. I probably have been since the sewing machine incident last year. "Sorry we missed you, we couldn't find your address" "Sorry we missed you, you were out" (with a photo of the wrong house). The guy who did the last couple of deliveries has been lovely though, not his fault he works with a bunch of morons.
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I look forward to becoming "that person" for my local Evri depot :)) DPD are hit and miss here as well, but we've also got one guy round here who reads the note and uses the driveway. I feel bad for the good ones because I doubt it's a very nice job if you care about the service you provide.

I'm going to complain to the suppliers about their choice of courier (on the basis that they won't know there's a problem unless I tell them about it, rather than being actually angry at them), but they know already, there's no way they'll make any changes. Oh well.
 
poggle said:
I look forward to becoming "that person" for my local Evri depot :)) DPD are hit and miss here as well, but we've also got one guy round here who reads the note and uses the driveway. I feel bad for the good ones because I doubt it's a very nice job if you care about the service you provide.
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I've had a couple of decent DPD drivers, but there's too many that can't be bothered. My address isn't the easiest to find (foot access only for a back to back terrace) but if they call, I'll give directions. I've gone out to the main road more than once because a driver's lost. Getting lost is forgivable, laziness is not.
 
Fortunately, our local Evri driver/delivery woman is amazing. She would leave our parcel in our postbox (we bought a postbox like the ones they have in America) if it fits there. If it doesn't she'll ring our Ring doorbell. If we're out, she would ask where she can leave it or if needed to be signed, we would just inform her to go to our next door neighbour.

DPD, Royal Mail, and Amazon are quite very good here as well. I once or twice had a problem with Amazon delivery, where he left the package beside our black bin in the back garden and one time under the tree! Good thing I saw it because they are just small packages. We do get the same person usually that delivers from DPD and he knows to leave the packages in our metal shed or greenhouse in the garden if we are out. It is very handy to have a Ring doorbell and/or camera where we can talk to them for instructions just in case we need to.
 
Evri always just try our porch and pop it inside, most of the time without ringing the doorbell. To be honest it's not the drivers fault, they are treated so poorly that it's impossible to make all their deliveries in the time scale given so they have to try and be as quick as possible. Usually if there is the option to pay for a better delivery service (one that doesn't put so much pressure on their delivery staff) I will pay for it
 
Grumble. So occasionally my hand forgets how to write. Making accurate shapes that are letters is apparently beyond its capabilities. Dunno what the cause is, I can feel a weakness (I think specifically it's my thumb) but it makes writing difficult. I was trying to write something out. This is not the time for my hand to be playing around.

Also there's a fly that won't leave and won't let me smack it to death either.
 
Roselina said:
Great your hand is ok now ……where is Ser spider when you need him 😂
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There's a cellar spider in the corner of the ceiling, lol, stupid fly. Kept trying to get it with a notebook on my monitor...eventually it landed on a coaster and I got it with my wallet. Sorry, wallet.

Edit: the hand thing sorts itself out if I leave it for a few minutes. You can imagine how well that went down during schooltime and homework :roll:
 
Lady Kelly said:
Evri always just try our porch and pop it inside, most of the time without ringing the doorbell. To be honest it's not the drivers fault, they are treated so poorly that it's impossible to make all their deliveries in the time scale given so they have to try and be as quick as possible. Usually if there is the option to pay for a better delivery service (one that doesn't put so much pressure on their delivery staff) I will pay for it
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This worries me as well, it's the motivation for reporting it to the shops themselves - I doubt they'd change their business model just because I had a bad customer experience. If it affected their income, though...
 
poggle said:
This worries me as well, it's the motivation for reporting it to the shops themselves - I doubt they'd change their business model just because I had a bad customer experience. If it affected their income, though...
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I have once or twice contacted a shop and asked them to consider adding an alternative courier option, so not necessarily removing evri (though our local delivery guy is fine) but giving customers the option if they don't want to support evri.
 
Why is it so hard to pick out paint colors?!?!?! I hate it, but I am so tired of looking at white walls. My house is an open floor plan so all of the walls downstairs need to be the same color or it will bother me. I originally wanted blue, but my husband reminded me that all of the bedrooms are blue so maybe we should do something different? Now I'm working on green for all the walls, but it is hard to find a nice green that will look good in the kitchen and all the other rooms.

I wish it was easy as playing Animal Crossing! If I could, I would have a fruit themed house!
 
Lorcan said:
Just in case nobody was aware of how cold it is, it was 15° upstairs last night.
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It is cold isn't it, I've added an extra burst of central heating on the timer this week at 1am for Luna, who is very vocal about it- either she's pleased at the bonus warmth or cross it doesnt come with extra breakfast, possibly both!
 
Foxes! I really do not like foxes! This was the sight that awaited me when I opened the Dining Room curtains this morning.

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Luckily there was only the mess from one food waste bag to clear up. I felt like a lazy morning this morning after a hectic week too but at 7 am I was up clearing up the remains of the food waste off my back garden.
 
Betsy said:
Foxes! I really do not like foxes! This was the sight that awaited me when I opened the Dining Room curtains this morning.

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Luckily there was only the mess from one food waste bag to clear up. I felt like a lazy morning this morning after a hectic week too but at 7 am I was up clearing up the remains of the food waste off my back garden.
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Wow! :yikes: The foxes around here don't do that. The racoons do if it is a smaller trash can, but I haven't seen a fox do that. Can you put bungee cords on your trash can/bin to stop them from digging around in it? It may tip over still, but there shouldn't be a mess all over the yard.
 
Use it as something like a massive elastic band, @Betsy ? Otherwise if they're anything like the council here they'd go off on a meltdown over "messing with the bins".
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
Wow! :yikes: The foxes around here don't do that. The racoons do if it is a smaller trash can, but I haven't seen a fox do that. Can you put bungee cords on your trash can/bin to stop them from digging around in it? It may tip over still, but there shouldn't be a mess all over the yard.
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We don't have foxes that do that either... However I live in an urban area with lots of takeaways around so they have no need to raid my bin 🤣
 
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