Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

Good night Potsy, Night Train and Arch

 

[Speicher]

Oh yes, wonderful, a blinking Wol.

I have tried to load the blinking (and very excellent) avatar, but not been successful.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Oh look what just arrived what could it be:

 

[TheDoctor]

Not sure. Have you been framed?
BTW, your ex-saddlebag is now adorning my singlespeeder

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Hi doc excellent glad you are using it as it was just sat around doing nowt here.

I forgot to put something in the picture for scale so the box is 16"(W)x7"(D)x10"(H)

 

[TheDoctor]

I hope it's not a pair of wheels then.

Oh!! Is it a chainset?

 

[Night Train]

Oh yes, wonderful, a blinking Wol.

I have tried to load the blinking (and very excellent) avatar, but not been successful.

Right click on the blinking Wol and select 'save image as' and then save it in your 'My Pictures' folder.
Then in your forum control panel delete your existing avatar first and then try uploading the new blinking one again.

 

[Speicher]

Oh dear, I was right clicking on the "thumbnail" one, is that where I was going wrong?

It is extremely kind of you to do that for me. Thank you Night Train.

 

[Night Train]

Oh dear, I was right clicking on the "thumbnail" one, is that where I was going wrong?

It is extremely kind of you to do that for me. Thank you Night Train.

You're welcome.

With the thumbnail one if you left click on it it will open and you should get a little 'floppy disc' icon, just above the 'close' icon that will allow you to down load and save the file I think.

 

[Arch]

Hello.

Just a minute.

<picks up tea tray and beats self around head with it>

Well, it saves me cricking my neck banging my head against the wall.

I ordered that book, the knitted dogs, off Amazon, along with a netbook sleeve. I figured both were letterbox sized, so gave my home address.

Got home to a card from Home Delivery Network. Decide to change address to St Nicks.

Went online, could online reschedule (Not possible this week or weekend), or collect from the depot. In Hull. No option for change of address.

Rang up. Pressed a few buttons, got a person. Nice person, but she couldn't change the delivery address for me, I have to ring Amazon. She did give me the number to ring.

Look up email, to find it's the book they've tried to deliver. Netbook sleeve to be dispatched separately.

Rang Amazon. Got a lady in, well, probably not UK. Quite hard to hear some of what she said. Explain. Change address for book. Also, can I change address for netbook sleeve please?

No. Apparently because it's coming from 'Jersey Isle' (that rather proves the non-UK location of call centre), the address cannot be changed. Not even if they try to deliver and fail, I can't alter the address. If I'm not in (and I won't be, unless they deliver very early or late), and I can't get to whatever depot it goes to, that's it, it goes back. I guess I don't pay for it then, but that's not the point. I want my thing!

OK, I ask, just about remembering to be polite - it's not her fault after all - can you tell me if it's coming by courier or Royal Mail? She tells me it's coming from Jersey, via something that sounded like Jersey Mail, but I couldn't hear properly.

If it's Royal Mail, no problem. The depot is just down the road, and open useful hours. If it's HDNL, or Sh1tty Link, I'm screwed.

One of the reasons I opted for my home address this time, was because of the delay over my netbook delivery, which was due to either the sender or the courier deciding that it didn't matter if they missed some address info (like, the company name) off the address label.

So, I've had it redirected to St Nicks, because I don't trust them to deliver to Velo Vision any more, if they can't get the address right. I know what'll happen, they'll try and deliver it at 7am, or after St Nicks has closed.

You know what? I like shops. You go in, you choose a thing, you pay, you leave. With your thing.

If only we had some sort of system in this country, some sort of state supported national system of parcel and letter delivery, that could find addresses, and deliver to them, and had a depot in every city and town, or a network of offices you could have it redirected too. You could buy little stickers to pay for postage, perhaps.

<bangs head with tray again>

Can I have some tea?

 

[Night Train]

Tea for Arch.

Just leave the tray to one side and I will panel beat the dents out of it.

What could be done is that Amazon could under charge, say 1p less, for the postage and then you will get a card asking you to pop down to your local post office to pay £1.01 to collect the items in your own time, during opening hours of course.

Perhaps you should just start using a friend's address instead, if you know someone who can be in to receive deliveries.

 

[potsy]

I go through the same dilemma every time I order something online Arch, the amount of times I've thought 'that'll fit through the letterbox surely?' only to come home to a 'failed to deliver' card 'packet too large'

My way round it now is to get them to redeliver on a Saturday (can arrange this online) as I am usually in then, only works for RM though.

Very tired today, yesterdays bike ride wore me out more than I realised, when the 4am alarm went off this morning I didn't even attempt to get out of bed, just reset it for 5am and drove in
I have also just awoken from an afternoon cat nap, as I was waking up I felt a strange weight on my legs, yes one of my cats was having a real cat nap and using me as it's bed

Tea and tea time now

 

[Arch]

Tea for Arch.

Just leave the tray to one side and I will panel beat the dents out of it.

What could be done is that Amazon could under charge, say 1p less, for the postage and then you will get a card asking you to pop down to your local post office to pay £1.01 to collect the items in your own time, during opening hours of course.

Perhaps you should just start using a friend's address instead, if you know someone who can be in to receive deliveries.

Thank you for the tea. And mending the tray...

You'd think, with one home address and TWO work addresses, I'd be able to sort something out. I just want a man (or a lady), to post a thing through my letterbox. How hard is that?

Grrrrrrrrrr. I'll shut up now. But it's putting me right off using Amazon again, that's twice running now I've had some difficulty. I just really don't get why they can't change a delivery address just because a thing is coming from Jersey! I mean they have phones. I saw them on Bergerac. They probably have internet now too.

Hold on, if I turn the tray over, I can beat the dents out myself....

 

[Night Train]

One of the problems (or benefits) of using Amazon is that they use very bulky packaging for their books. It does protect the book in transit but does also mean that a paperback can be in A3 sized cardboard.

I guess it is one of the benefits of having a granny flat and an enormous sized letter box.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Oh!! Is it a chainset?

I can't imagine how you guessed that