On 13/12/2022 12:13, Tweed wrote:
> Just on the subject of useful services, with DPD Local you as a domestic
> non business customer can send parcels to pick up locations. I had to send
> a cake to my son who is rarely in to accept parcels. Royal Mail parcels end
> up at the local depot. RM won’t allow non business users to send to pick up
> locations. DPD let me send the package to his local Morrisons. I dropped it
> off at the local news agent, who is a drop off point. Think it cost me
> around £3.50 for a couple of kg.

Some years ago there were lots of complaints that many of the carriers
were charging extra for the Highland and Islands though their definition
included Inverness town I think!

I was talking with someone from the Black Isle about this, at the time
there was a local carrier which started in Oban but expanded to cover
the Highlands. He said he would get them to collect a package and they
would take to one of big companies' hubs in England. Similarly when he
ordered something from down South, he would put for it to be delivered
via the hub and collected by them.

He ordered something from Europe once and it arrived almost overnight.

The local company has now been absorbed into one of the big national
companies now.

On 13/12/2022 12:14, Max Demian wrote:
> Rather odd to bundle free delivery with streaming - you might want one
> and not the other.

As I wrote that is why I did not go ahead and sign up for PRIME many
years ago, I had not interest in any of their TV programmes.

On 13/12/2022 09:44, Roderick Stewart wrote:
> Yes, not every item can be sent to the lockers, and sometimes an
> individual locker will be greyed out in the list, or there will be a
> message saying that it's currently full. Like everything else, the
> system doesn't always work perfectly, but it's useful when it does.

I've found that some items that claim to be deliverable to a locker
always find all the lockers full, even though other items find space. I
suspect that they don't like allocating locker space to low value items.

David Woolley <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> wrote:
> On 13/12/2022 09:44, Roderick Stewart wrote:
>> Yes, not every item can be sent to the lockers, and sometimes an
>> individual locker will be greyed out in the list, or there will be a
>> message saying that it's currently full. Like everything else, the
>> system doesn't always work perfectly, but it's useful when it does.
>
> I've found that some items that claim to be deliverable to a locker
> always find all the lockers full, even though other items find space. I
> suspect that they don't like allocating locker space to low value items.
>

Size matters. Not all locker spaces are the same size.

On 13/12/2022 12:33, MB wrote:
>
> Some years ago there were lots of complaints that many of the carriers
> were charging extra for the Highland and Islands though their definition
> included Inverness town I think!

Yes, it still happens, though less often than a few years ago, and is
utterly absurd. In the past I've had the following:

- eBay item costing £10, £4.80 delivery to rUK, £15.47 here;
- Castors costing £11.41, £6 delivery to rUK, £15 here.

If the Post Office must run a flat rate delivery service across the
entire UK, so ought the couriers who compete with them.

On a more positive note, my Epson V600 scanner ordered through Amazon
last Friday was scheduled for delivery 22/12/2022-5/1/2023, but actually
arrived yesterday (ie: the following Monday)! Fortunately I was in, but
it caught me unawares, so I'm waiting for my other PC to finish backing
up before installing the software on it, so that I can have a play and
report back in the thread that I began.

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On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:14:04 +0000, Max Demian
<max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>I used to subscribe to their streaming service (before Prime), and
>LoveFilm before (that they bought up), but I found that the films they
>showed were the sort that get shown on Freeview anyway eventually.

Yes, you can watch movies on Freeview, but even if the movie itself is
not full of advert breaks, the end credits will be interrupted, and
will probably be severely truncated as well. Sometimes the end credit
music can be enjoyed as part of the performance, but the mutilated
versions offered by broadcasters give you no choice.

Rod.

On 13/12/2022 17:06, Roderick Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:14:04 +0000, Max Demian
> <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>> I used to subscribe to their streaming service (before Prime), and
>> LoveFilm before (that they bought up), but I found that the films they
>> showed were the sort that get shown on Freeview anyway eventually.
>
> Yes, you can watch movies on Freeview, but even if the movie itself is
> not full of advert breaks, the end credits will be interrupted, and
> will probably be severely truncated as well. Sometimes the end credit
> music can be enjoyed as part of the performance, but the mutilated
> versions offered by broadcasters give you no choice.

Rubbish at the end is a nuisance, but adverts can be skipped or edited
out. If I want to keep a film I can burn it to DVD with my Panasonic
HDD/DVD recorder.

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Max Demian wrote:

>Rubbish at the end is a nuisance, but adverts can be skipped or edited
>out. If I want to keep a film I can burn it to DVD with my Panasonic
>HDD/DVD recorder.

Is it correct that nowadays such DVDs can only be viewed on the
machine that recorded them?

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On 13/12/2022 19:09, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Is it correct that nowadays such DVDs can only be viewed on the
> machine that recorded them?

No

On 13/12/2022 19:09, Chris J Dixon wrote:
> Max Demian wrote:
>
>> Rubbish at the end is a nuisance, but adverts can be skipped or edited
>> out. If I want to keep a film I can burn it to DVD with my Panasonic
>> HDD/DVD recorder.
>
> Is it correct that nowadays such DVDs can only be viewed on the
> machine that recorded them?

Not if they are "finalised".

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On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:06:00 +0000, Roderick Stewart
<rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

>>but I found that the films they
>>showed were the sort that get shown on Freeview anyway eventually.
>
> Yes, you can watch movies on Freeview, but even if the movie itself is
> not full of advert breaks, the end credits will be interrupted, and
> will probably be severely truncated as well. Sometimes the end credit
> music can be enjoyed as part of the performance, but the mutilated
> versions offered by broadcasters give you no choice.

Even bloody iPlayer is doing this now - sticking up irritating
adverts for the 'next' programme over the end of the current one
and cutting it off 15s or so before the end unless you take action
to cancel it.
I didn't see an option to disable this.

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

> Even bloody iPlayer is doing this now - sticking up irritating
> adverts for the 'next' programme over the end of the current one
> and cutting it off 15s or so before the end unless you take action
> to cancel it.
> I didn't see an option to disable this.

There are many settings that an iPlayer account could remember, but doesn't ...

1) Here's my licence number, stop asking if I have one

2) I never want to set enable parental guidance lock

3) Always skip trailers for me

On 17/12/2022 09:52, Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

>
> Even bloody iPlayer is doing this now - sticking up irritating
> adverts for the 'next' programme over the end of the current one
> and cutting it off 15s or so before the end unless you take action
> to cancel it.
> I didn't see an option to disable this.

I'm not which channel I was watching the other day but approx 10 minutes
from the end of the program a third of the screen was occupied with an
'on next' banner. Much more irritating than end credits being squashed etc.

I do wonder if some of these channels are pushing towards the USA forms
of advertising. Some programs in the US of A must be unwatchable judging
how often the (bad) editing in the UK shows when the ad breaks would
have been inserted.

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