It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?

I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
£7.50 postal cost.

It still hasn't arrived.

--
/Simon

In article <j58ef1F2mdpU1@mid.individual.net>, siwilson
says...
>
> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>
> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
> £7.50 postal cost.
>
> It still hasn't arrived.

brexit innit? Did it have the right customs declaration on
it?

El Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:54:10 +0000, siwilson escribió:

> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>
> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
> £7.50 postal cost.
>
> It still hasn't arrived.

Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.

Dunno.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

petrolcan <petrolcan@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <j58ef1F2mdpU1@mid.individual.net>, siwilson
> says...
>>
>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>
>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>
>> It still hasn't arrived.
>
> brexit innit? Did it have the right customs declaration on
> it?
>

According to the postal worker I know, there’s a whole chunk of Covid
impact too, with lots of staff absent.

On 25/01/2022 03:54 siwilson penned these words:
> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>
> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
> £7.50 postal cost.
>
> It still hasn't arrived.
>
My bank card took a month from the UK. Letters to my solicitor to the UK have
been taking 3 weeks. Obv not directly Brexshite but it was about 2 weeks each
way in the past. WTF even that long for airmail fuck knows, it is 14 hours more
or less by airplane.

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:59:38 -0000 (UTC), Higgins
<the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> wrote:

>petrolcan <petrolcan@gmail.com> wrote:

>> brexit innit? Did it have the right customs declaration on
>> it?
>>
>
>According to the postal worker I know, there’s a whole chunk of Covid
>impact too, with lots of staff absent.

Standard excuses. The UK has always had a tendency to try and avoid
blame, aka making excuses, for things that should be well controllable
and predictable. Staff absent? Employ enough staff in the first place.
Brexit? Yeah, nobody saw that coming or was able to predict what sort
of impact it might have. Leaves on the line? Wrong sort of snow? I
could go on.

Living mainly in CH for the last 20 years has de-acclimatised me to
many such things that were, and indeed still seem to be, common in the
UK. One can't predict everything, of course, but proper contingency
preparation and accountability just don't seem to be a part of much of
the UK's service industry in the saem way that they are here.

--
Ace
http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/

Boots <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote in
news:h8r4ci-u121.ln1@bilbo.eternal-september.org:

> On 25/01/2022 03:54 siwilson penned these words:
>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>
>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low
>> value. £7.50 postal cost.
>>
>> It still hasn't arrived.
>>
> My bank card took a month from the UK. Letters to my solicitor to the
> UK have been taking 3 weeks. Obv not directly Brexshite but it was
> about 2 weeks each way in the past. WTF even that long for airmail
> fuck knows, it is 14 hours more or less by airplane.
>

There are some areas in the UK that have not had a regular daily delivery
for months due to staff shortages. Brexit is directly responsible in some
cases due to EU residents returning to their home country and very little
movement in the other direction to fill the gaps.

El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:56:49 +0000, Paul Carmichael escribió:

> El Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:54:10 +0000, siwilson escribió:
>
>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>
>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>
>> It still hasn't arrived.
>
> Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
> returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.
>
> Dunno.

Arrived just after I posted that.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

Ace wrote:

> but proper contingency
> preparation and accountability just don't seem to be a part of much of
> the UK's service industry in the saem way that they are here.

Contigency costs money and affects profitibility.

Cheaper to just cancel stuff.

--
Simon

On 24/01/2022 19:54, siwilson wrote:
> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>

Yep, we had a load of Xmas cards arrive last week, postmarked 20/12
>

--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly"
http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

On 25 Jan 2022 14:12:34 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com>
wrote:

>El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:56:49 +0000, Paul Carmichael escribió:
>
>> El Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:54:10 +0000, siwilson escribió:
>>
>>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>>
>>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
>>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>>
>>> It still hasn't arrived.
>>
>> Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
>> returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.
>>
>> Dunno.
>
>
>Arrived just after I posted that.

They are watching you, you know. Someone in Correos is having a good
laugh right now.

--

Pete
Garage vacancy now filled, N+1 incremented accordingly
F800R

Ace wrote:

> but proper contingency
> preparation and accountability just don't seem to be a part of much of
> the UK's service industry in the saem way that they are here.

Big hammer, small nail.

--
"There's nothing more dangreous than a resourceful idiot"

"sweller" <sweller@mztech.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in news:j5agj8Femq2U1
@mid.individual.net:

> Ace wrote:
>
>> but proper contingency
>> preparation and accountability just don't seem to be a part of much of
>> the UK's service industry in the saem way that they are here.
>
> Contigency costs money and affects profitibility.
>
> Cheaper to just cancel stuff.
>

seems Royal Mail feels the service will run better with 700 cancelled
middle managers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60124123

Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
>>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>>
>>> It still hasn't arrived.
>>
>> Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
>> returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.
>>
>> Dunno.
>
> Arrived just after I posted that.

The postal service is in chaos due to covid, I received a Xmas
card yesterday, posted in the muddle of december.

--
http://www.netunix.com/

On 25/01/2022 19:08 Ace penned these words:

> The UK has always had a tendency to try and avoid
> blame, aka making excuses, for things that should be well controllable
> and predictable.

I recall one of the old duffers when I was working for BT as it was by then in
Aldergrot.
"That's the thing with Christmas, it catches the GPO by surprise, every fucking
single year"

--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of
the last priest"

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 22:22:46 +0000, Pipl <pluscher@live.co.uk> wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:08:34 +0100, Ace <Ace@ch.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:59:38 -0000 (UTC), Higgins
>><the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>petrolcan <petrolcan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> brexit innit? Did it have the right customs declaration on
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>
>>>According to the postal worker I know, there’s a whole chunk of Covid
>>>impact too, with lots of staff absent.
>>
>>Standard excuses. The UK has always had a tendency to try and avoid
>>blame, aka making excuses, for things that should be well controllable
>>and predictable. Staff absent? Employ enough staff in the first place.
>
>"We are experiencing unusually high call volumes at the moment" was a
>standard phone queue message from 2-3 years ago; well before Covid.

Plan for the peaks, not the troughs.

--

Pete
Garage vacancy now filled, N+1 incremented accordingly
F800R

El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:03:32 +0100, Pete escribió:

> On 25 Jan 2022 14:12:34 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:56:49 +0000, Paul Carmichael escribió:
>>
>>> El Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:54:10 +0000, siwilson escribió:
>>>
>>>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low
>>>> value.
>>>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>>>
>>>> It still hasn't arrived.
>>>
>>> Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
>>> returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.
>>>
>>> Dunno.
>>
>>
>>Arrived just after I posted that.
>
> They are watching you, you know. Someone in Correos is having a good
> laugh right now.

We only just got it. I was messing with the wiring so the doorbell wasn't
working. Luckily we here the stupid moped.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

On 26 Jan 2022 10:34:41 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com>
wrote:

>El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:03:32 +0100, Pete escribió:
>
>> On 25 Jan 2022 14:12:34 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>El Tue, 25 Jan 2022 08:56:49 +0000, Paul Carmichael escribió:
>>>
>>>> El Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:54:10 +0000, siwilson escribió:
>>>>
>>>>> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low
>>>>> value.
>>>>> £7.50 postal cost.
>>>>>
>>>>> It still hasn't arrived.
>>>>
>>>> Our little 'un sent her mum a present for xmas in december. It was
>>>> returned without explanation so she sent it again. Still no sign.
>>>>
>>>> Dunno.
>>>
>>>
>>>Arrived just after I posted that.
>>
>> They are watching you, you know. Someone in Correos is having a good
>> laugh right now.
>
>We only just got it. I was messing with the wiring so the doorbell wasn't
>working. Luckily we here the stupid moped.

As well as running a house watching and security service for all the
neighbours when they are away (not seen the next door couple for three
months now) I also seem to be the local parcel intermediary. Large,
small, whatever, when the delivery company can't get anyone to answer
the right doorbell they just stop at our place and lean on the horn.
Just put a second address on for here and I'll take it in for you.

Yet stuff meant for me keeps going missing, apparently some couriers
can't even find the road on Google Maps (it's been there for thirty
years guys...)
--

Pete
Garage vacancy now filled, N+1 incremented accordingly
F800R

On 26/01/2022 12:35, Pete wrote:

> As well as running a house watching and security service for all the
> neighbours when they are away (not seen the next door couple for three
> months now) I also seem to be the local parcel intermediary. Large,
> small, whatever, when the delivery company can't get anyone to answer
> the right doorbell they just stop at our place and lean on the horn.
> Just put a second address on for here and I'll take it in for you.
>
> Yet stuff meant for me keeps going missing, apparently some couriers
> can't even find the road on Google Maps (it's been there for thirty
> years guys...)

I blame satnav.

We take in parcels for neighbours and they for us. A few years ago,
however, we started to find our stuff being delivered in error to an
address with the same street name but a different postcode. Turned out
TomTom at the time had the wrong postcode for us, so stuff went to a
destination a few miles away. Worst example was a garden shed (in parts
obviously). I had to rescue that with my car and trailer.

That, and people defaulting to the first address the satnav offered
without checking properly (there is more than one with the same name and
similar postcodes).

Doesn't happen so much lately, so perhaps TomTom corrected it or all
delivery vehicles use Garmin based systems. The new to us van is TomTom,
must see what that comes up with. I must say I find the interface on the
Fiat TomTom device much more intuitive than the Mazda satnav (whatever
that is based on). As a bonus, it even has a large compass mode -
presumably for heading across open desert, though a quick indicator of
having got completely lost if you have any kind of 'navigational bump'
(phrenologically speaking).

--
Moto Morini 2C/375, Moto Morini 2C/350
Gilera 175 Sport, Husqvarna 401 Svartpilen
1937 Sunbeam Model 14 250 Sports
"Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in the reality"

El Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:34:41 +0000, Paul Carmichael escribió:

>Luckily we here the stupid moped.

Kill me now.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

El Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:55:15 +0000, Pete Fisher escribió:

> We take in parcels for neighbours and they for us. A few years ago,
> however, we started to find our stuff being delivered in error to an
> address with the same street name but a different postcode. Turned out
> TomTom at the time had the wrong postcode for us, so stuff went to a
> destination a few miles away.

At least you have proper post codes.

Here we have one post code per village.

We live on Calle Casas Nuevas.

There is a street called Calle Nueva with the same post code.

Guess where half our stuff ends up.

--
Paul.

https://paulc.es/elpatio

Paul Carmichael wrote:
> We live on Calle Casas Nuevas.
>
> There is a street called Calle Nueva with the same post code.
>
> Guess where half our stuff ends up.

My mum used to live on a fairly rural road with about ten houses down it and not much else around for a mile or so. She was Mrs H C Ogden, at Well Cottage. Just across the road was Mrs C H Ogden, at Well House. They got to know each other well enough just by exchanging misdelivered mail.

On 24/01/2022 19:54, siwilson wrote:
> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>
> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low value.
> £7.50 postal cost.
>
> It still hasn't arrived.
>

Aaaaand it's just shown up. At home. "rejected/failed electronic customs
clearance."

The declared value was £2.

FFS.

--
/Simon

siwilson wibbled:

> It's a bit pants at the moment isn't it?
>
> I sent a small parcel to Dublin on the 29th December (2021). Low
> value. £7.50 postal cost.
>
> It still hasn't arrived.

I'm still waiting for a DHL delivery from my workplace. It was sent
last Wednesday and only today appears to have cleared customs.

--
Cab
Z1000 and CB1300 and VeloSolex 3800

On 1/26/2022 8:15 AM, Paul Carmichael wrote:
>
> We live on Calle Casas Nuevas.
>
> There is a street called Calle Nueva with the same post code.
>
> Guess where half our stuff ends up.
>
Calle Vieja?

--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS, ST1100 (in memoriam)