The grumpy thread

[camryv6]

On 10/12/2024 at 06:20, New POD said:

Apparently we at work have a big order for Royal Mail, but they are too busy to take delivery.  

Offer to send it with a different delivery firm

[New POD]

Just now, camryv6 said:

Offer to send it with a different delivery firm

As its XB trucks, we really need them to collect them. 

[camryv6]

Just now, New POD said:

As its XB trucks, we really need them to collect them. 

It was the irony of using another delivery firm

[iainrcz]

Eyesight's gotten wanker. Decided to go for varifocals.

A : more money.

B : more giffer.

[LightBulbFun]

On 09/12/2024 at 23:55, LightBulbFun said:

On 03/12/2024 at 18:15, Yoss said:

On 03/12/2024 at 14:36, LightBulbFun said:

currently somewhat grumpy at Royal mail, I bought some lightbulbs off eBay, tracked, lovely, tracking shows on the 27th November, Accepted at post office, alright, then there is sweet fuck all, until the 2nd of December "Delivery attempted no one in" not even a prior "accepted at delivery sorting office" or anything of the sort

so excuse me, but I thought this was supposed to be a *tracked* parcel, maybe if the tracking was just a little bit more verbose i'd of stayed home to accept it (because of course they tried to deliver it in the 2 hours I was about in REV) 

I'm afraid even being a postman doesn't save you from random annoyances. I ordered some model railway scenery a couple of months ago, quite a big packet too. The tracking showed it arrive at Southampton Mail Centre and then allegedly it went no further. After a week of this Royal Mail admitted it was lost and the sender sent another packet out. That arrived the next day. I still try the original tracking number occasionally and it still claims it is at Southampton Mail Centre but somehow I doubt that. 

Also, they have changed the way we scan the Tracked packets in to our office (we are a delivery office, the next stage after Southampton Mail Centre and the place from which final delivery takes place). We used to have a few people in early who would scan all Tracked (with a capital T) packets as they arrive so that when you check the website it would show your item as having arrived at our delivery office. 

But they've got rid of those now and each postie has to scan them on to their individual deliveries as they sort them. But occasionally* deliveries don't go out due to staff shortages in which case the website will still say it is at the Mail Centre when it is in fact at our Delivery Office but nobody has scanned it in. 

Also we now have to try to deliver all packets twice if people aren't in the first time which is a pain in the arse for us and can confuse customers because they come in with their card and someone in the callers office has to point out the small tick on the card that says we will try again tomorrow. So while they are stood in the callers office their postie has taken it for another walk. 

Also at the moment we are in to Christmas pressure so we have lots of staff who don't know what they are doing or do know what they are doing but don't have the equipment to do it. 

There is a block of flats near the end of my delivery where I usually have a bit of a sit down. I was sat there today when another of our posties turned up doing big packets so I let her in. She was doing big packets with a trolley because they had run out of vans. You can't get that many big packets in a trolley, certainly not enough to fill her duty time, so she had to keep going back for more. 

Even better than that, they had run out of PDAs (the little scanner things)! So she couldn't scan anything and was writing all the numbers out on a piece of paper. Apparently someone was going to manually log them all in to a PDA later, assuming they don't lose the bits of paper in the meantime. So whilst the people who received the packets might know they have received them the sender won't because the website will say it is still at the Mail Centre. 

 

further grump regarding this, they never re-delivered on the next working day, ok fair enough, you know Christmas period so after waiting a few more days I eventually go to manually reschedule  the delivery, for the 9th which was the earliest date they had, alright no problem, lets do that

aaaand nothing has shown up today, again ok fair enough again its Christmas period, but what gets on my goat is the tracking has not budged one bit, it still just says "accepted at post office 27th November, attempted delivery 2nd of December" no other details, so I have no clue whats actually happening with the parcel, did they properly receive the request to redeliver or did that also go into a black hole?

at this point I am wondering if I can just go and pick it up from the distribution office I am *assuming* its currently stuck at, in REV, but I am bit worried now since that I did ask for a re-delivery if its stuck in Limbo or such (and knowing sods law, the day I set out to go pick em up manually, is the day they will actually try and re-deliver em and miss me again LOL)

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

[barefoot]

Tell him. And send pictures. You might get fifty quid off him as well.

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Tell him. And send pictures. You might get fifty quid off him as well.

I did! but he just responded with "but I received them packaged like this just fine" never mind the fact he likely received them in bulk (this is 1 lot of many he had sold/had listed) and also never mind the survivorship bias there, just because "you" survived falling out of airplane does not mean everyone else will LOL

 

[Christine]

Well at least it's not gone mouldy

[myglaren]

I had a car battery delivered yesterday that was packaged far better than that.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Someone broke into a museum here last night and tore the doors off several irreplaceable old buildings and set the doors on fire.

One can really wonder what is wrong with people.

[Yoss]

4 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

I like the way he thinks bubble wrap would be overkill. Isn't that exactly what bubble wrap is for? 

We don't deliberately jump up and down on packets but at the same time they all have to go in the big containers with all the other packets and that is absolutely not adequate packaging. Does he think we pick it up from him and carry it on its own all the way to you? 

I get a lot of model railway stuff through the post and most of it is packaged way better than that, and a lot of it comes in bubble wrap even though that is complete overkill apparently. Some doesn't and I have had some things arrive with damage. Unfortunately some people don't understand how the postal system works. 

[comfortablynumb]

20 hours ago, maxxo said:

Just had a chat with my next door neighbour

she kept apologising about her son being noisy

apparently whoever lived here previously used to complain all the time about him

in all honesty I barely hear anything

anyway even if I did does it matter?

hes an autistic seven year old, it doesn’t matter if he’s noisy or anything

i told her to not worry about it and let him do whatever makes him happy I don’t mind normal family noises

im grumpy that someone would complain about that

MK2 daughter, sil and 3 kids, 2 severely autistic, have just moved into an old cottage, semi-detached.

Sil went to meet the attached neighbours, an older couple, and to apologise in advance for the noise ( 3 yo screams a lot)

Response? ' Noise? What noise? And even if we hear it, it's not an issue, they're kids with needs!'

I think they've just found their forever hone

Edited December 11, 2024 by comfortablynumb
Spelllllling

[Zelandeth]

12 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I like the way he thinks bubble wrap would be overkill. Isn't that exactly what bubble wrap is for? 

We don't deliberately jump up and down on packets but at the same time they all have to go in the big containers with all the other packets and that is absolutely not adequate packaging. Does he think we pick it up from him and carry it on its own all the way to you? 

I get a lot of model railway stuff through the post and most of it is packaged way better than that, and a lot of it comes in bubble wrap even though that is complete overkill apparently. Some doesn't and I have had some things arrive with damage. Unfortunately some people don't understand how the postal system works. 

I still think my record was successfully receiving a Toshiba T3200 - 10+Kg of late 80s portable computer, with a fragile glass display panel from some idiot on eBay.  It was sent wrapped in a single layer of brown packing paper.  Nothing else whatsoever.

How the hell it arrived intact and undamaged I have no idea!

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

You would make me a wee bit pissed off by writing Hello I hope all is well.

I bet you do not give a figs about how well I am😠

 

[High Jetter]

20 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

You would make me a wee bit pissed off by writing Hello I hope all is well.

It's modern speak fo 'Oi, shitface!'

[High Jetter]

Had an appointment for my kidney removal (has a small cancerous bit inside it, no trace of spread - just thanking fuck that radiographer spotted it on scan for something else) booked for Dec 19th. Perfect, my staff finish for hols on the 20th, and I have 2 quiet weeks over crimbo / new year in my recovery time so I won't be climbing walls. Then they rang wanting to change it to Jan 2nd - I explained how awkward that would be in comparison, they then came back wth Dec 17th a couple of weeks ago. Fine, I'll work round it, not so easy.

They rang again today, I'm back to Jan 2nd as someone has a more urgent situation. Can't argue with that, but a lot of re-arranging will have to be done.

[Rust Collector]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Had an appointment for my kidney removal (has a small cancerous bit inside it, no trace of spread - just thanking fuck that radiographer spotted it on scan for something else) booked for Dec 19th. Perfect, my staff finish for hols on the 20th, and I have 2 quiet weeks over crimbo / new year in my recovery time so I won't be climbing walls. Then they rang wanting to change it to Jan 2nd - I explained how awkward that would be in comparison, they then came back wth Dec 17th a couple of weeks ago. Fine, I'll work round it, not so easy.

They rang again today, I'm back to Jan 2nd as someone has a more urgent situation. Can't argue with that, but a lot of re-arranging will have to be done.

If there’s anything I can do to assist whilst you’re recovering then don’t hesitate to give me a nudge, I’m only over the other side of the hill!

[High Jetter]

Just now, Rust Collector said:

If there’s anything I can do to assist whilst you’re recovering then don’t hesitate to give me a nudge, I’m only over the other side of the hill!

Ah man, that's really kind of you, thanks.

[maxxo]

8 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

MK2 daughter, sil and 3 kids, 2 severely autistic, have just moved into an old cottage, semi-detached.

Sil went to meet the attached neighbours, an older couple, and to apologise in advance for the noise ( 3 yo screams a lot)

Response? ' Noise? What noise? And even if we hear it, it's not an issue, they're kids with needs!'

I think they've just found their forever hone

aye that was exactly my reaction

it's very rare i actually hear anything, and if i do it sounds like just normal family noises

even so, who cares, i really don't care it's not an issue for me at all

i've told her not to worry at all about it

i get where she is coming from, apparently the last resident in my house wasn't very nice and complained about even the slightest noise

 

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, myglaren said:

I had a car battery delivered yesterday that was packaged far better than that.

I actually bought a roll of bubble wrap and it was packaged better than that. No joking, it was wrapped in another layer of it and packed in a large box.

[wuvvum]

I had two very bad nights on Monday and Tuesday.  Usually when I'm short on sleep I do stupid stuff, so I was quite pleased with myself when I managed to get to bedtime yesterday without any major mishaps or things I'd forgotten to do.

So imagine my amusement* when I left the house this morning to find that I'd left the driver's door of the Merc open all night.  It was drizzling most of the night here so the interior is now slightly* moist.

Excellent.

[reb]

Apparently the christmas cards I bought are slightly too big to go in any of the pockets of my army jacket.

If they did it would mean I could walk with them to the postbox in the village without having to carry a bag just to carry a bunch of paper and card.

[horriblemercedes]

We should probably let the army know - they'll be appalled as the main consideration in the design of their clothing is that it should be able to transport Christmas cards without hassle

[reb]

It's either the American army's fault for designing it wrong or the Austrian army's fault for manufacturing the pockets too small.

It is actually incredible how much you can carry in it though. When I still did film photography I could carry two camera bodies, three lenses, and a bunch of film, all without a camera bag.

[Datsuncog]

Reb, on his way to the postbox...

[Timewaster]

On 06/12/2024 at 22:06, Timewaster said:

Driving the Mrs car today, spot something fairly big laying in the road, couldn't see what it was.

Couldn't go around it so aimed for the middle and hoped for the best.

BANG! FUCK!!!

Pulled into an entrance at the side of the road accompanied by some awful scraping noise.

Reverse a bit and it is quiet, go forwards and its horrible scraping again. Whatever it is must be stuck underneath.

Stuck a wheel up o the kerb to see if I can get it out. Look underneath the car and there is a massive chunk of  metal on the ground and oil pissing out of a split in the sump.

Fucksticks.

Recovery truck time.

Update.

I got the bugger square on.

I also managed to mangle the bottom of the dipstick tube.

[Zelandeth]

53 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Update.

I got the bugger square on.

I also managed to mangle the bottom of the dipstick tube.

You managed NOT to mangle the bottom of the crankshaft at least!

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, reb said:

Apparently the christmas cards I bought are slightly too big to go in any of the pockets of my army jacket.

If they did it would mean I could walk with them to the postbox in the village without having to carry a bag just to carry a bunch of paper and card.

Smoller cards are usually cheeper, a thought for next year.

[reb]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Smoller cards are usually cheeper, a thought for next year.

I deliberately bought slightly expensive "premium" cards, so it wouldn't make much difference to price anyway. By next year I'll be driving again, so the cards can be any size they like and go on the passenger seat while I post them while I'm out doing something else anyway!

 

New grump is that one of the camcorder batteries I got in a twin pack with a charger is duff. Don't want to return the whole lot since that seems like a waste. I've left a 1 star review, now to see if I can remember how to get in touch with an actual human at amazon.

[robt100]

7 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had two very bad nights on Monday and Tuesday.  Usually when I'm short on sleep I do stupid stuff, so I was quite pleased with myself when I managed to get to bedtime yesterday without any major mishaps or things I'd forgotten to do.

So imagine my amusement* when I left the house this morning to find that I'd left the driver's door of the Merc open all night.  It was drizzling most of the night here so the interior is now slightly* moist.

Excellent.

On the plus side, the area ia safe enough to leave a door open all night without anything getting vandalized/nicked!