The grumpy thread

[bub2006]

Yea think it was. Lobbing stuff over fences etc. Kicking an dragging fragile items

[ashmicro]

Yodel are slack bastards, this is criminal:

 

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/UPS-empl ... 73811.html

[retrogeezer]

One of their drivers decided to use my drive to turn around in the other day...reversing into the gap between my Mondeo and Escort. Had he hit either of them and then driven off I'd have been none the wiser if I hadn't happened to be driving down the road at the time.

[Cheggers]

One of their drivers decided to use my drive to turn around in the other day...reversing into the gap between my Mondeo and Escort. Had he hit either of them and then driven off I'd have been none the wiser if I hadn't happened to be driving down the road at the time.

 

Without wishing to defend delivery drivers what was he supposed to do, ring & ask if it was OK to use your drive? - he didn't hit anything, and do we really know he wouldn't have left a note if he had have done any harm??

[Mr Lobster]

Yodel / HDNL are terrible. Slow, lost, damaged and all that. Wouldn't use them at all.

 

People like to knock Royal Mail but its not until you experience Yodel do you realise that actually Royal Mail are pretty good. In terms of couriers I find UPS are generally pretty good followed by DHL.

[willswitchengage]

TNT last week kindly delivered my new replacement laptop heavily marked "DO NOT DELIVER TO NEIGHBOURS" to... guess who

 

Can't remember what courier it was but I've had equally stupid experiences in an old terraced house - a parcel squeezed through the front room window (!!) and another "left in the side passage", ie thrown over the big wooden gate

[Cavcraft]

I like Royal Mail, too, our postmen do a great job in all weathers. I have also found Parcel Force to be good and well priced. Can only remember one issue with them (I think they took 4 days instead of 2) out of countless deliveries they made for me.

[HillmanImp]

*

 

*badly updated with new prices

[retrogeezer]

One of their drivers decided to use my drive to turn around in the other day...reversing into the gap between my Mondeo and Escort. Had he hit either of them and then driven off I'd have been none the wiser if I hadn't happened to be driving down the road at the time.

 

Without wishing to defend delivery drivers what was he supposed to do, ring & ask if it was OK to use your drive? - he didn't hit anything, and do we really know he wouldn't have left a note if he had have done any harm??

 

How about stay in the road and not use a private driveway?? He wasn't delivering to my house!

 

You don't just use anybodies private property that takes your fancy to maneuver a vehicle!

[HillmanImp]

You don't just use anybodies private property that takes your fancy to maneuver a vehicle!

 

Not really the end of the world though is it? There are bigger things to worry about in the world TBH. I am not a doctor but suggest a prescription of some cartoons, a milky bar and a DVD of its a Wonderful Life.

[retrogeezer]

no, but this is the grumpy thread and I thought it was a bit cheeky. I bought a house with a driveway for my own cars, not other peoples.

[Cheggers]

Fairy nuff...I think it was more the "If he'd hit one of the cars" - which he hadn't - "I'd have been none the wiser" - assuming he didn't knock/ ring/ leave a note. Just seems like a grump about something that didn't happen

[retrogeezer]

Nothing happened on this occasion sure..but people deny damaging vehicles even when you are sat in them sometimes. As everyone knows, without independent witnesses you are stuffed and that's why I have MY driveway.

 

It annoyed me as I am sure it would anyone else.

[M'coli]

Having worked in their sorting office for the past 3 weeks (and getting another 3 weeks out of it - yay!) I've got to see first hand how much effort RM has to put in to getting post out to the general public. The other thing we have to remember is that the RM is obliged by law to deliver stuff, it cannot knock-back bulk mailing stuff like wageslips and promotional material that private firms can refuse to do because there's no profit in it for them. There are also a lot of long-term, very committed staff there that work extremely hard - even the office and corporate staff were sorting during the week to get stuff out to the recipients!

[Spiny Norman]

The problem with RM is that as a customer, the entire user experience is very dependent on the individual who actually delivers your mail.

Up until recently we had a lazy, incompetent, illiterate fucktard of a postman who seemed to go out his way to deliver mail to the wrong addresses, or not at all.

I got fed up complaining to the local sorting office about him but it must have worked because he's been replaced by a lad who can read and who understands the concept of "No, Mr Smith doesn't live here, he lives next door" and takes it in, rather than continuing to deliver Mr Smith's mail through my letterbox.

 

All the £££billions invested in the RM and the minimum wage mong at the end of the chain can totally fuck it up for everyone...

[dollywobbler]

Our postman is lovely. He's called Nigel.

 

My grump is entirely weather related. We've just got drenched (all of the neighbours) trying to stop our driveway getting washed away. This is now worse than it was when Aberystwyth made the news for flooding earlier this year - we're further up in the hills but it's still very bad. Have had to sandbag the end of the driveway - very pleased that the council chaps were coming past checking drains at the time! No sign of the rain letting up any time soon. Very alarming. Especially as we're meant to be driving to Devon to see family for Christmas.

 

Devon currently looks like this in places.

 

I feel so sorry for business on that high street. Instead of enjoying the busiest trade day of the year, they'll be wondering what chaos they'll be returning to after Christmas.

[Cavcraft]

The problem with RM is that as a customer, the entire user experience is very dependent on the individual who actually delivers your mail.

Up until recently we had a lazy, incompetent, illiterate fucktard of a postman who seemed to go out his way to deliver mail to the wrong addresses, or not at all.

I got fed up complaining to the local sorting office about him but it must have worked because he's been replaced by a lad who can read and who understands the concept of "No, Mr Smith doesn't live here, he lives next door" and takes it in, rather than continuing to deliver Mr Smith's mail through my letterbox.

 

All the £££billions invested in the RM and the minimum wage mong at the end of the chain can totally fuck it up for everyone...

 

 

That's the same for almost every job in Britain/the world. If you're a twat of a nurse/shop worker/office worker/whatever people will remember it. 'Minimum wage mong' is usually the one doing the graft for shit money, if a tiny, tiny minority fail to do their job to your obviously MASSIVE standards then I'm not totally surprised. Motivation is hard enough to come by at work as it is, let alone when you're on rubbish money.

[Spiny Norman]

 

if a tiny, tiny minority fail to do their job to your obviously MASSIVE standards then I'm not totally surprised.

 

Don't know if that's meant to be a dig or not, and I don't really care, but if wanting my mail delivered to my house and my neighbours' mail delivered to theirs is having "MASSIVE" standards then guilty as charged, your honour....

 

I have every sympathy for folks doing crap jobs for crap money, but I don't see that as excuse for deliberately doing a shit job.

[retrogeezer]

What high street was that DW?

[phil_lihp]

Thats Braunton, a few miles from my house. Unfortunately the river does flood quite often but this one is particularly bad, in my old job I had to help fix some PCs that got a good soaking in the last big one, that estate agent has been flooded several times in the last five years. A lot of unlucky home and business owners are having a bad weekend.

[M'coli]

Ok, here's a pedantic thing about the Royal Mail: the Royal Mail does not deliver mail, it delivers post. We live in the United Kingdom and hence it is post; if you wish to have "mail" delivered move to the United States of America or anywhere else they call the post "mail".

[brickwall]

ahem... Royal Mail Ltd

[retrogeezer]

#edit#

 

Just seen that on the news about Braunton, know it well there myself as had a few holidays in Croyde and Barnstaple. The fish & chip shop there is great.

 

Such a shame for all the residents and shop owners.

[Spiny Norman]

Ok, here's a pedantic thing about the Royal Mail: the Royal Mail does not deliver mail, it delivers post. We live in the United Kingdom and hence it is post; if you wish to have "mail" delivered move to the United States of America or anywhere else they call the post "mail".

 

So without wanting to get bogged down in even more pedantry, why is "Royal Mail" plastered all over their vans, trains, planes etc?

[scaryoldcortina]

Because when they broke up the GPO only one bit of it could be the Post Office. Probably.

[Guest]

Getting a horrible feeling my posters have been lost in the Christmas mail flood. Fingers crossed they're find and I'm not just being paranoid. I'm waiting on about 12 of them - two of which are retrogeezer's.

 

AAARGH.

[M'coli]

That I'm not too sure of!

[warren t claim]

Getting a horrible feeling my posters have been lost in the Christmas mail flood. Fingers crossed they're find and I'm not just being paranoid. I'm waiting on about 12 of them - two of which are retrogeezer's.

 

AAARGH.

 

[Angrydicky]

One of their drivers decided to use my drive to turn around in the other day...reversing into the gap between my Mondeo and Escort. Had he hit either of them and then driven off I'd have been none the wiser if I hadn't happened to be driving down the road at the time.

 

Without wishing to defend delivery drivers what was he supposed to do, ring & ask if it was OK to use your drive? - he didn't hit anything, and do we really know he wouldn't have left a note if he had have done any harm??

 

How about stay in the road and not use a private driveway?? He wasn't delivering to my house!

 

You don't just use anybodies private property that takes your fancy to maneuver a vehicle!

 

Rubbish. I use driveways for turning around in narrow roads all the time at work, if there is no other option. As long as he didn't hit the cars, what's the problem? I've had a couple of people come out and start shouting abuse at me just for putting a couple of wheels on their precious driveway. One dickhead came running out and said he was going to "fucking break your legs if I ever catch you on my driveway again you cunt". I just shook my head at him and drove slowly away, with him madly gesticulating in the middle of the road.

 

Delivery drivers have a hard life, don't make it any harder for us! I don't do this out of choice, but there are no other jobs out there worth doing.

 

Another one I hate is when I have a delivery to do on a narrow road with no parking. (Deliveries rarely take more than 5 minutes by the way). Block the road, there's always some impatient arsehole who leans on their horn and shouts foul-mouthed abuse out of the window. Block a driveway, the owner will, 30 seconds later, reappear with their car and either want to get on or off the driveway. Again, this often results in horn-blowing and abusive language. I've had so much grief over parking it's unbelievable. In the latter case I'm not even on their driveway, just across the council owned dropkerb that happens to be outside their property. I'm sick of selfish wankers who have probably never had to graft in a shit job for shit money giving me abuse because they can't wait five fucking minutes. Rant over

[retrogeezer]

haha, that sure is a rant but this is not a narrow road and he had no need to turn in my drive when he could have used the one of the house he was actually delivering too.

 

I've got no problem with a driver doing what he NEEDS to do but this bloke was just being lazy and couldn't be arsed to walk 20 feet.

 

If I bought a house in a narrow lane I would expect it but not in my 90's built road that it wide enough for a 3 point turn and has places for delivery vehicles to stop.