Those delivery times!Ugh!

Furryanimal

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Part one​

So today Argos are delivering my new iPad....this one now has a badly cracked screen!Covered in Sellotape!My fault.
Anyway they are delivering between between 8 and 5...which is a terrible delivery window!
They will let me know when they are getting near!
Amazon are delivering a case for said iPad....could be any time up to 10pm but I do know it is currently 18 miles away in the Cardiff delivery depot.
 

Part two
Now it would be nice if they both arrived early....but they never do!
And I need to get my prescription to the doctors!
Could be a day hanging around.
And I had to seek out the password for my Apple ID!
At least I found it and my very first iPad,completely obsolete, which demanded I input said password for no apparent reason is back in use as a radio!After many months.
 
Now why was that too long as one paragraph?
It was not exactly an essay!
strange..never had that before.
 

Now why was that too long as one paragraph?
It was not exactly an essay!
strange..never had that before.
Furry I understand the frustration about the delivery times.. I've got my new kitchen light arriving today from Amazon but I opted for before 1pm delivery.... The one I hate most is Ikea.. their delivery time is between 7am and 8pm... and more than once I've decided against ordering for that very reason..having to wait in all day... or worse, them coming at 7m..which has happened before..

As for the Paragraphs, @Matrix has made some changes to the forum, one of thich is to ensure we don't make aragraphs longer than 120 words.. so we all need to split them up more than we did before...
 
@Furryanimal, you don't have to split your post into several posts, all you need is two paragraphs. You actually split it into a dozen paragraphs. Every time you press the "Enter" key, it's a new paragraph.
Oh! This is definitely something important to remember! I sometimes find
myself making my lines shorter instead of going to the end... I will have to
train myself not to do that. Interesting! (So that means I just did three paragraphs here!)
 
Oh! This is definitely something important to remember! I sometimes find
myself making my lines shorter instead of going to the end... I will have to
train myself not to do that. Interesting! (So that means I just did three paragraphs here!)
Yes, that's 3 paragraphs, it's better to use only one so that it looks good on all devices. It looks OK on my big screen, but on a mobile phone it could be 6 lines - each full line followed by a very short line.

Yes, checked it on my phone, it's 5 lines and doesn't look very neat.
 
Yes, that's 3 paragraphs, it's better to use only one so that it looks good on all devices. It looks OK on my big screen, but on a mobile phone it could be 6 lines - each full line followed by a very short line.

Yes, checked it on my phone, it's 5 lines and doesn't look very neat.
That's very good to know! Never thought of the way it would look on other devices! I've seen it done a lot here, but I read the forum on my laptop, so it didn't stand out.
 
About waiting for something or somebody to arrive..........Our central air conditioner stopped working on Monday of this week. Wife called the service company at 2pm, service said the tech will be there in 25 minutes ! I laughed at that, BUT I was wrong, he really did knock on our front door 30 minutes later.

AS it turned out, there had been a power surge in our area of Toronto, which shut down the A/C as a protective measure. Ten minutes after the tech arrived, the unit came back on and began cooling the house down. The tech's service van has a on board GPS beacon that allows the tech dispatch office to know his location down to a 10 meter square, anywhere in the Province of Ontario, which is just about the same square mile area as the State of Texas. JimB.
 
I’m confused. Are these deliveries you have to sign for? I get almost daily deliveries from Amazon and they just leave them on my back porch.
I used to use a locker, but that became inconvenient, so I went back to putting the packages on the back stoop. I have an enclosed patio that the driver can open the door and put the package on a bench I have sitting there. I also have a hidden camera on my porch that no one can see, except me, of course.

In fact, I fact I have 8 cameras around my home. I’m kind of a techno geek with using cameras. They are fun to use, especially at night when the animals come out to feed. Just last night, I had 3 fawns and 2 does I was watching. When I was an active cop, I had a man that had 14 cameras around his property. That got me to thinking and I started with 3 cameras and then added more and more.
 
I used to use a locker, but that became inconvenient, so I went back to putting the packages on the back stoop. I have an enclosed patio that the driver can open the door and put the package on a bench I have sitting there. I also have a hidden camera on my porch that no one can see, except me, of course.

In fact, I fact I have 8 cameras around my home. I’m kind of a techno geek with using cameras. They are fun to use, especially at night when the animals come out to feed. Just last night, I had 3 fawns and 2 does I was watching. When I was an active cop, I had a man that had 14 cameras around his property. That got me to thinking and I started with 3 cameras and then added more and more.
@911 yeah we have cameras too and alarms, because of Ron’s shop and work van which have tens of thousands of collars worth of tools and equipment in them. We catch all manner of wildlife on camera…deer, skunk, our resident groundhog, lots of nocturnal activity.
 
@911 yeah we have cameras too and alarms, because of Ron’s shop and work van which have tens of thousands of collars worth of tools and equipment in them. We catch all manner of wildlife on camera…deer, skunk, our resident groundhog, lots of nocturnal activity.
It’s fun to watch the animals. From time to time, I will put out food to lure them in.
 
Furry I understand the frustration about the delivery times.. I've got my new kitchen light arriving today from Amazon but I opted for before 1pm delivery.... The one I hate most is Ikea.. their delivery time is between 7am and 8pm... and more than once I've decided against ordering for that very reason..having to wait in all day... or worse, them coming at 7m..which has happened before..

As for the Paragraphs, @Matrix has made some changes to the forum, one of thich is to ensure we don't make aragraphs longer than 120 words.. so we all need to split them up more than we did before...
And Argos e-mailed me to say the iPad is arriving tomorrow!
But at least I have a nice new case here for it!
i don't understand how what I posted fell foul of a rule i didn't even know existed!
 
I’m confused. Are these deliveries you have to sign for? I get almost daily deliveries from Amazon and they just leave them on my back porch.
Yeah..well I wasn't not being here for a £320 iPad...not that we have to sign for things these days.
There is only access to the front of the house and nowhere to safely leave anything.
The case was posted through the door.
 
@Furryanimal, you don't have to split your post into several posts, all you need is two paragraphs. You actually split it into a dozen paragraphs. Every time you press the "Enter" key, it's a new paragraph.
Yes....but the site wouldn't let me post it in one part!
If we are going down a word limit on posts dare I suggest a word counter?
 
Yes....but the site wouldn't let me post it in one part!
If we are going down a word limit on posts dare I suggest a word counter?
If you type all content (142 words) in one paragraph, it would exceed the word limit (120 words). All you have to do is splitting it into two paragraphs. You can install a browser extension to count words, if you use Chrome, here is the one I'm using.
 
Many delivery and service windows are broad enough to allow Godzilla to pass through them. “We’ll be there between eight and five,” they promise. Such pinpoint accuracy! My last service man arrived during such a window at 4:45, causing me to hang around a whole day.

Postal delivery can be a comedy of errors. Some of my packages are better traveled than I am due to being misrouted multiple times. “ We were unable to deliver your package,” Amazon will lamely contend, “but will try again,” as if that effort were somehow heroic. The U.S. Postal Service has ferried my packages in and out of the same sorting centers several times before finding me. It’s enough to make a preacher swear! 😾
 
Many delivery and service windows are broad enough to allow Godzilla to pass through them. “We’ll be there between eight and five,” they promise. Such pinpoint accuracy! My last service man arrived during such a window at 4:45, causing me to hang around a whole day.

Postal delivery can be a comedy of errors. Some of my packages are better traveled than I am due to being misrouted multiple times. “ We were unable to deliver your package,” Amazon will lamely contend, “but will try again,” as if that effort were somehow heroic. The U.S. Postal Service has ferried my packages in and out of the same sorting centers several times before finding me. It’s enough to make a preacher swear! 😾
I buy and sell 24 karat gold coins as a side line business. My supplier is located in Alberta, while I live in Toronto. The supplier sends my gold items by private courier, direct to my door at a specific time on a specific day. Signature required at the door. The courier company has no idea what is in the package, as the sending company uses a number of bland business names and addresses. The package is double wrapped, with no sending business name on the outside of it. I have not lost a shipment in more than 5 years. Yes the delivery service costs more than Canada Post, or Fedex, but the performance is vastly superior, too. JimB.
 


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