What's on your agenda for today?

I don't like to get totally pished, just emm...relaxed. But when we get together with these friends of ours, the wife tends to drink a lot of wine and she makes sure my glass never gets half empty! I could actually say no....
 

LynnD said:
They probably do the same with pkgs that they do with mail they don't want to deliver, well packages they might keep but I've read and it has happened in our town that mail was just being thrown away because the mail delivery guy didn't feel like doing his route.

our pkgs just get left on the front porch...anyone can take it, I'm surprised nobody has in my neighborhood. Good way to do your Christmas shopping around the holidays....go pick up packages from people s homes.
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Yes, they do that sort of thing quite a bit these days, no honor in the job anymore if there ever was except for many former workers who seemed to take great pride a time ago.



I hate to laugh, but some of these are very entertaining once you start watching them.

 

LynnD said:
Yep, it has happened to me. They need a better system. Not they knock and leave the package, what if you are away?

Now when I know I'm going to my daughters or something, if I order something I'll have it delivered there.

Its a pain!
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We were having a complete desktop computer system (monitor, hard drive, keyboard, printer, speakers) delivered by UPS some years back. My late husband called UPS to find out what time they would be delivered. He was assured by three different people that there was NO WAY the delivery would be before noon. So he came home from work at 11:00 a.m. to find four boxes sitting in front of our door in the driveway. Now, the driver had been courteous enough to put our 2'x3' doormat on top of one of the boxes. Boy, THAT sure hid them. They must have delivered them 30 seconds before he got there, because I can guarantee they wouldn't have lasted much longer than that in our neighborhood. After that, I had everything delivered to me at work, where I only had a 30-40% chance of it getting stolen.....lol.
 
Shalimar said:
Here, if you are not home, Canada Post leaves notice telling you where to
pick up your package. You need ID to pick it up.
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Only when a signature is required do they do that these days otherwise they just leave somewhere in the general area of your door or home. I'm not sure why they didn't bother to at least leave a note, telling me, they attempted to deliver it if they had, which really they hadn't, since they never made their way to my door. In my case it was listed on the tracking site as delivered and nothing else. I've never had them list it as delivered but have still on the truck or back at the facility. These people are getting even bolder in their laziness when they don't want to come up the steps/elevator to place a package. I'm going to go back on the site to see if they still have it listed as delivered.
 
LynnD said:
They probably do the same with pkgs that they do with mail they don't want to deliver, well packages they might keep but I've read and it has happened in our town that mail was just being thrown away because the mail delivery guy didn't feel like doing his route.

our pkgs just get left on the front porch...anyone can take it, I'm surprised nobody has in my neighborhood. Good way to do your Christmas shopping around the holidays....go pick up packages from people s homes.
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We have this problem in the UK these days, in defence of these delivery men/women I have spoken to a few who are in the main Eastern Europeans, and they often have to provide there own van and all the running costs as well, and only receive a very small amount for delivering each package. They work 12 or more hours a day 7 days a week to make a living wage.

Amazon I believe are one of the worst offenders of exploitation, I often arrange the Amazon pick-up service where your package is delivered to a local corner shop etc. Speaking to the shop owner recently, they only pay him 20 cents per item, the transaction sometimes takes several minutes to complete, and creates a queue in the shop, its not really worth it.

Its another side effect of excessive capitalism in my opinion, we used to have a very efficient Royal Mail delivery service which returned undelivered items to a local office or leave it with a neighbour. This has been largely destroyed by multi-national companies creating delivery networks exploiting workers by paying very low wages.

I am not saying theft and scams don't go on, but a lot of the deteriorating quality in our delivery services, is I feel caused by we the public opting for low cost or free delivery services, which of course the system will create for us.
 
jujube said:
Do they have the "Holy Hour" in Scotland, or is that only in Ireland?
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Never heard if it.

Googled it. In Ireland they used to close pubs from 2-4 on a Sunday and they called it Holy Hour. Not done any more and as far as I could tell, never done in Scotland. Ireland is a catholic country and Scotland is not.
 
Sunshine! High of about 15c/60f and not windy so will feel warm. Hubby and I are going on another bike ride. Driving to a spot then riding bikes to a ferry which takes 5 minutes to the Isle of Bute. Stopping for lunch in town then riding to a beach. Think the ride will be about 35 miles round trip. :cool:
 
It really is nerve-wracking when someone with a job to do just does the barest minimum necessary. Not long ago, I was standing on my front lawn talking to a neighbor - UPS truck drove up and the driver got out carrying a large box covered with stickers saying HEAVY all over it. He hauled it up to my porch, set it down, and drove away. A truly conscientious UPS employee would have at least asked me if he could put the box inside the front door but apparently that's not in his skill set. So I opened the box on the porch, took out the contents one at a time, and put them inside one after the other. My neighbor couldn't help as she's recovering from hip surgery. I put some blame on myself as I could have gone up to the delivery guy and asked him to put the box inside the door but I was too busy yakking with my neighbor and let the opportunity go by. UPS is notorious for leaving big, heavy boxes on the porch and then fleeing the premises. Shali, there's a lot of hoodooing needing to be done - what's needed is a Hoodoo Army.
 
Disheartening to read of all these delivery problems. Sorry you all have had to endure them. Makes me more appreciative of my UPS, USPS and especially my FedEx people. They always go beyond....especially the FedEx guy.
Merlin and Shalimar...enjoy your wine, cheese and fruitcake.
Would love to see a pic of your baskets, Shalimar. They sound beautiful. During my visit with my daughter I lost my favorite flowering basket plants.
Enjoy your bike ride Annie. I will now do my hour on my recumbant bike, without your fresh air and countryside views. Just fretting over my liver not allowing me to continue with one of my RA meds. Back to increased pain and decreased movement Grrrrr...
May everyone have a delightful day....
 

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