OT: Christmas Cheer

Just wait and see who is grumpy with you for failing to thank them for the gift they sent without noticing the place where Amazon want the text for the gift note.

Fails if you have family/friends/clients who are grumpy as a matter of course.

And FTAOD there's nothing wrong with being grumpy so don't bloody well start on about that mindfulness crap or [continued, p.42]

Is it the ukdiy secret santa???

Owain

Get someone else to test it first.

Bill

"Hello G,

All of our customers have the opportunity to include a gift message with their gift. However, in this case, that option was not chosen.

For privacy reasons we don't disclose the identity of the person who sent the gift to you.

However, we will send a message to the gift sender to pass along your appreciation and let the sender know that you are unaware who purchased this gift. If the sender wishes, he/she will contact you personally.

I hope this helps. We look forward to seeing you again soon."

That's a really sensible response from Amazon. It sorts out the problem, and doesn't break the DP rules.

You might not want to thank this unknown person for a gift you didn't ask for.

I have to agree - but I still think they're spoilsports ;)

Yeah, send it over we will make sure its ok :-)

No idea. But if you get chance visit

I would not pay £50 for a bottle of whisky. I'll obviously let someone else buy me one if they want to. I might ask my stalker for a bottle for Christmas - she is daft enough to buy it for me.

OK. So I have never tried it.

But the gf works at a rather large pub/restaurant chain and they did it this year. She knows who has bought what for who. The whole lot, every purchase.

Are they doing it wrong:-)?

BTW 90% of all the Secret Santa gifts that were bought were alcohol related.

Dunno, I've just ordered my own xmas present, a Hubitat.

That reminds me, I've got some christmas presents to myself I'd forgotten about - have to get them from where I hid them.

Owain

It arrived into the UK on the 29th, and has arrived at the delivery office today. I was expecting a customs charge and just got the link through to pay it, but why couldn't they decide this while it was sitting at Heathrow, so I had chance to pay it before they held it at the delivery office until paid?

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns snipped-for-privacy@andyburns.uk writes

I don't know. When I was a local postmaster, with delivery office, the postie would extract anything with a customs charge, and pass item to me, at which point I would write 'charge' card for postie to deliver. Later, custom charge items were extracted at the main sorting office, and notification sent direct to customer by e-mail, if e-mail address was available. Anything unpaid or refused is (or was) returned to Mount Pleasant, from memory.

P.S. I had to Google Hubitat :-)

Realised I need to dabble with smart devices now, to decide how much "smartness" I want to include in a future project, the hubitat seems to offer a large degree of autonomy from the cloud while allowing linking to it, if desired.