ARWadsworth wibbled on Sunday 25 April 2010 19:54
Still time for WW III
Or
"I remember when you could stand outside the Houses of Parliament with a placard..."
"I remember the days before speed cameras"
"We used to take cap guns to school"
ARWadsworth wibbled on Sunday 25 April 2010 19:54
"Petrol was only a pound a litre" "What's a pound???"
Gallon or petrol?
vbg
Adam
ARWadsworth wibbled on Sunday 25 April 2010 21:32
"In my day, real men drank a pint of beer, not these short half litres..."
"We used to drink warm brown beer and we liked it!"
"My computer had 1 gigabyte of RAM and a 200GB hard disk..." "Daddy, what's a hard disk?"
My girlfriend is sure that she weighed less in stones and ounces than she does in in kg.
I am not going to comment on that.
Adam
Why not, it's been a while since you had a thump!
Owain
I've spent many months wrestling with Eurocodes which are replacing British Standards for structural design. My favourite quote comes from David Brown of Steel Construction Institute who makes a point of reminding his course attenders or article readers that changing code provisions doesn't make a steel beam any stronger or weaker: steel beams know nothing of codes - a beam which will happily support 10 tonnes and collapse when you put 20 tonnes on it can't be made stronger by using a different code.
I would suggest: lost freedoms. "When I was you age we didn't get arrested for ...." - but you probably won't be allowed to :-(
What's "petrol?"
I've had no less than three items sent which didn't arrive. And all to people I know so unlikely to be fraud. And the hoops you have to go through to get compensation have to be seen to be believed...
As regards collection or sending things, Parcel Force used to be in Vauxhall so close to others like DHL. Now they've moved to Mitcham - but still have a large depot in Vauxhall. And the Mitcham place is near inaccessible by PT. The Vauxhall one within walking distance of the tube and overground.
City Link has a depot just opposite where I used to work. So would have been handy for sending things. But now don't accept non account customers. And before that would only take payment by cheque.
[snippage]
I think this needs to be a FAQ along the lines of;
"Q: Which courier service is best?" "A: It depends."
Because IME, Parcel Force are the best, CityLink somewhere in the middle and UPS unremittingly s**te.
I'm sure it does. Living in the centre of London suggests I should have the best service.
Most things I buy from the US seem to come by UPS. Including stuff from Digikey - and they manage to ship from California to London within 24 hours.
I generally use the ordinary PO as most of my stuff is small. And I've got nothing but praise for them. Apart from closing my local sub PO where parking or walking to was easy.
UPS have absolutely no difficulty getting stuff to the nearest depot lickety-split. However, the last 12 miles seems to be impossible for them.
I suppose I can see why if they have to make a special journey into the sticks as it were. There must be a temptation to wait until they have other items in that area.
I think that's the difficult part for any courier. If the local depot or local driver don't give a xxxx then it doesn't matter what promises are made at the collection end.
Owain
They normally use Business Post for orders over a certain weigh or value threshold, Royal mail for everything else. Maybe DHL specialise in heavy, low value consignments.
MBQ
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There's also the "DHL@Home" agents. They do not take things back to the depot, but keep them in the back of their car for redelivery the following day. You have to ring the agent (the depot will deny any knowledge of the parcel) and tell him/her to take it to the depot from where you will collect it. When you do, the depot staff will take at least 10 minutes to find it.
MBQ
You phone the agent, discover he lives two streets away, pop around at 9 pm and get your parcel.
Well it would hurt if she put her new weight behind the punch.
Adam
Someone should do a website mash up of google maps and reviews of the abilities of different parcel delivery firms. And then map that to names of supplier companies that use those delivery firms.
At the top of this mash-up there would be a search page for products, deliverable at your location with a results page listed in decending 'probablity of receiving item' order.
Eventually, someone would figure out the supplier with the highest probability of getting product to yeself in the UK, would be a little one man (and goat) operation in the outbacks of deepest china via eBay. EMS is so cheap!!!
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