Pet Peeves IV

[Hermit Crab]

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DPD telling me daily that there's unexpected delays and to expect my parcel tomorrow. 3 days in a row now...

DHL messaged me this morning to say my parcel would be delivered between 1p-3pm, knew I wouldn't be in so I redirected the parcel to a collection point for me to collect at a later date. Message this afternoon form them We tried to deliver your parcel but nobody was in please choose another delivery date. Yes I know, thats why I redirected the parcel this morning.

[Santa Cruz]

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Tangent, but the Ken loach film about the life of a delivery driver is great but a very hard watch. Can watch on iplayer. Sorry we missed you

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-we-missed-you

That really was a very hard watch. I've had the same courier for about a year or so, so I decided to give him a Xmas tip the other day. After watching that really glad I done that now.

[pollution]

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Argos pay as you go phones from £13 (need to buy top up card separate). Click and collect (from many Sainsbury stores as well as Argos) and delivery service is reliable and quick. After this post I'm all out of ideas.

Advice taken. Thanks

[Pretty Boy]

To go back to carriers they really must have some of the most inefficient processes going. I think we would all accept that getting a parcel picked up at 4pm and delivered by 10am the next morning is a huge logistical challenge.

Some of the journeys parcels take are laughable though. I'm tracking 2 DPD parcels for my work this morning. One left us in Edinburgh on Wednesday last week, destination Melrose. It made a journey to Birmingham where it arrived on Thursday, sat there until yesterday then yesterday travelled from Birmingham to a depot in Carlisle before being loaded onto a van there for delivery to Melrose this morning. Distance between Edinburgh and Melrose approx. 40 miles. Distance said parcel has traveled will be well over 500 miles by the time it is delivered. That's mental.

The second one is even worse. Parcel picked up from our Glasgow warehouse on Thursday last week, destination is Broxburn. Parcel went to a local depot in Cambuslang on Thursday evening, from Cambuslang to Hinckley on Friday, from Hinckley back to Cambuslang on Saturday, from Cambuslang to Edinburgh yesterday and then out for delivery to Broxburn this morning. That's pushing 700 miles for a a destination that is about 35 miles from point of origin.

[overdrive]

My wife had a package that was meant to be delivered on Friday. Seemingly didn’t come. However, I went to put something in the wheelie bin on Sunday and noticed a package behind our side gate. Look at the Ring cameras and it appears the delivery driver never even rang the bell and just chucked it over the fence - luckily nothing breakable. I was in when he did that too!

Another one recently… normally I detest the amount of packaging Amazon put their stuff in but recently I’ve had a few things delivered in no packaging at all… not great when your wife takes delivery of their Christmas present!

[Santa Cruz]

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Advice taken. Thanks

You're welcome.

[AltheHibby]

I can beat the lot of you.

The PO didn't put WA on the stamp on my son's birthday present. It went to Canada before returning to me. It then, after being clearly marked by my local postie, went to Armadale in West Lothian despite being clearly marked as air mail.

It finally arrived in Armadale, Perth WA 3 months after it was posted.

[Bridge hibs]

Back to buses, garlic breath !! The person sitting in front has chewed his way through a mountain of garlic cloves and he is on the whole journey with you, pure boakability 🤮

Ps, Ive prob been the same 🫣

[Hibrandenburg]

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Back to buses, garlic breath !! The person sitting in front has chewed his way through a mountain of garlic cloves and he is on the whole journey with you, pure boakability 🤮

Ps, Ive prob been the same 🫣

You know you've added just the right amount of garlic to your food, when work colleagues are still asking you 2 days later if you ate garlic the night before.

[Bridge hibs]

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You know you've added just the right amount of garlic to your food, when work colleagues are still asking you 2 days later if you ate garlic the night before.

Totally, Ive threatened my Wife with kicking her into the spare room if she doesnt knock the garlic on the head 🫣

[Alfiembra]

As I get older I’m not keeping up too well with changes in language. So I guess because I have to Google, on occasion, certain expressions I instantly dislike them. One that irks me just now is the use of “drop or drops” which I have even heard BBC news presenters use when referencing an upcoming event or tv programme. Another is “he or she hasn’t got the minerals” I understand what is meant but it just sounds ridiculous to me.

Where’s my pipe and slippers?

[Keith_M]

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Back to buses, garlic breath !! The person sitting in front has chewed his way through a mountain of garlic cloves and he is on the whole journey with you, pure boakability 🤮

Ps, Ive prob been the same 🫣

Yet another reason to hate the French.

[Bridge hibs]

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Yet another reason to hate the French.

🤣

[Fuzzywuzzy]

EVRI - bumble **** of an organisation. Lucky yo get your parcel on time. I had one out for delivery last week then the message changed. Spoke to the delivery driver and he said the package had been opened and the packaging was all that was left!!

[CropleyWasGod]

Advantis Credit.

Plagued me with calls and texts to tell me I have "a debt". I don't.

I finally spoke to them this morning. They tell me that it's their mistake, and that they will remove me from their system.

I hae ma doots.

tbc.

[nonshinyfinish]

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EVRI - bumble **** of an organisation. Lucky yo get your parcel on time. I had one out for delivery last week then the message changed. Spoke to the delivery driver and he said the package had been opened and the packaging was all that was left!!

Yep, they were s***e when they were called Hermes and they're s***e now. In my experience only Yodel are worse.

[Mon Dieu4]

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EVRI - bumble **** of an organisation. Lucky yo get your parcel on time. I had one out for delivery last week then the message changed. Spoke to the delivery driver and he said the package had been opened and the packaging was all that was left!!

I think I must just get lucky, my Evri driver is cool as, always has a wee chat with me and never ever had any issues with them

[CropleyWasGod]

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I think I must just get lucky, my Evri driver is cool as, always has a wee chat with me and never ever had any issues with them

We must have the same one.

I do wonder whether he gets any work done, he gabs that much.

[Santa Cruz]

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I think I must just get lucky, my Evri driver is cool as, always has a wee chat with me and never ever had any issues with them

Same here. Mines is lovely, even remembered a time I was really unwell and continued to ask how I was for a few drops after. I'm not one for filling out the online survey's sent from company's, but make a point of 5 starring Evri and adding a comment.

[overdrive]

Our Evri driver is sound too. We are on first name terms with our DPD driver too, Cliff.

We used to have a really good Yodel driver but then he was changed for another guy who was almost as good. Now he’s gone and it just isn’t the same.

That’s the last 3 packages we’ve had from Yodel that have had the out for delivery status, only for them to go missing before delivery has been attempted. All clearly booze as well. Wish Naked Wines, Beer Hawk and Beerwulf would move to unmarked boxes. The last couple of Beer Hawk keg collections haven’t made their way back either.

[bingo70]

Been mentioned before I’m sure but people filming things on their phone at live events.

Just showed you the crowd after Messi scored and about 90% of them were filming it on their mobiles.

Nobody wants to watch their *****y videos, enjoy the moment.

[danhibees1875]

I understand the reasons for it, but it's a shame when they don't show protestors running on the pitch when it happens. I want to see the chase with security.

[Moulin Yarns]

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I understand the reasons for it, but it's a shame when they don't show protestors running on the pitch when it happens. I want to see the chase with security.

You're hoping for an Erica Roe moment? 😂

[Pretty Boy]

Getting in before a goal is scored tonight and it comes across as sour grapes.

Contrived celebrations where guys throw beer all over the place for about 5 minutes after a goal is scored. So fake and so obviously just an attempt to get on a 'limbs' page on Twitter .

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Contrived celebrations where guys throw beer all over the place for about 5 minutes after a goal is scored.

Never understood that one either. 🤔

[bingo70]

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Getting in before a goal is scored tonight and it comes across as sour grapes.

Contrived celebrations where guys throw beer all over the place for about 5 minutes after a goal is scored. So fake and so obviously just an attempt to get on a 'limbs' page on Twitter .

Agreed.

Started off as a genuine thing in the big games but if you saw the footage from Box park after the England Iran game it was clear what it had turned into. Mostly just young folk just wanting to enjoy themselves to be fair and people going tk these events know what will happen

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Agreed.

Started off as a genuine thing in the big games but if you saw the footage from Box park after the England Iran game it was clear what it had turned into. Mostly just young folk just wanting to enjoy themselves to be fair and people going tk these events know what will happen

I first experienced it at The Premier League Darts in Glasgow a few years ago, not my idea of enjoying myself.

[Bridge hibs]

Dug **** on pavements 🤬

Running late last week, ground rock solid with frost, bus approaching and I break into a jog only to plant my right foot into a frozen poop, obviously solid on the top and gooey in the middle 🤬

Slid for about a yard but stayed on my feet, thanks to my skateboarding youth which left me with very minimal nimbleness. Tried my best to scrape the remnants of some dugs breakfast from my boot before embarking on a very whiffy and eye watering journey to work

Apologies if anyone was on that journey and suffered, I assure you it was on my boot and not in my boxers 🤬

****ing manky *******s 🤬

[Pretty Boy]

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Dug **** on pavements 🤬

Running late last week, ground rock solid with frost, bus approaching and I break into a jog only to plant my right foot into a frozen poop, obviously solid on the top and gooey in the middle 🤬

Slid for about a yard but stayed on my feet, thanks to my skateboarding youth which left me with very minimal nimbleness. Tried my best to scrape the remnants of some dugs breakfast from my boot before embarking on a very whiffy and eye watering journey to work

Apologies if anyone was on that journey and suffered, I assure you it was on my boot and not in my boxers 🤬

****ing manky *******s 🤬

I think the only thing I hate more than dog ***** on a pavement is the manky ****ers who pick it up, put it in a plastic bag then hang said bag from railings or throw it into a tree. I'd love to spend 5 minutes inside the head of someone who does that.

[Bridge hibs]

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I think the only thing I hate more than dog ***** on a pavement is the manky ****ers who pick it up, put it in a plastic bag then hang said bag from railings or throw it into a tree. I'd love to spend 5 minutes inside the head of someone who does that.

Yeah Ive seen a lot of that, I walk the dog regularly in Musselburgh and around the Newhailes estate and have seen **** bags hanging from trees, more surprising though as there are bins all over the shop