Bad language

[JBR]

It is just something that I can not get my head around..

That stands perfectly to reason.  I must admit that even I, despite my noticeable youth, find it almost impossible to get my head around and underneath the tap.

[Michael Rolls]

It is just something that I can not get my head around..

Just as well - you could break your teeth!

[Scrumpy]

No problem.. I'll take them out..

[JBR]

Oh, Muddy.  The 'problems' you have are so easily resolvable.

Quote:
Reading the news - DON'T READ THE NEWS
Reading / listening to BBC - DON'T TURN ON THE BBC
Talking to Tel answering  menus not humans - DON'T PICK UP THE TELEPHONE
Filling in online forms that won't take my information - DON'T TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER
Dealing with people - DON'T EVEN APPROACH PEOPLE
Especially virtue signalling  idiots especially politicians - CERTAINLY DON'T EVEN LOOK AT POLITICIANS
When my computer won't work - DON'T EVEN TURN IT ON
When I have lost a document because my computer has put it somewhere I will never find - DON'T TRY TO FIND IT, BECAUSE YOU'LL NEVER FIND IT
When they upgrade and change everything around that I have only just got used too - IGNORE ANYTHING WHICH HAS CHANGED

Oh, and regarding your most recent problem, the TAP, I can help here as well:
TURN IT THE OTHER WAY.

You will now be in a position with absolutely no problems to worry about.

[Mups]

Hah!  Very true JBR.

In fact we perhaps all ought to put aside one day a week, where we vow to do nothing that might annoy us.   
How about a Sunday?  That always used to be a day of rest, didn't it. 
Surely it should be possible to allow ourselves ONE peaceful day each week? 

[klondike]

Sunday is a good start. No couriers to wind you up.

As a follow on to DHL appearing to lose my huge 31kg parcel...

I went trough Amazons Problem with Order. Wait 2 days check on 3rd,
Did it again on 3rd day. Same thing.
Third day it say May be lost you can request refund now.
This was yesterday. I found an alternate supplier on eBay and ordered and requested a refund from the Amazon supplier (it wasn't an Amazon stocked item).
Out in car get phone call. It's the courier. No prior email or text (verified later) so I told him to take it back as it had been cancelled.

Today it says Cancelled on Amazon. No messages about the refund part of which was from Amazon from an earlier refund.

I'll give it a couple of days and if necessary experience to joys of Amazon chat.

[JBR]

To be honest, Klon, I use Amazon a lot and have never (well almost never) had any problems with them.
They usually deliver very quickly, usually the next day and on one occasion later the same day.

I did have one problem once.  An item marked as 'delivered' was nowhere in sight, and I had left a note in the porch window asking to leave it in the porch, door unlocked.  I informed them that I had not received the item and they suggested I wait another day.
The problem resolved itself when next door (same number as me, but with an 'a' suffix) brought the item round.
I assume that this was probably due to a 'foreign' courier who was unable to read the - very large and clear - number at the bottom of our steps.
Or perhaps the lazy bugger couldn't be bothered with the 13 steps, so dropped it in next door (though they have a few steps as well).

[klondike]

This item isn't stocked by Amazon. It is an Amazon Marketplace product - a trader selling through Amazon.

There is an A to Z delivery guarantee so I should get the refund but first you have to find the correct link then usually go through a chatbot but can get from that to a human on chat eventually. My main annoyance is the amount of time wasted while the useless DHL courier sodded me about by not actually shipping it to me for ages and when they eventually did not sending a notification that it was being delivered. The tracking was so nonsensical that i thought they had lost it. So did Amazon....



Stuff that Amazon stock and deliver rarely goes wrong - that's why I pay for Prime and buy a lot of stuff through it. I get most delivered to a locker down the road. I could get it sent to the Post Office which is also a parcel shop but the bloke who runs it is a miserable sod who seems to think customers are a nuisance so I try to please him by not using his service if there is a choice. I have had big boxes put under the doormat just like the pisstake pictures on the web.

[JBR]

That's rather annoying.  To be honest, I have had items delivered efficiently and reliably by DHL.

[klondike]

I probably have too. I don't remember them though. I'll remember this one for a very long time. Not that it matters. I don't get to choose the courier and this won't be a regular purchase. If it were I'd get it elsewhere.

[Scrumpy]

I think we had a bit of rain last night..

[Michael Rolls]

we didn't and we need it badly

[JBR]

we didn't and we need it badly

We haven't either.  It is so bad that I have had to top up the fish pond (nothing expensive - 10 goldfish).

[klondike]

Got the refund for that cabinet.

Plus a notification from DHL that they are delivering again today 

[Scrumpy]

Well done.. You might get something for nothing...
Make the most of it..