Evri have shoved a "Sorry I missed you" card in the door but when I go try to use the number on it to track on their website it doesn't recognise the number. Fucking great.
Apparently they'll try again the next two working days but I will also be out for parts of them so they'll no doubt arrive when I'm out those days too and since I can't track it on their app, I have no way of telling them a safe place to leave it. Fuck's sake.
So many delivery companies are just rank. I had so many issues with one delivery from DX that the company who were trying to send me something told me that they'd switched back to Parcelforce rather than deal with them over a lost delivery again.
Royal Mail are shit now too. I ordered a sim card from Lebara and waited like a week and a half for it. No sign of it so I contacted them and just got them to cancel it. It arrived the next day.
I then ordered a sim card from Talkmobile. It hadn't appeared for two and a half weeks so I contacted them and they were like "it must be lost, we'll send you another". Fine, I said yeah. They cancelled the original lost one. Eventually a Talkmobile sim card came through the door the other day. It's the first one from them that they cancelled.
Probably not surprising given Royal Mail got fined recently for delivery times and they're supposedly prioritising parcels over letters at the minute as they make more money on the former. Fucking annoying though. Renationalise the cunts. Fuck their shareholders.
Also my current phone provider is gonna stop working on January (Plusnet mobile) so I'm going to be without a phone at this rate.
I recently had a Yodel delivery.
Day it was meant to come after a while I was next in line and my driver was close. I then refreshed my page a minute later and it says that my driver missed me (I was in and looking out a window into the front garden) with the item now being at the depot.
Obviously no card was posted through the door as no one ever came.
I guess it never went onto the van, so why lie?
I've done that song and dance with Yodel before. I wound up going to the depot and picking the package up from there. "Oh, there must've been a new lad on the vans." is their go-to excuse.
Now is it Yodel who became Evri or was that a different one? I know they rebrand like a shit Just Eat dark kitchen every time reviews get too shit even for them.
Yodel used to be Home Delivery Network or something. Evri are tied to Hermes.
Ah that's it. They've been shite under both guises too.
Of course it was delivered today again when I was out. Came back to find it just left on the doorstep in the rain. Great service, thanks.
Thankfully the thing inside is okay.
My mum once sent a surprise TV as a present for the kids room one time. It was Evri that it got passed to. She messaged me on the day saying I should expect a delivery. Was pissing it down all day so I was relieved to get back to not find it on the doorstep. No delivery the rest of the day though. Called my mum the next evening to ask when they're rearranging it for to her confusion. She had got delivery confirmation the previous morning.
I checked out front again and nothing there so I got her to chase it up. Went out to take the bins around later that evening and there it was on the inside of the back gate. The cardboard on it was completely sodden from sitting there in the rain for a good 2 days. Fucking useless people.
Early dart from work and finished for Christmas, thought I might treat myself to a golden arches delivery since it's payday, £7.29 delivery on Uber Eats the thieving cunts.
Just as well the delivery drivers haven't unionised, it'd be £14.99 and they'd only deliver it if they could really be arsed, definitely not at Christmas.
Ah well, rail fares go up again in 11 days, best start planning my extension.
Following on from my travails in the Christmas thread, a different child has just vomited in the car park of a trampoline park 45 minutes drive from home.
FML
In other annoying things, that Klopp peleton advert. Half thought the acting had got to him and he was doing some weird performance thing for the crowd last night when he dropped his ring.
He's a great manager but he's one hell of a strange German.
I know there's probably an extent to which gravity dictates that this be the case, but why are the filters on washing machines always designed so as to be so close to the ground that when you have to open them it is nigh on impossible to stop the inevitable flood from going everywhere?
I’ve also thought that
I'm a twit
Same thing for the water tray on a tumble dryer. Or why not just have the warning a little bit before it's brimmed?
I'd never even encountered a water tray before, although the one on this machine isn't too bad. I assume all previous tumble dryers I've had have been directly vented, does that remove the need? The weird thing is this one is plumbed in [ie it has a waste which goes into the drain] - what is that for if it still has a massive fuck off water tray that is always filling up?
Yeah the one I have gathers the water in a tray so you don't need the vent at all. I got it second hand for handy money but it's probably only really useful in an apartment or something.
A condenser dryer is the one with the tray. I have one too.
Yeah, I get that, but what is the waste pipe for? I assumed it would take the condensed water directly into the drain, without the need to empty the tray, but apparently not. Admittedly, this isn't my area of household expertise/responsibility and I haven't really made any effort to see if that is possible, it just struck me as something that should happen by default if possible.
I think the whole reason for them is that they're self contained with no need to plumb in any vents or drains for apartments and the like.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Dehumidifier crew are pitying the dryer crew.
On your washing machine? I dunno.
Is it something like this? https://www.ahs.com/home-matters/rep...-you-need-one/
No, it's on the tumble dryer. It has a waste hose which I had to divide the washing machine waste to accommodate, only to find it apparently does fuck all.
Hands up if your washing machine is in a outside area and so the water just flows into the drain
But yeah, why on earth wouldn't in drain through the pipe??
I think some people have the dryer in rooms without the pipe work (eg. upstairs). When we bought our first house the owners had theirs upstairs in the little box bedroom, which was converted to a dressing/laundry room. Therefore a lot of dryers on sale are that condenser type.
Ours has a water tray too, the wife is eyeing up a fancy one to match the washing machine though, hopefully that has a pipe to empty the water out to save me doing it.
Well, prepared to be disappointed by the pipe.
Like his wife.
My only hope about the whole thing is that it plays a different jaunty tune to the washing machine, or they someone sync up and do a duet.
The Mrs agreed to have her twins younger two kids overnight so she and her fella could have a night out.
The youngest is 6 and I'd bet my house on him having some kind of ADHD. The kid cannot stay still at all. Bouncing off the walls, humming or talking all the time. Cannot be not doing something either. Even when we put a film on for him he'll sort of walk around the room while watching it. He was also up at 5am. Exhausting.
I think the worst part is the parents clearly never say no to him. Of the kids in the house he was the only one opposed to what film was suggested. He gave it the "But I want this film on" and when we still said no, we got a full tears breakdown. The parents are due to pick up soon and I might throw him down the path at them and lock the door behind him.
Hang on, there's a fit Famileigh daughter?
Probably gets run through by the brothers and dad on a rota.
Jesus christ, Jimmy.
TikTok will be the death of our society.
7am as well. What a start to the week.
He's not wrong though.
He isn't, she'll have an OnlyFans in no time.
Needed something to justify driving around while my lad fell asleep and remembered last weeks snow outing my white car as borderline brown, so went to a carwash. I’ve a shed full of expensive car cleaning products and a karcher but I’m lazy, so off I go. £10 includes a dry with ‘cotton for extra shine’ okay sure. Rip off. Didn’t even clean the windows properly so I’ve just done them myself. Lesson learned.
Although there is a fancy sounding steam clean one a bit further away, but I’m always put off cos it’s on a busy road and I don’t understand where the entrance is. Plus steam = antibacterial? Who needs that.
Will give it another month and try somewhere else. Got my eye on one towards a posh area that might be good, but never seems open.
But at least my son enjoyed the experience of the car being washed by Albanian teenagers, and was asleep 10 minutes afterwards. Top dad out.
I'm a twit
Eye, she is tidy. But imagine being taken home to meet her family. Fuck that.
Eye?
Was pedal stool pretending or is he actually retarded?
And he’s a from the South. Talking like an extra in Emmerdale Farm.
Ear ear.
Twas a genuine mistake. Add it to the list.
Not sure where to post this so I'll do it here.
My Grandma died this morning, she was 81 and had dementia but seemed fairly well health wise. It all changed pretty quickly about a week ago when she picked up the flu and it seemed to start a snowball effect which saw her vital organs struggle to cope. She quickly became unresponsive, was unable to eat and barely moved.
My Mum managed to fly out yesterday and got to say goodbye (along with one sister) to her yesterday.
It all just feels so quick how it happened and very much like what happened to my Dad. Was fine then one thing seems to cause everything to spiral massively.
My mother in law died had dementia and died very suddenly too - literally a phone call one morning to say she'd died in the night. I think it's quite common.
Sorry to hear that Mahow.
A quick deterioration or sudden catastrophic event is definitely the way to go out though.
Sorry for your loss Mahow.
My stepdad is 75 and had a few things crop up this week, vitamin deficiencies and bleeding ulcers, can't say it hasn't crossed my mind given his age.
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