Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4146
Aberdeen LEZ - or put another way “a new scam so the council can make money out of everyday people”
The criteria used are based purely on the age of a vehicle and not it’s emissions, add to that they have targeted roads leading North out of the port so all ferry traffic will have to head south and make a 15 diversion to go 1/2 a mile north.. ( and guess where most of the traffic needs to go?) the biggest complaint in Aberdeen city centre is the lack of footfall on Union Street so so to address this the council (and Scottish Government) have decided to stop people getting there completely good job I have no intention of ever going in there again… sheer madness!I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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31st May 2022 9:35 pm
stew 46
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noisy Rooks 🔫🔫🔫-------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
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1st Jun 2022 5:34 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
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Agreed, some of the Rooks peck away at the bedroom Velux, now that’s particularly annoying.
Start a restaurant call The Compleat Rook and serve them up to Ronnie Corbett?
Nature red in tooth and claw but the way corvids can peck the eyes and tongue out of a lamb before it is fully out of the ewe is not nice (Chris Packham take note).
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1st Jun 2022 11:25 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
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Prague’s monthly siren test. Bleeding noisy!
1st Jun 2022 11:31 am
john watson
Member Since: 10 Nov 2011
Location: lanark
Posts: 957
Come and live in Lanark. The state pen sounds off last Thursday in the month every month and has been known to mail function and it is if no one knows where the off button is! Bloody annoying as you say.Once you have defeated the idiots any job is half done. Pity there are so many idiots to defeat.
1st Jun 2022 3:50 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8052
Another day, another DPD up, not one but two today.......
Gets a call on work phone on Saturday from DPD trying to deliver a parcel to work (I had updated their app saying we were closed and open again on Monday). Gets confirmation email that delivery will be made on Monday.
Monday comes and no delivery. I look on DPD app and it says parts were delivered and signed for by me at the work premises!!!!! I attempt to contact DPD but all I can do is 'book' a phone call back 'to discuss' today. I ask the supplier where are my parts and update them on DPD debacle.
Today I get a call from DPD and they claim that I personally collected the parts from their depot on Saturday about 15 miles away, er, no I didn't. So now we have two lies being told by the driver. I am then informed that they have five days to investigate with the driver what has happened to my parcel (the one I've both collected or signed for depending on what story you want to believe....). I ask why they don't ring him or give me his number and I'll ring him. Shutters go up and all of a sudden my supplier is the customer not me and cannot discuss any further.
I then get another call back saying they have located my parcel and it's at Morrison's "as you requested" - Again I think not, I didn't request it dropped anywhere except here. Push them on why three different stories now being told by the driver and that they can go fetch it from Morrison's and get it to me. Oh no, I am the customer and only I can get it from Morrison's. Well you can right off on that one. Again they then decide that actually I am no longer the 'customer' so conversation ends. I may well have gone and got it but they can't actually tell me which Morrison's store it is at. I assume the driver forgot which one it was......
Ten minutes later a DPD driver is downstairs but its a different order being delivered. He obviously has never been here before, wasn't working Saturday and knows nothing....
He drops two large boxes and I pass them to stores. Five minutes later stores are back up saying the paperwork states there should be five boxes in that delivery.....FFS
7th Jun 2022 1:43 pm
leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 4312
Technically DPD is correct in saying your supplier is their customer. However that does not excuse the rudeness and lies.
Multi parcel deliveries will have the shipping labels marked 1/5, 2/5 etc. We tend to put big stickers on saying 1/5, 2/5 etc so it is clear that it is a multi parcel drop both to customer and driver. Normally 1/5 would be the master one and you should be able to track the delayed parcels from that number. Alternatively any of the tracking numbers should take you to the other parcel numbers via the master number.
It is not unusual for multi parcel consignments to get split up in transit..
Couriers can be the biggest PIMA when things go wrong. We have had them lose parcels which are 2.5 metres long before now.
Brendan
7th Jun 2022 2:52 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8052
I accept I am not their customer so why the are they ringing me then? As I said to them I am the 'customer' when it suits them, ask a few awkward questions and all of a sudden 'computer says no'...
8th Jun 2022 7:16 am
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4146
Vodafone my bandwidth has dropped from 63mbs to 0.12mbs on all my devices (phone, LTE router etc) completely unconnected devices, after the usual 30 minute wait to speak to someone you have to try and explain to them that as the same issue is affecting different devices ITS NOT MY DEVICES. The phone signal has also dropped from 4G (4 bars) to 3G (1 bar), again you have to explain to them that it might be a fault with their tower! Then when you finally get to speak to a technical person they ask you to “send copies of the speed tests you have by email” … so what part of I can’t send or receive email does not compute ? FFS
As I type this on my phone the tv stops working as the bandwidth is not enough to support web browsing and tv at the same time… only been going on for a week I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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10th Jun 2022 9:58 pm
astonbuilder
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8052
DPD…….still
Despite having multiple deliveries from them this one parcel still can’t get to us. All the lies (posting further up) still “being investigated”, the driver’s five days to respond is up on Monday.
The supplier asked me for directions to pass onto them (“…but it’s supposedly at a Morrison’s store” ). So I, through them, have given verbal instructions (we’re just off the main road of the village, half way down the cul-de-sac on corner of a sharp 90 degree turn leading to a dead end, BIG sign and it’s a off MASSIVE country manor type building in middle of new-build terraces in rest of road). I’ve given photos and WTW ‘address’ and on Friday it was still “nope, couldn’t find it”, FFS
11th Jun 2022 11:28 am
defector
Member Since: 23 Feb 2009
Location: Greater Manchester
Posts: 1420
I’ve given photos and WTW ‘address’ and on Friday it was still “nope, couldn’t find it”, FFS
WTW = What 3(Three) WordsI know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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11th Jun 2022 6:39 pm
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2392
Sometimes it is down to the fact that the delivery driver just can't see what he's looking for.
Worst (best?) example of this was a delivery addressed to the parish church, which is next to the town war memorial. Driver phones (I can't find the church"..."Where are you?" "Stopped facing the war memorial"....."OK, just look for a very big old building to your right, that's the parish church". We could see his van from the church door, and he didn't appreciate the phone call as he raced off in the wrong direction without bothering to look to his right. He did (eventually) make the delivery, but with much grumbling about he'd be late for his lunch.Rob Smith
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11th Jun 2022 9:11 pm
defector
Member Since: 23 Feb 2009
Location: Greater Manchester
Posts: 1420
NoDo$h wrote:
defector wrote:
Can you give them the "What3words" location?
astonbuilder wrote:
I’ve given photos and WTW ‘address’ and on Friday it was still “nope, couldn’t find it”, FFS
WTW = What 3(Three) Words
Thanks Nodosh, i obviously didn't read it properly, although i would have noticed W3W more easily.
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good job I have no intention of ever going in there again… sheer madness!
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