Delivery Woes

trog said:
There does not seem to be many stationers left these days.
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Once upon a time you could get many of the items from WH Smith. I never checked TG Jones for them, but they're closing all the Nottinghamshire shops anyway. There used to be office warehouse type places - Office World, I think. They've gone. The only proper stationery type shop in these parts is Ryman.

My hole punch gets plenty of use. The stapler - less so. Rubber bands go round half-used packets of sauce or rice to keep the contents in and as fresh as possible.
Owen Smith said:
I confess I did throw my hole reinforcers away. Partly because they were so old the adhesive had turned into a sticky mess on the backing paper
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Hole reinforcers: not only did the old ones on the roll become a mess, the ones on the paper fell off and left a dark ring.
 
EEPhil said:
Once upon a time you could get many of the items from WH Smith. I never checked TG Jones for them, but they're closing all the Nottinghamshire shops anyway. There used to be office warehouse type places - Office World, I think. They've gone. The only proper stationery type shop in these parts is Ryman.

My hole punch gets plenty of use. The stapler - less so. Rubber bands go round half-used packets of sauce or rice to keep the contents in and as fresh as possible.

Hole reinforcers: not only did the old ones on the roll become a mess, the ones on the paper fell off and left a dark ring.
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The TG Jones in Didcot is closing too.

I never found the hole reinforcers much use, mostly because they didn't stick very well and fell off as soon as you turned the page.
 
EEPhil said:
Once upon a time you could get many of the items from WH Smith. I never checked TG Jones for them, but they're closing all the Nottinghamshire shops anyway. There used to be office warehouse type places - Office World, I think. They've gone. The only proper stationery type shop in these parts is Ryman.

My hole punch gets plenty of use. The stapler - less so. Rubber bands go round half-used packets of sauce or rice to keep the contents in and as fresh as possible.

Hole reinforcers: not only did the old ones on the roll become a mess, the ones on the paper fell off and left a dark ring.
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WS Smith were not great towards the end but TG Jones are awful so I am surprised they are closing, they said they did not do them when I asked. Rymans do them but are out of stock online and my nearest one had none in, surprisingly even they are giving 500 for £4.49 compared to the Range £6.29 for 250.
 
I had a delivery from Yodel aka InPost today, my front door is 5ft from a busy pavement with my door step almost at eye level in clear sight to people walking by and I have had deliveries left outside stolen in the past.. I used their web site to say if out leave next door at number *. I also left a bright yellow note on my dark coloured door addressed to the driver, "Put in letter box, if too big leave with my neighbour at number * please" then in capital letters "DO NOT LEAVE ON DOOR STEP". Needless to say everything was ignored and the small package much smaller than my letter box was left on the door step in full sight. They really need to make it possible to rate someone zero stars on Trustpilot.

When I looked at their tracking it said he had left it in a safe place so I phoned them and he had lied and claimed to have left it at my back door which would have required climbing over two 6ft padlocked gates, I then asked to be sent proof and the photo they sent was not even my house and not even a house in my area as it had 2 wheelie bins in the pic and neither were the colour used by the council in this area. Blatant deceit.
 
trog said:
I had a delivery from Yodel aka InPost today, my front door is 5ft from a busy pavement with my door step almost at eye level in clear sight to people walking by and I have had deliveries left outside stolen in the past.. I used their web site to say if out leave next door at number *. I also left a bright yellow note on my dark coloured door addressed to the driver, "Put in letter box, if too big leave with my neighbour at number * please"
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I've had thieving neighbours in the past who denied having received my deliveries despite the photo from the delivery company clearly showing them accepting it (he claimed I'd faked the photo). All my attempts to say that under no circumstances should my deliveries be given to my neighbours have been ignored by multiple delivery companies. That's actually less of a problem post covid, now they just leave it on my path in full view of the road where the neighbours seem reluctant to steal it (possibly due to doorbell cameras).
 
prpr said:
Because they are lazy b@st@rds who just want to get rid of the stuff in the van without fail. Taking stuff back just means they either have to redeliver it or store it somewhere, which costs. They don't care about the security of stuff once they have 'delivered' it. Some of them even nick it having delivered it. And they are paid by the delivery and tasked with ridiculous schedules by incompetent/belligerent/uncaring/vicious managers who have the same imposed on them by the higher ups, culminating in the evil perpetuated by the evil c**ts like Trmup, Msuk and Zucrekbreg et al.
Covid just showed them they could get away with whatever they like, and they have carried on with it regardless, even though most other things went back to (vaguely) 'normal' afterwards.
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they're not lazy - they can't "card-and-run" at that speed if they are lazy ;-)
 
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