Another pointless thread

Time to re-visit your household insurance and its single items and sets I think. If you get that lot valued you will have a fright.

just bought a pentax da 12-24 great lens but with a huge hood

Nice, wish I had that much space to play...

HG

Twice yesterday couriers called to deliver packages. Twice I headed for the door from a distant part of the house, trying to avoid obstacles on the way (decorating...), when the phone (landline) rang. Twice I grabbed the phone with one hand then the door key (not kept near the door) with the other. Twice, having reached and opened the door, spotted and retrieved the package with the courier already heading off, then closed the door, I answered the phone. In both cases it was a voice text saying something like 'a courier is having difficulty making a delivery to your address'. They must have sent the message as soon as they rang the door bell. In both cases they were not having difficulty, they just couldn't be bothered to wait for me to get to the door. And in both cases there was another voice text a few minutes later saying that a courier had delivered a package to my address.

Which makes me wonder whether there should be a law requiring messages from courier companies to be truthful i.e. 'I can't be bothered to wait for you to open the door so I've left the package on the ground and gone off as quick as I can'. Would anyone support a petition to government??

Steve

Sounds like Hermes, sorry EVRI, they can change the name but the srvice is still 'orrible...

HG

To be relatively "fair" to Hermes/Evri, we've had occasional bad/downright and repetitive awful service from DPD ("Dreadful Parcel Deliveries"), UPS ("Useless Parcel Service") and Yodel ("Singing all the way to some other address") over the last few years (and not including what did or didn't arrive during the pandemic - but most things actually did arrive within a reasonable period during that)

I have a downer on Hermes as was..

..they charged a lot to deliver a moped engine and lost it!

A 20kg package got as far as a warehouse and just dissapeared!

And no compensation (it was insured) was paid as I couldn't contact a single person, I just ended up going around in auto-reply circles...

... that said, the local lad is fine, when things get to him he does deliver.

HG

I don't have any of my old stuff, but a few years ago when the grandkids were into Thomas the Tank Engine I started up again in the garage (for them of course)
I have to confess I sold my soul to the Devil and went Digital

Hi hi. Thread still going strong then!

Still alive, as is my K5ii (just). Hoping it hangs in there as I can't afford a replacement

Good to see some of the old regulars still about.

Might pop in occasionally.

Yes do keep popping in.

Absolutely!

When decisions are made, one has to wonder if any involved in the process had IQ's higher than room temperature.....

Definitely!

Steve

Nice to know you're still around Gwyn, My K5 died a while back now, the replacement K3 is doing sterling work as it's replacement.
Now what was I going to say..

.. ah!

Just back from France and I have to put the wine away..

I can help you do that