OT: Nice way to deliver a computer monitor

[video=youtube;PKUDTPbDhnA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDTPbDhnA[/video]


And the bloke was in the house expecting the delivery !

 

I've had that happen to me before.
Also had a few delivery driver kernts post a note through the door without knocking or ringing the bell!

 

Wonder if he is still in the job?

 

I had a large parcel delivered the other week worth around £50 and it was just left next to my front door in plain view for everyone to see. I'm surprised it was still there.

 

In Kendal you'd be alright. Anywhere else you'd be ****ed...

 

I was out when an Ipod was being delivered. The delivery man left a note... ON MY FRONT DOOR saying "I HAVE PUT YOUR PACKAGE IN YOUR RECYCLING BIN".

-.-

 

That's obviously fake, no way could he throw that box like that if it had anything in it.

 

I used to work for a parcel company, a big green one, and the training was 4 hours on Crash Bandicoot

He looks like an agency driver, probably on about $4.75 p/h.

 

Since everyone is bitching about mail service, I feel compelled to add my tale of woe... You see, I should be in Amsterdam with my girlfriend right now, not sitting here miserable talking to you gents (not that that's a bad back-up plan)...

I was born in the Isle of Man, which is a British Isle though I believe not technically a UK member, to an English dad and a manx mother. Now, not knowing there son would need a passport in 22 years, they failed to buy a "full birth certificate" (and were not aware of its exsistence), which is why when I popped down to the post office with completed Passport forms, I was a bit annoyed to find out that the Isle of Man does indeed hand out this form and not just the "memento gift" version I had...
Anyway, after a great deal of back and forth (and money spent), I send off to the Isle of man for said document, and finally received it two weeks later. So I pop on down to the post office once more and request to send it off, which they do following me paying £7 for check and send. At this point there was still 2 months + til our planned trip.
On the 2nd of december, I receive a letter in the post which tells me to ring a number. I'm in hold for fully fifteen minutes on a premium rate number, at which point I'm told I need to send my (divorced) parents marriage certificate. Understandably worried, I ask how the billions of other documents I sent hasn't verified my britishness, and how the check and send fail to point out that I needed such a document.
Anyway, my dad sends it, that day, first class... Two weeks later I ask for an update on my passport application. Turns out they don't have the certificate (my dad can't possibly have addressed it wrongly as the letter included a sticker with the address on it).
So I send off for yet another marriage certificate, and have yet to receive it. It still has not arrived. I am aware, even after 300 conversations with the passport office, I'll now need an interview.
Anyway, consequently my friend was incredibly upset, and is now in Amsterdam with her best friend instead, hopefully having a fantastic time...

How does Abu Hamza get one with a sham marriage, yet a British citizen can't get one in the stipulated 6 weeks...

 

My laptop was delivered to the next road which is called something completely different to my road so not sure how they got mixed up. The people weren't in so they left it outside, luckily they were nice and brought it round. Online you could check delivery details and after delivery they scan the persons signature, the driver had forged my signature the bastard. Not sure how a lot of these delivery drivers still have jobs!

 

WTF? How did he get away with that?

My packages often end up sent to the house with the same number on the next road, which is fine, cos we know each other. What wasn't fine is when they go away for Christmas and we get no presents...

 

That's like £2.50 an hour, that's way below minimum wage surely?

 

my tale of woe is i should be at the match tonight but someone gave the ticket to someone else then pretended he'd posted it to me

 

Yeh you're right, minimum wage is about $8 p/h, though i dont know when this vid was made and i,m assuming its in america!

 

It can't be. FedEx would sue the creators until they didn't have a penny to their name. This video (with the exposure it's had) could cost the company millions in lost sales.

 

Fake FedEx van?

 

!! Mental

Even here there would be a chance of it going walkabouts.

Luggage on the boat is the worst. Should have seen the state of my rods when I went on a fishing trip earlier this year. "No it's okay, I'll take them" - "It'll be fine sir, I will take them through personally"

To$$er, they were new and expensive ones. should have spent less on the rods and bought one of those tubes. Even on the other side, they said fragile all over them and some tw8 just put them on the belt uder a load of cases, which then proceeded to get jammed in the bit they come through.

Was so raging even the security guys came over to ask if I was on drugs!!! "On drugs! On drugs! - Lets see how you'd be if I..." "calm down please sir" (I don't usually lose my temper at all)

 

That's really ****, sorry to hear that mate.
Did your dad send it recorded or not? Just gives the poster proof of posting & proof of delivery if any problems like this happen.

I know it's a hell of a lot more expensive, but I've always went to Durham's Passport Office & paid for a same day passport, always meant any problems with the application and it can be sorted out immediately rather than having to rely on any post service (plus it means that no dodgy delivery driver can steal your passport)!

 

Where abouts

Unlucky with the passport. Pretty sure that's a nightmare all round the world!

 

He sent it first class... I thought to myself at the time "with all the other problems, I bet this gets lost because he hasn't sent it recorded..."

I didn't know I could go to the Durham office for a first time passport, and was assured by the hierarchy at the Newcastle post office (above WHS) I'd get it well before time with their method anyway...

Oh well, I suppose I got to vent my rage through Fresh Prince novelty rap:


Now this is a story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down,
So I’d like to take several minutes, so watch my mouth,
I’ll tell you how I became pissed off with a passport office down south.

In the Isle of f-ing man, born and raised,
At scoill vallajeelt I spent most of my days,
Sucking thumbs, running, playing “tip” cos I’m cool,
And finger painting unicorns outside of the school.

When at the age of 7, I left the island for good,
Instead moving in to an English neighbourhood,
Since that day I have lived on the main-land,
In Yorkshire, then Scotland and everything was grand.

So when the time to get a passport drew near,
With a confident gait I approached the post office cashier,
But since the 6th of November every turn has given a scare,
“No, we need yet another form now or your passport won’t get there”.

So after many many visits, try seven or eight,
with “check and send” I finally sent it off with “six weeks” to wait,
Yet four weeks later they inevitably discover,
They can make-up another stupid form for me to recover.

Two weeks after that and I’m pushed to enquire,
But the cyclic process of beaurocracy’s on fire,
It takes me fully four days before I hear with a clout,
The Royal Mail has lost the latest forms I sent out.

To send for another of these will of course take a week,
So my chances of making Amsterdam next Tuesday are looking bleak,
And that’s before I can even get it to the scouse,
If Walt Disney is reading this outfit defines “Mickey Mouse”…

I live five minutes from Durham, so how’s it cool,
That my application turned up in f-ing Liverpool?
Is it really any wonder I dream of driving a Panzer,
Down to the branch who gave a british passport to Abu Hamza?


Also, I get to go to the Newcastle game tonight... Man I hope it's good!