Wider point than 'Small bike things'. Waited in for the oil filters. This is Royal Mail. Yesterday they came while I was up Sainsbury's. Said they'd come back today. Today I was in and they left them on the doorstep without buzzing. Which then they could have obviously done yesterday. Ignoring the point that they didn't buzz, today. So Royal Mail is, now, just like the other crappy courier companies. Also, the SS gel battery also failed, ie after three days on the Noco Genius 2 I find it on the 'not holding a charge, internal short or something' light. That's the battery on both bikes failed, but at least I have brand new ones - verified on the Noco. Had I not been waiting in apparently unnecessarily for the Royal Mail, I'd have been able to give the 2nd knackered battery to the guy who was going to the tip (twice). Luckily he's got to make another trip. Absolute pain going to the tip, now, that has apparently and absolutely predictably led to an increase in fly tipping.
As a fellow Cheltenham resident I completely agree, an absolute PITA. Plus they no longer take old tyres... The council only have themselves to blame, not that I agree with the practice, on the rise in fly-tipping.
Bit of a trip but Upton tip still take tyres or you could just throw them off the nearest bridge into the Severn.
A while ago Mcr City Council in their wisdom decided anyone with a van needs now apply for a licence to tip with a limit of 18 visits per year. If you have a trailer this counts as two visits. Currently this licence if free however I feel it’s only a matter of time before a paying scheme is introduced.
All this just encourages fly tipping, it was tried at my local tip. The lanes in the area just had more tipping, mostly farmers entrances to fields as the usual places the tippers fear hidden camera traps. It needs to be encouraged more the crushing of vehicles found to be fly tipping.
Now? I'd choose Evri or Yodel over Royal Mail, as they're more reliable. That's not to say any of them are reliable...
Evri and reliable in the same sentence? WTAF have you been smoking Sir? And, more importantly, where can I get some? Evri came about from Herpes, sorry, Hermes changing their name, thanks to them losing more parcels than they delivered
Thanks, yes, went to Upton when Ledbury stopped taking something, can't remember what though, could have been fridges... Do they only do by appointment now or can you just turn up from anywhere?
Just turn up, open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Maximum of 4 tyres per day, they have stopped taking engine oil though which is a pain.
While the current site - I forget the name of the village it's at, but I went there years ago, either before I knew about the Swindon Road site or because I had to get rid of something it couldn't handle - has surely got the room, I don't recall seeing tyres at either. They must be recycled? Someone must go to the various tyre fitters to collect them? Or perhaps they do go to Tewkesbury and hoik them over the bridge.
Crazy, eh? And they use CCTV to catch fly tippers who then get fined, presumably enough to pay for it. If they argue that it isn't entrapment, I think you have to conclude it's extortion.
Gary’s closing sentence concludes his feelings concerning the industry as a whole. Or at least that’s how I read it.
My worst experience of couriers by far was trying to receive the 999 subframe from Ducati Coventry via DHL. The Royal Mail one above is probably the 2nd worst, though it was a minor annoyance by comparison. DHL are, to me, the Boeing of the logistics industry.
I was supposed to get a delivery from Parcelforce on Monday, tracking said they attempted delivery at 16:42 but no card was left. Suspect it was the last one of the day so they couldn't be bothered and just drove on past took me about 10 minutes of automated rubbish before I finally got through to a real person to arrange redelivery (made more difficult as I didn't have a card ). They registered my complaint about no delivery card but I'm sure nothing will change. It's not like I don't have a massive green post box outside the front of the house
3 months without work today. Not going to lie I didn’t think it would be this hard, just to speak to the right people. Had one job offer pulled and a shit load of time wasters. Never take your job for granted folks.
Sounded like there was a mosque nearby, with the muezzin calling the faithful to worship. I mean, WTF? Some kind of mobile mosque? Turns out it's the workmen a couple of doors away using some power tool.
