@Busy-Lizzie, yes I've been following that thread with interest. I had had tenants/friends staying in my house before I sold it and didn't want to let it out for longer, especially as I was also newly married and setting up a new business at the same time. Too much stress at the time!
@wild edges, delivery people do seem to have their methods don't they, we've had packages dropped over our locked side garden gate, tucked away at the back of the garage, left at the neighbours etc.
I have parcels delivered practically the next day. I never need this. I would be just as happy if the poor buggers delivering stuff had less tight deadlines.
My other grumble this week is that an item I bought from Etsy has been shipped from China. Stated as a UK store that dispatches from the UK but the tracking has come up as a Chinese courier. Etsy have offered to refund me for it but I'm in two minds about that. I try to buy Christmas presents from local shops and UK small scale sellers online so sending my money to China is very annoying.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm wary of posting here after my last post. I'm very sorry. I had no idea it would incite such responses. I stopped looking after the first half dozen. At least your parcel was delivered @wild edges, although I agree with you about those misleading sellers. I ordered a little clip on lamp 10 days ago. Supposedly coming by R. Mail, which I prefer, as we have a good service here. When it hadn't appeared by roughly the date, I had a look. Suddenly it's coming by the useless new version of Hermes - Evri. I contacted the seller to say I wasn't very happy. Eventually got a reply - most of which was unintelligible. Told them I wouldn't be ordering from them again. There's been no update since 1st December either, so God knows where it is or when I'll get it. I've requested it to be left by the back door, so it's probably been chucked over some other person's fence or wall, if their history is anything to go by.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'd be really happy to be corrected but I think you'd be hard pushed to find much manufactured in the UK. Even the likes of Dyson who made a huge deal about UKness have buggered off elsewhere
I agree @B3, but it's when you see something listed as being from a UK seller, and they're blatantly lying. I think most of us know most stuff is largely made in China, but they should be honest about the 'middle man'. They know full well that many folk put UK seller. Or is that just me?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Etsy has a policy that specifically says sellers must provide an accurate description of where items will ship from. I emailed them about it and they said they only 'encourage transparency'. I should probably take the refund because if enough people do then at least the sellers will be forced to be 'transparent'.
We were supposed to be at Westonbirt Arboretum tonight for the Enchanted Christmas display but my oldest boy is too ill to be dragged out for that. Over the last month we've lost out on about £150 worth of bookings for things due to illnesses. I'll need some kind of parent insurance if this keeps up.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My oven gloves were developing thin patches, so I bought another pair. They are the sort I prefer - the two "hands" joined together - often sold door-to-door by ex-offenders. But this new pair was bought from a store, because there are no door-to-door salesmen in this neck of the woods.
My gripe is that there isn't enough length of material between the "hands". I can't hold both sides of my big roasting tin at once...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Posts
@wild edges, delivery people do seem to have their methods don't they, we've had packages dropped over our locked side garden gate, tucked away at the back of the garage, left at the neighbours etc.
At least your parcel was delivered @wild edges, although I agree with you about those misleading sellers. I ordered a little clip on lamp 10 days ago. Supposedly coming by R. Mail, which I prefer, as we have a good service here. When it hadn't appeared by roughly the date, I had a look. Suddenly it's coming by the useless new version of Hermes - Evri. I contacted the seller to say I wasn't very happy. Eventually got a reply - most of which was unintelligible. Told them I wouldn't be ordering from them again.
There's been no update since 1st December either, so God knows where it is or when I'll get it. I've requested it to be left by the back door, so it's probably been chucked over some other person's fence or wall, if their history is anything to go by.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My gripe is that there isn't enough length of material between the "hands". I can't hold both sides of my big roasting tin at once...