Just bought a pack of Penguins (the edible ones). Wrapped in outer packaging. Tore open packaging inside was two groups of penguins wrapped in plastic. Tore that open. Each penguin was individually wrapped in plastic. Tore that open and eventually managed to eat the biscuit. What a load of plastic.
I just bought something second hand on eBay. It came in a box 4 times bigger than the item with the item just bouncing around inside. The box was mummified in 3 miles of parcel tape, the contents were bound together with another 3 miles of parcel tape. I'm guessing the seller gets to 'borrow' stationary from work. Given how Yodel just dumped it outside in the rain and didn't leave a note though it's probably good it had some protection. I've been in all day and sat by the front door most of the time so must have had a raid by the Stealth Yodel Team.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Back when I used to live in a house with a gas boiler, I was reasonably sure that the British Gas service team were either ninjas or had some sort of cloaking device. Or they had surveillance in the house so they could find the 2 minute window when I was distracted - making tea perhaps - to run up to the door, stick a 'we called but you were out' card in the letterbox (obviously without ringing the bell) and then scarper
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I ordered something from eBay, I’ve gone off Amazon, they’re raised their prices and they don’t give as much to my chosen charity, the parcel has just arrived, Amazon box, label and tape, how did that happen.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@Lyn, some companies sell stuff on flea bay as well as the big river place. So sometimes it is "fulfilled" by the big river place. Something like that, I do not do the buying so don't quite understand how it all works.
And it is very cross making they have cut the giving to the charity you want to.
I wonder how they achieve that without breaking data protection laws? It must be buried in the Ts&Cs somewhere. The 'fulfilled' system relies on sellers storing their goods at Amazon warehouses and letting Amazon ship it out on their behalf using their boxes and delivery vans. I wonder if those sellers actually exist sometimes or if they're another Amazon fabrication to deflect bad reviews?
Not a grump but my greenhouse is covered with larch needles today. The nearest tree is over 100 metres away which says a lot about the weather recently.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The kids have been watching a Halloween kids things on YouTube. They just confidently asserted that you don't need to be scared of skeletons because they don't really exist. Probably a bit of a blow to osteopaths 💀
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
So sometimes it is "fulfilled" by the big river place.
Something like that, I do not do the buying so don't quite understand how it all works.
And it is very cross making they have cut the giving to the charity you want to.