woolybanana Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I used to read ‘their stuff’ when I was younger and had time to waste, but no longer as I am busy with new projects.By the does the use of ‘ their’ imply that you are more than one person? This would justify my thought that no single person could churn out so much twaddle. ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Would one of your "new projects" involve designing emojis?[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Found hundreds on the new iPod, tempting to play with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 A bill has just arrived at our home in SE England, posted on December 20th in Marseille - it took a lot longer than normal, even allowing for Christmas and the new year. Happily it was a for a fairly reasonable amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham & Brenda Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 One Christmas card from the UK yesterday & another today[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazandcol Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Just to keep this going - we had two cards today (8th) from UK and at least one was posted 14 Dec. Not sure about other as it's not properly stamped, just a biro scribble. Let's see who's last to get anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I recieved one today as well, that means 33% of the cards I recieved came a week after Xmas [:D] Need to go out and get flashed for another PV now to rééquilibre [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 Mrs G was talking to a UK-based friend yesterday and told her that (along with half a dozen others) her card still hadn’t shown up.Our friend said that she had sent a parcel to her daughter in the USA and it had only just turned up. This, together with what I believe has been some general industrial action by Royal Mail employees during the Christmas run-up, leads me to believe that the problem has been UK-based. My cousin is an RM employee and I’ve asked him about my theory ....... but he’s been slow in replying !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I really have not had any problems with the post this year. Nothing has arrived late, bearing in mind that things can take a little longer in December.Royal Mail have let us down in the past, but La Poste used to let us down all the time in France. Son's fiance worked for them and she told us all sorts about it and why it was so unreliable. Colleagues ace at blaming others for the problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 What do you expect, guys, a nationalized company, responsible to no one, overstuffed, overpaid, protected by statute, overmighty unions, only work the minimum of hours , no incentive to do better ..... massive costs, monopoly..... No longer necessary, overhangs from the 19th century.Stop sending cards, only send letters when necessary..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazandcol Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Sounds like the Tory Government to me - mind you, they're probably not helping matters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Well, if one had to plan a postal service from scratch today, it would definitely not be anything like the actual one; this applies to France as well, by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham & Brenda Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Another card arrived today, posted in Romford on 13/12 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 wooly, I think you summed up wonderfully how too many of the french postal staff in the centre de tri viewed their jobs. As it happened, where my son's fiance worked was closed and it was centralised in a big city, and if the staff their took the very same attitude then the service is going to be lousy.Our posties were usually good in France, the regular ones, if they were off, then it was quite another matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 My parcel, sent on Dec 11, by "Royal Mail International Standard" appearing as "parcelforce international" on the tracking information (which ceased to report on Dec 22), and mentioned near the beginning of this thread, finally turned up today - back with the sender!This is due to the Ebay system's refusal to allow addresses here to be entered in the correct format for France.The problems are that they have no punctuation between "lines" of the address presented to sellers, insist on the "Région" field being completed, which is unneccessary and confusing, and place the post code at the end, immediately before the country name.Presumably the delivery organisation, whoever Royal Mail / parcelforce uses, spent the last month researching the town of "Roussillon".There are at least five, none of which have post codes remotely resembling ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I just received aanother helpful message from Colissimo - "Colissimo vous informe que votre colis n° XXXXXXXX est en cours d'acheminement et sera livré à l'adresse suivante le mercredi 10 janvier 2018"The only problem is that, as they haven't told me, I don't know who it is from.I am currently awaiting delivery of nine items via Ebay and online retailers, and the number doesn't correspond with any numbers they have sent me.Their tracking "service" seems to be based on the premise that receiving a parcel is such a rarity that there is no need to provide any further information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Graham & Brenda wrote : Another card arrived today, posted in Romford on 13/12 ! Today at lunchtime we received one posted in central Sheffield on December 21st .. it's a shame that I cleared all evidence of Xmas away yesterday morning as everyone has now gone back to school or work. Still the card looks very jolly .. if rather lonely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kong Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Still trickling in here, cards etc from mid December. It really detracts from the pleasure of receiving a card weeks after the event. All of the senders sent their cards in good time.It's good the french don't make such a huge fuss about cards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Years ago if you sent a postcard from Italy it never arrived in the UK, so to be on the safe side I used to put them in an envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinBretagne Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Years ago I visited Italy every year on holiday. The post cards I sent always reached the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 I received a card today from a cousin in Wales postmarked 08/12/2017!Good to hear from her anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Nomoss,csurely you were given a tracking number by the people sending it and the same number is used by the courrier. Least that is what I look for when marrying up things we have ordered ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 [quote user="idun"]Nomoss,csurely you were given a tracking number by the people sending it and the same number is used by the courrier. Least that is what I look for when marrying up things we have ordered ?[/quote]Unfortunately not.The only number from the seller was their order number - CPJPAWCCS Collissimo's tracking number was: 6C00454836279It arrived today anyway, but such tracking infomation is no use at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Nomoss that is bad. At least it arrived when they said it would ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 Received a card today postmarked 14/12. Still eight to come.Have sent a snottogram to Royal Mail today.No expectation of any admission of guilt - they’ll blame the French, of course. Will post their reply (if I get one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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