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Post by potet on May 18, 2023 7:49:14 GMT
It's a shame your books are not on Amazon, then maybe delivery would be more efficient. Could you try getting it delivered to a near-by friend's home, to see what happens? Maybe they will get it, maybe they will not! It is true that whenever I order an item from Amazon, Amazon e-mails me the bill with the delivery date. When the delivery man arrives, he rings me up, and either he knows where I precisely am, or asks me to guide him. A couple of minutes later, I have got my parcel. So far I have never experienced the UPS-like charade with either Amazon or the French postal service.
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Post by potet on May 19, 2023 16:07:38 GMT
The parcel re-ordered on the 1st of May by Lulu as a compensation was to be delivered by "express shipping": Actually, it was left with UPS, the incompetent company. And see what happened! UPS didn't deliver it, but sent it back to the French printer. The French printer ordered UPS to keep it and deliver it to my address. Today (Friday 2023-05-19) I am still waiting for it. Now the delivery of this order is now about a month late.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on May 19, 2023 22:35:59 GMT
Does Express mean they don't deliver faster?
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Post by potet on May 22, 2023 11:05:19 GMT
Monday 2023-05-22 The delivery is still pending. UPS and its subsidiary is useless.
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Post by potet on May 23, 2023 13:31:41 GMT
The NET TRADE agency that poses as a subsidiary of UPS in my town delivered my Lulu parcel today (Tuesday 2023-05-23) at about half past eleven. The man must have been dressed down by his UPS supervisor after Lulu ordered him to bring me the parcel.
He rang me up, and I guided him, telling him I was on the ground floor after the tree, and that I was opening my window. I saw him pass it a couple of yards in front of it, although my window was the only one open. I called him, and he discovered my existence.
As I feared, that man is both a moron and a liar. He swore he thought he had to keep the parcel in his agency pending my visit. What about my message on his answerphone many weeks ago with my name, telephone number, address and door codes? I reminded him I had paid for home delivery. He looked puzzled. He assured me he would deliver all the other UPS parcels as soon as I telephoned him and said the message was for "Mohamed".
All is well that ends well, but I must confess the whole experience with UPS has somehow traumatized me. I now know I should never click on "GROUND" for the mode of delivery when I order a Lulu book because only MAIL ensures a Colissimo parcel delivered by the postman - who knows his job.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on May 23, 2023 23:15:39 GMT
Is there not an option to select don't deliver using a moron?
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Post by potet on May 24, 2023 10:51:19 GMT
LOL No such option. I informed Lulu of the delivery. They thanked me, apologized and refunded me 9.28€ on the shipping.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on May 24, 2023 23:06:00 GMT
They should have sent every UPS employee around to your house to apologise.
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Post by potet on Jun 20, 2023 10:15:04 GMT
Yesterday (Monday 2023-06-19), the new postman delivered a Lulu parcel asking me if I was _monsieur Jean-Paul_! I answered I was _monsieur Potet_, and that Jean-Paul was my forename. To find me he had to ask the _concierge_ (caretaker). I was nonplussed.
As the new postman seems to be of the same origin as the useless UPS delivery man, I inferred they had the same odd twist of mind.
My conclusion is that those people go by forenames, so that when they look for a person in a list of surnames in the entrance of a building they can't find them. That the surname is clearly printed on the parcel doesn't seem to attract their attention.
It's just the beginning of the invasion. I fear a lot more silliness from such people in the near future.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 20, 2023 23:17:06 GMT
Foreigners? To many nations Paul would be a middle name. Not used (unless you are a hillbilly!) so you would be Monsieur Jean Potet. They are seeing Monsieur Jean Paul, as in Paul being your surname. I have no idea what they think Potet means! Unless they are looking for Paulpotet as the surname. Employers get what they pay for ...
My sons are Paul David Lomas and Christopher James Lomas. It's common to give people a middle name in case they don't like the first name! I have never once heard them use their middle name. My Father-in-Law had John and the middle name of Ivan. for some reason he used Ivan. And he had no Russian blood at all! And you have a concierge? Do you live in a restaurant?
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Post by potet on Jun 21, 2023 16:19:59 GMT
Kevin, in traditional French apartment buildings, there is always a _concierge_. In new buildings, this person is called _le gardien/la gardienne_. There is also a concierge in a hotel. He/she is the chief receptionist, and should have gold keys embroidered on the lapels of his uniform in posh hotels. Where I live, the mayor had a conciergerie opened. It is a kiosk in the center of the town, and is meant to supply all sorts of services to citizens. Whenener I pass before it, it is always closed. So I suppose nobody knows what sort of service they are here for.
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Post by potet on Jun 21, 2023 16:22:21 GMT
Kevin, my forename is Jean-Paul with a hyphen and plenty of French people have a hyphened forename. If those morons can't understand that the surname is the last item in the name, what next?
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Post by potet on Jun 21, 2023 16:32:50 GMT
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 21, 2023 23:44:16 GMT
Kevin, my forename is Jean-Paul with a hyphen and plenty of French people have a hyphened forename. If those morons can't understand that the surname is the last item in the name, what next? They are often paid by the delivery, and not a lot, so they rush to make a decent living.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 21, 2023 23:54:25 GMT
Gosh, that's a long link. Often water direct from a spring was the only safe water to drink. There's a Victorian drinking fountain not far from where I used to live. There also used to be a public bath there. Like many such places bathing in it was considered to be a cure-all, just like the mineral water from the spring that fed them. But basically all it was, compared to 'normal' water, was it was not full of disease, so it was 'healthy', if taking 7 years for rain to reappear on the surface after soaking through rock is safe. The Duke who built it gave it all free, along with the pump house, to the town, and it still is free. Unless you buy it as Buxton Mineral Water, where you are just paying from them to bottle and distribute it, plus profit of course. I would hope they pay the town for the water though. At the drinking fountain you often see people filling up huge containers with the stuff to take home.
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