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Post by potet on Jun 22, 2023 11:01:44 GMT
People say the fountain of square Lamartine, Paris, is miraculous or, at least, a cure-all. I went once there. People were queuing with jerry-cans.
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Post by potet on Jun 22, 2023 11:03:28 GMT
My post had a very long link because our forum has reached its limit in matter of attachments so the single picture I was uploading was rejected.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 22, 2023 23:46:26 GMT
People say the fountain of square Lamartine, Paris, is miraculous or, at least, a cure-all. I went once there. People were queuing with jerry-cans. I would have thought people were now beyond believing the waters are miraculous. Word got around ages ago that spending a week or two drinking and bathing in it made people feel healthier, which of course it would do because is was not tainted with sewage. Only the rich could afford such holidays though, while the peasants just got ill. Lourdes still makes a big deal and a lot of money out of it though. There's the joke about that chap who invented the microscope. He said - 'how can water be unhealthy if all those tiny creatures can live in it?' In the 1960s it became trendy in the UK for people to start dinking bottled water, the reason was, "oh we drink nothing else when touring other countries, the tap water there is not safe you know. It's all we drink now." Of course the trend started with well-off people who could afford to travel abroad before it became cheap, and drinking bottled water was a sort of a boast that they did. And the trend spread, and the empties eventually filled the rivers and seas.
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Post by potet on Jun 24, 2023 20:46:13 GMT
Surprise, surprise! The protest letter I sent to the UPS agency in my town on May 5 was back today (June 24) with the mention _Destinataire inconnu à l'adresse_ (Unknown at this address). It's just what I thought; their address is fake! That's why they make the other business handle their parcels. Rumours have it that those crooks never deliver, keep the parcel long enough for it to be forgotten, open it, and sell the content ... abroad.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 25, 2023 0:53:52 GMT
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Post by potet on Jun 25, 2023 10:49:13 GMT
Kevin, I addressed my letter to the UPS address in the directory. As I said in a previous post, I suspected something fishy when I had a look at the Google street view. Besides, the Google views of Net Trade, where they had left my parcel, unwittingly (?) exposed how doubtful Net Trade was since they showed people queuing outside at night to get their parcels. To me Net Trade, locally employed in cahoot with UPS, is a pack of crooks.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jun 25, 2023 23:29:31 GMT
Now address it to one of those UPS addresses at the link I gave you. Net Trade does not sound like a courier service but a place that sells on line. I can find no mention of them. They should not be saying they are UPS whoever they are. They may have been running one of those sort of box office services. Have a parcel delivered to them sort of thing, for picking up in person. Or a courier middleman service. www.ups.com/fr/en/support/contact-us.page always go to the organ-grinder, not the monkey, is my moto. There's a large shipping company in the UK. I don't know what schedule they allow their vans, or if they get paid for each delivery, but what was happening was to do the schedule and earn a decent wage, because it is crap, the vans started to get very sloppy, chucking parcels over hedges, not even bothering to knock. Then they decided to say they had tried a few times but no one was in, and take the parcels straight to the warehouses where they were sold at auction. Why not returned to sender I don't know. But now that many people have CCTV hooked to recorders, and CCTV doorbells, that detect movement and message the the householder anywhere in the world, while recording, it's easy for people to prove no one called. After a lot of bad press, the company simply changed its name. BTW. The term Shipping annoys me. It was a word literally used when sending things by sea. There were, and still are, specialists who do just that, Shipping experts who send stuff by ship and often deal with the import and export duty. Americans started off thinking it means sending things by any method, horse, truck, van, plane etc. Shipping is ships!
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