DavPaz wrote:
I just get everything delivered to work. It's awesome.
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Thu Oct 30, 2014 19:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Who do they use at the moment for couriers? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Oct 30, 2014 19:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
It's different depending on where you are, for me when I used prime, it was Yodel. If I don't use prime it comes by royal mail (and never fails to get to me). |
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| Author: | asfish [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Its a real mix, Yodel, DHL (who are good with text updates) and Royal mail for me Royal Mail have been the issue for me, late and in one case not turning up at all. Also no tracking with them most of the time. Surprised Amazon haven't bought a courier company. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:32 ] |
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asfish wrote: Surprised Amazon haven't bought a courier company. I thought "Amazon Logistics" was theirs We tend to get a mixture of Amazon Logistics (which is a man in a van) , Royal Mail and DPD They do have the Amazon Lockers stuff (which i've never used but seems a good idea if your not going to be around for a parcel) |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
zaphod79 wrote: They do have the Amazon Lockers stuff (which i've never used but seems a good idea if your not going to be around for a parcel) It's fucking awesome and I used it whenever I can. Take time off work or spend other time chasing couriers around the place or walk five minutes to a paper shop to pick your stuff up? No contest there at all. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
I just get everything delivered to work. It's awesome. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:16 ] |
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zaphod79 wrote: asfish wrote: Surprised Amazon haven't bought a courier company. I thought "Amazon Logistics" was theirs We tend to get a mixture of Amazon Logistics (which is a man in a van) , Royal Mail and DPD They do have the Amazon Lockers stuff (which i've never used but seems a good idea if your not going to be around for a parcel) Amazon Logistics is their umbrella term for random 3rd parties they employ to deliver from their own mini warehouses. http://tamebay.com/2013/09/amazon-logis ... rstep.html No wonder it went to shit for me recently, MK was one of the first they setup, before that I was getting my deliveries from proper courier companies and the royal mail. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:19 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: I just get everything delivered to work. It's awesome.
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:23 ] |
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My old employer used to let us do that. My current one doesn't. |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 11:49 ] |
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Kern wrote: My old employer used to let us do that. My current one doesn't. The woman in the mailroom of my old company even once got the company to pay the overage charges on a personal package of mine from the US. Your tax dollars at work bitches!
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 13:41 ] |
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Kern wrote: My old employer used to let us do that. My current one doesn't. It's a specific perk of working here, which is nice. We have a postroom that appears to 95% handle employee's personal packages. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Fri Oct 31, 2014 14:49 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Kern wrote: My old employer used to let us do that. My current one doesn't. It's a specific perk of working here, which is nice. We have a postroom that appears to 95% handle employee's personal packages. I send everything to work, my wife is at home now, but I never know if she is going out. The Post room at work even email you when something arrives. Like you I reckon 90% of their work is personal parcels for people! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Amazon Logistics just delivered my package on a Sunday. I guess it helps that one of thier distribution warehouses is up the road. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:12 ] |
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W ehad a Sunday delviery of somehting from them, too. I love Prime, and will continue to use it. Even though we've now watched all the Communities. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:17 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Amazon Logistics just delivered my package on a Sunday. I guess it helps that one of thier distribution warehouses is up the road. That's the same warehouse I have endless problems with. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Perhaps they think you're a dick. Dick. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 13:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
After nine months of saying I would cancel prime, them reinforced by the price increase due to instant video, Prime is suddenly the most important and indispensable service I'm subscribed for. Who'dathunkit. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 15:08 ] |
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Last time I had something delivered to work, it caused such a storm of gossip with people trying to figure out what it was, I decided to not bother again. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 15:13 ] |
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What was it? |
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| Author: | Cras [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 15:41 ] |
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A my little pony costume and an enormous jelly dong. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Sun Nov 02, 2014 15:50 ] |
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Close... It was actually a game from Alberto. Which reminds me, I really should send it him back! |
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| Author: | Trousers [ Mon Nov 03, 2014 13:25 ] |
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I ordered Bayonetta 2 from Amazon on Saturday with Super Saver delivery and it arrived this morning. It's pretty fucking good that but really does mean paying for Prime seems like it's just to get access to a charity shop's dvd collection. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
I'm not that sure how much value money wise Prime is, I often buy something and see it £2-£3 cheaper on none Prime delivery. That said most of the prices are cheaper that the high street, I bought a Nespresso coffee machine that was £50 cheaper on Amazon than the Nespresso site. For me its connivance, I don't have to go shopping for things and can get them the next day. I get 99% of my none food and clothes items there. My wife just called me 20 mins ago and said she broke the Sat Nav holder for the car, she was in a panic as she has a week of taking our son to activity's at places she has not been to before, so I just ordered another one and it will be at the house tomorrow. It saves one of us trawling around shops. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Nov 04, 2014 12:22 ] |
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Trousers wrote: I ordered Bayonetta 2 from Amazon on Saturday with Super Saver delivery and it arrived this morning. It's pretty fucking good that but really does mean paying for Prime seems like it's just to get access to a charity shop's dvd collection. £80 a year! |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 16:50 ] |
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Just had a delivery, on a Sunday, from Amazon, and the driver could actually find my place and rung the door bell. Ordered using super saver on Friday night. Best service i've had from Amazon in a long long while, glad I finally got rid of prime! |
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| Author: | Pod [ Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:15 ] |
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11am last night: X: Pod, Where's the new scoop and heatbulb? P: I'll check my amazon account. P: Oh, it was prime and it said it was delivered thursday?! It's been left with "117 shop" (where 117 is the flat at the top of the block and shop is 110, downstairs). Wasn't there a card or something? NO THERE WAS NOT. In Amazon's defence they did send me an email about that secret delivery to my neighbour, but I filter all of those to a directory I only ever look at if something goes wrong... |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Nov 10, 2014 11:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
You call your other half "ex"? Good way to keep her on her toes 
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Tue Nov 11, 2014 18:49 ] |
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Trooper wrote: You call your other half "ex"? Good way to keep her on her toes 
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| Author: | Achilles [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:54 ] |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:06 ] |
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It's a good job you will never be unlucky then! 
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| Author: | Mimi [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 12:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
I like to shop at Waitrose occasionally, because they stock a number of tiems that I can't find in other supermarkets or shops. I don't think that's the same as being able to buy the same product in a number of places or with different delivery services attached. |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 13:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
The Waitrose barrel-aged feta is the most amazing thing. |
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| Author: | myp [ Sun Nov 16, 2014 18:57 ] |
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Cobracure wrote: Some people like lording it over the plebs.... otherwise Waitrose & John Lewis wouldnt exist - let's face it FTFM |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Does Waitrose even cost more than the others for basics? I wouldn't know, as I'm a pleb |
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| Author: | asfish [ Tue Nov 18, 2014 12:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
DavPaz wrote: Does Waitrose even cost more than the others for basics? I wouldn't know, as I'm a pleb I have a small one near me, what I find is that they do matches on Tesco prices but other things like cheese and oil and vinegar is expensive. For example I went there once after Raspberry vinegar and found all they had was some with fresh raspberry juice costing £6 a bottle vs £1.50 for normal stuff in Tesco. I still go there for midweek stuff like milk and my wife always goes there for everything outside of the Tesco home delivery. There is never a queue for self scan and the staff are really nice and helpful, a month ago I was looking for charcoal for my barbecue, a guy noticed and went in the back and got me some, he also said they always keep it in the storeroom all year around and to ask for it if I need it. Contrast that to the local mega Tesco where most of the staff struggle with English and don't appear to know where anything is outside the area they work in |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
You get free unlimited cloud storage with this now as well. I thought it might swing it for me but the PC application is absolute dogshit. Unless I'm missing something you seem to have to do it manually rather than just having a folder or specify existing ones which will then stay synchronised. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
markg wrote: You get free unlimited cloud storage with this now as well. For photos. 5GB of other data storage. https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/pri ... navpricing |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:27 ] |
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Yeah, forgot that. Photos are about the only thing of any significant size that I need to back up anyway really. Reckon I'll just go for 100GB with Google for $2 a month and fuck Amazon Prime off when it comes up for renewal. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:34 ] |
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If you use Google+ to back up your photos it's free and unlimited, isn't it? Though it's also needy and irritating. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:35 ] |
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Also Flickr (well, you get 1TB, which is the same thing for most people). Doesn't G+ resize and compress them? |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:36 ] |
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Cras wrote: If you use Google+ to back up your photos it's free and unlimited, isn't it? Though it's also needy and irritating. For phone photos perhaps but this is RAW files from my SLR. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:39 ] |
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Ah of course. Duh. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:52 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Also Flickr (well, you get 1TB, which is the same thing for most people). I get unlimited with Flickr as I was a pro member before they changed. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:57 ] |
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Are you sure? |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:05 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Are you sure? Attachment: unlimited.png
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:07 ] |
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Huh. They say that once your pro account expires, you get 1TB like everyone else. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:12 ] |
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That's what happened to mine. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:21 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Huh. They say that once your pro account expires, you get 1TB like everyone else. Maybe mine hasn't expired yet then. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:21 ] |
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Mine too. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 12:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Amazon Prime |
Dragging this back on topic - my Prime runs out tomorrow! *waves* I've been getting everything over the last month as 'No Rush' deliveries anyway, to build up some credit to buy Kindle books and to see what the standard delivery is like. Completely fine (better sometimes). |
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