[theo_luddite]

https://youtu.be/3PmCp6pSUgY?feature=shared

Now Fedex will never have as song like that in their honour.

[jjamez]

Am, if FedEx is your worst, please avoid ups or oops as we used to call them at work, we used to pay a little extra for DHL rather than letting them have a go. It's not just their delivery service it's the customer service too.

As for snoots' question on cartshite or bromby. I dislike the job of both equally. Bromby was a silver tongue who picked fotheringham over Wagner and Carrick, he also tried to do everything on the cheap and did everything to ensure his beloved b team plan worked, look at where all those players are now... Cartwright is a used car salesman that will talk the talk but never walk the walk

[theo_luddite]

Have to agree on the UPS thing jjamez. They once took about 9 months to deliver an "overnight" loan item to Coventry from a supplier in Yorkshire that they had in their Tamworth sorting office at least 6 times. They sent it on sight seeing tours to Essex-on-Thames 3 times as well as on tours of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire. Every time I logged in to find out where it was, it moved somewhere else around the country again a day later. When it eventuually arrived the packaging looked like it had been through a few rugby scrums and used as a World Cup football. Fortunately the Ultrasonic Bath survived the ordeal.

I printed the "Grande Tour" off and put it on a notice board with a "12 REASONS TO AVOID UPS AT ALL COSTS" heading on it. That was roughly the number of times they claimed they had delivered it, but it was actually just hidden in another of their warehouses.

Tamworth to Coventry is 6hrs walking distance, about a 30 minute drive.

Beyond that they almost always deliver everything (including the relacement) to the Amazon Warehouse next door these days, so it eventually arrives about a month later when the (ahem) highly efficient Amazon sorting machine coughs it back out, or they let one of us in to look in their "neighbours bins" to see what they've got that we should have had.

PS - the suppllier was daft enough to send both that one and the replacement back to him via - well guess who? I didn't have tracking info on those .....

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PS the other bit of the Radio Local grilling finally appeared too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kv7yzt

[Amelia Chaffinch]

I don't doubt it, chaps. We used to get one type of medical supplies that came via UPS but that was decided by who we purchased from.
My favourite is DPD but I'm sure it'll go wrong one day. 

[jjamez]

DPD usually use local drivers or they do where I live, so they know their way around. We've had instances where the royal mail have left parcels at the wrong houses in a completely different village.

Our best ups was sending something to Spain, Mallorca to be exact. It got to Barcelona fine, scanned and processed fine and left for Mallorca. Got to Mallorca and ventured back to Barcelona, then all the way back to Mallorca, cleared and then put back on a plane to the mainland and flown back to us. They then had the nerve to charge for delivery and the return, rang their UK office which is in the Philippines or somewhere and they said we were charged because it had been delivered and not returned

[Lord Snooty]

And they call this progress. Bring back the Pony Express.

Well this topic has got people talking, hasn't it. Let's hope our brave boys can deliver tomorrow afternoon.

[jjamez]

They're employed by FedEx and ups do the medicals. We're still waiting to find out if anything showed up with Healey's...

[theo_luddite]

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Is there a game on today or are we all waiting for someone to deliver a parcel? Picked my most recent one up at Heather's locker yesterday. She's nowhere near as attractive as the Heather's I've worked with over the years. Can't recall any of them wearing some plain boring burnt yellow colour clothing for work either.

[jjamez]

I think there's a game today, but don't think anyone is actually bothered any more!

Delivery of three points or is that lost in transit?

Sweepstake on who gets injured today. I'm saying nigel

[Amelia Chaffinch]

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Both Chapman and Maxwell are injured so sub goalie is Francis Hurl.
Hogg and Taylor fit enough for the bench.
Chewy, Turton and Roosken starting.

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And Hodge.

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Still can't get a workable link for our press conference.

Stop messing about now, Town.

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It's having expectations that's the problem.

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Well I never. 1-0 Marshall.