Tag: rant

  • Glentrek are my new favourite company, Visit East Perthshire are not

    A couple of weeks ago we got a card through the door saying I had got a letter with insufficient postage, and needed to pay 30p plus a £1 handling fee. Not knowing who it was from I paid the money in case it was important. The next day the letter was delivered, and I […]

  • Touchscreen Proof of Delivery – Why Bother?

    I’ve received a few parcels recently where I’ve been asked to sign a touchscreen device as proof of delivery rather than a piece of paper. Not one of these time has the squiggle on the screen looked anything like my signature. This isn’t because it’s hard to sign the screen, it’s just the sensor doesn’t […]

  • There’s salesmanship, then there’s blatent lies

    Just before heading to bed this Friday, we flicked on to Pricedrop TV to have a laugh about what tat they were flogging. Normally they bend the truth slightly, or exaggerate the quality of the products, but whoever was presenting on this occasion was just coming out with lie after lie. The first product they […]

  • eBay Emails

    I bought a couple of items on eBay this morning, and despite having just cleared my inbox, I suddenly found it full again! I normally ignore most eBay emails, or at the most glance at them, but I thought I’d analise exactly why so many need to be sent. The item I’m going to concentrate […]

  • Doorbells

    Why is it that delivery people find it so hard to use doorbells? You’d have thought they would be more experienced than most, but they seem incapable of pressing that little button. Maybe it’s something missing from their basic training. I suppose they are too used to doorbells not working, but surely people wouldn’t bother […]

  • The right tool for the job

    I was enjoying my lie in on Saturday morning when I was rudely awaken at 07:30 by the sound of a lawn mower coming from the front of our house. The strange thing is we don’t have any neighbours with a front lawn. I looked out of the window to see someone cutting our neighbours […]