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#2927965 15-Jun-2022 14:22

I'm only on day 9 of the "5-12 days" estimate, so I'm not too worried yet. It's the "*May take up to 8 weeks" underneath that's a little concerning!

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#2930016 15-Jun-2022 19:41

msukiwi:
That almost nothing arrives by "Overnight" Courier from Auckland to Christchurch these days!

NZPost / CourierPost average 5 days!

I just don’t understand why NZ cannot manage courier systems. I ordered some stuff for my Mum from Marks & Spencer in the U.K. last week. Not only could I choose the actual delivery date but the time within a 2 hour window!

If it isn’t delivered when it’s supposed to be you get a refund.

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#2930018 15-Jun-2022 19:55

I am getting products from Tamaki Makaurau at an average 2 days from order. From Otautahi average 3 days.

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#2930280 16-Jun-2022 10:43

neb: Countries with national religious holidays where the entire country is closed and you can't get a Covid test for travel anywhere. It is literally impossible to get a pre-departure Covid test within 24 hours of flying because nowhere that can give you the test is open. The workaround, hopefully, is to get a really expensive PCR test which gives you 48 hours rather than 24 and hope they can send you the results before they shut down for the duration.

Does this help at all?

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#2930289 16-Jun-2022 10:59

MikeB4:

I am getting products from Tamaki Makaurau at an average 2 days from order. From Otautahi average 3 days.

I’m interested, since Te Reo is an official language, is the bolded above how you address your parcels? It may explain why you get better service.

However, I believe you are in the southern part of Te Ika-a-Maui, so is it possible that it takes two days from Tamaki Makaurau to your locale and then three days to Otautahi. So the same 5 days as msukiwi referenced?

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#2930313 16-Jun-2022 12:05

Dingbatt:

MikeB4:

I am getting products from Tamaki Makaurau at an average 2 days from order. From Otautahi average 3 days.

I’m interested, since Te Reo is an official language, is the bolded above how you address your parcels? It may explain why you get better service.

However, I believe you are in the southern part of Te Ika-a-Maui, so is it possible that it takes two days from Tamaki Makaurau to your locale and then three days to Otautahi. So the same 5 days as msukiwi referenced?

I'm lost.

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#2930316 16-Jun-2022 12:14

Technofreak:I'm lost.

So are my parcels!

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#2930387 16-Jun-2022 14:00

Taylor Fascia guttering.

Turns out that the insurance claim may have to get a whole lot bigger!!

Called a crew to come in and put some overflows in to prevent the backflow issues that we get with Taylor Fascia gutters.

They decided to have a good look around the house and have found way more moisture and damage that we originally thought there was from the flooding we experienced in March, so it's now looking like instead of just the lounge, kitchen, dining room and Master bedroom that need to have the gib ripped off and replaced (as well as ceilings and flooring), it's probably also going to be the other two bedrooms, garage and bathroom that need doing.

And the gutters are rusting out and need replacing!

This is going to cost us a fortune...and a battle with the insurance company, I'd say.

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#2930482 16-Jun-2022 15:55

Using the Metlink (Wellington) app to work see when your bus will arrive, see it's due and then it turns up 5-10 minutes later, during which time you are wondering if the bus is actually going to turn up. What makes it worse is that app will then often display the time of the next bus before the current one has arrived making you think you blinked an eye and the bus whizzed past you. This is not an impossible scenario given I often am waiting at 6:50am for the bus and barely awake :-(

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#2930484 16-Jun-2022 16:00

When a Wikipedia citation is a 34-minute YouTube video with no timestamp.

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#2930504 16-Jun-2022 17:49

Handsomedan:

Taylor Fascia guttering.

Turns out that the insurance claim may have to get a whole lot bigger!!

Called a crew to come in and put some overflows in to prevent the backflow issues that we get with Taylor Fascia gutters.

They decided to have a good look around the house and have found way more moisture and damage that we originally thought there was from the flooding we experienced in March, so it's now looking like instead of just the lounge, kitchen, dining room and Master bedroom that need to have the gib ripped off and replaced (as well as ceilings and flooring), it's probably also going to be the other two bedrooms, garage and bathroom that need doing.

And the gutters are rusting out and need replacing!

This is going to cost us a fortune...and a battle with the insurance company, I'd say.

I hope that works out. I can see a blame game, quick (cheap) fixes

Keep us in touch how it goes.

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#2930552 16-Jun-2022 20:05

Couriers. Again.

Sent a package on Wednesday afternoon from a depot in Martinborough to an address in Lower Hutt.

Still not delivered. That’s about 50km.

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#2930686 17-Jun-2022 08:20

rb99:

Parcels. Again. I know.

Two parcels from different places in Merica cleared customs within 10 minutes of each other in NZ (apparently) on 3rd June, since when, crickets.

It's almost like they do stuff extra slow to show what you get when you pick the cheapest postage...

Finally. Both parcels Arrived at Destination Country. 28th May they left, 16th June they've arrived (probably). Maybe someone finally looked in the bag labelled - cheap postage, process when you've got nothing better to do.

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#2930693 17-Jun-2022 08:37

tdgeek:

I hope that works out. I can see a blame game, quick (cheap) fixes

Keep us in touch how it goes.

Yeah the latest is that the insurers see no reason the additional stuff can't be added to the claim, as no work has been done yet.

The gutter guys (who aren't gutter guys at all, it turns out - that's just a sideline) have done some serious invasive testing of the walls and framing and are going to provide a report, which we then have to provide to the Insurance Company's assessor/building company.

They'll then send their own assessor out to take a look and a new Statement of Work will be drawn up, including anything the assessor deems to be a valid part of the claim.

It'll be interesting to see how the building assessor views it all, as the report will be provided by a different set of experts, who he may not agree with.

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#2930696 17-Jun-2022 08:46

New Monitors finally arrived after a week.....only to find that they DON'T actually have a VESA mount!

I never "dreamed" that a modern monitor wouldn't have one!

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