[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3001494 25-Nov-2022 19:20

neb: Slightly over-the-top tracking of overseas shipments. People complain about the lack of tracking with NZ Post, but compare that with: Your parcel has boarded the plane. Your parcel is enjoying pre-dinner drinks. Your parcel had the chicken for dinner. Your parcel is watching a Chinese foreign-language drama. Your parcel rated the film four out of five. Your parcel has now fallen asleep.

NZ post tracking has nothing on Aramex tracking:

We've got your parcel.

We think we've lost your parcel.

We've definitely lost your parcel.

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#3001522 25-Nov-2022 21:17

Geektastic:

The fact that changing the address for car ownership is so ridiculously difficult in 2022.

It should be a simple online process - but if the vehicles are owned by a company it is a royal PITA.

really?

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/online-services/change-of-vehicle-address-organisation/

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#3001528 25-Nov-2022 21:59

Jase2985:

Geektastic:

The fact that changing the address for car ownership is so ridiculously difficult in 2022.

It should be a simple online process - but if the vehicles are owned by a company it is a royal PITA.

really?

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/online-services/change-of-vehicle-address-organisation/

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That is not simple. I can see why that might be necessary if your fleet is 500 but ours is 2. Many small businesses would have one.

You do not even need that much information when you register a new car in the company name.

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#3001530 25-Nov-2022 22:00

msukiwi:

MurrayM:Waking up in the middle of the night to hear a smoke detector somewhere in the house chirping every few minutes to let you know that its battery is running low, then when you get up in the morning and go looking for the offending detector its decided that the battery isn't low after all and has stopped chirping.

Until tonight!

Mains powered detectors...

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#3001554 25-Nov-2022 23:20

Mains powered detectors usually still have battery backup.

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#3001687 26-Nov-2022 13:09

neb:
Behodar:

USPS. So long as it turns up by 8 Dec as it's the last piece of my outfit for our end-of-year party!

Ah, you should be reasonably safe there, eventually it'll exit the black hole.

Indeed it did! USPS still says it's on its way and NZ Post has no record of the tracking number, but it appeared in the letterbox.

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#3001693 26-Nov-2022 13:52

freitasm:

neb:

That's why you replace them once a year whether they need it or not, and you can take your bath at the same time.

But only when daylight saving time changes. Otherwise you wait another year for the bath.

Or you have two baths at 2am on the same day.

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#3001694 26-Nov-2022 13:53

msukiwi:

shk292:That seems very wasteful; in my experience, good quality batteries last at least five years in smoke alarms

Better than risking wasting a house!

The smoke alarm won't save your house. But it might save you.

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#3001695 26-Nov-2022 13:56

Rikkitic:

Glass mayonnaise jars always have a tapered shape, making the neck narrower than the rest. This means you have to fidget with the knife to work mayonnaise out from the edges as it gets used up. It is difficult and irritating to get all of it and it gets all over the fingers and some always remains behind.

Why has not one single manufacturer of mayonnaise glass jars discovered how much better the plastic ones are in this respect?

Every scrap of mayonnaise you can't reach is a bonus sale for them... i.e. they sell more mayonnaise this way.

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#3001697 26-Nov-2022 14:13

On my amazon order of redbull and other stuff. It tracked to highbrook and then this. Whats the bet the package broke and they are all enjoying the drinks.

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#3001700 26-Nov-2022 14:16

Jase2985:

really?

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/online-services/change-of-vehicle-address-organisation/

:( someone needs to take English lessons.

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#3001704 26-Nov-2022 14:35

2Degrees still charging Amazon Prime Video although it is Cancelled! (Via the 2D portal)

I have the cancellation email from 2D stating cancelled as of 11 Nov.

Been billed (and paid via visa) Amazon Prime Video 25 Nov - 25 Dec 2022 $8.00

Prime Video emailled 11 Nov to say service has ended!

....still 9 in the queue, at least I got in it! Was 9 15 minutes ago!

This annoys me!

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#3001760 26-Nov-2022 15:29

.... and then the battery on the phone went flat after an over hour on hold and still 4th in the queue!

I have emailed them. I await a reply.

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#3001862 27-Nov-2022 00:06

richms:
On my amazon order of redbull and other stuff. It tracked to highbrook and then this. Whats the bet the package broke and they are all enjoying the drinks.

Ugh, reminds me of sending a care package to South Africa. It got all the way to the local post office in Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein who recorded it as being put back on the delivery truck. Since it wasn't on there it'd then be marked as lost and sit unclaimed in the post office for awhile until the employees helped themselves to it. Somehow NZ post managed to track all this down and it was suddenly rediscovered and delivered to the recipients.

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#3002281 27-Nov-2022 23:10

Gravity, and the pernicious way it assists things in falling, spilling, or toppling over.

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