The thing that hides the thing you want now even though you saw the thing last week.

Oh here’s a useful feature in Teams.  Shame if you’d like to use it. 

To enable it would also require the equivalent to handing someone the keys to your Ferrari, but the car is locked up in a shipping container, stored in a garage that’s in a locked residence in a gated community on a private island. Oh and that drivers licence?  Yeah sorry you’ll need to upgrade that. 

Bought a pack of ten candy canes. Seven of them are broken. That's the highest failure rate I've seen since "Trust" brand floppy disks.

Trying to get the new registration sticker into that little pocket down at the bottom of your windscreen and bending it.

Realising you got 1 drop of rainwater on it from your coat while inside the car and it has generated enough suck to prevent onward movement.

Behodar:

 

Bought a pack of ten candy canes. Seven of them are broken. That's the highest failure rate I've seen since "Trust" brand floppy disks.

 

Dick Smith Catalogue 1993 : Dick Smith Electronics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Oh dear God, I can still smell them.

Thankfully I don't remember those ones, but a friend and I bought two packs of Trusts between us (so 20 disks) and only 3 of them worked.

Non-specific recipes. "Mix with a little water". How much is "a little"? A teaspoon? Quarter of a cup? If I'd made this before then I could figure it out from context/experience, but a lot of people who are following a recipe are making something for the first time.

kingdragonfly: It's like they don't have a change freeze for Christmas

Sounds about right. I'm not going to name names, but one of our providers decided to do an "infrastructure update" over the weekend. They had enough hubris to say that no action is required on our part, and that no testing will be necessary.

You won't be surprised to learn that it broke.

A Parking "Breach" notice.

Not the notice itself as such (because I'm assured already by the property owner that it was issued in mistake and has been cancelled).

However, NZ Post deserves a slap, because the notice was dated 12th December, but only delivered today (22nd), and I'm supposed to lodge any appeal within 14 days of the issue date - it took 10 days to get to me, that's pretty poor.  The envelope is post-marked 14th, so NZ Post have had this in their system for over a week.

Not good enough, IMO.   It might be the "silly season", but it's not like they didn't know this busier-than-normal time was coming or was predictable in any way (!); they should have staffed accordingly. 

It's not rocket science.

jamesrt:

 

A Parking "Breach" notice.

 

Not the notice itself as such (because I'm assured already by the property owner that it was issued in mistake and has been cancelled).

 

However, NZ Post deserves a slap, because the notice was dated 12th December, but only delivered today (22nd), and I'm supposed to lodge any appeal within 14 days of the issue date - it took 10 days to get to me, that's pretty poor.  The envelope is post-marked 14th, so NZ Post have had this in their system for over a week.

 

Not good enough, IMO.   It might be the "silly season", but it's not like they didn't know this busier-than-normal time was coming or was predictable in any way (!); they should have staffed accordingly. 

 

It's not rocket science.

 

Handsomedan:

 

It's not even like the postal service has the pressure it used to at this time of year! That's the courier businesses now. 
Post is dying and I can see why...

 

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years.

"Danes will still be able to send letters, using the delivery company Dao, which already delivers letters in Denmark but will expand its services from 1 January from about 30m letters in 2025 to 80m next year. But customers will instead have to go to a Dao shop to post their letters – or pay extra to have it collected from home – and pay for postage either online or via an app."

Handsomedan: It's not even like the postal service has the pressure it used to at this time of year! That's the courier businesses now. 

 

Post is dying and I can see why...

 

Well, that's the ravages of time. In return, our ‘Post’ in Germany (aka DHL) has to deliver 12 million small parcels from China EVERY DAY. From January onwards, a flat-rate import fee of €3 will therefore be charged to the recipient of each small parcel, which the usual suspects – cheap sales platforms – have so far cleverly avoided through their declarations and delivery splitting.

I can still remember well how, in the week before Christmas, a long queue would form at the tiny post office in the village where I was born, and people would stand there patiently for one or two hours to post one or two small parcels containing a Christmas present and homemade Christmas biscuits, and a stack of Christmas cards for relatives and friends. Guess who in the family of six was assigned to do this? 🤣

I hated that as a child because I never received a Christmas parcel like that and would have preferred much more to go speed sledging in the snow with my schoolmates on the three stage hill behind my aunt's house. Of course, we built a snow jump, and when ice formed (which it did because we poured water on it), it wasn't entirely safe and cost one of my friends a broken rib and a punctured liver. But we still had fun and survived. 😁

Behodar:

 

That reminds me, I need to contact Amazon because I have a package that's simultaneously "arriving today" but "not yet shipped".

 

Edit: Well this is one for the Whiskey thread, because I contacted Amazon and got "Sorry for the inconvenience. Would you like me to cancel the order?" No, I would like you to ship the order!

 

Amazon has given me an update, saying I should expect it around 20 January. Since this is after Christmas, I've been asked to "approve" the order. Do you think I can figure out how to do that? Do you think the "I still want the item" button inside the email would approve it? Nope, it just takes me to my list of orders, with "approval needed" sitting there next to it, but with no apparent way of actually approving the thing.

Edit: I was able to approve it by heading down the Customer Service route. I didn't have to actually talk to anyone, but was able to approve it via the steps they push you through before you contact them.