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#3271311 14-Aug-2024 09:04

Porirua City Council provides households with a small wheelibin (about 80 litre size I think) for glass. Being in greater Wellington this inevitably means it gets knocked around a bit in the wind from time to time. As a result the lid has broken off at the hinges. I've had a couple of goes at mending it but the fix never lasts that long so I decided to log a request for a replacement lid (happy to attach it myself) through their app.

This was their reply, maybe someone smarter than me can explain what's actually going to happen.

PCC:

Thank you for contacting Porirua City Council, we've logged your request and referred it to our Recycling Collection Contractor who will assign if for action within Council.

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#3271334 14-Aug-2024 09:59

That seems logical if the contractor is responsible for inspection prior to replacement.

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#3271339 14-Aug-2024 10:08

I think it was more the point, that the council logs the job and assigns it to a contractor, who if taken as read, is then going to assign it back to the council to action.

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#3271342 14-Aug-2024 10:17

Locally the waste companies have someone with replacement bins or lids call round and fix or swap on the spot.

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#3271352 14-Aug-2024 10:34

Believe it or not, someone stole the lid from our recycle bin (Wellington).

I submitted a case online, and two days later, someone was here to replace the lid.

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#3271354 14-Aug-2024 10:55

floydbloke:

Porirua City Council provides households with a small wheelibin (about 80 litre size I think) for glass. Being in greater Wellington this inevitably means it gets knocked around a bit in the wind from time to time. As a result the lid has broken off at the hinges. I've had a couple of goes at mending it but the fix never lasts that long so I decided to log a request for a replacement lid (happy to attach it myself) through their app.

This was their reply, maybe someone smarter than me can explain what's actually going to happen.

PCC:

Thank you for contacting Porirua City Council, we've logged your request and referred it to our Recycling Collection Contractor who will assign if for action within Council.

Also Porirua (as you may remember, @floydbloke), and been thru similar; the result was the next time they came past the house to empty said bin, they replaced the lid.

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#3271356 14-Aug-2024 11:02

Different in Auckland when a friend needed their bin replaced as it was split down the side from someone crashing into it. They had to leave it out on a non collection day and someone replaced it with a new bin during the day. Nice new clean one with a readable house number on the side of it.

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#3271361 14-Aug-2024 11:12

richms:

Different in Auckland when a friend needed their bin replaced as it was split down the side from someone crashing into it. They had to leave it out on a non collection day and someone replaced it with a new bin during the day. Nice new clean one with a readable house number on the side of it.

Low Cost was much the same when their driver put the claw through the side of the bin.

Call made, it was already in their system from the driver logging the "fault". Rep popped out a couple of days later, picked up the partly filled old bin and replaced it with a new one.

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#3271586 14-Aug-2024 16:50

freitasm:

Believe it or not, someone stole the lid from our recycle bin (Wellington).

Might have been @floydbloke 🤣

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#3271658 14-Aug-2024 22:48

richms:

Different in Auckland when a friend needed their bin replaced as it was split down the side from someone crashing into it. They had to leave it out on a non collection day and someone replaced it with a new bin during the day. Nice new clean one with a readable house number on the side of it.

Ditto bin at my parent's place in New Plymouth - without the house number however...

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#3271661 14-Aug-2024 23:34

Someone selling FM broadcast licenses (plural) for Hakataramea, a place famous for its emptiness and surrounded by 2000m peaks that block all FM transmission except for a narrow corridor facing towards the ocean, which has even less people living in it than Hakataramea.

I think you'd be better off just phoning the two listeners and playing the broadcast over the phone to them.

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#3271978 15-Aug-2024 12:59

I don’t use cash a lot at the moment, though I hope to change that.

So the other day I made a rare visit to an ATM to get some money to pay the kid who mows my lawn. I expected twenties, which it always used to disgorge, but this time it gave me 50s. Ah well.

Today I was in town again for the dentist. I popped into one of the few remaining Kiwibank offices that happened to be close by. I asked if they could change a 50 for me. This always used to be a simple straightforward customer friendly transaction.

But no. They wanted to know if I was a Kiwibank customer. They now only do this for their customers.

Um, okay. Yes, I happen to be. But then I had to swipe my bank card. Sheesh. But I had come this far so I swiped the card.

Next I had to enter my pin. But I wasn’t trying to withdraw anything, I just wanted to change a banknote that definitely wasn’t counterfeit since I got it from the bank.

At this point I rebelled on a matter of principle. What the hell was all this nonsense about?

The lady behind the counter, who was very nice and apologetic about it, said it was an anti money laundering requirement and she didn’t like it any better than I did, but she had no choice.

Fair enough. I don’t blame her. But bloody hell! Where is all this crap coming from?

I don’t know if this kind of thing is reasonable or justified or not. I don’t feel that it is but admittedly I don’t really know. What do others think about it? Is requiring bank ID to change a $50 note really going to bring those multi-million dollar gangsters to their knees? Will it make them run around with bags of money buying drinks in bars to turn big notes into small? Are there any signs of less drugs on the streets as a result of this kind of thing?

My own personal feeling is that it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. It may make things a little less convenient for the crims, and a lot less convenient for legitimate folk, but anyone who wants to launder serious money isn’t going to be bothered by this sort of petty small scale bullshit. It is just box ticking that only hits the little guy so the politicians can claim they are doing something about it.

Or have I got that wrong?

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#3271995 15-Aug-2024 13:05

Rikkitic:

The lady behind the counter, who was very nice and apologetic about it, said it was an anti money laundering requirement and she didn’t like it any better than I did, but she had no choice.

And yet, money laundering happens at a much higher level for the very rich people. Think offshore bank accounts, flights to the Cayman Islands, etc.

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My own personal feeling is that it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. It may make things a little less convenient for the crims, and a lot less convenient for legitimate folk, but anyone who wants to launder serious money isn’t going to be bothered by this sort of petty small scale bullshit.

Yes, as above.

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#3272068 15-Aug-2024 14:15

Rikkitic:

My own personal feeling is that it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference. It may make things a little less convenient for the crims, and a lot less convenient for legitimate folk, but anyone who wants to launder serious money isn’t going to be bothered by this sort of petty small scale bullshit.

They aren't bothered, they just get a pensioner with time to spare to do it.

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#3272087 15-Aug-2024 15:14

Facebook Marketplace...

29 meth 'lollies' found so far, one listed for sale
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/525243/29-meth-lollies-found-so-far-one-listed-for-sale

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Police have found 29 methamphetamine "lollies" mistakenly distributed in food parcels by the Auckland City Mission.

The tablets, hidden in Rinda brand lolly wrappers, were seemingly donated to the City Mission before being mailed around the city.

Three people were hospitalised after consuming the "lollies", two of them children, and police say another child was taken for precautionary medical checks after tasting the lolly.
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Baldwin also confirmed police were aware of a Facebook Marketplace listing by an Aucklander claiming to have one of the fake sweets.
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