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  #2734637 25-Jun-2021 17:59
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Gurezaemon:

 

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It's apt. It reminds me of a butt sh*tting on it's customers...

 

 

I can't unsee this now.

 

Very much agree though, here's the track for a parcel posted from Wellington on 5 June, destination Perth. (Estimate said 6 business days).  It still hasn't arrived.

 

Origin:
2021-06-21 20:29 Australia, Sydney, Your item will be sorted for transport to a delivery office by the destination country operator. This is the last tracking event supported for your item as part of our semi-tracked product.
2021-06-17 23:00 Your item is being transported by the airline to its overseas destination
2021-06-17 09:13 Your item is being transported by the airline to its overseas destination
2021-06-16 23:03 Your item is being transported by the airline to its overseas destination
2021-06-16 23:00 Your item is being transported by the airline to its overseas destination
2021-06-15 14:52 New Zealand, Auckland, Your item has been processed and cleared for transit to its country of destination
2021-06-12 11:15 New Zealand, Auckland, Your item has been received at a parcel depot and is being sorted for transport overseas. Due to the nature of international air transport currently this is taking longer than expected. Please be assured that your parcel will be sent on international transport as soon as capacity is available.
2021-06-10 10:50 New Zealand, Auckland, Your item has arrived at the outbound mail centre and is being prepared for sending overseas





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  #2734638 25-Jun-2021 18:00
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

Do I even need to say why?

 

 

 

From the Reddit children:

 

 


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  #2734641 25-Jun-2021 18:18
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NZ Post ... I mean why? Beyond words that they think they need to change it. Is it supposed to show the tyres of a courier van, and show that they don't take the direct route when they drive?


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  #2734643 25-Jun-2021 18:36
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It's a P

 

 

 

P for Poop





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  #2734646 25-Jun-2021 18:45
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mattwnz:

 

Is it supposed to show the tyres of a courier van, and show that they don't take the direct route when they drive?

 

 

Or customers being driven around the bend?


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  #2734738 25-Jun-2021 20:52
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Geektastic: Air New Zealand.

We are trying to sort out refunds and discovered that the various flights we were forced to cancel due to Covid all have $50 penalty fees for putting them into credits.

 


Outrageous.

 

@Geektastic Umm I booked flights about 3 days ago for a day trip to Wellington tomorrow to visit a sick work colleague.

 

Placed my Air NZ fare into credit and there was no penalty fee. I did this online.

 

Sadly can't do the same for Jetstar fare as the option to place fare into credit is an add-on that needed to be selected at time of purchase.





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  #2734819 25-Jun-2021 22:31
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The fact that all of the non-wall-covering-volume paints like furniture stain and varnish (see the post to the things that make you smile thread) is sold only in dinky little tiny tins so the ridiculously nonlinear scaling of prices never takes effect. As a result you need to get them in 1L-tin lots which works out to hundreds of dollars for a 4L tin equivalent.

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  #2735087 26-Jun-2021 16:10
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When a twin pack of home brand paper towels @ NW are $1.99 ($1 each) and their 6 pack of home brand costs $6.99!

 

(No - I didn't buy the 6 pack!)

 

 


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  #2735092 26-Jun-2021 16:22
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msukiwi:

 

When a twin pack of home brand paper towels @ NW are $1.99 ($1 each) and their 6 pack of home brand costs $6.99!

 

 

COVID + limit one per customer = profit.


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  #2735234 27-Jun-2021 08:39
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In two minds about whether to post this in the Windows 11 thread, but it seems to mainly be people on other forums doing this, so I'm posting it here.

 

Something that's been annoying me since the announcement is people downloading the leaked version of the OS and using it as an authoritative source. Things like "Microsoft says you need X hardware, but they're lying because the copy I pirated from a torrent site works fine without it".

 

Just because it works now doesn't mean it'll work in the actual version!


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  #2735250 27-Jun-2021 09:23
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Behodar:

 

Things like "Microsoft says you need X hardware, but they're lying because the copy I pirated from a torrent site works fine without it".

 

 

It works fine without it if you take a DLL from the Windows 10 install and apply it to the Windows 11 install. That suggests the requirements are entirely arbitrary rather than technical. I think that's what most people have an issue with.


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  #2735255 27-Jun-2021 09:36
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

Behodar:

 

Things like "Microsoft says you need X hardware, but they're lying because the copy I pirated from a torrent site works fine without it".

 

 

It works fine without it if you take a DLL from the Windows 10 install and apply it to the Windows 11 install. That suggests the requirements are entirely arbitrary rather than technical. I think that's what most people have an issue with.

 

 

And then when it goes RTM and that DLL is update and your system stops working people will complain.





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  #2735259 27-Jun-2021 09:39
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kiwiharry:

Geektastic: Air New Zealand.

We are trying to sort out refunds and discovered that the various flights we were forced to cancel due to Covid all have $50 penalty fees for putting them into credits.



Outrageous.


@Geektastic Umm I booked flights about 3 days ago for a day trip to Wellington tomorrow to visit a sick work colleague.


Placed my Air NZ fare into credit and there was no penalty fee. I did this online.


Sadly can't do the same for Jetstar fare as the option to place fare into credit is an add-on that needed to be selected at time of purchase.



Exactly what we thought until we saw the paperwork. No mention of penalties at the time.





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  #2735446 27-Jun-2021 18:37
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This makes me sad more than annoys me.

 

How quickly New Zealanders turn on each other when things go wrong. 


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  #2735467 27-Jun-2021 19:15
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4WD commercials that feature big macho men blasting through the bush and crushing nature under their wheels.

 

 





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