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Cameron does a Gordon Brown...
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Kennyboy66 wrote: »Do you mean like Tesco order and collect or Argos ?
Or perhaps the post office ?
I get anything delivered to work so not really a problem.
no. i mean a network of depots that any online retailer or purchaser could use to facilitate delivery and collection of their stuff. parcelforce and royal mail don't offer an adequate service. it's not convenient to hang around waiting for a delivery.
so for example if i order a load of stuff on amazon and maybe on ebay or some other online sale i can nominate a convenient collection depot, know that is open from 7am to 11am say, get an email to say when stuff has been delivered and it is ready for collection and a window of opportunity to collect my stuff (say up to a week). perhaps there would be a one off charge for each item to do this which either the purchaser would pay on collection or the retailer would add to their purchase price and pay the depot service direct.
the royal mail and parcel force are hopeless. if you are out when delivery is attempted (because you work) often the only time you have to collect is a saturday morning - not always what you want to be doing with your weekend. not everyone wants to bother their neighbours or have stuff delivered to work.
perhaps an existing business like argos could start to offer this or maybe local shops could offer to act as depots - could be a new income stream. now there's an idea for the portas.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
Won't be long now.
House prices will take off. Every Estate Agent in the land will be bidding sky-high to rent every empty High St. Premises in the land [except Aberdeen where this is already the case].
We just need a few banks in between, to dish up the mortgage, and loads of cafes and restaurants to use while pouring through the house details.
So no problems. Cameron's wasting his money on the portarse woman.0 -
no. i mean a network of depots that any online retailer or purchaser could use to facilitate delivery and collection of their stuff. parcelforce and royal mail don't offer an adequate service. it's not convenient to hang around waiting for a delivery.
so for example if i order a load of stuff on amazon and maybe on ebay or some other online sale i can nominate a convenient collection depot, know that is open from 7am to 11am say, get an email to say when stuff has been delivered and it is ready for collection and a window of opportunity to collect my stuff (say up to a week). perhaps there would be a one off charge for each item to do this which either the purchaser would pay on collection or the retailer would add to their purchase price and pay the depot service direct.
the royal mail and parcel force are hopeless. if you are out when delivery is attempted (because you work) often the only time you have to collect is a saturday morning - not always what you want to be doing with your weekend. not everyone wants to bother their neighbours or have stuff delivered to work.
perhaps an existing business like argos could start to offer this or maybe local shops could offer to act as depots - could be a new income stream. now there's an idea for the portas.
no the only time you have
unless somewhere is open 24/7 it wont suit everyone
my old office was open 7-7,but folks still moaned
I went and collected my RM item @ 6am yesterday
suits me fine to get there early
the system you are proposing is already in place
i even added a link0 -
no the only time you have
unless somewhere is open 24/7 it wont suit everyone
my old office was open 7-7,but folks still moaned
I went and collected my RM item @ 6am yesterday
suits me fine to get there early
the system you are proposing is already in place
i even added a link
thanks. are you ee cummings btw. very original structuring of posts.
my local royal mail is only open 9-12 saturday morning over weekends. is this not usual? i wouldn't say my availability is that unusual.
the collect+ thing does look similar to what i was suggesting but i guess the problem is a lot of people haven't heard of it and / or it's not possible to select the option for delivery from a lot of places when you order. hopefully the service will expand. good for the local shops too.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
no the only time you have
unless somewhere is open 24/7 it wont suit everyone
my old office was open 7-7,but folks still moaned
I went and collected my RM item @ 6am yesterday
suits me fine to get there early
the system you are proposing is already in place
i even added a link
To be fair, I know you like polishing 'em up (employee? ex employee in 'worship' mode) Parcelforce (and to a lesser extent Royal Mail) are shlte0 -
i'm not a tory lover but is this really cameron calling in portas, or a pushy production team / agent putting forward an idea they persuade a govt dept to come on board with a la jamie oliver. seems there is more in it for portas than the condems.
i liked her first series but went off her when she started getting shouty with volunteer charity workers.
btw cameron could never do a gordon brown - he's far too slimey and thing lipped to match gordon.
This is pathetic gesture politics from Cameron of a type he used to criticise Brown for regularly. Rightly so. This coming so soon after he kowtowed to the McCensored's committing to waste valuable Police time and resource was just another publicity stunt.
Cameron could never do a Brown, he does not sport a beard."There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
"I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
"The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
"A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »The decline of the high street has several causes, internet competition, chain stores advantages in pricing, etc.
But absolutely top of my list for not shopping on high streets is the increasingly anti-car mentality of local councils. Fewer parking spaces, more traffic restrictions, rising parking charges, and parking tickets used as revenue raising stealth taxes.
Sod that. I go to shopping centres where I can park easily and for free.
In our local high street, they came up with this wonderful idea to make the main road disabled access only (as in only those with a blue badge can enter). Sounds a great idea but in reality, it is killing our town centre as the shops relied on passing trade and the passing trade now is minute, it's like ghost town.
Not only that, but in the process, the amount of parking available to the disabled driver has reduced by a huge amount along the high street, so much so, that even they are avoiding it! Before, they parked down the entire length of the high street on the right hand side (normal parking on the left), now there are about 4 bays that can hold 2-3 cars in each and the fight to get a spot basically means they have given up and gone to the out of town centres (not that we have them quite on our doorstep) or get their shopping delivered.
For those of us who are not quite able bodied but do not hold a BB, we can't park or even drive down the high street but we also can't walk from the nearest car park to there either....so are staying away.
Re Mary Portas, I noticed a change in the way some shops dealt with customers after one of her programmes aired...such a refreshing change and it made me want to shop more because of it (not that I could afford it but the feeling was there).We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
no the only time you have
unless somewhere is open 24/7 it wont suit everyone
my old office was open 7-7,but folks still moaned
I went and collected my RM item @ 6am yesterday
suits me fine to get there early
the system you are proposing is already in place
i even added a link
We can only collect between the hours of 9-2 Monday to Friday.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
In our local high street, they came up with this wonderful idea to make the main road disabled access only (as in only those with a blue badge can enter). Sounds a great idea but in reality, it is killing our town centre as the shops relied on passing trade and the passing trade now is minute, it's like ghost town.
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Yes it absolutely boggles the mind as to how the idiots in local councils think that making it harder/more expensive to get to high street shops is going to be good for high streets.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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