29 April
2013
I'm late
today I know ... sorry ...
School
uniforms are getting sillier by the day it seems. This morning's News has the story of Hartshill School now has a different coloured
tie for each of its houses. How daft can
any one head teacher be? O}Perhaps he's
a Parry Hotter fan and has OD'ed on the DVDs?
Whatever, it's crazy!
Just sat and
watched this week's Despatches on
Channel 4. An interesting show showing
just how poor some of the private mail and parcel companies are. A UK Mail depot in Bournemouth was filmed for
a month and they showed clear footage of parcels clearly marked as fragile
being thrown around the depot, and falling off the conveyor belt they use while
staff stood and watched and laughed about.
One parcel contained bottles of wine at £400 a bottle. One bottle broke so the rest should have been
returned to the sender but that was before the staff got their hands on some
it. One of the said that it would be on
eBay later that day.
TNT hasn't
improve any it seems. Now they are
delivering letters from the NHS and Barclays Bank as well as other high profile
companies. Deliveries are left unsecured
on bikes outside of companies while the postys goes inside to deliver to the
addresses inside building. The worry
with the letters from the NHS being delayed or lost is obvious of course. The worry about letters from banks being left
unsecured should also be a worry too.
I first came
across TNT when I worked for Interlink in Bed'th. As far as I am aware they still have a good
reputation for their service and lack of insurance claims made against
them. TNT however were a different
kettle of fish! One Saturday I had a
delivery to company who repaired HGV trucks.
When I got there I asked the manager if he used a courier company. "Yes," he said, "I use
TNT." "I'm sure we are cheaper
than they are," I replied. !In know
you are but
I can't afford to use you. You
see, if I know I have a truck coming in on Wednesday for new engine or gearbox to
fitted say, I would order then component to arrive here by Monday. But I know that TNT won't get it here until Wednesday
morning when I actually need it. They
have failed on their contract and I get the delivery fee refunded. I can be sure you would get it here on time
and I would have to pay. Why pay for
something if you can get it for free?"
There was no point in pressing the case.
Parcel Farce
was just as bad, and no, that isn't a typo!
Far too many examples of their silly game to mention. What puzzles me is how they make any money
out of it all.
Even so
Interlink was open to a lot of fiddles for those so inclined. An example ... I have always wanted a large
Yamaha electric piano thingy. One
morning I arrived and started sorting my deliveries and found I had eight small
and four large such pianos. What we
drivers did was to use a scanner to scan the barcode on each parcel and that
gives a clear chain of receipt and so on.
But what would happen if I only scanned eight small and 3 large boxes? All I had to say was that there was only 3
large boxes, not four at the manifest said there was. Who can prove otherwise? Another time I had 25 computers on board for
a shop in Dorktown. How easy would it be
for one to go missing? I would hope by
now that all of these gaps have been closed.
But the thing is, I'm an honest man.
One boss I had once told me I was too honest for my own good. But if I could see such holes, how much more
could someone who was wasn't honest?
So, a photo
...
was this a lovers tiff?
And a funny
...
The NHS have started to give old men Viagra to
stop them rolling out of bed.
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