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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Bionic on 01 August 2011, 05:47:01
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3 weels ago I ordered the local paper (38p) for 6 days a week for delivery from the closest newsagents 100 meters away but was amazed by my first bill when it was far bigger than I expected.
The bill for the first 3 weeks (because they do it monthly and I had started the paper delivery after the start of their month) was for £16.80!
By my reckoning the paper per week should be 38p x 6 = £2.28 which is £6.84 for 3 weeks. Take that from the total of £16.80 and it leaves £9.96. Divide that by 3 weeks and you get a weekly delivery charge of :o £3.32!
This country must be hard up, or more likely the shop owner being frikking greedy (he is a local councillor) when the delivery costs exceed the item cost for a 100 meter walk for which, by the way the delivery girl is paid a weekly 'wage' of £6.00 for 83 calls :'( whatever the weather.
Not only is he robbing customers he is obviously robbing the kids too.
He is obviously the type who will take out your eyes and come back later for the sockets! :D Crazy world....
ADMIN EDIT TO REMOVE RACISM.
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same as my 30 quid delivery charge for a 2quid item on e bay yrs ago, was only a small box as well, i complained to ebay and they sided with the seller and i got banned. >:(
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My Yougest son does an early morning paper round. It takes around 45 minutes on a push bike and he earns £3 a day. He goes in whatever the weather, even walking when it snowed.
Now I don't know what the shop charges for deliveries, but please have a little respect for the lads and lasses that do this work day in and day out. We moan about lazy kids and these guys get off the back sdes and do somethng.
How many of us would/could do the same for effectively £4 an hour ?
Yes I know in my day it was 5p per day.
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Its not that long ago (ok, 20 years) that I used to get £3.85 a week for delivering morning papers (44 deliveries plus the awful Saturday suppliments, local rag on a Thursday and magazines) 6 days a week!.
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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I refused to do a paper round, instead i was employed by a rather dodgy tyre place from 12, and let lose on the public's cars.
i did get stupidly quick at changing tyres. (even if i did modify the floorpan)
i get the paper deliverd by the milkman, you should look into that. sunday he just delivers the paper nothing else, and im pretty far out.
(unless its the evening paper lol)
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
boulders...boulders yer say,yer didnt know yer were born,i had to get up a 3 and carry a full mountain round for 58 hours 29 days a week i tell thee,and if i stopped i got whipped by a viper and if i dodged the viper mi dad would eat both mi legs
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
boulders...boulders yer say,yer didnt know yer were born,i had to get up a 3 and carry a full mountain round for 58 hours 29 days a week i tell thee,and if i stopped i got whipped by a viper and if i dodged the viper mi dad would eat both mi legs
And now for something completely different ;D ;D ;D
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
boulders...boulders yer say,yer didnt know yer were born,i had to get up a 3 and carry a full mountain round for 58 hours 29 days a week i tell thee,and if i stopped i got whipped by a viper and if i dodged the viper mi dad would eat both mi legs
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Being of an age, I had to deliver chiselled slates for people to read ::)
Slates !!.... Slates!!.... Bloody luxury!! We had to roll boulders...... there and back so they can be re-used for the next day.
boulders...boulders yer say,yer didnt know yer were born,i had to get up a 3 and carry a full mountain round for 58 hours 29 days a week i tell thee,and if i stopped i got whipped by a viper and if i dodged the viper mi dad would eat both mi legs
We must be of a similar age then cos 'Mee Dar' sounds a bit like yours.... :D :D :D
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Pure luxury, when I was a lad delivering them bolders, it was in the ice age, 200ft of snow and all them glaciers. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Thanx for the laugh I got from the comments... mad as the pink one I think! :D ;D £3 a day? Wish I got that....I got 10 bob (50p) a week and that included the hefty Sunday round in two villages a mile apart. I had no bike either.:'( Respect for the paper lads and lasses? Of course I have having been there and won the gold medal myself in the high rise flats (3 stories then) without a lift.
I forgot to say that when I sacked the paper shop I also saw the girl who delivered it to us the next day and gave her the tenner she would have got for Xmas! She then told me, as did the local pub a few doors from it that he had lost loads of customers over the years due to his attitude and prices. Apparently the windows have been put out in his shop and home many times before by disatisfied ex customers according to local waffle.
Tight I am definitely not and I wish I had a pound for every time I had helped someone out freely. Even now I take loads of people who live close by to the shops by car because the buses are either too expensive, irregular or simply do not go where they want to. Given that many old people cannot afford to spend a'qualifying' amount to gain a free delivery service I do the best I can to help. Seems to me that whatever I try to do someone will always say I am either wrong or racist or daft or somthing similar when it is far from the truth. Racist I am not either, it just appears to me that one of the shops around here (there are not many of them) ran by (can I say English is not their first language) people charge locals, who like me cannot walk far and so are trapped into buying from them at the maximum retail prices, even to the point of buying the 4 pts milk from the other local shop solme distance away when it is on offer then putting it back on sale in their own shop at the full recommended retail price. That is a fact because one old lady marked a bottle at the £1 price (with the permission of the shop owner) and then checked later that day in the other shop and guess what she found... the cheaply sold milk at full retail price (79p more expensive). Within the law it may be but it is nevertheless morally wrong to rip off the vulnerable who have little other option than to pay!
My point was that why do we allow ourselves to simply accept the practices of other countries who habitually tend to charge as much as they can for goods and services yet will barter us down to the least amount when it is the reverse? I have worked for, and with many different nationalities all of my working life (who that is ex-forces can remember the MSO who while not in the forces as such worked alongside us?) My most hated phrase when I started my own business on discharge after completing a job with an already agreed price was "Is that your best price John"? Then when I say yes to be told that they are only going to pay £XX because blah de blah even though the job was completed to the their satisfaction in every other aspect but the already agreed price. It quite literally got so bad at one point that I stopped accepting any work from some sections of the population by saying my work book was full for months ahead.
I fail to see why I should have to make any apologies to anyone when All of the things I have stated are provable and as the saying goes "if the cap fits they will have to wear it". There are good and bad in ALL communities and it is the bad who need to be shown up for what they are...a disgrace to their own communities, countries and race be that whatever colour or creed. Integration is a two way street and it is up to those who come here to accept our traditions and culture as being the primary one without forsaking their own which they can still follow in private. After all, when we go abroad what happens when we fall foul of the other countries traditions innocently because what we did was common practice in our own? We are soon brought to the attention of the authorities are we not, then penalised.
What is good for the goose etc..... :(