Half the time they don't even ring the bell here....just leave it on the front step, where anyone could nick it.
Same. Once they posted It through my open window! Could have.knocked.my cabinet.
Vita said
Apr 10 11:04 PM, 2024
Magica wrote:
Vita wrote:
Took Shorty out at 6:30 AM and we were just turning into the street when I saw a man nipping up the path and diving into his van.
Wee card in letterbox 'sorry to have missed you, parcel is in gasbox"
I didn't know I had one, took me ages to find the damn thing, wasn't too keen on sticking my haund in it either, I looked like it was hoaching with spiders.
Still I suppose there was no chance of it being nicked, look where Amazon left my brother's!!
Oh lol
He never did tell me what was in that box!!
😂
Vita said
Apr 10 11:06 PM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Half the time they don't even ring the bell here....just leave it on the front step, where anyone could nick it.
Doorstep thieving is happening more and more with crooks following drivers about.
Syl said
Apr 10 11:28 PM, 2024
It's crazy. I imagine Amazon would have to refund if they just leave a package on the step and it gets pinched.
Magica said
Apr 11 12:25 AM, 2024
Syl wrote:
It's crazy. I imagine Amazon would have to refund if they just leave a package on the step and it gets pinched.
They photograph it to prove they left it there. I suppose if it goes missing not sure what happens.
Syl said
Apr 11 12:28 AM, 2024
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
It's crazy. I imagine Amazon would have to refund if they just leave a package on the step and it gets pinched.
They photograph it to prove they left it there. I suppose if it goes missing not sure what happens.
There are videos online of drivers taking the photo of the parcel on the step...then nicking it themselves.
Magica said
Apr 11 12:38 AM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
It's crazy. I imagine Amazon would have to refund if they just leave a package on the step and it gets pinched.
They photograph it to prove they left it there. I suppose if it goes missing not sure what happens.
There are videos online of drivers taking the photo of the parcel on the step...then nicking it themselves.
Exactly. They must reimburse you surely.
I've found parcels behind wheelie bins, even though I was in, had no idea it was there. They don't always knock. As I said earlier, I had one shoved through my frontroom window!
Syl said
Apr 11 12:48 AM, 2024
I once ordered a ring from QVC, they used Royal Mail at that time.
We were away for a few days, when I came home, instead of posting it, they had left it sticking out of the letterbox. It was a good ring too...anyone could have nicked it.
I imagine if they had, I would have had a hard time getting a refund.
Digger said
Apr 11 11:45 AM, 2024
Syl wrote:
I once ordered a ring from QVC, they used Royal Mail at that time. We were away for a few days, when I came home, instead of posting it, they had left it sticking out of the letterbox. It was a good ring too...anyone could have nicked it.
I imagine if they had, I would have had a hard time getting a refund.
On line selling laws stipulate that if the buyer does not receive the item, the seller has to refund or send another.
Syl said
Apr 11 12:08 PM, 2024
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
I once ordered a ring from QVC, they used Royal Mail at that time. We were away for a few days, when I came home, instead of posting it, they had left it sticking out of the letterbox. It was a good ring too...anyone could have nicked it.
I imagine if they had, I would have had a hard time getting a refund.
On line selling laws stipulate that if the buyer does not receive the item, the seller has to refund or send another.
It would be hard to prove you hadn't received the package if the postman has posted it though.
It was delivered, and it should have been safe..it was small enough to post through the letterbox, so it would have been my word against Royal Mail....and we all know what liars they are.
In those days it was Royal Mail btw.
Digger said
Apr 12 1:02 PM, 2024
The new Joker sequel is fucking musical!!! Just no!
Digger said
Apr 12 1:03 PM, 2024
Syl wrote:
Digger wrote:
Syl wrote:
I once ordered a ring from QVC, they used Royal Mail at that time. We were away for a few days, when I came home, instead of posting it, they had left it sticking out of the letterbox. It was a good ring too...anyone could have nicked it.
I imagine if they had, I would have had a hard time getting a refund.
On line selling laws stipulate that if the buyer does not receive the item, the seller has to refund or send another.
It would be hard to prove you hadn't received the package if the postman has posted it though.
It was delivered, and it should have been safe..it was small enough to post through the letterbox, so it would have been my word against Royal Mail....and we all know what liars they are.
In those days it was Royal Mail btw.
Doesn't matter. If you contact the seller you will get a replacement. If the item was signed for, and you signed for it, then that would be different.
Syl said
Apr 12 2:37 PM, 2024
OK...it doesn't matter anyway, the ring was still sticking out of the letterbox when I got home.
I obviously live in an honest neighbourhood.
Digger said
Apr 16 11:16 AM, 2024
These silly bastards....
A British family who were hounded out of Portugal by locals who branded them 'English pigs' were told their situation 'wasn't desperate enough' for them to be deserving of help after they fled back to the UK, a friend has revealed.
Lynn and Richard Appleby-Brisco moved to the Mediterranean country's Guarda district in 2016 with plans to start a more 'affordable' life with their two young daughters.
But the family, who featured on Channel 4's Our Wildest Dreams, were forced to return to the UK not long after the show aired when their life in a remote village became their worst nightmare.
Lynn's close friend Denny Lewis told MailOnline: 'She landed at Heathrow with her two young girls and had to get the night bus to Bedford and went to a local Premier Inn.
'I went to see her and we got her some clothes sent down by a friend and by other people. But the local housing authorities said, and I quote, that their situation 'wasn't bad enough".'
The family believe they inadvertently put a target on their backs after their episode aired in 2018.
Ms Appleby-Brisco wrote: 'We arrived in Portugal almost eight years ago full of excitement of starting a new, sustainable life. We were followed by the film crew from Channel Fours Our Wildest Dreams as we wanted to inspire others.
'Initially our lives were great, we wanted to integrate locally so didn't mix as much with the expats, put our girls in the village school, bought a little farm on the edge of the village, started to learn the language better, did everything we thought right.
'Little did we know there was a storm of resentment in the village towards us, we had done nothing wrong so why would we even question it.'
Digger said
Apr 16 11:18 AM, 2024
On the surface, most people think, Aw, they just wanted a better life. Who in their right mind takes their kids out of school, away from friends and family into the wilds of fucking Portugal just so they can be all woke and green and raise chickens in the sun? So it all went tits up and they expect the tax payer to sort them out. Well, tough shit. There are families in this country living in abject squalor, they come before some middle England, middle class, middle aged deluded hippies.
Magica said
Apr 16 11:22 AM, 2024
I think the Portuguese people there are racists, and nasty to them. They.killed their pets, said it would be them next, called them English pigs amongst other.things.
I think the locals were jealous of them tbh.
Digger said
Apr 16 12:26 PM, 2024
Magica wrote:
I think the Portuguese people there are racists, and nasty to them. They.killed their pets, said it would be them next, called them English pigs amongst other.things.
I think the locals were jealous of them tbh.
Yes, I get that. Nobody deserves that. But do your research into the country you want to live in. Did they honestly think it would be like when you go on holiday?
Magica said
Apr 16 3:46 PM, 2024
Digger wrote:
Magica wrote:
I think the Portuguese people there are racists, and nasty to them. They.killed their pets, said it would be them next, called them English pigs amongst other.things.
I think the locals were jealous of them tbh.
Yes, I get that. Nobody deserves that. But do your research into the country you want to live in. Did they honestly think it would be like when you go on holiday?
Exactly. You can't just romp up, buy a house or whatever, in a village where they have always lived. They obviously don't want them there.
Should have just kept their house here and stayed there for a few months or so to suss out the land, the people etc.
No way would i have ever done that.
Digger said
Apr 17 2:55 PM, 2024
It winds me up when people just won't take responsibility for their own actions. You go take the risk of living abroad and it goes tit up, tough shit. You go off to Turkey for an arse lift and your tits fall off, tough shit. You perch on a cliff top for a selfie and you slip and fall, tough shit.
-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 02:55:35 PM
Anonymous said
Apr 17 5:15 PM, 2024
Digger wrote:
It winds me up when people just won't take responsibility for their own actions. You go take the risk of living abroad and it goes tit up, tough shit. You go off to Turkey for an arse lift and your tits fall off, tough shit. You perch on a cliff top for a selfie and you slip and fall, tough shit.
-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 02:55:35 PM
Same. Once they posted It through my open window! Could have.knocked.my cabinet.
He never did tell me what was in that box!!
😂
Doorstep thieving is happening more and more with crooks following drivers about.
They photograph it to prove they left it there. I suppose if it goes missing not sure what happens.
There are videos online of drivers taking the photo of the parcel on the step...then nicking it themselves.
Exactly. They must reimburse you surely.
I've found parcels behind wheelie bins, even though I was in, had no idea it was there. They don't always knock. As I said earlier, I had one shoved through my frontroom window!
We were away for a few days, when I came home, instead of posting it, they had left it sticking out of the letterbox. It was a good ring too...anyone could have nicked it.
I imagine if they had, I would have had a hard time getting a refund.
On line selling laws stipulate that if the buyer does not receive the item, the seller has to refund or send another.
It would be hard to prove you hadn't received the package if the postman has posted it though.
It was delivered, and it should have been safe..it was small enough to post through the letterbox, so it would have been my word against Royal Mail....and we all know what liars they are.
In those days it was Royal Mail btw.
The new Joker sequel is fucking musical!!! Just no!
Doesn't matter. If you contact the seller you will get a replacement. If the item was signed for, and you signed for it, then that would be different.
I obviously live in an honest neighbourhood.
These silly bastards....
A British family who were hounded out of Portugal by locals who branded them 'English pigs' were told their situation 'wasn't desperate enough' for them to be deserving of help after they fled back to the UK, a friend has revealed.
Lynn and Richard Appleby-Brisco moved to the Mediterranean country's Guarda district in 2016 with plans to start a more 'affordable' life with their two young daughters.
But the family, who featured on Channel 4's Our Wildest Dreams, were forced to return to the UK not long after the show aired when their life in a remote village became their worst nightmare.
Lynn's close friend Denny Lewis told MailOnline: 'She landed at Heathrow with her two young girls and had to get the night bus to Bedford and went to a local Premier Inn.
'I went to see her and we got her some clothes sent down by a friend and by other people. But the local housing authorities said, and I quote, that their situation 'wasn't bad enough".'
The family believe they inadvertently put a target on their backs after their episode aired in 2018.
Ms Appleby-Brisco wrote: 'We arrived in Portugal almost eight years ago full of excitement of starting a new, sustainable life. We were followed by the film crew from Channel Fours Our Wildest Dreams as we wanted to inspire others.
'Initially our lives were great, we wanted to integrate locally so didn't mix as much with the expats, put our girls in the village school, bought a little farm on the edge of the village, started to learn the language better, did everything we thought right.
'Little did we know there was a storm of resentment in the village towards us, we had done nothing wrong so why would we even question it.'
I think the Portuguese people there are racists, and nasty to them. They.killed their pets, said it would be them next, called them English pigs amongst other.things.
I think the locals were jealous of them tbh.
Yes, I get that. Nobody deserves that. But do your research into the country you want to live in. Did they honestly think it would be like when you go on holiday?
Exactly. You can't just romp up, buy a house or whatever, in a village where they have always lived. They obviously don't want them there.
Should have just kept their house here and stayed there for a few months or so to suss out the land, the people etc.
No way would i have ever done that.
It winds me up when people just won't take responsibility for their own actions. You go take the risk of living abroad and it goes tit up, tough shit. You go off to Turkey for an arse lift and your tits fall off, tough shit. You perch on a cliff top for a selfie and you slip and fall, tough shit.
-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 17th of April 2024 02:55:35 PM
….’arse lift and your tits fall off’……
