The Wembley policy on drinks was OK, but I was curious as to how some of the rules came about…
Making sense: there are dedicated places for refilling water bottles, although these did have long queues (hot day); you can’t take drinks in, even water. Makes sense really, as people would fill it with vodka or whatever.
Less obvious to me: if you buy a fizzy drink (and the only option was diet Pepsi, not even Max), it’s a bottle poured into a paper cup for you. If you buy water, you get the bottle with the top removed.
I presume that the whole policy is driven by blokes throwing bottles of piss with loose-fitting tops, to explode at other fans/players/staff? Or are there other obscure football things that happen?
Item was showing as out for delivery then I check the progress and it’s showing as “ Consignee has requested DHL not to attempt the delivery on the particular delivery cycle.”
Seeing as I am the consignee and I certainly did not request them not to attempt the delivery, I am a bit fucked off at them not delivering my £400 bit of kit that I’ve been waiting in for…
Evri purchased DHL. The subsequent enshitification of DHL is proceeding apace.
Evri latest trick, to which my last four Evri deliveries have been subjected, is to pretend that they haven’t received your item. Evri tracking sticks for days at ‘We’re Expecting It’ often past the expected delivery date provided at point of sale by your retailer.
It’s a total lottery thereafter. You might get it a mere two or three days late or you might not get it at all. For sure, you’re not getting it on time.
I ordered something from a US company with a UK website and a EU/UK distribution centre in Holland. I ordered on the 21st May. UK VAT is paid when ordering so the parcel is not subject to customs delays. The retailer sent it via Royal Mail once it arrived in country. That parcel, ordered on the 21st, arrived on the 26th.
I re-ordered last Thursday. This time they are using Evri for the UK leg. Here we are nearly a week later and surprise, surprise Evri ‘are expecting it’.
Deep down I know I’m never seeing that parcel. I’ll have to wait the required period, get a refund from the retailer and start the whole process over again. Fuck you Evri.
I’ve experienced this, and wondered about why exactly retailers put themselves in this position. Surely in this instance they end up out of pocket? And it seems to happen all the frikkin time. So why on earth is anyone still using Evri?? It’s bizarre
It’s pure cost. When you are a retailer sending thousands and thousands of parcels per day, it really does add up. From what I have seen from whilst S was there, a lot of retailers are also fucking oblivious to their numbers on a lot of things
