Random Irritations

[nickjdavis]

Sold something on ebay.

Buyer asked what courier I'd be using.

Referred him to the auction listing where it clearly stated Parcel Force

I've woken this morning to an email telling me all the alternative couriers I could use and the likely costs and that when he sells clubs he prefers to use DPD!!

 

[KenL]

Sold something on ebay.

Buyer asked what courier I'd be using.

Referred him to the auction listing where it clearly stated Parcel Force

I've woken this morning to an email telling me all the alternative couriers I could use and the likely costs and that when he sells clubs he prefers to use DPD!!

Have they paid?

 

[nickjdavis]

Have they paid?

Oh yeah....(well...the money is in the ether, waiting for confirmation that the club has been received, as seems to be the way with ebay these days)

But the moment they paid it was like a game of "twenty questions" about the courier.

 

[Imurg]

Rapidly going off Ebay and their " 2 days after delivery" pay scheme.....

 

[IanM]

Rapidly going off Ebay and their " 2 days after delivery" pay scheme.....

Haven't used them since.

 

[Crazyface]

Or you wouldn't have been rammed if not for the cheap price so less people , less money in the bar.. or not even open

Sounds like it was handled spot on

Bit late, but er .. no. It's the element of disorganisation. Who has the bar shut on a bank holiday??? Also, pro forgets to change the price, which means a huge increase in pay and play, hurrah, but the bars shut! No lessons will be learnt. I'll have my last remark as my irritation.

 

[Crazyface]

Our neighbours dogs can be Barkie, but c’est la vie.

Edit, you could try to train your dog to not react.

Or train it to bark on command to annoy the neighbors back

 

[IanM]

DVLA excellent work! Changed my car last week. Good online processes, all the documents turned around within a working week.

Irritation?? Refund of road tax sent as a cheque. My banking app doesn't do cheques, I'm 25 miles from a Branch, so have to post it

 

[D-S]

DVLA excellent work! Changed my car last week. Good online processes, all the documents turned around within a working week.

Irritation?? Refund of road tax sent as a cheque. My banking app doesn't do cheques, I'm 25 miles from a Branch, so have to post it

Given the ever decreasing number of local branches, I would have thought that a cheque deposit function is a basic necessity of any decent banking App. The NatWest one has had it for at least 4 or 5 years now, so it’s not new technology.

 

[IanM]

Given the ever decreasing number of local branches, I would have thought that a cheque deposit function is a basic necessity of any decent banking App. The NatWest one has had it for at least 4 or 5 years now, so it’s not new technology.

My old Barclays business account had it, Nationwide doesn't.

I suspect they are "sitting it out" as the number of cheques in circulation has fallen off a cliff! Ironically, one of the last things I did before I left Nationwide was a Board Paper on the demise of cheques. That was 2007

 

[Mandofred]

Getting to the end of our house renovations. Had the ground floor bathroom ripped out early last week and we needed to move the stop valve. When we moved in last summer we had a water meter put in on the pavement. Turns out it doesn't work. It has a pull lever....so if you need to stop water going to the house you pull up on it.....doesn't stop the water. Called Yorkshire water immediately and.....they refuse to fix it. Stated that I can pay the sub contractor who put it in to come repair it. Grrrrr.

 

[rudebhoy]

DVLA excellent work! Changed my car last week. Good online processes, all the documents turned around within a working week.

Irritation?? Refund of road tax sent as a cheque. My banking app doesn't do cheques, I'm 25 miles from a Branch, so have to post it

Pretty sure you can pay a cheque into your bank account at the post office.

 

[rulefan]

Pretty sure you can pay a cheque into your bank account at the post office.

Virtually all 'High Street' banks but not all banks.
NB You need a paying in slip and cheque envelope.

 

[rudebhoy]

Virtually all 'High Street' banks but not all banks.
NB You need a paying in slip and cheque envelope.

If you have an old cheque book lying around, it should have paying in slips at the back. According to the PO website, branches stock the cheque envelopes.

 

[chellie]

You can't pay into a Nationwide account at the PO.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

You can't pay into a Nationwide account at the PO.

This is the exact reason to have more than one bank account. It doesn't take 20 mins to set up a new account with a bank that has the access to digital pay ins etc then just pay cheques into that and transfer over

 

[IanM]

You can't pay into a Nationwide account at the PO.

A search says you can, I'll find out tomorrow

 

[chellie]

A search says you can, I'll find out tomorrow

My search said you couldn't. https://www.postoffice.co.uk/everydaybanking. I had this issue not so long ago.

 

[rulefan]

https://www.postoffice.co.uk/nationwide

Nationwide​

Selected Nationwide Building Society banking services are available at thousands of Post Office branches.

Cash withdrawal Yes – with card and PIN
Balance enquiry Yes – with card and PIN
Cash deposit No
Cheque deposit No

Personal banking services

​

 

[harpo_72]

Immunotherapy day today, blood results came back all okay, but the CA-125 marker has doubled. Both of us are struggling with it.
She had a scan 6 weeks ago, nothing new, no noticeable growth.
Just need to understand it better, I know she is in the system and they are watching. But she is only 4 months beyond the chemotherapy, which was effective. Which may mean it won’t be as effective if repeated.
I am sure this is not bad bad news, but it doesn’t feel great . Ignorance isn’t bliss in this case .. we both deal with stuff, we don’t put it on a back burner or kick the can down the road