Had a delivery booked for 1030-1130pm yesterday.

Received two emails telling me that due to unforeseen circumstances the
delivery would be up to 90 minutes late.

I received an emailed invoice from the van driver at about 8.30pm.

I waited up until 2am. The delivery didn't comeat all, at all.

No further messages, either by phone or email from Ocado or their driver.

Angry email gone to Ocado Customer Services demanding delivery today
after 1pm.

Oh, and still no repeat prescription delivered.

Is York still on the map?

Will report back, unless my wifi is cut of!

Tone (Perplexed* of York)

* Not perspexed

On 16/11/2023 02:44, Hymermut wrote:
> Had a delivery booked for 1030-1130pm yesterday.
>
> Received two emails telling me that due to unforeseen circumstances the
> delivery would be up to 90 minutes late.
>
> I received an emailed invoice from the van driver at about 8.30pm.
>
> I waited up until 2am. The delivery didn't comeat all, at all.
>
> No further messages, either by phone or email from Ocado or their driver.
>
> Angry email gone to Ocado Customer Services demanding delivery today
> after 1pm.
>
> Oh, and still no repeat prescription delivered.
>
> Is York still on the map?
>
> Will report back, unless my wifi is cut of!
>
> Tone (Perplexed* of York)
>
> * Not perspexed

For 'of' please read 'off', or I will fall victim to ye sheddi
pernickety committee

Tone

In article <uj406h$201he$2@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:52:57 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 16/11/2023 02:44, Hymermut wrote:
>> Had a delivery booked for 1030-1130pm yesterday.
>>
>> Received two emails telling me that due to unforeseen circumstances the
>> delivery would be up to 90 minutes late.
>>
>> I received an emailed invoice from the van driver at about 8.30pm.
>>
>> I waited up until 2am. The delivery didn't comeat all, at all.
>>
>> No further messages, either by phone or email from Ocado or their driver.
>>
>> Angry email gone to Ocado Customer Services demanding delivery today
>> after 1pm.
>>
>> Oh, and still no repeat prescription delivered.
>>
>> Is York still on the map?
>>
>> Will report back, unless my wifi is cut of!
>>
>> Tone (Perplexed* of York)
>>
>> * Not perspexed
>
>For 'of' please read 'off', or I will fall victim to ye sheddi
>pernickety committee
>
>Tone
Should it not have been 'an offcut'?

Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <HFPe5XANHdVlFAGd@salmiron.com>, Nicholas D. Richards
<nicholas@salmiron.com> on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 08:24:45 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>In article <uj406h$201he$2@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:52:57 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>On 16/11/2023 02:44, Hymermut wrote:
>>> Had a delivery booked for 1030-1130pm yesterday.
>>>
>>> Received two emails telling me that due to unforeseen circumstances the
>>> delivery would be up to 90 minutes late.
>>>
>>> I received an emailed invoice from the van driver at about 8.30pm.
>>>
>>> I waited up until 2am. The delivery didn't comeat all, at all.
>>>
>>> No further messages, either by phone or email from Ocado or their driver.
>>>
>>> Angry email gone to Ocado Customer Services demanding delivery today
>>> after 1pm.
>>>
>>> Oh, and still no repeat prescription delivered.
>>>
>>> Is York still on the map?
>>>
>>> Will report back, unless my wifi is cut of!
>>>
>>> Tone (Perplexed* of York)
>>>
>>> * Not perspexed
>>
>>For 'of' please read 'off', or I will fall victim to ye sheddi
>>pernickety committee
>>
>>Tone
>Should it not have been 'an offcut'?
>
>Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.

I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
news:pooFCiAQkgVlFAwC@salmiron.com:

> In article <HFPe5XANHdVlFAGd@salmiron.com>, Nicholas D. Richards
> <nicholas@salmiron.com> on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 08:24:45 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>In article <uj406h$201he$2@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com>
>>on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:52:57 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>>wrote
>>Should it not have been 'an offcut'?
>>
>>Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
>
> I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.

--
Peter
-----

"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
news:pooFCiAQkgVlFAwC@salmiron.com:

>>
>>Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
>
> I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.

No doubt you do look smart, but I'm surprised the next offcuttee[1] told you
so. Maybe he, she or it was attempting to ingratiate themselves with the
offcuttor.
[1] I took the liberty of inserting an extra 't' to avoid confusion with
cuties, off- or otherwise.
--
Peter
-----

Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote in news:XnsB0BE85BC31B74Factura3476@
135.181.20.170:

> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
> news:pooFCiAQkgVlFAwC@salmiron.com:
>
>> In article <HFPe5XANHdVlFAGd@salmiron.com>, Nicholas D. Richards
>> <nicholas@salmiron.com> on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 08:24:45 awoke
>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>>In article <uj406h$201he$2@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com>
>>>on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:52:57 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
>>>wrote
>>>Should it not have been 'an offcut'?
>>>
>>>Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
>>
>> I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.

Oops

--
Peter
-----

On 16/11/2023 13:15, Peter wrote:
> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
> news:pooFCiAQkgVlFAwC@salmiron.com:
>
>>>
>>> Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
>>
>> I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.
>
> No doubt you do look smart, but I'm surprised the next offcuttee[1] told you
> so. Maybe he, she or it was attempting to ingratiate themselves with the
> offcuttor.
> [1] I took the liberty of inserting an extra 't' to avoid confusion with
> cuties, off- or otherwise.

Update.

Got an apologetic phone-call from Ocado. Seems a delivery driver ran out
of time, but neglected to inform his customers that he wasn't going to
make it after a considerable delay in bulk delivery.

But I am getting my delivery twixt 6-9 this evening. And I have a £20
voucher for me trouble.

Tone

On 16-Nov-23 2:52, Hymermut wrote:
> On 16/11/2023 13:15, Peter wrote:
>> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
>> news:pooFCiAQkgVlFAwC@salmiron.com:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Shortly will be going out to have an offcut of my remaining thatch.
>>>
>>> I'm back. Next offcutee told me I looked smart after offcutting.
>>
>> No doubt you do look smart, but I'm surprised the next offcuttee[1]
>> told you
>> so. Maybe he, she or it was attempting to ingratiate themselves with the
>> offcuttor.
>> [1] I took the liberty of inserting an extra 't' to avoid confusion with
>> cuties, off- or otherwise.
>
> Update.
>
> Got an apologetic phone-call from Ocado. Seems a delivery driver ran out
> of time, but neglected to inform his customers that he wasn't going to
> make it after a considerable delay in bulk delivery.
>
> But I am getting my delivery twixt 6-9 this evening. And I have a £20
> voucher for me trouble.

SWMBO has used Ocado for the last 5(? maybe) years & has usually found
them reasonably good.
Her current (strongly expressed) complaint is that they has completely
uggered up their website and how the ordering system operates.

Just one example:
She ordered some tea, it showed up on her order, but was marked "Out of
Stock".
She found another source, and then wanted to delete the tea off from her
order (just in case it came back into stock, & they tried to deliver it).
Nope! You cannot delete anything which is marked 'out of stock'.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 16-Nov-23 15:13, Hymermut wrote:

> Update.
>
> Got an apologetic phone-call from Ocado. Seems a delivery driver ran out
> of time, but neglected to inform his customers that he wasn't going to
> make it after a considerable delay in bulk delivery.
>
> But I am getting my delivery twixt 6-9 this evening. And I have a £20
> voucher for me trouble.

Aaaand... Did it turn up when they said it would?

P.S. Our deliveries are always Wednesdays between 4 & 5 pm - and hardly
ever late.
Drivers have rung us, once or twice, to ask if they can deliver early.

--
Sam Plusnet

On 16/11/2023 20:25, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>
> Aaaand...  Did it turn up when they said it would?

Yup. Got a call on t'intercom at 6.30ish. 'Morrisons' he said.
'Morrisons? I asked. 'Oops. No, I meant Ocado' he replied.

Turns out he jbexs for both! Goes straight from a day shift with
Morrisons to an evening shift with Ocado. That is one dedicated van driver!

Tone

On 16/11/2023 20:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> Just one example:
> She ordered some tea, it showed up on her order, but was marked "Out of
> Stock".
> She found another source, and then wanted to delete the tea off from her
> order (just in case it came back into stock, & they tried to deliver it).
> Nope!  You cannot delete anything which is marked 'out of stock'

I don't do it that way. I flash up the last order and hit 'add all' then
delete what I don't want and add other stuff that I do. That way 'out of
stock' items aren't added to the list.

My beef with Ocado is the way they continue to break eggs. They pile
things into bags indiscriminately, and if the eggs are at the bottom,
they're in for a smashing ride.

A couple of weeks ago they broke a litre whiskey bockle. That was a mess!

A lot of their picking is done automatically, and I reckon there lies
the problem.

Can't fault the quality of their stuff though, if it makes the trip.
Much of it is M&S.

Tone

On 16/11/2023 21:39, Hymermut wrote:
> On 16/11/2023 20:25, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>
>> Aaaand... Did it turn up when they said it would?
>
> Yup. Got a call on t'intercom at 6.30ish. 'Morrisons' he said.
> 'Morrisons? I asked. 'Oops. No, I meant Ocado' he replied.
>
> Turns out he jbexs for both! Goes straight from a day shift with
> Morrisons to an evening shift with Ocado. That is one dedicated van driver!
>
Or, more likely nowadays, desperate for cash. Needing two or more jobs
is rapidly becoming the norm (Not Norm).

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On 2023-11-16, John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/2023 21:39, Hymermut wrote:
>> On 16/11/2023 20:25, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>
>>> Aaaand... Did it turn up when they said it would?
>>
>> Yup. Got a call on t'intercom at 6.30ish. 'Morrisons' he said.
>> 'Morrisons? I asked. 'Oops. No, I meant Ocado' he replied.
>>
>> Turns out he jbexs for both! Goes straight from a day shift with
>> Morrisons to an evening shift with Ocado. That is one dedicated van driver!
>>
> Or, more likely nowadays, desperate for cash. Needing two or more jobs
> is rapidly becoming the norm (Not Norm).
>
>

There's Wisdom in that.

--
greymausg@mail.com
Death to the Influencers, hung, drawn and quartered is more than they deserve.
BringBack(Bonking)Boris..

In article <uj627f$2bihe$2@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 21:39:52 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 16/11/2023 20:25, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>
>> Aaaand...  Did it turn up when they said it would?
>
>Yup. Got a call on t'intercom at 6.30ish. 'Morrisons' he said.
>'Morrisons? I asked. 'Oops. No, I meant Ocado' he replied.
>
>Turns out he jbexs for both! Goes straight from a day shift with
>Morrisons to an evening shift with Ocado. That is one dedicated van driver!
>
IME this suggests that getting enough zbarl to keep body and soul
together is difficult. One of my neighbours has to hold down three jobs
to pay his rent, heating and basic food; he always looks very tired!
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <uj62o2$2bihe$3@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 21:48:42 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>On 16/11/2023 20:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> Just one example:
>> She ordered some tea, it showed up on her order, but was marked "Out of
>> Stock".
>> She found another source, and then wanted to delete the tea off from her
>> order (just in case it came back into stock, & they tried to deliver it).
>> Nope!  You cannot delete anything which is marked 'out of stock'
>
>I don't do it that way. I flash up the last order and hit 'add all' then
>delete what I don't want and add other stuff that I do. That way 'out of
>stock' items aren't added to the list.
>
>My beef with Ocado is the way they continue to break eggs. They pile
>things into bags indiscriminately, and if the eggs are at the bottom,
>they're in for a smashing ride.

A fiend always reckoned that eggses should be packed at the bottom That
way, when they were broken, scrambled eggses did not run over the rest
of your shopping. Maybe he had a point.
>
>A couple of weeks ago they broke a litre whiskey bockle. That was a mess!
>
>A lot of their picking is done automatically, and I reckon there lies
>the problem.
>
>Can't fault the quality of their stuff though, if it makes the trip.
>Much of it is M&S.
>
>Tone

--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards said:
> In article <uj62o2$2bihe$3@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
>>
>>My beef with Ocado is the way they continue to break eggs. They pile
>>things into bags indiscriminately, and if the eggs are at the bottom,
>>they're in for a smashing ride.
>
> A fiend always reckoned that eggses should be packed at the bottom That
> way, when they were broken, scrambled eggses did not run over the rest
> of your shopping. Maybe he had a point.

If you put them in your pockets you'll make sure they don't get broken
in the first place.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:59:27 +0000
"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

> A fiend always reckoned that eggses should be packed at the bottom That
> way, when they were broken, scrambled eggses did not run over the rest
> of your shopping. Maybe he had a point.

Eggses get their own bag, similarly inedible fluids don't get into
the same bags as comestibles.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency

On 16-Nov-23 21:48, Hymermut wrote:
> On 16/11/2023 20:22, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> Just one example:
>> She ordered some tea, it showed up on her order, but was marked "Out
>> of Stock".
>> She found another source, and then wanted to delete the tea off from
>> her order (just in case it came back into stock, & they tried to
>> deliver it).
>> Nope!  You cannot delete anything which is marked 'out of stock'
>
> I don't do it that way. I flash up the last order and hit 'add all' then
> delete what I don't want and add other stuff that I do. That way 'out of
> stock' items aren't added to the list.

It's more complicated than that.

When you're looking to add things to your list, you cannot add anything
that is marked 'out of stock'.

However, once you _have_ added something, they can later change their
minds and _then_ declare it 'out of stock'. Once that has happened you
_cannot_ delete it.

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <uj7s7r$2qrpg$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
<richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 14:10:03 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Nicholas D. Richards said:
>> In article <uj62o2$2bihe$3@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
>>>
>>>My beef with Ocado is the way they continue to break eggs. They pile
>>>things into bags indiscriminately, and if the eggs are at the bottom,
>>>they're in for a smashing ride.
>>
>> A fiend always reckoned that eggses should be packed at the bottom That
>> way, when they were broken, scrambled eggses did not run over the rest
>> of your shopping. Maybe he had a point.
>
>If you put them in your pockets you'll make sure they don't get broken
>in the first place.
>
Really? I hope that my daughter does not read this.

When my daughter was at primary school she took a fresh egg to school in
the pocket of her school trousers*. Before assembly was over she had a
very wet, sticky school uniform.

Eggses need protection.

* Why she did it we never did manage to establish. She said Mummy had
told her to do it, whether she was lying or had misunderstood something
Mummy had said. This was within months of her arrival in the UK and her
English was still very limited.
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards said:
> In article <uj7s7r$2qrpg$1@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
><richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 14:10:03 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>Nicholas D. Richards said:
>>> In article <uj62o2$2bihe$3@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
>>>>
>>>>My beef with Ocado is the way they continue to break eggs. They pile
>>>>things into bags indiscriminately, and if the eggs are at the bottom,
>>>>they're in for a smashing ride.
>>>
>>> A fiend always reckoned that eggses should be packed at the bottom That
>>> way, when they were broken, scrambled eggses did not run over the rest
>>> of your shopping. Maybe he had a point.
>>
>>If you put them in your pockets you'll make sure they don't get broken
>>in the first place.
>>
> Really? I hope that my daughter does not read this.
>
> When my daughter was at primary school she took a fresh egg to school in
> the pocket of her school trousers*. Before assembly was over she had a
> very wet, sticky school uniform.
>
> Eggses need protection.
>
> * Why she did it we never did manage to establish. She said Mummy had
> told her to do it, whether she was lying or had misunderstood something
> Mummy had said. This was within months of her arrival in the UK and her
> English was still very limited.

Poor lass.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html