So today i risked my life to deliver..........

[redneck]

All you deliver you may think is shite but the recipients who ordered the stuff don't think that

We should not be delivering non essential items. We are being taken for fools by the company as we continue to risk passing infection on. Business as usual. Today i delivered a set of BMX handlebars and went beyond the call of duty, threading them through the letterbox without damage to either box or bars. And a mannequin.

How did you get a friggin mannequin through a letterbox?

That was to another house silly

[Stormproof]

A washing up bowl from China

[wacko74]

A washing up bowl from China

It's the washing up bowls that always baffle me, probably deliver at least 1 or 2 on average a week.

Every supermarket as well as loads of other shops, B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko's etc all sell them from as little as £2

There's just no rational reason at all why someone can't pick one up as part of their regular weekly shopping.

I can't imagine what kind of a sad, empty life people must lead to search for and order washing bowls online.

[Stormproof]

A washing up bowl from China

It's the washing up bowls that always baffle me, probably deliver at least 1 or 2 on average a week.

Every supermarket as well as loads of other shops, B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko's etc all sell them from as little as £2

There's just no rational reason at all why someone can't pick one up as part of their regular weekly shopping.

I can't imagine what kind of a sad, empty life people must lead to search for and order washing bowls online.

The bloke who answered the door said 'WTF has she been ordering now' Told him it was a washing up bowl from China. His response was 'Well thats going straight in the f'ing bin!'

[magicfinger]

A large box containing 'balloons filled with non flammable gas' according to the sticker, at least it wasn't heavy

[Dannybuca]

A washing up bowl from China

It's the washing up bowls that always baffle me, probably deliver at least 1 or 2 on average a week.

Every supermarket as well as loads of other shops, B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko's etc all sell them from as little as £2

There's just no rational reason at all why someone can't pick one up as part of their regular weekly shopping.

I can't imagine what kind of a sad, empty life people must lead to search for and order washing bowls online.

Hah to go with that I had a bulk order of sponges/scourers from China today.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was genuinely lucrative to us but these Chinese parcels aren't really, are they?

[Murdoch]

I can't imagine what kind of a sad, empty life people must lead to search for and order washing bowls online.

I've got a rational reason. People's shopping habits have completely changed. Many people get their groceries delivered online, going to the shops just to pick up a washing up bowl is a waste of bloody time... I could order one online in about 20 seconds and it'll be delivered to my house, with only a tiny amount of thought or effort on my part.

Also, I can't think of anything worse than going into B&M or Home Bargains.

[clashcityrocker]

(RMC's resident White Knight, Woke, SJW will be along shortly to inform me how wrong and judgemental I am)

I hate to be the one to tell you this but if you understand that your posts are wrong and judgemental then you are already, to use your own word, Woke.
Welcome to my generation.

[5plusbonusball]

Why does rm let us take aerosols? one day one will blow up in a van and cause a right bloody mess! Most don't have a hazard sticker on them!

[Mr Rush]

Every supermarket as well as loads of other shops, B&M, Home Bargains, Wilko's etc all sell them from as little as £2

But you can get it straight from the factory in China for £2 with free delivery. We found the monetary value at which people can sleep at night dealing with an authoritarian regime... and it was £0 postage.

[LaggyBand]

I can't imagine what kind of a sad, empty life people must lead to search for and order washing bowls online.

I've got a rational reason. People's shopping habits have completely changed. Many people get their groceries delivered online, going to the shops just to pick up a washing up bowl is a waste of bloody time... I could order one online in about 20 seconds and it'll be delivered to my house, with only a tiny amount of thought or effort on my part.

Also, I can't think of anything worse than going into B&M or Home Bargains.

Absolutely bang on response.

Posties that moan about “why didn’t they just get this from so and so” really need to get with the times, alternatively spend your working life in misery.

It’ll never change, especially now. You’re in the wrong business if you hate people ordering stuff. Crazy that I even have to say that.

I can order a washing up bowl whilst taking a dump. I can have it in my favourite pink colour and I can have it with my own face printed on it.

It’s quicker and I’ll get exactly what I want.

[Woody Guthrie]

It’ll never change, especially now. You’re in the wrong business if you hate people ordering stuff. Crazy that I even have to say that.

I don't think anyone on here is stupid, we all know why people do what they do.
The question is... is it really a benefit to anyone involved?

Is your life enriched in any way by ordering a washing up bowl in your favourite pink colour with your own face printed on it while taking a dump?

What do you do with the time this frees up, read Tolstoy?

[Murdoch]

I don't think anyone on here is stupid, we all know why people do what they do.
The question is... is it really a benefit to anyone involved?

Is your life enriched in any way by ordering a washing up bowl in your favourite pink colour with your own face printed on it while taking a dump?

What do you do with the time this frees up, read Tolstoy?

This response brings up a whole host of issues. Firstly, a washing up bowl has a function, it provides a vital role in performing a basic human necessity, eating. So is there a value in having one, clearly yes. You can wash the things you eat or prepare food with, so they don't make you ill the next time you want to eat. Does getting it specifically from a shop that exists in a place close to you, have any distinct value, not really. Ultimately, the washing up bowl will have been produced in china, it doesn't make a huge amount of difference, whether in comes via Royal Mail, or gets delivered to Tesco first.

Now, there's a bigger debate here about the role of consumerism. And whether people's lives are enriched by shopping for stuff in general, or whether that just fills the void of a meaningless existence.

But a washing up bowl, really isn't the best leaping off point for that discussion.

[LaggyBand]

It’ll never change, especially now. You’re in the wrong business if you hate people ordering stuff. Crazy that I even have to say that.

I don't think anyone on here is stupid, we all know why people do what they do.
The question is... is it really a benefit to anyone involved?

Is your life enriched in any way by ordering a washing up bowl in your favourite pink colour with your own face printed on it while taking a dump?

What do you do with the time this frees up, read Tolstoy?

What’s enrichment got to do with anything?

I want the thing. You’re (I’m assuming) paid to deliver the thing. Don’t moan about it. And what you (the postie) sees in my thing doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

The only way you’ll get me to not buy my pink washing up bowl with my face on it whilst taking a dump is if you do a revision on the whole world.

Which, by the way, I’d love to see.

But in the meantime I’ll get the bowl using my phone.

[Takeitforaride]

A blow-up kayak