Postman is conspiring against me  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 02:29:04 pm
content: Ok so first of all, Happy Christmas to all you nut jobs on here. I hope your turkey chokes you, or the left overs you have to use up over the next week or more.My postman has not delivered much over the last few weeks and I was getting concerned at my purchases going missing. Until today when he sauntered his backside up the stairs , growled then scowled at me and juggling a big red sack like santa ( no not that kind of red sack ! ) he dumped a load of packages from China etc on my floor saying how sorry he was for doing that.Now I have nothing left on my ebay purchases or aliexpress purchases to wait for. I am sure that RM did this deliberately.I got my 4 wire kelvin leads, a 100mm white/black base for my olympus microscope, an eprom or so, a GPSDO board, a pig tail for said board, and some other bits ( I know some of you nosey gits will ask what I ordered so I thought I would tell you anyway )

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 02:56:35 pm
content: Happy Humbug, nice to see you've had some luck at last even if the post has arrived like buses.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 03:24:31 pm
content: What are you growling about ? you got a bag full of stuff for christmas. I don;t even bother to put up a tree or hang a sock. nobody ever brought me anything anyway.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 04:11:48 pm
content: Well its no good for xmas if it isn't wrapped up is it, it isn't like he took the time to say no you can't have, or open till xmas day. Nor did he deliver it in a reindeer driven sleigh the lazy bugger. No he just dumped it on my floor with a surly look and a scowl.I expected at least a mince pie and some Brandy to accompany it as well. But oh no not even a sniff of a cigar either.

author: jc101
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 04:28:58 pm
content: I had UPS turn up twice today.First time it wasn't the normal driver, the 2nd time (about 15 mins later) it was with mutterings that his Christmas Elf helper didn't notice I had two parcels. Seems you just can't get the staff at this time of year.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 04:39:27 pm
content: Quote from: Deathwish on December 23, 2015, 04:11:48 pmJust be thankful he did not deliver the old spinster's parcel to you by mistake, who lives a street down. You know, the one who ordered from that "speciality" supplier in a "discreet brown unlabelled parcel" containing her perk me up, flexible 11 inch purple and pink silicone with multi speed, glowing end, pulsating and vibrating, charges by inductive cradle so no batteries to install.

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 04:43:05 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 23, 2015, 04:39:27 pmI could at least sell that to one of the girls here to get a bottle of brandy

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 04:46:05 pm
content: She might be thinking you used it first, and it was the wrong size.......

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 05:10:52 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 23, 2015, 04:46:05 pmgod knows what for. might stir my coffee with it but that is all

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 05:16:34 pm
content: Quote from: Deathwish on December 23, 2015, 05:10:52 pm

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 05:22:46 pm
content: Thanks, i was just about to eat a tuna sarnie as well....

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 06:06:25 pm
content: You (OP) are in Wales and I am in the USA. But even this side of the pond, the mail do seem to be slower this year...

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 06:12:32 pm
content: You just have to ply your RM delivery person with the odd bottle of wine. It works wonders here on the other side of the Irish Sea.Vincent, does your mother not even send you anything?

author: ProBang2
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 07:05:59 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 23, 2015, 04:39:27 pmWhen we can estimate to see the pics from the teardown???

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 08:00:07 pm
content: Not much to see, just a cheap FR4 pcb with a ssop PIC micro on it with the top sanded off, a few jellybean transistors in a H bridge and another to drive the vibrator, a board with some charliplexed LED's on it, a few contacts for rubber switches and nothing much more. Another is just a COB with the transistors on the board, but this one has a speaker output, and selectable male and female voices.Was tempted to send the board to Dave, but figured out I would be banned for that

author: Wilksey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 08:19:20 pm
content: I think they must have had a backlog as I had a few parcels delivered today which I didn't think I was going to get until after Christmas, I have noticed RM doing more rounds in their vans of late.My old postie used to flag me down if I was driving down the road and he saw me and he had a package for me (oo er missus) that wouldn't go through the letter box or needed a signature.People complain about Hermes, but at least they deliver, albeit, it might not be on your doorstep when you get home, but that's beside the point, right?

author: _Andrew_
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2015, 08:59:10 pm
content: Had a very apologetic RM post man turn up, wading through all the mud that the farm has managed to deposit all around my workshop. With a package in the late afternoon which I had on a timed delivery for before 10am that morning from RS.The package (tiny jiffy pack) had not even been booked on to his van so he had no idea that it was there and found it dropped down in amongst other packages. So drove back to deliver it to me.