Last year my Grandad went into a home, it was all a bit traumatic. Into hospital in the middle of the night, there for months while either him or the ward had covid or norovirus. It was decided between us all that he needed to go into a home, his dementia is far enough along that it had to be decided for him unfortunately.
The home he is in is beautiful, I'd move in in a second. Lovely staff, great food, loads of activities, cinema room. No less than he deserves.

Unfortunately it has left my Granny on her own. Most days she goes to the home but the evenings are lonely. I ring her much more often than I did before. Most of the call is spent with her remembering what day she did something as if it matters or moaning about someone not cutting their lawn yet but its time well spent.

I am extremely lucky that I had all 4 grandparents up until my late 20s. My mum's parents are now gone. It wont be many years my Granny and Grandad will be about.

The Photoshop Contextual Taskbar.
It has some really useful functions including the generative AI stuff which is handy for extending images.
However its always in the bloody way, always exactly where I want to click on something else. Its uncanny.

Its like trying to draw and some keeps sticking a playing card under the pencil every time you move to draw a line.

Just let me dock the stupid thing in the corner or ya know, on the pissing toolbar.

Still got UPS, Evri & Royal Mail to deliver today. Let’s see who fucks me over next…

Minnesänger wrote:

Maybe get something delivered by Hermes if you wanna guarantee frustration and failure.

They're Evri now.  Same shit company, different and worse name.

hylian_elf wrote:

Minnesänger wrote:

Maybe get something delivered by Hermes if you wanna guarantee frustration and failure.

They're Evri now.  Same shit company, different and worse name.

Oh, shows what I know.

With some retailers, I get the option of Evri or DPD for a little extra. I always opt for DPD, they have never let me down.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Evri cloud.

Silver haired whining.

These things seem so dependent on the driver. I’ve now got a couple of DPD drivers covering the route my flat is on, and they’re both great; they use common sense, they know all the folk in our block trust each other to share a hidden nook where they leave stuff, they don’t lie about fictitious attempts, and so on. Equally, there’s actually a great lassie working for Hermes/Evri in our town, she’ll leave her private mobile number so you can arrange a redelivery or ask her to leave it somewhere / with a neighbour without having to go through the company.

DHL, though? Can’t stand them. Their working practices are really poor and the drivers seem to go out of their way to force you into having to collect from a depot. Ditto UPS and FedEx. I recognise the drivers are probably working in response to their own working conditions, with too many deliveries to be completed for the hours they have in a day, but the whole sorry affair just makes everyone’s lives worse.

I've never had a problem with Royal Mail deliveries so can't comment on customer services when things go wrong.

Agree with Drew that a lot of the time it's your driver that is the problem, though.  My local Royal Mail drivers are really friendly and always stop for a brief smile and chat.

DHL had their worker steal a pair of Nike vapormax I got on sale. By the time I sorted it all out and got credit back from Nike, they were sold out. DHL are cunts.

Evri finally delivered, leaving only Royal Mail the only no-show of the four companies today.
FedEx absolutely the worst service tho. God help you if something has gone wrong and you have to try and contact them.

Aye, sad but true I'm afraid. FedEx was absolute torture, but at least the parcel got here today.