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> One advantage of being remote is that the drivers make damn sure they
> deliver when they get out here. If they don't they'll just be doing the
> hours drive in and hours drive back out again for the second attempt.

Ah, rural - that makes all the difference! I remember those days! when
if you met the postman further up the valley he'd give you the post
there and then - I remember he even used to deliver newspapers
to some people in the valley ('tho he wasn't supposed to!) I can't even
ask our postman/woman/whatever for our post a few doors away because
they haven't got a clue who I am as we seem to have a new person
every day! and like you say, in rural areas they remember who you are.
My parents moved away, but my father still runs his business in the
nearest town to where we used to live - the postie was still delivering
the odd letter addressed to the old house to dad's office years after we
had moved.

Matt
 
> I used to live in a little market town mid-way between Nottingham and
> Derby (Long Eaton for the curious), and the Post people were lovely.
> Very short-staffed, extremely ****ed off with the management, very
> apologetic when the second post was cancelled and the delivery promise
> went from "by midday" to "by 4pm", but if something went missing (which
> was rare) they worked hard to find it for me. I never lost an exam
> script package, and even a year after I had moved to France (and the
> international redirectiona had finished) I rang up one day to chase a

Did the international re-direction work well? Going to have to use
that myself, but not sure how well it operates, or if it is worth
my hard earned £70!

Matt
 

> Has anyone considered marking each item "RM vs Courier Test - Mail
> #5473"? just a thought.

Interesting idea, tho I suspect it wouldn't make any difference as
most people in the sorting office couldn't give a sh!t! I was told
by a woman at the Post Office counter not to mark items as fragile
because it was not unknown for the people in the sorting office to
deliberately try to break items marked as such.

Matt
 
On 2006-06-18, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> The various couriers also all arrive at roughly the same time for each of
> them. DHL will be around 0845, Parcel Force 1630, several others don't
> deliver direct but the minibus from the local that takes some of the kids
> to school brings back and delivers parcels for them. I think some also
> just drop at the garage and the "last mile" is done by the garage.

Parcelnet are a potentially good idea for a courier, marred by
extremely poor management from all accounts. Basically parcelnet's
couriers are members of the public who get paid about 50p per parcel
to deliver them, many of them are mums who drop the kids off at school
then go on to deliver a round of parcels in their area. Amazon's free
delivery service uses them.

Doing it in a landy might scoff the profits of course!

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Matthew Maddock wrote:
>> I used to live in a little market town mid-way between Nottingham and
>> Derby (Long Eaton for the curious), and the Post people were lovely.
>> Very short-staffed, extremely ****ed off with the management, very
>> apologetic when the second post was cancelled and the delivery promise
>> went from "by midday" to "by 4pm", but if something went missing
>> (which was rare) they worked hard to find it for me. I never lost an
>> exam script package, and even a year after I had moved to France (and
>> the international redirectiona had finished) I rang up one day to chase a
>
>
> Did the international re-direction work well? Going to have to use
> that myself, but not sure how well it operates, or if it is worth
> my hard earned £70!
>
> Matt
Yes, it was fine. They managed to misplace a couple of parcels whilst
it was still current, but a phone call sorted that out. It is well
worth knowing the number of the sorting office!

Stuart
 
Matthew Maddock wrote:
>
>> Has anyone considered marking each item "RM vs Courier Test - Mail
>> #5473"? just a thought.
>
>
> Interesting idea, tho I suspect it wouldn't make any difference as
> most people in the sorting office couldn't give a sh!t! I was told
> by a woman at the Post Office counter not to mark items as fragile
> because it was not unknown for the people in the sorting office to
> deliberately try to break items marked as such.
>
> Matt

I was told that the internal marking for fragile was a green stripe top
to bottom, and so it might be worth using that rather than the word.


Stuart
 
In message <[email protected]>
"Dave Liquorice" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:21:39 +0100, William Tasso wrote:
>
> >> I spoke to the lady behind the Post Office counter about it and was
> >> advised NOT to send mail recorded delivery because that highlighted
> >> the fact that it is valuable and therefore more likely to vanish! Can
> >> this be true?
> >
> > sure she wasn't talking about 'registered'?
> >
> > so far as I know, 'recorded' is simply that, whereas registered gets
> > some insurance.
>
> All post is insured(*), OK 1st Class only up to the price of 10 1st Class
> stamps but thats enough for small items.
>
> Registered doesn't exist anymore it's now called "Special Delivery".
> Recorded just gives each item a traceable number but not tracking apart
> from it was delivered to... before... and the online service now
> reproduces the signature. Again SWMBO'd has had recorded stuff returned
> as "uncollected" but when the client is asked no card has been left,
> curiously this only happens with address's in large cities...
>
> (*)For general items, valuables, cash and fragiles not...

Have you ever tried claiming? You have to wait x weeks, and there's
no compensation for time lost, or the fact that it may be a special
order which you cannot reurn after 10 days hence you are stuck with
something in stock you don't want *and* you've had to fork out
for another one. Not unreasonably, out custoners are not prepared
to wait three weeks to see if it's going to turn up.

Richard


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Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:38:51 +0100, beamendsltd wrote:
>
>> It's not that simple - there's some templates that things have to
>> go through, plus envelopes over 24mm or something are not envelopes -
>
> Yes, you can get a cardboard template sent to you free from the Royal
> Mail website. A3 size with two colored areas starting from the bottom
> left corner. Align item to bottom left corner:
>
> Is the item within the red area (240 x 165mm)?
> yes > Will fit through the 5mm slot?
> yes > It is a "letter".
> no > Will it fit through the 25mm slot?
> yes > It is a "large letter".
> no > it is a "packet".
> no > is the item within the grey area (353 x 250mm)?
> yes > Will it fit through the 25mm slot?
> yes > It is a "large letter".
> no > It is a "packet".
> no > It is a "packet".


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"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Adam Bryce wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I need a new water pump for my 55 series one original motor
>>
>> and quote to send to australia
>
> If Richard can't help at the moment I can probably give you details of a
> NZ based supplier.
>
> --
> EMB

i can get it here but wondering on price from over there as i will be
getting a new wiring loom and some other stuff as well
as only paid roughly 60 quid for two 107 inch utes i will be getting a few
new parts for the restoration and as soon as i get my digital camera working
again i will post some pics



Adam


 
> Have you ever tried claiming? You have to wait x weeks, and there's
> no compensation for time lost, or the fact that it may be a special
> order which you cannot reurn after 10 days hence you are stuck with
> something in stock you don't want *and* you've had to fork out
> for another one. Not unreasonably, out custoners are not prepared
> to wait three weeks to see if it's going to turn up.

Yeah, bit of a nightmare. I don't even bother now unless it worth
more than about £20, it just isn't worth the hassle.

I did get one-up on them a while back tho - I sent a claim in
(being me and from past experience!) I took a copy of all the
receipts, recorded delivery slip etc and sent claim off. Few weeks
later phoned to find out why I hadn't received a refund - they said they
didn't have any record of a claim and told me I needed to send the
original documents off to them to claim - since I had already sent them
the docs that was impossible!! and after a bit of arguing we reached an
impasse. Anyway, I hadn't told them I'd copied the docs (so after
making another copy!) I sent off a claim with the copy documents...to
cut a long story short I received a refund, and then a few weeks later
received a 2nd refund! So they either took a very long time to process
the claims, or they eventually found my original claim and processed
that one too! You would have thought that their system would record
that against a particular Recorded Delivery reference that a claim had
already been processed.

Matt
 
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:28:32 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> Basically parcelnet's couriers are members of the public who get paid
> about 50p per parcel to deliver them,

I'd want 50p/mile not 50p/parcel. Current running costs (insurance, tax,
fuel & maintenace but *not* depreciation) of the Disco II are 32p/mile.

I wouldn't be surprised if there has been £10k depreciation over the 18
months and 20,000 miles I've done so that gives "total cost of ownership"
around 80p/mile. Which is par for the course for most vechicles according
to the likes of the AA etc.

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:26:09 +0100, Matthew Maddock wrote:

> Ah, rural - that makes all the difference! I remember those days! when
> if you met the postman further up the valley he'd give you the post
> there and then ...

Aye, I have done that but the new round (since the abolition of the
second delivery, which we never got anyway) takes him right past our
front door, twice within 5 mins. I do see the postie most mornings but
normally right at the start of the round and the tray with our post is in
the back of the van not on the passenger seat.

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On 2006-06-19, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd want 50p/mile not 50p/parcel. Current running costs (insurance, tax,
> fuel & maintenace but *not* depreciation) of the Disco II are 32p/mile.

Indeed, even my old Audi, on fuel costs alone, takes 9p/mile so that's
only 5 miles max per parcel before it gets loss-making.

As for insurance and tax, I'd not count non-mileage associated
depreciation as even if I was parcelnetting I'd still need the car.

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:49:23 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

> Indeed, even my old Audi, on fuel costs alone, takes 9p/mile so that's
> only 5 miles max per parcel before it gets loss-making.

95p/l = 4.31/gallon / 0.09 = 47mpg average. Very good. Fuel in the Disco
is 15p/mile.

> As for insurance and tax, I'd not count non-mileage associated
> depreciation as even if I was parcelnetting I'd still need the car.

But why should your other uses subsidise a commercial activity? Bad
business practice and a very easy way to slip into cash flow problems or
"I'm working my socks off, getting paid but still don't have any
profits".

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On 2006-06-20, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> 95p/l = 4.31/gallon / 0.09 = 47mpg average. Very good. Fuel in the Disco
> is 15p/mile.

Not bad for a comfortable, old car, sod all these silly dirty-to-make hybrids!

> But why should your other uses subsidise a commercial activity? Bad
> business practice and a very easy way to slip into cash flow problems or
> "I'm working my socks off, getting paid but still don't have any
> profits".

What's the point of working an existing cost into the business
equation? In this case the cost would be there whether the business
existed or not, so it can't really be regarded as a business cost. It
would be like including your weekly shopping in your business plan.

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On or around Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:49:23 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>On 2006-06-19, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'd want 50p/mile not 50p/parcel. Current running costs (insurance, tax,
>> fuel & maintenace but *not* depreciation) of the Disco II are 32p/mile.
>
>Indeed, even my old Audi, on fuel costs alone, takes 9p/mile so that's
>only 5 miles max per parcel before it gets loss-making.
>
>As for insurance and tax, I'd not count non-mileage associated
>depreciation as even if I was parcelnetting I'd still need the car.

I divide vehicle costs into "running" and "standing" costs. The standing
costs are all the things you have to pay just to have it sitting outside
ready and legal to go. The running costs are everything that wears out or
gets used up per mile.

The latter costs I have a spreadsheet for which channels all the data down
to a single "pence per mile" figure. Unsurprisingly, fuel is the big one -
the minibus is currently being checked on this system and the current
average is 30.5 mpg, which equates to a bit more'n 14 ppm IIRC, for the
current price of diesel round here - the spreadsheet also averages the fuel
prices. All the other stuff like service items and tyres and so forth (and
if I paid others to do the servicing, I'd add that too) add up to about
another 4 or 5 ppm, without looking at it.
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Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2006-06-19, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'd want 50p/mile not 50p/parcel. Current running costs (insurance,
>> tax, fuel & maintenace but *not* depreciation) of the Disco II are
>> 32p/mile.
>
> Indeed, even my old Audi, on fuel costs alone, takes 9p/mile so that's
> only 5 miles max per parcel before it gets loss-making.
>
> As for insurance and tax, I'd not count non-mileage associated
> depreciation as even if I was parcelnetting I'd still need the car.

Bearing in mind as always, SDP insurance is likely voided because you're receiving
payment for using the vehicle!

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Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:49:23 +0100, Ian Rawlings
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> On 2006-06-19, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd want 50p/mile not 50p/parcel. Current running costs (insurance,
>>> tax, fuel & maintenace but *not* depreciation) of the Disco II are
>>> 32p/mile.
>>
>> Indeed, even my old Audi, on fuel costs alone, takes 9p/mile so
>> that's only 5 miles max per parcel before it gets loss-making.
>>
>> As for insurance and tax, I'd not count non-mileage associated
>> depreciation as even if I was parcelnetting I'd still need the car.
>
> I divide vehicle costs into "running" and "standing" costs. The
> standing costs are all the things you have to pay just to have it
> sitting outside ready and legal to go.

Sitting costs shirley?

The running costs are
> everything that wears out or gets used up per mile.
>
> The latter costs I have a spreadsheet for which channels all the data
> down to a single "pence per mile" figure. Unsurprisingly, fuel is
> the big one - the minibus is currently being checked on this system
> and the current average is 30.5 mpg, which equates to a bit more'n 14
> ppm IIRC, for the current price of diesel round here - the
> spreadsheet also averages the fuel prices. All the other stuff like
> service items and tyres and so forth (and if I paid others to do the
> servicing, I'd add that too) add up to about another 4 or 5 ppm,
> without looking at it.



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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:32:10 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

>> "I'm working my socks off, getting paid but still don't have any
>> profits".
>
> What's the point of working an existing cost into the business
> equation?

What don't you understand about my statement above? The money for that
"existing cost" has to come from somewhere. Not all of us have a salary
that magically drops into the bank account each month to pay these
"existing costs".

> In this case the cost would be there whether the business existed or
> not, so it can't really be regarded as a business cost.

OK taking all of it as a business cost is pushing the edges a bit but to
allocate the same proportion of it as that of business/private use is
very sensible and valid.

> It would be like including your weekly shopping in your business plan.

For the self employed the weekly shopping *is* part of the business plan.
I need this much money each week to eat, the business needs to make at
least that much profit each week or we don't eat...

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