LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

You would be better asking Dunelm to send out a replacement, it's highly unlikely DHL will deliver the original now. However, with the current strikes and we are now into the busiest time of the year for online shopping, you could still end up with another lengthy wait.

 

I have sent a message to the supplier, a big company in Bavaria, saying ...
"This is a live plant and is now very overdue. It has been travelling for 16 days and may be dead if it ever gets here."
Let's see how they respond. Obviously nothing will be delivered today or tomorrow,, here anyway.

 

The Royal Mail announced yesterday that to get a delivery by Christmas the cut off dates are. Second class would have to be posted by the 12th, first class by the 16th, but I would not expect them to deliver all items before Christmas.

We will not be sending out any online purchases from the 14h to the 3rd of January, this is displayed in a large banner on our website, you would also get an automated response should anyone contact us via email that we are currently closed. We will still get some making a purchase expecting us to despatch and deliver before Christmas though.

If someone ordered a pallet of compost on Monday, it would be despatched Tuesday and delivered by Friday, if not sooner, some things are still functioning without delays.

Due to these strikes by the Royal Mail, it has put an extra burden on other couriers as retailers are desperate to sell their goods they have purchased especially for the Christmas period.

 

The main sticking point seems to be modernisation and redundancies.
Same with the railways.

If they were just small companies they would have that kind of thing imposed upon them, you can't run a company at a loss because nobody wants any changes.

That was where we ended up in the 70s when everything was nationalised.

 

On the issue of strikes, I'm going to stick my neck out here

Some of those striking are already paid quite well. Sure, their pay is worth less now because of inflation, but that's true for all of us. I've always believed if you want better pay, get a better job, and if you can't get a better job because you're missing some skills that companies are looking for, then go out and get those skills.

In my role I get paid quite well, but there are roles similar to mine that pay double. I could tell my boss I'm refusing to work until I get paid more, or I could dedicate some of my own time to develop the skills I'm missing so that I can get into those roles that pay double.

I've never seen the point of strikes. Obviously they're aimed to cause disruption to hurt the employer, but they hurt the customers more. Doesn't seem like a good strategy for mustering public support. Like the train strikes. If people can't trust that the trains are running, even if there are no strikes announced on the days they want to travel, they're more likely to plan to take the car instead. Taking away your employer's ability to make money is hardly a good way to get more money off them.

 

They have refunded. Mow I wait to see if plant arrives and in what condition.

 

Much as I'm not keen on the government ATM, I do agree that wage rises need to be kept below the inflation rate, especially for those that are already on reasonable wages, for fear of starting the old wage rises fuelling inflation, we dont want that situation again.

I think if people can just hang on for a bit inflation might start to come down, but big pay rises will just keep it rising.

Always makes me laugh when a minister starts ramping on about, "well we have put up the minimum wage", it costs the government nothing, in fact they get more tax coming in and it puts small businesses into the red.

 

If the price of fuel can be contained world wide, Oil Gas etc.
I think it would have the biggest effect on the inflation rate.

Maybe some intervention from government to stop a all the bandwagon jumpers and things could get better faster, but who knows.