Canât you print out stamps on your home printer yet?
What is the Post Office thinking why havenât they embraced the digital interactive era? Surely there be an app where you give them some cash and they allow you to print a stamp?
Andy Townsend
Just annoys me.
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28th Dec.
2 1/2 year old Sony Bravia TV stops working halfway through the John Lewis 5 year guarantee.
30th Dec.
Engineer comes out to inspect. Says he will have to take it away to see if it can be repaired.
3rd Jan.
Have ordered replacement part for repair. It has to come from abroad so there will be a delay of at least a week.
10th Jan.
Engineer calls to say the replacement part is no longer available and TV will be replaced. Expect a call in 2 days from John Lewis regarding replacement.
What! Sony UK donât carry spares in this country to repair their TVs? Sony canât suppy a replacement part for a 2 1/2 year old TV from anywhere in the world.
How likely is that?
Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane
28th Dec.
2 1/2 year old Sony Bravia TV stops working halfway through the John Lewis 5 year guarantee.
30th Dec.
Engineer comes out to inspect. Says he will have to take it away to see if it can be repaired.
3rd Jan.
Have ordered replacement part for repair. It has to come from abroad so there will be a delay of at least a week.
10th Jan.
Engineer calls to say the replacement part is no longer available and TV will be replaced. Expect a call in 2 days from John Lewis regarding replacement.
What! Sony UK donât carry spares in this country to repair their TVs? Sony canât suppy a replacement part for a 2 1/2 year old TV from anywhere in the world.
How lightly is that?
Its not that they donât have the part available. They probably do in that big Sony place half way up the M3, but they do not have any experienced personnel that can install or actually repair things these days. I find it all the time Companyâs do not want to sell spare parts any more they want to sell complete units.
I wanted some plastic covers for a valve for offshore the company said I would be better of buying a new unit as they had nobody to install the spare parts. I wasnât asking them to install the part just supply it so I could get it installed. This is still an ongoing saga for when I get back offshore.
When they supply the new TV ask for the old one back as well (it has sentimental value) and take it to VCR in Dibden Purlieu they will probably fix it.
Someone wished me a Happy New Year yesterdayâŚ
Iâm sure they meant well, but January 10th??
So hereâs the new rules -
Christmas shopping and advertising is banned before November 15th.
No poppies on the BBC until seven days before Remembrance Sunday - and only if people want to wear them, because forcing staff to wear them for three weeks is a hollow gesture.
And the cut-off for Happy New Year in 2018 will be January 3rd.
Noon.
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So if I see you tonight, the first time since last year, I canât wish you a Happy New Year? 
Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane
28th Dec.
2 1/2 year old Sony Bravia TV stops working halfway through the John Lewis 5 year guarantee.
30th Dec.
Engineer comes out to inspect. Says he will have to take it away to see if it can be repaired.
3rd Jan.
Have ordered replacement part for repair. It has to come from abroad so there will be a delay of at least a week.
10th Jan.
Engineer calls to say the replacement part is no longer available and TV will be replaced. Expect a call in 2 days from John Lewis regarding replacement.
What! Sony UK donât carry spares in this country to repair their TVs? Sony canât suppy a replacement part for a 2 1/2 year old TV from anywhere in the world.
How lightly is that?
Never buy Sony. Always buy at Richer Sounds with their 5 year care package (costs 10%).
Simples.
Getting an unexpected tax demand. Bad Enough.
Trying get through to the helpline at HRMC to tell them that they are fuck wits. Even worse.
Finally getting through and realising they are right. The worst.
FUUUUUCCCCKKKKK
Ouch
HMRC arenât speaking to me again sent me a letter to say we are cancelling the tax demand and the penalty notice and will not send you any more letters asking for money.
Am fully expecting a demand and penalty notice to arrive on my old mans doormat 2 days after this years day of reckoning falls due.
You can wish me a Happy New Year BT, and Iâll smile politelyâŚbut look carefully and my eyes will betray my true feelings.
Not really a problem what TV you buy from John Lewis as they all come with a free 5 year guarantee. My replacement TV from JL with have another 5 years cover.
My gripe is Sony not being able to supply a part to repair a 2 year old TV.
I pruchased a ChromeCast yesterday, ÂŁ30, bloke tried to sell me a no-quibble replacement guarentee for ÂŁ6.99, nearly a quarter the price of the ChromeCast!!
life in the slow lane⌠Youâre getting a NEW tv, stop whinging about it.
RB, happy with the idea of cut off points and dates and reasonably happy with your proposed dates except Christmas shopping, which should not start in mid November, but late November. One month is enough to buy some shit that no one wants. Would possibly extend being able to day happy new year to the 7th
Iâd maybe even make everyone say âwotchaâ as a form of greeting as it seems to be dying out.
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I always wonder how goods go from being the best on the market during the sales pitch to could go wrong at anytime, when you get offered an extended warranty.
âno-quibbleâ replacements really get my shit. If the piece of crap you have sold me goes wrong, I dont give a fuck how much quibbling you do, you are going to replace it.
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what if it goes wrong because you stuck it up your bum (out of curiosity)?
Then it really gets my shit
also depends whether the item in question was designed to be shoved up your bum in the first place. If it was a butt plug then my original point stands, if it was a 48" flat screen, then I might concede the point
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Waiters / waitresses who try to remember your order without writing it down. Why would u do this? You are going to fuck it up and piss me off. And she did.
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