The Lemon Fool

stevensfo wrote: Is it really so difficult to number a row of houses?
Steve

Apparently!
I'm currently delivering christmas cards that people have ordered from our local hospice, and I delivered to a house this morning. A modern (1980s?) house in a long terraced block. The houses are numbered 17, 19, 15, 21, 23, 27, 25, and I lost track of the rest. No reason whatsoever for an apparently random sequence.
Weird!

--kiloran

88V8 wrote:

stevensfo wrote:Is it really so difficult to number a row of houses?

Out in the sticks, routinely name, no number.
And the name often not that prominent, and never lit up at night.

Same round here. These 'ouses down this rutted old unlit track have been here for 'undreds of years, and if yer don't know who lives where, then what yer doin' round 'ere anyway? Be off with you, before the hounds get yer smell and track you down. And you wouldn't want that, trust me.

Have to admit that I do feel for the poor sods delivering takeaway pizzas in the dark, though. We have our house name and number clearly written on the gatepost (and a light, too), but all it tends to mean is that the delivery drivers give up the search and bring the edibles to our door, No. 21, instead of to No. 27, which would mean driving another quarter mile into the pothole-strewn inky black darkness. Maybe it would be easier for the drivers to call for directions if there was a mobile phone signal?

BJ

kiloran wrote:

stevensfo wrote: Is it really so difficult to number a row of houses?
Steve

Apparently!
I'm currently delivering christmas cards that people have ordered from our local hospice, and I delivered to a house this morning. A modern (1980s?) house in a long terraced block. The houses are numbered 17, 19, 15, 21, 23, 27, 25, and I lost track of the rest. No reason whatsoever for an apparently random sequence.
Weird!

--kiloran

The houses on our street are numbered 35,36,37,38,40,41,42...etc. For some reason, Number 39 was never built.

monabri wrote:The houses on our street are numbered 35,36,37,38,40,41,42...etc. For some reason, Number 39 was never built.

We don't talk about Number 39. It's not there, it was never there, you hear me? And it hasn't been there since..........

And there are many, many streets in superstitious Birmingham with no number 13.

BJ

bungeejumper wrote:

monabri wrote:The houses on our street are numbered 35,36,37,38,40,41,42...etc. For some reason, Number 39 was never built.

We don't talk about Number 39. It's not there, it was never there, you hear me? And it hasn't been there since..........

And there are many, many streets in superstitious Birmingham with no number 13.

BJ

monabri wrote:

kiloran wrote:Apparently!
I'm currently delivering christmas cards that people have ordered from our local hospice, and I delivered to a house this morning. A modern (1980s?) house in a long terraced block. The houses are numbered 17, 19, 15, 21, 23, 27, 25, and I lost track of the rest. No reason whatsoever for an apparently random sequence.
Weird!

--kiloran

The houses on our street are numbered 35,36,37,38,40,41,42...etc. For some reason, Number 39 was never built.

But why?

Brilliant theme for a Netflix series!

'Number 39 was never built!' 18+ Starring 88V8, Kiloran, Chas49, Monabri, Bungeejumper and stevensfo in a film that will scare everyone.

With guest appearances from Jacob Rees-Mogg (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Matt Hancock (The Magic Roundabout).


Steve

bungeejumper wrote:

monabri wrote:The houses on our street are numbered 35,36,37,38,40,41,42...etc. For some reason, Number 39 was never built.

We don't talk about Number 39. It's not there, it was never there, you hear me? And it hasn't been there since..........

And there are many, many streets in superstitious Birmingham with no number 13.

BJ

The people at number 13 in my avenue bought it from new. They paid £250 less than the other, identical, houses in the park sold for. This is at 1960 prices, so amounts to between 5 and 10 percent of the new price at that time!

Watis

88V8 wrote:

stevensfo wrote:That's crazy! My grandparents always gave their houses a name, but they also had a number. Is it really so difficult to number a row of houses?

Out in the sticks, routinely name, no number.
And the name often not that prominent, and never lit up at night.

Mind you, couriers have it cushy now, no flapping creased maps to read, heated cabs, paved roads. And the mud not more than a few inches deep.

V8

I get this constantly. At least peoples with no central heating have an incentive to help me find them. Its quite common for me to need to avoid some dopey old git wondering about in the dark in the lane only to find they ARE my customer, out looking for me to guide me in!

As someone upthread noted, finding the stupid house by name only is the ideal use for "what3words" app.

Mike4 wrote:I get this constantly. At least peoples with no central heating have an incentive to help me find them. Its quite common for me to need to avoid some dopey old git wondering about in the dark in the lane only to find they ARE my customer, out looking for me to guide me in!

My house has a number, but is one of two in the exact same postcode (not sure if there are more in the same road but other postcodes) to share the number. So I provide a brief description when someone needs to find it.

Last week I needed to come outside to guide a tradesman in after he phoned to say he was looking for me. But that wasn't here, it was a different house with a unique and unambiguous address.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/d ... 857151.amp

"A man from a Derby suburb has been left "furious" and "fuming" after a parcel he ordered online was dumped in a wheelie bin outside his block of flats by an Evri delivery driver. Raaj Singh says he was at the door "in seconds" after hearing a knock at the main entrance to the apartment in Chellaston, before finding that his parcel had been dumped in a bin outside the flats."

They really are crap! How they are allowed to trade is beyond me!

Evri, UK's 'worst courier', fails to deliver on profits
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12683557/Evri-UKs-worst-courier-fails-deliver-profits.html

"The delivery firm dubbed the 'worst' in Britain swung to a loss last year after it was hit by inflation and a shortage of staff.

Evri, formerly called Hermes, reported a loss of £77 million for the year to February 25, 2023, while turnover stayed flat at £1.46 billion. It made a £48 million profit the year before."

Perhaps it's behind their bins!

Adrian

monabri wrote:
They really are crap! How they are allowed to trade is beyond me!

I presume there isnt a law thats ays they cant put items in a bin.

And that their comtract is with the seller, so from a contractural perspective they have delivered to the address.

End of.

The clear way forward would be for consumers to vote with their feet - but see above wrt where the copntract lies, and short of every customer asking the seller which courier service they use (or that being advertised) ...

didds wrote:

monabri wrote:They really are crap! How they are allowed to trade is beyond me!

....short of every customer asking the seller which courier service they use (or that being advertised) ...

If it's something valuable or fragile or too large for our postbox in the lane, or urgent, I do ask.
Recently I had an item switched from Evri to Parcelforce, and another from Evri to DPD.

Evri survive due to buyer inertia.

V8

Most houses around here have names not numbers but postmen and other delivery drivers seem to manage. The one house they have no difficulty with is one in a nearby hamley called "PANT Y STAIN ---- can't think why.
We had an EVRI delivery yesterday and I must admit I had to smile, I'd seen the driver on CTV in his van so was ready and waiting for him, he danced up to the door doing an impression of Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, I was most impressed!

R6

monabri wrote:https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/chellaston-man-left-furious-after-8857151.amp

"A man from a Derby suburb has been left "furious" and "fuming" after a parcel he ordered online was dumped in a wheelie bin outside his block of flats by an Evri delivery driver. Raaj Singh says he was at the door "in seconds" after hearing a knock at the main entrance to the apartment in Chellaston, before finding that his parcel had been dumped in a bin outside the flats."

They really are crap! How they are allowed to trade is beyond me!

Totally agree. We live in a block of purpose built flats, with a front door and intercom system for each flat. Yet they regularly dump packages in any one of a row of unlit car ports, adjacent to the car park at the rear of our building. Sometimes they get dumped on the ramp outside the rear door, which has no intercom only a combination lock. I presume its laziness, as they can pull into the rear car park, dump the package and be off again quickly, instead of walking a few yards round to the front door.

richfool wrote:I presume its laziness, as they can pull into the rear car park, dump the package and be off again quickly, instead of walking a few yards round to the front door.

see the post I made a while back about the carp conditions and payment basis for deliveries that my son endured with Hermes (ie Evri's previous name)

Its probably not laziness. Its possibly an attempt at finishing before midnight and not working a 15 hour day for 50p per parcel drop.

didds

didds wrote:

richfool wrote:I presume its laziness, as they can pull into the rear car park, dump the package and be off again quickly, instead of walking a few yards round to the front door.

see the post I made a while back about the carp conditions and payment basis for deliveries that my son endured with Hermes (ie Evri's previous name)
Its probably not laziness. Its possibly an attempt at finishing before midnight and not working a 15 hour day for 50p per parcel drop.

Yeah, but it's like living in tents, a lifestyle choice

V8