I have probably ranted about this all before, but as nothing has really improved it is worth trying again … not that I am expecting anyone to pay attention here of course! The rant here is about the myth of home delivery.<\/p>\n
When I shop online, I have three different delivery addresses to choose from, none of which is\u00a0<\/em>likely to result in a delivery to my home address. Of course one of those three address is my home address, and\u00a0sometimes<\/em> choosing it can result in finding a parcel outside my front door when I get home, but most commonly results in a little card telling me to walk into the central post office to collect the parcel.<\/p>\n If I pay money for home delivery I expect the delivery to be made to my home address\u00a0when<\/em> I am at home. Delivery companies seem to live in some mythical world of the past where they assume everyone has someone standing by at their home address during working hours. Trying a delivery to my home address during working hours is a waste of time, and leaving a card in my letterbox does\u00a0not<\/em> count as a delivery.<\/p>\n Perhaps those who end up having to collect parcels from depots should start demanding their money back for any delivery charges.<\/p>\n Compare if you will with supermarket deliveries, or even fast food deliveries. Without paying any extra, you either get a delivery at the time of your own choosing, or even a same day delivery! You can pay\u00a0extra<\/em> for “guaranteed” next day delivery and not get a service that good.<\/p>\n And why do we put up with the shop’s choice of delivery agent? I pay for the delivery; I should get to choose who provides that delivery service. The more you think about it, the more it seems like a bloody\u00a0cheek\u00a0for shops to insist on their choice of delivery agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have probably ranted about this all before, but as nothing has really improved it is worth trying again … not that I am expecting anyone to pay attention here of course! The rant here is about the myth of home delivery. When I shop online, I have three different delivery addresses to choose from, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1041,361,1042,1040],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-deliveries","tag-delivery","tag-home-delivery","tag-online-shopping","category-7-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-FE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}