Happened again today with Evri- the courier just rang the doorbell, left the package outside the front door and buggered off (I guess at least they rang the doorbell this time rather than just tapped the front door, so we at least got a notification to the phone). We weren't even at home, and we got a ring notification that someone had rung the doorbell- by the time we opened the app to talk to who was at the door, they were long gone. The package was left in front of the front door for over an hour until we were actually able to get home, thankfully it didn't rain or get stolen. For all they know we could have been away from home for several days with the package just left there to the elements or a passing thief to pick up.
They wanted "feedback" on how the delivery went, so I gave it them. Not that it will make the slightest bit of difference. Even if that driver gets reprimanded there's plenty more who are just as incompetent. I wish we were given the option of paying more to get a reputable company, Hermes/Evri and Yodel might be cheap, but they're fucking terrible, you're taking a gamble on whether your package will be left outside, shoved in a bin on collection day, or never even turn up at all when they're used. The concept of waiting to see if people are actally in, leaving things in a "safe place" or with neighbours seems to be a lost art, especially since covid stopped drivers from physically handing over packages- that's when the "ring the doorbell and bugger off" thing seemed to start.
Another High Street Rebrand
The response by the usual half-brains to today's P&O Ferries news is firstly that they're all cancelling their (non-existant) cruises with P&O Cruises, a completely different company, and also that P&O Cruises should immediately change their name/branding to avoid confusing reactionary tweet-jits in future.
I mean it's a fair assumption isn't it?Alexia wrote: Fri 18 Mar, 2022 03.21 The response by the usual half-brains to today's P&O Ferries news is firstly that they're all cancelling their (non-existant) cruises with P&O Cruises, a completely different company, and also that P&O Cruises should immediately change their name/branding to avoid confusing reactionary tweet-jits in future.
Yes, that'd make sense if the World Wrestling Federation were primarily concerned with a world-wide charitable activity and the reason they used the same name was because they were for most of their history divisions of the same company.Alexia wrote: Fri 18 Mar, 2022 20.28 No doubt they were writing letters to the World Wide Fund for Nature in the 90s to complain about wrestling matches.
Perhaps you could try Hewlett Packard/HP for a more apt analogy.
On a similar theme, I seem to remember a news story a few years back about shares in Tate & Lyle plummeting over the newly-announced sugar tax. That is, until investors remembered that Tate & Lyle had sold their sugar refining business some years earlier, but the new owners had bought the right to keep using the brand name...
P&O Cruises aren't good either tho. Their crew are not paid a living wage.thegeek wrote: Sat 19 Mar, 2022 06.36 Why should P&O Cruises change? P&O Ferries are the ones that suck.
Noticed yesterday that Lilt is now "by Fanta". Feels like this is either a stepping stone to it becoming Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit or one of those branding moves that'll be reversed in six months' time.
Pretty uninspiring design, and definitely doesn't scream "totally tropical" to me. The charm of the Fanta logo is lost too - the letters are the wrong shape for it to work, really, and it ends up looking pretty awkward. And mIxEd case is a real pet hate of mine.
(Dr Pepper is well overdue a rebrand, I'd say. That skewed, rotated wordmark screams '90s )
Pretty uninspiring design, and definitely doesn't scream "totally tropical" to me. The charm of the Fanta logo is lost too - the letters are the wrong shape for it to work, really, and it ends up looking pretty awkward. And mIxEd case is a real pet hate of mine.
(Dr Pepper is well overdue a rebrand, I'd say. That skewed, rotated wordmark screams '90s )
This appears to be a UK only thing... Irish Lilt is still Lilt as far as I can tell. Given that the UK, Ireland, and Gibraltar are basically the only places Lilt is sold you'd think it would apply everywhere.
"He has to be larger than bacon"