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Must the media turn international women's day into international man bashing day?

We are not all that bad us men.
 
WA election this Saturday, and for the last few weeks I've been getting pamphlets, postal vote letters and reams of paper adverts from candidates who have funk all chance of getting my vote. One bloke sent the postal vote letter twice to me, and three times to the missus. I'm sick of seeing hired mobile billboards, signs on every available space in town, and some guy's car with his mug plastered over the whole thing.
They're all a bunch of pricks that couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dead dog's arse let alone drive our economy. I don't trust any of them, next week when the dust settles I'll be listening to the same bs lies, just they'll be coming from a different mouth.
 
You should really be asking Coopers why the hell are they shipping those cans from Adelaide to Qld, only to send them back to Adelaide again.[/quote]

No, you should be asking Coopers why they continue to use Oz Post given the cans arrived like they've been kicked the whole way and you have to make the journey to their shop just to line up for collection as they refuse to deliver to home if you are not there. Coopers REFUSE to look at better delivery options that are no more expensive. And they do nothing when you complain.
 
So do the talking with your pocket & don't buy them. Sometimes that's the only way these companies realise they need to do something (& better)
 
Customs sent me a letter that the purple bamboo seeds I ordered do not meet bio security requirements and will henceforth be destroyed.
Meanies..
 
When you draw the short straw and have to clean out the Trub pit. ImageUploadedByAussie Home Brewer1489016517.429996.jpg
 
Cerveja said:
No, you should be asking Coopers why they continue to use Oz Post given the cans arrived like they've been kicked the whole way and you have to make the journey to their shop just to line up for collection as they refuse to deliver to home if you are not there. Coopers REFUSE to look at better delivery options that are no more expensive. And they do nothing when you complain.
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I ordered a few tins from Coopers on the weekend for an upcoming Toucan Strong Ale. AusPost did give a (free) safe drop option (ie they'll leave it without a signature as long as you've got a safe place not in plain view from the street).
I took that option and it was supposedly delivered this morning. Hopefully it's on the porch and they haven't just left a note that it's at the depot...if that's the case I'll be back with a rant.
 
peteru said:
Looks about right to me. It's following a road route that bulk transport trucks take. They ensure that the trucks are as full as possible when travelling between major population centres. What do you expect them to do? Load your cans of malt extract onto a jet plane and fly them point-to-point? I'm sure if you drop the $, someone will do that for you, but it's not going to be for under $20.

You should really be asking Coopers why the hell are they shipping those cans from Adelaide to Qld, only to send them back to Adelaide again.
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The delivery from Coopers Qld is by Australia Post, so I would take it that they ( Aust. Post) would have delivers other than Coopers for Adelaide. No I don't expect a jet plane and think that comment is not worth bothering about.

I did contact Aust. Post about the phone from Sydney via Vic- "Due to the organisational structure of our postage network, all mail items sent to Adelaide are required to pass through our sortation facility in Victoria, which does impact the amount of time it takes for your mail to arrive." So now we know.
 
Bones99 said:
So do the talking with your pocket & don't buy them. Sometimes that's the only way these companies realise they need to do something (& better)
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I no longer do and I tell everyone I know how I was treated as well. Absolutely did my head in how they wouldn't listen to simple advice.
 
Just to finish off, the phone arrived yesterday. I knew it had been delivered as an email via tracking set up told me so. It was shoved in the letter box although the seller in advertising stated a delivery signature was required plus an Australi Post sticker on the package said "signature required". Unbelievable.
 
"I did contact Aust. Post about the phone from Sydney via Vic- "Due to the organisational structure of our postage network, all mail items sent to Adelaide are required to pass through our sortation facility in Victoria, which does impact the amount of time it takes for your mail to arrive." So now we know. "

This is because they closed the Adelaide central sort/distribution centre thus getting rid of staff etc so the area distribution for Adelaide is now done at Sunshine, Vic. How else are you going to pay 5 million plus to a CEO?

Yes, still shitty
 
Yep it's bloody ridiculous.

We sent out wedding invites last year from Ballina, they got to Perth several days quicker than to my parents at Gympie which is only half a days drive away. I could have ridden up there quicker and hand delivered on a bicycle.
 
Want a laugh? Those that have followed the ridiculous delivery time and delivery destination of a small parcel from Sydney to Adelaide - well my Beerkat parts were with Aust. Post 7.35pm Wednesday and delivered today. (now that's service)
 
grott said:
"I did contact Aust. Post about the phone from Sydney via Vic- "Due to the organisational structure of our postage network, all mail items sent to Adelaide are required to pass through our sortation facility in Victoria, which does impact the amount of time it takes for your mail to arrive." So now we know. "

This is because they closed the Adelaide central sort/distribution centre thus getting rid of staff etc so the area distribution for Adelaide is now done at Sunshine, Vic. How else are you going to pay 5 million plus to a CEO?

Yes, still shitty
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Probably bringing bottles and cans back to SA from Victoria to get the deposit tax like on the episode of Seinfeld 'The bottle deposit' postal trucks full of bottles and cans.
 
grott said:
"I did contact Aust. Post about the phone from Sydney via Vic- "Due to the organisational structure of our postage network, all mail items sent to Adelaide are required to pass through our sortation facility in Victoria, which does impact the amount of time it takes for your mail to arrive." So now we know. "

This is because they closed the Adelaide central sort/distribution centre thus getting rid of staff etc so the area distribution for Adelaide is now done at Sunshine, Vic. How else are you going to pay 5 million plus to a CEO?

Yes, still shitty
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It's false economy. Sure, it saves the company money on paper, but that's only looking at the company. When you account for the fact that a company is part of a greater society, the social and environmental costs really need to be accounted for. Unfortunately, pretty much every business ends up solely looking at the bottom line.

It's like in the US. As corporations shifted well-paid factory and manufacturing jobs offshore, the solution was seen in expansion of the service economy. So, families that were supported by $40-60US/hour jobs, with one sole or two part-time breadwinners, are now supported by two full-time breadwinners working the likes of Macca's and Walmart. Who's looking after the kids? Grandparents if they're lucky, the streets if they're not, with before and after school care in the middle.

It's not like any business exists in a vacuum. Mass corporate culture/thinking is, in my opinion, destroying our countries, cultures and world.
 
That's dangerously socialist thinking There Mardoo...

Dont you know that massive coroporate profits are good for everyone. That's why they should be given massive tax cuts. And penalty rate cuts. And the ability to completely casualise their workforce through sham contracting.

As Maggie thatcher said - "there is no such thing as society".
 
Taken terribly out of context.
If you go back to what she originally said, you'll see the full expression was 'I am a complete arsehole, **** you, there is no such thing as society and if there is I couldn't give a rat's arse about it anyway.
Plebs.'
 

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