What do you have delivered to your house - milk etc?
Discussion
AAGR said:
Propaganda from the local council
I get them from two district councils!When I asked West Dorset DC why they were sending a South Somerset resident their copy of Pravda they said it was "too hard" to exclude our village (n.b. outside Dorset) from their mailshot.
That's how they are spending your council tax, West Dorset residents.
Honestherbert said:
we seem to be getting a lot of these little white plastic bag things from people scrounging for second hand clothes........about 3 different companies a week!!
Same here - they come in waves. 3 a week for a month or so, then nothing for a while, then another wave. But if I have any stuff to give away, it goes to the local charity shop not some dodgy Lithuanians. - Mail - quite frequent, usually pushed through the hole in the door.
- The Wine Society - left exactly where requested if we are out.
- Other couriers - variable to useless, had a package delivered a couple of days ago. Instructions said "If out leave in greenhouse", it was left outside of a neighbhour's front door.
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k all, aside from mail - it's what we get collected that I feel all smug about.
We have three trash collections per week - Monday it's garden waste - anything from leaf bags and lawn clippings to tree limbs (sawn to 4 ft lengths), fencing panels, rubble etc. Tuesday is regular household waste and recycling (glass, beer cans and paper) and Friday, regular houshold waste again.
Our garbage guys are awesome, they'll take pretty much anything - I thought I was pushing my luck when I left a knackered washing machine and an old matress out by the bins, but sure enough, they took everything. The sorry tales I hear from my UK friends who's bins don't get emptied for weeks - or because they are not correctly positioned, or weigh too much, make me realize what I great service we receive.
k all, aside from mail - it's what we get collected that I feel all smug about.We have three trash collections per week - Monday it's garden waste - anything from leaf bags and lawn clippings to tree limbs (sawn to 4 ft lengths), fencing panels, rubble etc. Tuesday is regular household waste and recycling (glass, beer cans and paper) and Friday, regular houshold waste again.
Our garbage guys are awesome, they'll take pretty much anything - I thought I was pushing my luck when I left a knackered washing machine and an old matress out by the bins, but sure enough, they took everything. The sorry tales I hear from my UK friends who's bins don't get emptied for weeks - or because they are not correctly positioned, or weigh too much, make me realize what I great service we receive.
dxg said:
Water, gas and electricity.
Post, too. Sometimes.
Air.
Neighbour's cats. Although they self-deliver.
Since you mention cats ....Post, too. Sometimes.
Air.
Neighbour's cats. Although they self-deliver.
I also get :
Slow worms (Harmless, look like small snakes)
Occasional smattering of flood water in the kitchen (not again, please, pretty please.....)
Hedgehogs in the garden
Oh yes, and bloody seagulls (seaside village, you see)
Matt Harper said:
Our garbage guys are awesome, they'll take pretty much anything - I thought I was pushing my luck when I left a knackered washing machine and an old matress out by the bins, but sure enough, they took everything.
Ha, I guessed you were in the USA. Over here we have Bloody Europe to contend with, and the supermarket makes you juggle 37 items of loose groceries to your car because free carrier bags are bad for the Environment. But they will sell them to you at 2p each and don't notice the shedloads of packaging the stuff they sell comes in.America must have its share of useless civil servants too - what do they do? (or not do)
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