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My middle daughter is a Cordwainer, one of a team of three, making bespoke, handmade to measure  shoes and boots.  At the beginning of the year a pair of £800 boots were dispatched via Royal Mail to a client in France; clearly addressed with both buyer and sellers details.   Delivery was attempted and a note left for the absent buyer.  When the  buyer attempted to collect the package they were told that it had been returned to the manufacturer.  When Royal Mail we’re contacted they said that they were attempting to re deliver. Nothing arrived with either buyer or seller. Several emails were sent in an effort to discover the whereabouts of the elusive parcel. Last week an email reply from Royal Mail said that as the parcel had gone unclaimed for three weeks it had been destroyed!  
 As a gesture of “goodwill” they offered a cheque for £13:49.  
 Yesterday middle daughter was a little surprised to discover a bespoke pair of handmade boots, in branded box and packaging, offered for sale on e*ay!     When she contacted the seller she received a rather patronising reply, declining to say where they had obtained the boots, and suggesting that the company should take as much care with delivery as they took in making the boots in the first place.  
 A Google search reveals that Royal Mail sold on 75,000+ undelivered/undeliverable parcels last year.  Many have appeared for sale online, in many cases still unopened, and in some cases people have spotted their undelivered parcels still bearing their name and address label, clearly displayed in the online listing.  

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38 minutes ago, Tangoman69 said:

I just bumped into Phil Spector's brother Crispin.  
 

He's head of quality control at Walkers.

 

Does his sister Muffin still work at the Royal London Hospital? 😉

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1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

This was posted on another forum, no further comment is necessary.

 

My middle daughter is a Cordwainer, one of a team of three, making bespoke, handmade to measure  shoes and boots.  At the beginning of the year a pair of £800 boots were dispatched via Royal Mail to a client in France; clearly addressed with both buyer and sellers details.   Delivery was attempted and a note left for the absent buyer.  When the  buyer attempted to collect the package they were told that it had been returned to the manufacturer.  When Royal Mail we’re contacted they said that they were attempting to re deliver. Nothing arrived with either buyer or seller. Several emails were sent in an effort to discover the whereabouts of the elusive parcel. Last week an email reply from Royal Mail said that as the parcel had gone unclaimed for three weeks it had been destroyed!  
 As a gesture of “goodwill” they offered a cheque for £13:49.  
 Yesterday middle daughter was a little surprised to discover a bespoke pair of handmade boots, in branded box and packaging, offered for sale on e*ay!     When she contacted the seller she received a rather patronising reply, declining to say where they had obtained the boots, and suggesting that the company should take as much care with delivery as they took in making the boots in the first place.  
 A Google search reveals that Royal Mail sold on 75,000+ undelivered/undeliverable parcels last year.  Many have appeared for sale online, in many cases still unopened, and in some cases people have spotted their undelivered parcels still bearing their name and address label, clearly displayed in the online listing.  

 

I think I can smell BS as most of that doesn't even make sense.

 

If the item was correctly stamped then that £800 would be £800 not £13:49 (why is that written like a digital clock time?).

 

Ever wondered why they ask you what's in the parcel and it's value at the Post Office.....

 

 

Never mind using an archaic term such as cordwainer the whole story is cobblers!

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1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said:

I've seen them getting on trains before now. They sneak in the doors of the Merseyrail Electric units when they open.

 

Fair enough, so long as they buy a ticket and don't carp on the seats, which is better behaviour than some of the human passengers...

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1 minute ago, The Johnster said:

 

Fair enough, so long as they buy a ticket and don't carp on the seats, which is better behaviour than some of the human passengers...

 

I'm afraid they do neither of those things, in fact they're just as bad as their humanoid counterparts...

 

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‘Effectively cuts short all attacks of SPASMS, HYSTERIA, and PALPITATION’.  It’s chlorine, so it will cause such attacks, briefly, before cutting them short.  Permanently.  

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Chloroform!

 

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As its principal ingredients were a mixture of laudanum (an alcoholic solution of opium), tincture of cannabis, and chloroform, it readily lived up to its claims of relieving pain, as a sedative, and for the treatment of diarrhea.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorodyne

 

And is apparently still available although with changes to the recipe.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52817880

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