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I went on Amazon today to buy a different type of orthopaedic insole but at vheckout you could only have express delivery not standard and it was more if you refused to sign up for prime !

I think that is very unfair

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

Completely unfair, but Prime is quite good, I might add.

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IDFIMH

the thing is I maybe buy 2 or 3 things a year off amazon so effectively you are paying £9 a month for their TV and I find far more that I like on Disney for £6 a month

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

The Amazon delivery charges are a nightmare, and like Edders I don't order enough to justify Prime, and have no other real reason to join Prime.

So generally I try to only order stuff worth more than £35 to get the free delivery, or try to wait and group smaller items together so they come to more than £35.

But even then it's not straightforward, and sometimes free delivery is available on cheaper items, and sometimes it isn't, and it often depends how precisely you group or order these things. Last time I ordered something (some keyfob batteries for the Octavia and some hoover bags) when I grouped them together they were saying that I needed to exceed the £35 for free delivery, but if I ordered them separately they were free delivery anyway, and actually came in the same package

Another one last year year was replacement LED strips for my rooflight, which were £7.99 or so, and thought I'd wait until I needed something else before ordering to get the free delivery rather than paying £3 or so delivery on a small item. Then after waiting months I suddenly realised that if I got them delivered to the locker in town I usually use (I'm reasonably remote at home for delivery purposes) then it would be free delivery anyway

And the locker thing is another factor as regards delivery charges - sometimes it seems to help if I specify the locker in town for the delivery rather than where I live in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes it doesn't.

But, of course, it tends to help if the items are marked 'dispatched by Amazon' rather than delivered directly from a third party, and also if the items are marked Prime, although I'm not actually a Prime member

Another thing is that items 'dispatched by Amazon' tend to arrive a lot sooner than the maximum specified even by standard delivery, so hardly worth paying for next-day delivery or whatever if it only in reality takes one extra day via standard delivery (although obviously there's no guarantee in that regard).

Whereas the items despatched by third parties can often take a lot longer to arrive, even if they're marked free delivery

Apart from all that, it's generally all quite straightforward

Cabby down here got taken off the road recently for not having his roof light on.

Trade reps went mad about it.

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IDFIMH

Well that's another thing here that theoretically means plate off - if roofsign not illuminating during a spotcheck

Thing that annoys me is that there are one or two cars been knocking around for years without rooflight illuminated. Whether it's just not switched on, or is faulty, isn't clear...

One of the deplated cars during November's checks here was because of the rooflight. To be fair, there was another item, and I suspect that if it's something minor like that then they wouldn't suspend just for that alone (like the fire extinguisher location stickers, I suspect).

But there was definitely one car in the November 2024 checks that was deplated just for the rooflight being out

Incidentally, does anyone know offhand how many bulbs one of those huge roofsigns across the whole roof would have had (I assume they're LED strips now). Or the number of bulbs in the smaller signs? (Think both the medium sized signs I had had two bulbs.)

Asking for a friend...