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millivanilli said:
wuhuuuu 500 pages done yet! Great! Do you recommend that book? I run out of books.
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I read it last year and liked it. Am currently nearly finished reading War & Peace on my iPad (really! hadn't read it since college, a looooong time ago!) but I realize that at 1400+ pages it's not to everyone's taste. :amuse:
It definitely is the PERFECT book for a chilly evening by the fireplace, though!
 
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ElainePG said:
I read it last year and liked it. Am currently nearly finished reading War & Peace on my iPad (really! hadn't read it since college, a looooong time ago!) but I realize that at 1400+ pages it's not to everyone's taste. :amuse:
It definitely is the PERFECT book for a chilly evening by the fireplace, though!
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Thank you dear ElainePG! I'll give it a try. On Amazon the reviews were good but, too.
Ok, here comes a secret: I never read war and peace. I simply couldn't imagine reading a novel about 250 people in my younger years. Perhaps I should give it a try now?
 
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Ladies, I got two notifications from UPS this morning.
I ordered a MAC foundation last week, thinking it would be a colissimo delivery. ( French Post service).:sad:
Simple, reliable: you are not home, they take it to the local post office where you can get it one day later.
I think that it will be more complicated with UPS ...:annoyed:
Then there is my Alexander Mc Queen bag.
UPS again!
Of course, If you stay at home all day, UPS is perfect.
That won't be my case.
Three unsuccessful attempts and I will have to get the parcels, 20 km from my place.:doh:
It's not a matter of life and death of course, but.... serves me right.
No more orders:nuts:
For now...:no:
 
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Mariapia said:
Wow!
I was just taking off my coat when someone rang the bell!
Yes, it was the UPS gentleman....with my foundation!:hbeat:
I told him I was expecting another delivery Wednesday morning and shouldn't I be home could he leave the parcel on my door mat ( I live on the third and last floor).?
He said he would.:smile:
Hope he will remember.;)
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hooray! UPS and nobody at home is... urgs. We have something over here that is called either "Garagenvertrag" or "Abstellerlaubnis", works with UPS also. Works like that: you have to fill out a form, declaring that the carrier should leave the parcel on a special place. I hope that this is the right link:

https://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/sri/leave-at-my-address.html

I loved it so much on the last place we have been living, the place was the chicken barn, hahaaa with goose :biggrin:. Depending on the season (during winter the chicken refused to leave the - heated- barn) it was a parcel hide and seek-game sometimes. Now our postman simply refuses to leave parcels on the doormat, even though there is no goose, no rooster no chicken and we live on the second and last floor (also). So it still depends on the postman? Couldn't figure that out:sad:. Hope that it works for you!

With DHL we put a note on the main entrance, that works fine.
 
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Yes, millivanilli, it still depends on the postman.
The usual one always squeezes my big parcels into my mailbox :hrmm::hrmm:and I often have to call someone to help me take them out.:nuts:
The others leave a note in my box and I collect them at the Post Office.
Two or three years ago, one parcel disappeared.
The postman ( the regular one) told me he had put it in my mailbox and that a neighbour had probably stolen it.
Which was impossible.
Long story short, I had to go to the police station to file a complaint, write an email ( including the complaint) to the website that had sent the parcel.
They didn't want to refund me as the parcel had been delivered they said.
I told them that 1, I had not chosen the carrier which, obviously was not to be trusted, .... 2, that if I had wanted to rip them off, I would have bought a much more expensive item than a €40 bag.
Two or three months later, without anymore reply from them, I saw they had credited my account.
 
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Mariapia said:
Yes, millivanilli, it still depends on the postman.
The usual one always squeezes my big parcels into my mailbox :hrmm::hrmm:and I often have to call someone to help me take them out.:nuts:
The others leave a note in my box and I collect them at the Post Office.
Two or three years ago, one parcel disappeared.
The postman ( the regular one) told me he had put it in my mailbox and that a neighbour had probably stolen it.
Which was impossible.
Long story short, I had to go to the police station to file a complaint, write an email ( including the complaint) to the website that had sent the parcel.
They didn't want to refund me as the parcel had been delivered they said.
I told them that 1, I had not chosen the carrier which, obviously was not to be trusted, .... 2, that if I had wanted to rip them off, I would have bought a much more expensive item than a €40 bag.
Two or three months later, without anymore reply from them, I saw they had credited my account.
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Getting packages is such a challenge sometimes.
Makes one wonder how some of the larger shipping companies stay in business if they are this disorganized.
Fingers crossed they all arrive.
 
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Murphy47 said:
Getting packages is such a challenge sometimes.
Makes one wonder how some of the larger shipping companies stay in business if they are this disorganized.
Fingers crossed they all arrive.
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The foundation got there! Now, let's hope my new bag will be delivered when I am home.
Anyway, unless there is something which I can't find anywhere else, I am going to avoid all the sites that don't use colissimo. :sad:
 
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