Took Julia to work. Went to see friends at local jewellers. Got home, found that the delivery company dpd had been, left a card and gone. They could have left the parcel in the porch. They could have left it with a neighbour. But they didn’t. They did, however, leave a card. I used the code on the card to track the parcel and found out that they had tried but failed to deliver. I didn’t actually need a website to tell me that as all the evidence was pointing that way . . .
Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest
I also found they had taken a picture of my front door. This was also useless as I already know what my front door looks like. If they need to prove that they have been here, the fact that I have the card will do that.
dpd are very big on being green these days. They even asl me to recycle the card. They tell me that allowing them to use my local pick up point will allow them to cut CO2 emissions by 63%. MY local drop-off point is the Post Office – 0.2 miles away. I don’t see how dropping it within that distance helps reduce emissions. Due to my difficulty walking I will use the car to pick it up anyway. It will, of course, reduce the emissions from a second journey to deliver, but so would leaving it in the porch or with a neighbour.
Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest
I am currently on live chat with them. The first contact swiftly shoved me on to someone else – I suspect they were a robot. I am now in a queue and am currently Number 7. This has gone from 20 to 7 in two minutes so isn’t bad . . .
Another two minutes and I engaged in live chat with someone helpful and we got it all changed. For once everything went well, though not as well as if the delivery man had used his head.
The pictures of Sherwood Forest are by request. They are, unfortunately, not great photos, but it was a dull evening for a lot of the shots. I will look for some better ones.
Old Oaks of Sherwood Forest
As an aside, I have often found dpd drivers to be inconsiderate on the road, but as they delivered 1.9 billion parcels worldwide in 2020, it might just be that there a lot of them.
Sherwood Forest – Robin Hood and Little John – the old visitor centre
Sundown in Sherwood
Sunset at Sherwood
Sherwood Forest – carving
Owl carving – Sherwood Forest – it’s on the back of the carving of the head.
Acorn Sculpture – Sherwood Forest
I enjoyed the Sherwood Forest photos, Simon. Those oaks are very expressive in the way they grow. The old oaks look like they are having a lively conversation. I am sorry to hear they are dying.
It’s all part of the life cycle – we notice it more in Sherwood because we have so may ancient trees.
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Thank you very much for the virtual tour of the Forest. I will now have a look for some oak forest that we have here. Some early settlers planted them for nostalgic reasons. There is one planted as a source of tanning bark but then they found that a wattle tree was very good for tanning.
(BTW your message came to me piggy backing on a comment you made to Laurie Graves.)
Not sure how that happened as I definitely clicked on you. However, WP is a source of mystery and wonder so it shouldn’t surprise me. :-). I enjoyed going back through the Sherwood Forest posts – it’s surprising how much I forget these days. 🙂
The delivery drivers have a schedule that can’t be met by driving considerately.
I have often thought that. It also means they hve time to photograph my front door but no time to ask a neighbour to take the parcel.
We were staying at a friends for the weekend. I shipped them a hostess gift. I got an email saying it was delivered, with a picture. I can see it’s the wrong house. The aggravation trying to explain it was delivered to the wrong house….
All very familiar from my eBay experiences I’m afraid. I hope it all went well in the end.
They resent it to my house instead of our friends….😆
Sorry about the hassle with the parcel. Love, love, love those pictures of the old oaks. Oh, they have such personality.
They are fantastic, but also sad, as they are all dying.
Is it drought or Sudden Oak Death? We have Sudden Oak Death over here that kills them.
An oak tree spends 300 years growing, 300 years living and 300 years dying. In Sherwood Forest they also got a lot of pollution from Sheffield and Nottingham from 1790s to the 1950s. We seem to be free of Sudden Oak Death, but Ditch Elm disease killed all our elms, Ash Dieback is currently causing problems in the ash trees and horse chestnuts are increasingly under pressure from various things. 🙁
Oh my gosh! I can’t wait to visit this forest! Robin Hood was my hero as a kid 🙂 Thank you for the beautiful pictures!!
My pleasure. It’s a great place.
A good run through the forest. Can you still get near the major oak?
Since they moved the Visitor Centre the old oaks and the Major Oak all became further away. One day, when I get my mobility scooter . . .
Ah
It’s a tale of old knees, I’m afraid.
I’m with you, there
🙂