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Archive => Archived Boards => Local Issues => Topic started by: red666bear on March 06, 2013, 07:08:52 PM
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Do you all like our newly painted yard for the vans?
We are going nowhere.
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Do you all like our newly painted yard for the vans?
We are going nowhere.
When it comes to multi - million pound schemes Red, a lick of paint is neither here nor there.
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Do you all like our newly painted yard for the vans?
We are going nowhere.
I hope not
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Do you all like our newly painted yard for the vans?
We are going nowhere.
Told you all we were going nowhere.
Don't listen to the rumour mill and ask those in the know, yes your postal workers.
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Told you all we were going nowhere.
Don't listen to the rumour mill and ask those in the know, yes your postal workers.
To be fair though, if it ever does happen, the Postal workers will be amongst the last to be told - it's not as if they are involved in the decision making process. The first they'll find out is when they are being "consulted" on which alternative base of work they want to be transferred to.
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if it ever does happen, the Postal workers will be amongst the last to be told
Indeed. However, the fact that no consultation has started yet does at least suggest that no significant progress has yet been made in finding an occupant for the site.
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Indeed. However, the fact that no consultation has started yet does at least suggest that no significant progress has yet been made in finding an occupant for the site.
The work that's going on at the coop is going to be a collection point steel work now up outside .and work going on inside must be worth it to the coop .
Collection point for what . It's like dark ages in coop if you ask anyone . We're not allowed to tell anyone they say ...get a life . No wonder people shop else were .
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I was told by one of the staff that you will be able to order over the internet and call in and collect your order from the new collection point. This is always supposing that the things you want are in stock, of course! I will believe it works properly when I see it. ;)
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Yes why would anyone use such a service when Sainsburys deliver to the door.
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Is the collection point for CO-OP goods or the on-line retailer AMAZON?
I note that the Co-op is already (or, at least, was) a nominated collection point for Amazon deliveries ... which is faintly ironic: a local retailer providing a service for an on-line one; indeed, a service that the Royal Mail sorting office ought to be able to provide anyway.
I guess we will find out in November. The Co-op's prices are truly atrocious at the moment.
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Is the collection point for CO-OP goods or the aniline retailer AMAZON?
I note that the Coop is already (or, at least, was) a nominated collection point for Amazon deliveries ... which is faintly ironic: a local retailer providing a service for an aniline one; indeed, a service that the Royal Mail sorting office ought to be able to provide anyway.
I guess we will find out in November. The Coop's prices are truly atrocious at the moment.
You can now take returned goods from amazon to four buoys , and I think the antique rose . A lot of it doesn't go back to the post offices . Yodel now do a lot of post not as though I would re comend them . I read some were about this service starting up in one of the papers .there are collection boxes outside Franky's and Benny's stockport now , ..it's changing weather we like it or not .
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Yes thank goodness its changing why would anyone visit a shop when you can buy on line.
On line is the future embrace it.
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Yes thank goodness its changing why would anyone visit a shop when you can buy on line.
On line is the future embrace it.
Your right easy online . (Wait for the flack now) .
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Indeed. However, the fact that no consultation has started yet does at least suggest that no significant progress has yet been made in finding an occupant for the site.
It would cost stockportmbc 2 million pounds to relocate the sorting office due to royal mail having a 99 year lease at cornfields. The council are not prepared to pay this amount as they know they cannot justify it to the tax payers of stockport during these times of austerity.
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It would cost stockportmbc 2 million pounds to relocate the sorting office due to royal mail having a 99 year lease at cornfields. The council are not prepared to pay this amount as they know they cannot justify it to the tax payers of stockport during these times of austerity.
Chapel fields. Sorry predictive text.
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Is the collection point for CO-OP goods or the on-line retailer AMAZON?
I note that the Co-op is already (or, at least, was) a nominated collection point for Amazon deliveries ... which is faintly ironic: a local retailer providing a service for an on-line one; indeed, a service that the Royal Mail sorting office ought to be able to provide anyway.
I guess we will find out in November. The Co-op's prices are truly atrocious at the moment.
Amazon use several companies to deliver their goods. If your parcel is with the royal mail and you are out then you will be able to collect from the sorting office.
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Chapel fields. Sorry predictive text.
Maybe but the sorting office won't be there that long the way the post office is changing .
Now it's private .
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It would cost stockportmbc 2 million pounds to relocate the sorting office due to royal mail having a 99 year lease at cornfields. The council are not prepared to pay this amount as they know they cannot justify it to the tax payers of stockport during these times of austerity.
were do you get that silly price from .if the incentives are right they will move .
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It would cost stockportmbc 2 million pounds to relocate the sorting office due to royal mail having a 99 year lease at cornfields. The council are not prepared to pay this amount as they know they cannot justify it to the tax payers of stockport during these times of austerity.
Where do you get a story like that from. - Honestly.
I am always to polite to give a try response to that comment. :)
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Where do you get a story like that from. - Honestly.
The figure of £2M was mentioned to me during an informal discussion with a local councillor, so there would appear to be some basis for it despite it seeming a ridiculous amount. Just speculating but perhaps there is a touch of being held to ransom? With your connections Wheels surely you should be able to find out more?
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It would cost stockportmbc 2 million pounds to relocate the sorting office due to royal mail having a 99 year lease at cornfields. The council are not prepared to pay this amount as they know they cannot justify it to the tax payers of stockport during these times of austerity.
That's assuming the RM want to stay there - they may want out and or have plans for operational change, so SMBC wouldn't need to pay them, probably quite the opposite.
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I was told by one of the staff that you will be able to order over the internet and call in and collect your order from the new collection point. This is always supposing that the things you want are in stock, of course! I will believe it works properly when I see it. ;)
Doesn't it somewhat defeat the object of internet shopping if you have to go out and collect it?
Presumably "in stock" won't be a problem as you'll order before X o'clock today and collect after Y o'clock tomorrow, by which time it will have been sent to the branch from a central depot. A lot of fuss for a rather pointless exercise.
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I think this arrangement (and the Amazon collection boxes which have been at the Coop for some time now) is mainly for people who are out at work all day, and who can't (or don't want to) go to the sorting office during their very limited opening hours to collect undelivered parcels. And even if you are at home, in my experience the postperson sometimes puts a 'sorry you were out' card through the door without even trying to ring the bell! >:(
If the Internet retailer uses a courier it's even worse, as the courier's office is usually much further away.
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Is the collection point for CO-OP goods or the on-line retailer AMAZON?
I note that the Co-op is already (or, at least, was) a nominated collection point for Amazon deliveries ... which is faintly ironic: a local retailer providing a service for an on-line one; indeed, a service that the Royal Mail sorting office ought to be able to provide anyway.
I guess we will find out in November. The Co-op's prices are truly atrocious at the moment.
Whenever I pick something up from the Amazon lockers at the CO-OP, I land up buying something from the CO-OP that I would not have make the effort to go there to buy otherwise.
Getting an item shipped to the Amazon Lockers is at least 1 day quicker the having it shipped to my home address and there are no issues with me not being in.
It is a real shame that the Rose Hill shop does not have Amazon Lockers, as if it did, I would be shopping there more often.
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Whenever I pick something up from the Amazon lockers at the CO-OP, I land up buying something from the CO-OP that I would not have make the effort to go there to buy otherwise.
Getting an item shipped to the Amazon Lockers is at least 1 day quicker the having it shipped to my home address and there are no issues with me not being in.
It is a real shame that the Rose Hill shop does not have Amazon Lockers, as if it did, I would be shopping there more often.
Thought the rose hill shop had closed .
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I think this arrangement (and the Amazon collection boxes which have been at the Coop for some time now) is mainly for people who are out at work all day, and who can't (or don't want to) go to the sorting office during their very limited opening hours to collect undelivered parcels. And even if you are at home in my experience the postperson sometimes puts a 'sorry you were out' card through the door without even trying to ring the bell![/ >:(
If the Internet retailer uses a courier it's even worse, as the courier's office is usually much further away.
Ah, but if you establish a good, friendly relationship with your postman it pays dividends - he'll leave the parcel in a pre-arranged safe place or with a trusted neighbour. And most internet sellers have a space where you can put alternative delivery locations.
I only use the internet for things I can't buy in Marple. Why have all the hassle of Amazon deliveries when we have a brilliant bookshop in Marple which is open all day Saturday, where they don't mind you browsing and where you can hide from your partner or kids for an hour or so. If they don't have what you are looking for they will order it for you and the last time I used this facility there was no extra charge or P&P involved
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Ah, but if you establish a good, friendly relationship with your postman it pays dividends - he'll leave the parcel in a pre-arranged safe place or with a trusted neighbour. And most internet sellers have a space where you can put alternative delivery locations.
I only use the internet for things I can't buy in Marple. Why have all the hassle of Amazon deliveries when we have a brilliant bookshop in Marple which is open all day Saturday, where they don't mind you browsing and where you can hide from your partner or kids for an hour or so. If they don't have what you are looking for they will order it for you and the last time I used this facility there was no extra charge or P&P involved
Why would anyone want to do that when they can order from Amazon at a fraction of the price and get it quicker than the bookshop can.
Why would anyone buy anything in a shop when you can sit at home and do it.
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Ah, but if you establish a good, friendly relationship with your postman it pays dividends - he'll leave the parcel in a pre-arranged safe place or with a trusted neighbour.
We have lived at our present address for about 25 years, and before that we lived just down the road. For much of that time we had a very friendly relationship with the postwoman who delivered at both of those addresses, and as Henrietta suggests, it was very useful to have that personal contact. However, now we now seem to have a different postperson every week, and I'd be very surprised if there isn't a similar arrangement where Henrietta lives. :(
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Why indeed!
I can envisage a situation futuristically where there will be no shops, nor bookstores nor banks nor chemists et al.
Neither will there be any postwoman nor tailors nor fishmongers.
There will just be one central warehouse somewhere. It will be a huge colossus of fabricated material perhaps where the memorial park used to be. When we want anything, no matter what, we will order it from the comfort of our own home it will of course be more convenient and needless to say it will be cheaper. We won't have to go further than our i - pads to identify and supply all our wants and needs. If you don't have an i pad you will of course be the lowest of the low and you will be excluded from society or whatever society will have become.
There will be no need for human contact of any kind as all this can and will be done electronically. It is something that we all have to look forward to.
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Ah, but if you establish a good, friendly relationship with your postman it pays dividends - he'll leave the parcel in a pre-arranged safe place or with a trusted neighbour. And most internet sellers have a space where you can put alternative delivery locations.
I only use the internet for things I can't buy in Marple. Why have all the hassle of Amazon deliveries when we have a brilliant bookshop in Marple which is open all day Saturday, where they don't mind you browsing and where you can hide from your partner or kids for an hour or so. If they don't have what you are looking for they will order it for you and the last time I used this facility there was no extra charge or P&P involved
So how long does it take when you have to order something from marple book shop .
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And even if you are at home, in my experience the postperson sometimes puts a 'sorry you were out' card through the door without even trying to ring the bell! >:(
Yes because posties love lugging round parcels for the fun of it and then to make it even more fun, standing there in the rain writing out a sorry you were out card because the bells not working or the TVs too loud and then after carrying all back to the delivery office and getting a dressing down the next morning off the manager because a complaints been made ::)
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Sorry Jay, but our doorbell works and we don't watch the telly, but it happens!
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I sometimes think that people like Amazon are trying to close down the very good and helpful businesses we have in Marple. We are very lucky to have the traders we do, as it can't be easy in the current climate.
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I sometimes think that people like Amazon are trying to close down the very good and helpful businesses we have in Marple. We are very lucky to have the traders we do, as it can't be easy in the current climate.
I'm am not trying to do that most of my shopping is done in marple .i give freely to local charities as well
Support the state park . Wellspring . Charity shops . What more do you want ...will be at the brass band concert St. Paul's sat .marple and Hawk Green Bands .
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Why indeed!
I can envisage a situation futuristically where there will be no shops, nor bookstores nor banks nor chemists et al.
Neither will there be any postwoman nor tailors nor fishmongers.
There will just be one central warehouse somewhere. It will be a huge colossus of fabricated material perhaps where the memorial park used to be. When we want anything, no matter what, we will order it from the comfort of our own home it will of course be more convenient and needless to say it will be cheaper. We won't have to go further than our i - pads to identify and supply all our wants and needs. If you don't have an i pad you will of course be the lowest of the low and you will be excluded from society or whatever society will have become.
There will be no need for human contact of any kind as all this can and will be done electronically. It is something that we all have to look forward to.
I think you misunderstand the nature of online shopping totally Simone. I regularly order suits from my tailor and shirts from the company that holds my measurements and makes my shirts on line. I can still have personalised products without going to shops on the high street. No warehouse is involved and if it is and I am cutting out the retailer and a level of profit making whats wrong with that.
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We have lived at our present address for about 25 years, and before that we lived just down the road. For much of that time we had a very friendly relationship with the postwoman who delivered at both of those addresses, and as Henrietta suggests, it was very useful to have that personal contact. However, now we now seem to have a different postperson every week, and I'd be very surprised if there isn't a similar arrangement where Henrietta lives. :(
Well, actually, we do get the same postman (unless it's his day off) on the street where I live and have had him for the nearly 3 years I've been back in this house. Even if he isn't delivering to me I see him most days.
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Why would anyone want to do that when they can order from Amazon at a fraction of the price and get it quicker than the bookshop can.
Why would anyone buy anything in a shop when you can sit at home and do it.
Suffer from agoraphobia, anthropophobia or does you wife just not let you out of the house?
Amazon won't let you browse the book to decide whether you want it or not or discuss the author with you, or suggest other things you might like, because you are a regular customer so they know. The "look inside" feature is useless as it only shows a fraction of the content and the reviews from other people aren't always useful. I do use Amazon occasionally but only when I want a book which is long out of print.
Why would anyone buy anything at home when you can get out in the fresh air, meet friends, chat to strangers, hear local gossip and news, get specialist advice on what you're buying and support your local shopkeepers.
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Why would anyone want to do that when they can order from Amazon at a fraction of the price and get it quicker than the bookshop can.
Why would anyone buy anything in a shop when you can sit at home and do it.
Perhaps they prefer buying from a company which doesn't base its HQ in Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes.
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/corporatewatch/isittimetoboycottamazon.aspx (http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/corporatewatch/isittimetoboycottamazon.aspx)
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Perhaps they prefer buying from a company which doesn't base its HQ in Luxembourg to avoid paying taxes.
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/corporatewatch/isittimetoboycottamazon.aspx (http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/corporatewatch/isittimetoboycottamazon.aspx)
So Amazon is the only one to do that ,
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So Amazon is the only one to do that ,
I could be wrong, but I bet the Co-op, the toy shop, the book shop, Harrods, and all the other local businesses don''t.
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I could be wrong, but I bet the Coop, the toy shop, the book shop, Harrods, and all the other local businesses don't.
Because they are not big enough . The coop will be taken over shortly by one of the big supermarkets .
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The coop will be taken over shortly by one of the big supermarkets .
Bring it on! :)
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Bring it on! :)
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Suffer from agoraphobia, anthropophobia or does you wife just not let you out of the house?
Amazon won't let you browse the book to decide whether you want it or not or discuss the author with you, or suggest other things you might like, because you are a regular customer so they know. The "look inside" feature is useless as it only shows a fraction of the content and the reviews from other people aren't always useful. I do use Amazon occasionally but only when I want a book which is long out of print.
Why would anyone buy anything at home when you can get out in the fresh air, meet friends, chat to strangers, hear local gossip and news, get specialist advice on what you're buying and support your local shopkeepers.
Its exactly because I want to spend time out and about with friends that I don't want to spend/waste time at local shops, hearing local gossip and getting second rate advice from traders who's only interest is to sell me what they have in stock at a higher price than I could buy it for on line. Why is supporting local shopkeepers of more value than supporting the warehouse personnel who source my on line shopping.
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Suffer from agoraphobia, anthropophobia or does you wife just not let you out of the house?
Amazon won't let you browse the book to decide whether you want it or not or discuss the author with you, or suggest other things you might like, because you are a regular customer so they know. The "look inside" feature is useless as it only shows a fraction of the content and the reviews from other people aren't always useful. I do use Amazon occasionally but only when I want a book which is long out of print.
Why would anyone buy anything at home when you can get out in the fresh air, meet friends, chat to strangers, hear local gossip and news, get specialist advice on what you're buying and support your local shopkeepers.
Chat to strangers .Dont know about that . Be very carefully there .
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Its exactly because I want to spend time out and about with friends that I don't want to spend/waste time at local shops, hearing local gossip and getting second rate advice from traders who's only interest is to sell me what they have in stock at a higher price than I could buy it for on line. Why is supporting local shopkeepers of more value than supporting the warehouse personnel who source my on line shopping.
Spend your money at Amazon while you can, because when £50k has dropped off the price of your house because all the great local shops have been replaced with £1 shops because of people like you, you'll have less of it.
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Well as I am not intending to move that's not an issue is it. And what is this obsession with amazon. I have a tailor I use in North Manchester and I order on line from him. Has it never occurred to you that anyone even Marple traders can trade on line if they could be bothered.
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Well as I am not intending to move that's not an issue is it. And what is this obsession with amazon. I have a tailor I use in North Manchester and I order on line from him. Has it never occurred to you that anyone even Marple traders can trade on line if they could be bothered.
More's the pity. I think you need to read some of your posts back, they are so offensive towards the traders in Marple, most of which are members of this website.
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Thank you Cripes - that was my point exactly! I think we are very fortunate to still have some local traders who give great personal service. I'm not saying I don't use Amazon too - I do - but I still prefer to shop locally where I can.
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Its exactly because I want to spend time out and about with friends that I don't want to spend/waste time at local shops, hearing local gossip and getting second rate advice from traders who's only interest is to sell me what they have in stock at a higher price than I could buy it for on line. Why is supporting local shopkeepers of more value than supporting the warehouse personnel who source my on line shopping.
Yep, but it's those traders and people paying business rates and council taxes that keep your you public (waste)-sector funded lifestyle, working fixed hours, union representation, going on strike, moaning about cuts and the threat of the real world that constantly fleeces the real trading sector.
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Yep, but it's those traders and people paying business rates and council taxes that keep your you public (waste)-sector funded lifestyle, working fixed hours, union representation, going on strike, moaning about cuts and the threat of the real world that constantly fleeces the real trading sector.
David, Why do you say that you know very well I work in the private sector.
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David, Why do you say that you know very well I work in the private sector.
You do, Bernard? Does all the money you spend come from your efforts, I was under the impression that the household is on the gravey train of local government.
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Chat to strangers .Dont know about that . Be very carefully there .
Oh come ON! I think it highly unlikely that saying good morning to a person you don't know or admiring their dog is likely to cause you any harm. Most murders are committed by people known to the victim. There's a very cheese-y saying that "A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet".
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So how long does it take when you have to order something from marple book shop .
LOL - you'll be sorry you asked that. My latest Amazon purchase (a cookery book, long out of print and bought to replace the dilapidated copy I bought new at the Marple bookshop around 30 years ago) took three weeks to arrive via Amazon and I paid £2.80 p&p. I've never had to wait more than a few days when I've ordered through the bookshop.
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Its exactly because I want to spend time out and about with friends that I don't want to spend/waste time at local shops, hearing local gossip and getting second rate advice from traders who's only interest is to sell me what they have in stock at a higher price than I could buy it for on line. Why is supporting local shopkeepers of more value than supporting the warehouse personnel who source my on line shopping.
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I cannot remember the last time I purchased a book other than from Amazon where I have a choice of about three quarters of a million books, or at a book fair. My last Amazon purchase was a novel first published in 1936. I was able to read 13 pages online and ordered it with free supersave delivery for £6.99, 70% of the cover price. The whole transaction took about 5 minutes, leaving me plenty of time to go for a walk, say hi to strangers and pat dogs.I would normally expect to have received it within a few days but it transpired that the book is not currently available in the UK. It arrived two weeks later by post, direct from New York and I still had to pay nothing for p&p.
I share everyone's concerns regarding the company tax situation but it is not me who created the loophole and as I would, like pretty well everyone else, take advantage of any legal loophole open to me, if I could find one, I can hardly blame amazon.
Also, going back a bit to one of Dave's posts, I have had the same postman for at least four years, it could be significantly more, and he is still wearing shorts this morning.
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I share everyone's concerns regarding the company tax situation but it is not me who created the loophole and as I would, like pretty well everyone else, take advantage of any legal loophole open to me, if I could find one, I can hardly blame amazon.
It's funny that, despite condemning companies like amazon, and the high profile individuals such as Jimmy Carr who take advantage of such loopholes, government (neither this one, nor the previous one, nor I suspect the next one) has done nothing to close the loopholes!
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I'm not sure there's anything much any national government can do (acting alone) about corporate international tax avoidance without the co-operation of the other countries involved, including Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Ireland etc etc. :(
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Maybe but the sorting office won't be there that long the way the post office is changing .
Now it's private .
As I told you all, we are still here with 96 years left on the lease.