mtbc | Various logistics, good and bad (Reply)

With family arriving from the tropics, I had some grocery shopping to do, also some stocking of the car of things like warm coats. With ordering various items for them, bedding and whatnot, I also had plenty of recycling of packaging to do, and the communal trash had previously been overfull, causing me backlog. Last night, after work, I did the shopping then, with living in a top-floor flat, I found it worked well to put on a coat, carry recycling down, leave the coat in the car, then bring more groceries back up, ready to pick up another coat and more trash. Helpfully, there was a substantial piece of cardboard that worked well as a carrier, folded at the bottom, for packing smaller cardboard and whatnot into on the way back down, so that got disposed of on the last trip to the trash.

At one point, upon seeing the DPD van, I paused so that I could be sure to be present if a delivery was coming to me, but no. Of the various couriers bringing me items, the only problems have been with DPD, who seem variously dreadful. Perhaps it's partly a local issue but I'd be glad to know who the courier would be before ordering. Of course, my online ordering coincides poorly with the holiday gift-giving season and postal strikes.