Comments on: Right: Consumer services available when you want them

By: Lindy

Lindy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:44:56 +0000

Is there something wrong with putting your car keys and paperwork through the garage letterbox and leaving your car outside? I have known nothing else in my twelve years of car ownership.

With regard to extended opening hours – you can’t just open up a shop at the hours you think people would want to come in. There are laws about things like this, they definitely apply on Sundays if your shop is over a certain size (hence our need for lots of corner shops stuffed with random things like tinned beef stroganoff). Staff must have adequate rest and pub-time with their mates.

Lindy, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

By: LAN3

LAN3 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:08:43 +0000

Only in the cities is the US like that– plenty of small towns lock up, turn off the lights, and roll up the streets at 6PM.

By: Michael Harling

Michael Harling — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:33:44 +0000

Don’t get my started on parcel delivery! The terse notes they leave drive me mad, e.g.: “You weren’t here! We’ll be back, and if you’re not here again, we’ll send your package back to where it came from. Here’s a number to call, but no one will answer.”

The last time, I taped a note to my door that said, “I WORK! Leave it on the mat.) I found the note crumpled up on the floor, but at least they left the package with my neighbors.

By: Noble Savage

Noble Savage — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:38:19 +0000

Oh god, this is the bane of my existence over here. Just the other week my husband and I went to a restaurant at 7pm on a Sunday and it was — you guessed it — closed. We had to go out to eat because we’d missed the grocery store, which closes at 4. Grumble grumble grumble…

By: Adam Ralph

Adam Ralph — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:26:42 +0000

Hah – you think the UK is bad? Try over here in Switzerland, it has the opening hours of pre-war Britain.

Mind you, you can drop your car off 24/7 at most garages by leaving it in the forecourt and posting the keys in a safety deposit box. The Swiss are organised if nothing else.