The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...
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The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt
Yodel have hidden parcels in their expertly chosen safe places - how many can you spot in 30 seconds?
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@PJH I wonder who the girl is in the picture. (Yodel lady, who?)
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No screamer? Truly, the world has changed...
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@PJH What's a Yodel?
I mean I know what the word means in other contexts, but here I'm lost. A "yodel parcel?"
EDIT: the game shows you pictures of boxes/envelopes near doorsteps and you have to click them. I don't get it. What's the joke?
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@blakeyrat said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@PJH What's a Yodel?
The name of a parcel delivery company.
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@blakeyrat said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@PJH What's a Yodel?
I mean I know what the word means in other contexts, but here I'm lost. A "yodel parcel?"
EDIT: the game shows you pictures of boxes/envelopes near doorsteps and you have to click them. I don't get it. What's the joke?
The joke is that Yodel, a British UPS equivalent, is shit and likes leaving packages in places their drivers deem as "safe". Like garbage cans.
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@PJH said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@blakeyrat said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@PJH What's a Yodel?
The name of a parcel delivery company.
Parcel delivery? I thought they only delivered those little cards that say 'Sorry you weren't in'.
I had one of those cards come through while I was in the hall putting on my shoes. I shouted then got outside to see the guy running for his van, he then drove off at high speed. Customer support basically called me a liar...
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@Cursorkeys So they're essentially the British version of UPS?
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@Weng said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
The joke is that Yodel, a British UPS equivalent, is shit and likes leaving packages in places their drivers deem as "safe". Like garbage cans.
Uh.
Hilarious.
At least its short, I guess.
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This is another of those strange situations (like Phone/Internet providers) where Warsaw seems to be ahead of the curve.
I've never heard of anyone doing that here, and we even have a huge network of small shops and kiosks where you can have parcels delivered to be picked up at a convenient time.
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Reposting from The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ„¢ for those who haven't seen it:
Remember the bit in the first Iron Man movie where Jim Cramer is trashing Stark Industries, and he rants that "this is a weapons company that DOESN'T MAKE WEAPONS!!! "?
This is about how I feel about UPS. How have they not gone out of business yet, seeing as how there are so many examples of them being a package delivery company that DOESN'T DELIVER PAKCAGES!!! ???
I can't think of a single time I've ever had something get shipped by UPS and it went off without a hitch. The first time was one of the most
worthy: the delivery date came and went... nothing. So I called them up, gave them the tracking number, and they said they couldn't find my house to deliver.The house was right where it should be, so I asked them to verify the address, and it was some garbled nonsense that, if it did exist, would have placed it about 5 miles out of town! Of course they couldn't find a house there; somehow they got the address completely wrong! "But don't worry," the lady said. "We've already sent you a postcard with information about how to take delivery of your package."
I tried pointing out the absurdity inherent in that statement, but she wasn't having any of it. That's just policy, and nothing I could do could resolve things in any reasonable way. I ended up having to go out to the depot and pick it up myself. (This was not the last time I've had to do that with UPS, either.)
Then there was the time when the driver left a note on my door saying the package had been left with the apartment manager, which was a flat-out lie as the apartment manager wasn't home that day. And the time when the delivery didn't come at all, and when I called up UPS they said that the driver reported he couldn't get access because he didn't have the gate code. (Another blatant lie, as I didn't live in, or even anywhere close to, a gated community!)
It's gotten to the point where I will explicitly ask vendors to not ship with UPS when I order something these days.
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@masonwheeler said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@Cursorkeys So they're essentially the British version of UPS in @masonwheeler's neighborhood?
Yes.
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@boomzilla That's consistently been my experience with UPS no matter where I live. I've had nightmare delivery experiences with them in 5 different residences in 3 different states.
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@masonwheeler said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
That's consistently been my experience with UPS no matter where I live.
Yes, that's what I said.
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11 the first time, and 13 the second time.
The fancy photo transition effects really slow you down. I doubt anyone could get faster than maybe ~15 (without cheating).
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@PJH I got 11. I would have done better if it weren't for the stupid animated transitions between images.
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@PJH clearly fake, none of those are actually in bins like real Yodel deliveries.
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@Arantor I got pictures of some in, or even under, the garbage.
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@abarker no, no, under the garbage can is one thing, but I've literally had Yodel deliver and put things in a 'safe spot' which turned out to be inside a wheelie bin (think mini dumpster). Because clearly the refuse that will be collected sometime is the same thing as a safe spot.
Friend of a friend once apparently had 'left in storage locker'. This is in itself a
when you realise the storage locker is in fact the cover for the local drain. Parcel was, of course, ruined.Mind you, Yodel is only really the worst of a bad bunch - we have Royal Fail, ParcelFarce, DH(Hel)l, OOPS... the only one I've never had trouble with was DPD. Oh and don't get me started about Amazon Logistics.
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@coldandtired said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
This is another of those strange situations (like Phone/Internet providers) where Warsaw seems to be ahead of the curve.
I've never heard of anyone doing that here, and we even have a huge network of small shops and kiosks where you can have parcels delivered to be picked up at a convenient time.
Probably because you pay after they deliver.
At least I always did that.
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@GÄ…ska Nope, always paid up front.
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@masonwheeler said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
@boomzilla That's consistently been my experience with UPS no matter where I live. I've had nightmare delivery experiences with them in 5 different residences in 3 different states.
While I've had some trouble with UPS at the old location, I've never had a problem at the new place. I can only maybe remember 2 times when I had to go to the UPS warehouse to pick stuff up.
They usually leave the package right outside the door.
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The only time I've relied on UPS, they delivered the package… to a random person in the wrong town over five miles away from where it was meant to go.
But Yodel are worse.
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@RaceProUK said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
a random person in the wrong town over five miles away
Was it @masonwheeler ?
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@hungrier said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
Was it @masonwheeler ?
Heh :D
Nah, it was just some random person.
@hungrier said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
Did I already make that joke last time this was discussed?
Maybe?
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@hungrier said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...
We don't know, NodeBB delivered it to the Discourse database.
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Methinks the packages are really well hidden. Or they forgot that not everyone uses bleeding edge Chrome.
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@coderpatsy said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
Methinks the packages are really well hidden. Or they forgot that not everyone uses bleeding edge Chrome.
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@Weng Or delivering it to my neighbours 100 flats away.
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@Arantor said in The Great Yodel Parcel Hunt...:
Mind you, Yodel is only really the worst of a bad bunch - we have Royal Fail, ParcelFarce, DH(Hel)l, OOPS... the only one I've never had trouble with was DPD. Oh and don't get me started about Amazon Logistics.
You forgot My Herpes, they are at least tied with Yodel for being fundamentally unsuitable for purpose.
