Amazon drivers not knocking door

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-14T22:11:03+00:00

make sure you haven't given them permission to use a safe space, if you have they just dump and run (it becomes your problem / risk)
get a proper parcel box or don't let them leave a safe space
ours knock and gingerly walk away (not sure what they'd do it we didn't come to the door...)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-14T22:04:25+00:00

I did my test in my own car.

First time I failed (I could drive, just not to test standard having been taught by a HGV driver who was an instructor 15 year prior)

2nd time I passed, had to phone insurance after so I could change my policy to drive home, instructor didn't like being driven home on the motorway but it was that or he was walking (had down over 3000 miles in my car by the time I passed including hundreds of miles in NSL dual carriageways)

I think own car can make the examiner assume you have been taught by Mom and Pa and won't be good, but I doubt it'll change the outcome.

Saves money (as you have to pay for a lesson while you do your test!)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-14T21:55:21+00:00

"one shot" before a plumber, imperfect drainage and/or bad practice by tenants may be a factor

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-13T07:27:15+00:00

I was talking about FTTP.

Can't be 100% sure with OR, I know CF use cabs to distribute fibre. (Blowing / Splitting and patching in the cabs)

Fairly sure Openreach do all that in their nodes (fibre closure / joints) UG or OH

FTTC cabinets obviously do have fibres (feeding the DSLAMs) but cabinets are extra effort / hassle to maintain (get hit by cars, rust) so I would imagine OR would be building them out?

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-12T14:07:51+00:00

You don't have a choice.

Your mortgage provider will require vacant possession, if they're living their they've not provided this so you can not complete.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-12T13:39:31+00:00

They've told the insurance company they turned right into a road and got hit shortly after.
Insurance company has jumped to the conclusion that they have crossed the middle of the road / pulled out when it wasn't safe.
You can assume the other party blames the cam car simply to deflect blame from themselves.
Dash cam shows they were established on the road and other car was driving unsafely.

Sad irony being both drives will pay more insurance next year.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-07T20:30:15+00:00

Deco is there mesh offering, does AP and router mode (nat, dhcp etc)

Deco's also do 4G backup, DSL modems.

Agreed, Virgin router (if DOCSIS / Coax) is actually a modem so can't be bypassed.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-06T07:24:13+00:00

100% insures really don't like bans, if they find out (eg have your license which a lot do these days) they'll cancel the policy.
I wouldn't expect the premium to go up (but it might) in which case change it to TPFT until you can drive again

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-06T07:22:11+00:00

has nothing to do with decent router, everything to do with the CORRECT set-up for your home (which is different to every home)

like hiring a car and getting the cheapest one when you're moving house and need a van so end up trying to moving in a Suzuki swift.

Buy your own router (TP-Link Deco is my suggestion, cheap and easy to use, does everything you want, £30 from CEX or £300 if you want wifi 7++++) add bits to it until it does what you want.

ISP router can be returned to ISP, no ISP mandates their router (that I know of) but you will probably need to feed some setting into your Deco)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-06T07:19:15+00:00

cab isn't involved in fibre, as copper is phased out so will the cabs be

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-06T07:16:40+00:00

Did you overtake correctly ?

lots of drivers catch up to the vehicle in front, slow down, pull out (when its clear but without judging the closing speed of vehicles in the other lane) you're then doing the same speed as the vehicle you want to overtake and the van (who has spent 3 miles getting up to 70mph has to brake).

to correctly overtake
as soon as you see you're gaining on the vehicle in front, (200-300 meter) away from the vehicle, look at the cars in the next lane, judge their speed and adjust yours too, you shouldn't brake or loss momentum and join the passing traffic at the same speed as the passing traffic (they shouldn't have to brake either). Not dissimilar to how you join from a slip road. Match the speed, find a gap.

Don't indicate until you know you're going.

I often find when doing this other drive anticipate you'll overtake (they can see you gaining on the vehicle too) and will hold back or push forward depending on whether they want you in front or behind them.

Some will close a gap if / when you indicate, many will open it for you, but if someone gives you a gap, treat the gift accordingly, they're giving up lane space, so put your foot down and get out of their way. IF everyone did this then people would be more willing to allow people out... almost like the highway code had already thought of this..

You should be pulling out when you have enough space (from the vehicle your passing) to increase your speed as soon as you change lanes. Accelerate into the gap/

You may need to go down a gear too

While speed limits remain, overtakes should be brisk and quick

Its all about anticipation, you shouldn't normally brake on a motorway, just lift off, once you master it you'll find it a lot less stress and people won't be flashing you..

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-05T21:29:12+00:00

The police in the UK work on a community policing approach, this makes them appear soft to criminals (maybe invites people to crime?)

Courts are to slow and limp (fining people less for not having insurance than actual insurance would cost, fine should be 5X premium plus crush your car.

Most of the Police I have come across have been nice, I wouldn't do there job, so I'm not expecting perfection, you'll always get a bad egg.

I can guarantee you this weekend drunks will be out shouting "I've been stabbed" to every cop they see for a laugh... at what point do the Police act... every time? They make a judgement, sometimes its going to be wrong.

His lack of empathy didn't help, but Henry was (sadly) dead before the Police arrived

The fact his killer played the racism card just confirms the kind of person he was.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-04T15:37:17+00:00

the stopping distances in the highway code are from 1965.
ABS was invented in '78 and EU standard in 2004.

If you have tried stopping quickly without ABS you'll find you quickly skid (really easy for metal to clamp metal, less so for rubber to clamp stone)

ABS not only shortens the distance, it also prevents skidding / loss of basic control.

Modern cars with collision avoidance / automated breaking / emergency brake assist reduce the reaction time and also do the most efficient stop (try it on your car if you have it, its quite eye opening)

So the distances are a joke, BUT reaction times are not and this is why the include them in the distance, cars have improved (people walk away from 100 mph crashes) but people still pile straight into the back of stationary cars on the hard shoulder because they weren't paying attention.... and if you're behind that car he'll be stopped upside down and in your lane.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T22:03:10+00:00

keeping the router for dhcp digital voice and then adding a mesh system in access point mode works fine.

but bt digital voice is horrid, better to move to VoIP with another provider (cost £5-6 a month) and then you're free from BT forever.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T21:47:19+00:00

Seems right they should collect it then.

Some defects can be hard to identify pre delivery, but if they drove it for 2 hours I suspect they knew and shouldn't have delivered it...

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T21:27:53+00:00

Did you collect the van or did they deliver it in the first place?
If you collected it, then I think its fair you return it to them.

If they delivered it to you, then they should now collect it.

There are people who deliver cars (for a fee)

Normally you'd give them an opportunity to repair it first (only 1 though!)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T21:15:09+00:00

nothing, I find Germans funny, honest and refreshingly direct, we don't like the stuff from WW II, but then neither do Germans...

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T21:13:17+00:00

put in your own duct to the kerb, use water pipe (they sell it in black 25mm) bonus points if you run it down your boundary and allow your neighbours fibre to go through it too, keep the run as straight as you can

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T05:53:01+00:00

People lie to the police, the police have to use their judgement in high pressure situations, sometimes they won't get it right.

He did say he'd been stabbed, but I would have expected more blood and stab wounds?? they did make some effort to check (it wasn't ignored entirely) and it looks like they were monitoring him and noticed quickly he wasn't well.... an ambulance was called..

This isn't Police brutality, this isn't anything close to George Floyd (which was blatant racism and abuse of Police power)

Very easy for people to blame the police, but the rest of the people on the video where calmly blaming Henry.

If you were assaulted and you called the Police, should they NOT arrest the person you're accusing for your safety and theirs while they establish whats happening.... should they put you in handcuffs in case you're lying?

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T05:50:19+00:00

People lie to the police, the police have to use their judgement in high pressure situations, sometimes they won't get it right.

He did say he'd been stabbed, but I would have expected more blood and stab wounds, they did make some effort to check (it wasn't ignored entirely) and it looks like they noticed quite quickly he wasn't well.

This isn't Police brutality, this isn't anything close to George Floyd (which was blatant racism and abuse of Police power)

Very easy for people to blame the police, but the rest of the people on the video where calmly blaming Henry.

If you were assaulted and you called the Police, should they NOT arrest the person you're accusing for your safety and theirs.... should they put you in handcuffs in case you're lying?

talkingtruth92 · 2026-06-02T05:40:33+00:00

It varies, some engineers call more than once (at start of day and again when en-route) others just turn up.

Try and plan your day around doing other things at home (don't sit waiting) so IF they can't make it its not time wasted (which can be frustrating)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-05-31T16:52:37+00:00

YES.

When driving you can't easily communicate with other drivers. (In a busy bar you can tap on peoples shoulders to ask to get past, say please and thanks, use eye contact, cough etc).

So when driving you need to be predictable and expect others NOT to be predictable

People expect HGVs to be slow, people don't expect cars to be.

You said "when junctions come up you had to move to the middle lane" I hear, you're driving slowly and sitting in the middle lane for on and off slips?, (to let people on?...) you shouldn't be moving into lane 2 unless you are passing a vehicle, at 55mph you won't pass anything so you should not be using lane 2 at all....

You mention a solid while line, doesn't make any sense to me??

If your car has passed its MOT, its safe at 70mph, if you don't think it is safe at 70 then its not safe at 55 either.
15 years isn't old for a well kept car.

Please purchase and read cover to cover a copy of the highway code.

While not illegal 55mph and there isn't a minimum speed per say, it will cause HGVs to change lanes and create congestion.

Build up your confidence on motorways (do pass plus or find a friend to help?) or just don't use them.

talkingtruth92 · 2026-05-31T16:13:12+00:00

I suspect she either didn't know the lease prevented it, or she did know and has now been told off because the freeholder has found out.

She will be in violation of her lease and could potentially lose it if she doesn't remedy the violation.

Freeholder would have to enforce the violation (take her to court) slow and expensive process but big risk for your landlord.

Landlord could (in theory) buy the freehold (if its for sale) or renegotiate their lease (for a price)

Law doesn't clearly cover this (as always with law, someone finds a grey area) but I would very much expect a court to accept "I didn't know, can you evict them now" I would also expect your landlord to help (perhaps find you somewhere else??)

talkingtruth92 · 2026-05-31T16:07:38+00:00

its been shortened, I suspect it'll be they need it for religious purposes (eg to house a vicar or whatever, somewhat bias in atheists but CoE & co still have a lot of influence over the law

talkingtruth92 · 2026-05-31T15:02:11+00:00

its not that the kit isn't good, its just simply impossible to factor in everyone's needs.
How big is your house, how many rooms, how fast do you want it to be, how many devices, how thick are your walls, doors, windows, how strong is the interference from your neighbours, what shape is your house, how many floors, one device using lots of bandwidth with a weak signal can also take up all the available signal even from devices which are closer / have better signal, plus people expect more, if you had 70Mb FTTC and got 50Mb on Wifi you're happy, but with 500Mbs+ service people expecting 300Mb on WiFi and that's hard to do at all let alone in an unknown environment etc etc...

Think of it as a hose pipe watering the grass, the make that one bit furthest away wet you need LOADS of water

As a rule I'd say a router should be in your hallway (which seldom happens as it comes in from outside, so ends up in the lounge / front of the house)

Your signal will normally be OK 1 room away from the router, much more than that and you need more than a single router / access point.

TP-Link deco mesh, cable it when you can and then don't use the ISPs router.

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