So our Prime Minister got caught out voicing her true opinion on 'Rimmer' today. Interested to know how others feel about the PM's "arrogant prick" comment towards Seymour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvFy2TuPDaw

Love it...

She's to appear for 'disrupting the court' apparently, having been prevented from speaking during a hearing for Kelvin McKenney.


https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...8bIPt-UH7o

Cabinet minister Poto Williams, David Clark, and Aupito William Sio retiring from Parliament at 2023 election
Hamilton East MP Strange, speaking to Stuff about his retirement on Tuesday, said he was ÔÇ£better suited for government than opposition


Do you think these guys have seen the writing on the wall? Will there be more retirements before the next election?

Women protesters are recording events in Iran, sending them to a friend outside Iran & then deleting them so that there will be a record of what's actually happening there.



https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-63920617

"Over two and a half months, women have been sending their thoughts as voice notes, writing and drawings to the BBC's Saba Zavarei. Here are their diaries, with names changed for their safety."

What has happened to the engagement on Trademe, less than 13,000 online out of 5 million on Sunday early evening? The Trademe Community message board has threads with 
single digit views and even no views at all, sales has tanked in the last 6 months. Is it really the bad economy or is everyone just spending their money only at Costco now
on lays chips and muffins?

Hoping things will go back to normal, unless there's an alternative to Trademe I'm unaware of.

Unbelievable - they claimed she was 'selfish' for holding up traffic fgs. How exactly is trying to save the planet we all live on in any way 'selfish?'


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63883430

We have an ongoing issue with NZ Couriers failing to obtain signatures from our customers. The issue first became problematic during the COVID lockdown periods when social distancing caused difficulties in obtaining confirmation of delivery. NZ Couriers put a protocol in place which maintained physical distance between courier and recipient, except this morphed into an excuse to leave items at recipient's address with 'CD' (Contactless Delivery) being entered into the courier's device.

Then lockdown was relaxed and couriers are now increasingly entering the recipient's name (as per the address label) in a fraudulent way of claiming confirmation of delivery. This is despite us now putting a hi-viz pink "Please Obtain Signature" label to every urban addressed item we send with NZ Couriers, as rural delivery contractors confirmation of delivery is outside of NZ Couriers' tracking system.

It is now getting to the point that a genuine receipt of a signature is a surprise to us, and we are repeatedly being advised by customers that they have not signed for an item despite the tracking data saying otherwise. Today's occurence even included a photo of the item (complete with pink sticker) having been left on a Tauranga customers' doorstep. Are they taking the piss?

According to NZ Couriers' own website if the recipient is absent, and there is no ATL (Authority to Leave) in place a deliver card should be left. NZ Couriers are operating in breach of their own T&Cs.

As Christmas approaches news articles are being broadcast about the prevalence of thieves observing couriers delivering items to insecure locations and then uplifting those items so signature confirmation is a necessity in our view.

In the last year we have lodged two loss claims with NZ Couriers for items lost due to their incompetence with pitifully small (self discounted) payments being made in both cases. And loss claims do not include a refund of the deliver cost despite it being patently obvious that the service they offer has not been successful.

Initial communications with Aramex who have been trolling for our courier account for some time have come to naught as when we attempted to sign up with them almost two months ago the process stalled at the point that the local agency was to contact us. 'Crickets' so far, so doesn't bode well for a good standard of customer service.

NZ Post have also contacted us from time to time but the interaction definitely didn't inspire confidence and from previous experiences of them losing items in delivery to us and refusing to devulge WHERE the item was actually delivered to after their tracking informed that it had been "delivered".

So where to from here? How to bring NZ Couriers to heel? Is it worth taking action through small claims court? Is there a better performing courier company that I'm unaware of?

https://tinyurl.com/2jmbkych

On Friday, protesters started gathering outside Starship about 9am.
The group of about 30 were playing guitar, singing and waving the New Zealand flag.
They also held a lengthy karakia.

Representatives of the far-right media group Counterspin were among the crowd.
A video posted online showed police officers coming to the babyÔÇÖs room on Thursday night to enforce the court orders and take him for pre-surgery procedures.

The video showed the boyÔÇÖs parents yelling at the officers, crying and telling them: ÔÇ£Please donÔÇÖt do this.ÔÇØ
The boyÔÇÖs dad could be heard telling the officers they were ÔÇ£criminalsÔÇØ.


I would say ok were done, take your son and get it done elsewhere and then see what the result would be, bloody wankers the lot of them.

Opening act on right now. Looks like its going to be an awesome concert. Apparently GNR will be playing for 3 hours solid!