BoganInParasite

31 minutes ago, problemfarang said:

 

delivery people dont and cannot know whats inside. Yes, many things goes x-ray but i think at the station so delivery ppl cannot see it. Unless, someone from the office tells them whats inside its another thing. In your case probably the guy who x-rayed it told him its a fragile and to be careful, if he knows you good as you said maybe he asked whats inside just because of your friendship and warned you. Although its still strange one lol 

Well aren't you a know it all. On a COD delivery there is accompanying documentation telling you what is being delivered and the funds to be collected. Suggest you engage a brain gear before typing anything next time son.

Well if the forecast bar could be lowered any further....

A year or so back the wife at my request ordered an electric (battery) grass trimmer via Lazada, cash on delivery. Something around 2,500 baht I think. A week or so later she gets a call from the gent that does the local deliveries. We order a lot online and he knows us (and our two Labs that always bark at him). He tells the wife he has delivered several of these items and all have had battery problems and been returned. (Don't ask me how he knows.) Asks if she still want to accept and pay for the item or reject it. She had a quick word with me and told him we would reject. We never saw it, nor signed any paperwork. But didn't waste our money either.

On things that have been delivered we once ordered four salt and pepper grinders with glass cases. Arrived without any protective packing and in a large plastic envelope. Two made it unbroken but both of those have subsequently died in operation. The great majority of items we buy online is okay.

Had a form turn up from Citibank Australia requesting the same information after I changed my residential address to my Thai home address. Remember the form was confusing but there was an option to tick Other and provide a text reason. Did that and returned the form by courier. Never heard back. Keep little money in that account and can still use it through online banking.

In the last three years I'd say approx 50% of Thai tradesmen annoyed me via Thai time turning up to inspect or start jobs. But in terms of quality and timeliness once commenced I rate my happiness with the outcomes at about 80%. And price at 90%+. Over the time we've got to know who we can trust to use and our home builder and his contract foreman have provided reasonably reliable recommendations.

21 hours ago, Crossy said:

Lazada. 

 

1182 hits when "local" supplier selected.

Yeah Lazada. Got our four there and no duds. Go for Bodem.

There is a lot more than that closed in Nan. The majority of tourist attractions have been closed across the province. That plus local quarantine requirement have resulted in a very quiet city. Last Friday I drove through the tourist precinct centred on Wat Phumin and it was the first time in three years I didn't see any tourist whatsoever. The wife's homestay business is a tad quiet atm.

Citi also shopping around their retail banking business in Australia.

And Nan province. Wife lost all her Songkran homestay bookings...all the guests were coming from Bangkok.

Be nice if they can fix the Nan weather radar before that. Seems to have three modes atm...not working, working but seemingly unable to detect rain in many directions and displaying out of date images.

Well I'm in northern Thailand and about mid-year 2020 decided that I likely had it in the last days of 2019 and into the first week of 2020. Likely got it off a homestay guest from Bangkok that was not well. At the time I thought it was flu, but quite different to the flu I've had three times previously. I had headaches, really bad body aches, fever and shortness of breath. But I did not have coughing, nasal discharge/congestion nor loss of taste nor smell. My belief is that a less severe version of COVID is the one primarily moving through Thailand, and at much higher volumes than the official stats indicate. The body aches and pains basically forced me to stay in bed and thus self isolate from most others. On day 3 the wife found some painkiller in the medicine chest that was 500mg of something and only take one a day...cured the aches and pain. Took it for three days, nothing else. The shortness of breath lasted several months but was less and less over time.

Don't know. She hasn't watched them in the 13 years we have been together.

Don't mess about getting it out of there. Last March I started my Hilux after sitting unused for only three days. It was running roughly and the dash looked like the light display on the starship enterprise...reds, yellows, and orange icon illuminated everywhere. <deleted>/s ate some electrical wiring. All had to be replaced. Cost my insurance company just over 30k baht and me about 1,300 baht. First claim on car insurance in forty years.

Testing volumes and transparency obviously not amongst the factors considered.

Have True fibre into the house here in northern Nan province. Reasonably reliable service. Just ran three different speed tests. Download ranged from 260-330. Upload 330-360. Was surprised by the upload being higher, that's why I ran the different tests, all three had it higher.

Been thousands of domestic tourists in Nan province for most of the last six weeks. My wife's homestay has been booked out from early November to 5 January.

The wife runs a homestay in Pua, northern Nan province. In the last ten days she has received several calls from folks that have booked us direct or through a third party site seeking to confirm they have a booking and the detail. Apparently there has been a spate of Nan and unfortunately Pua accommodation providers turning folks with bookings away saying it was cancelled (they have let it out at a higher rate), or changing a two room bookings to a single room, etc. Appalling behavior. The wife is pessimistic that offenders will be appropriately dealt with. Gives everyone a bad name.

Nan needs more daily flights. Nok pulled out about a year ago and the only thing that has held Nan and northern Nan province back tourist wise was COVID. But that is abating and the place is rocking again. Quiet spot, but well worth it for northern culture, food, clean and green natural environment.

Somewhat blessed here in northern Nan province in that the mountain ranges either side of the Nan River get adequate rain nearly every year and provide a year round outflow for farming. Having said that I've noticed that this year and last only a minority of rain has arrived on the south west monsoon winds. Last year the bulk came from the SCS courtesy of some tropical storms that moved westward. This year the bulk has come from the NNW direction, down from the eastern edge of the Tibet plateau then across southern China and northern Myanmar. Some has come on the south west monsoon. Looks like we will miss out on the rain from the current tropical storm. Our summer storm season this year was a bust.

Did mine at Nan Immigration yesterday. Had to wait 5 minutes, normally more like the 2 minutes reported above on last several visits. And pleasant officers.

The Thai wife and I enjoy Phrae but definitely prefer Nan, particularly the upper portion of the province where we live.