TopDogger

Thai post has on occasion asked for 3-10 baht when delivering international parcels that have come into Thailand. This isn't every time, just on occasion..

It isn't tax or anything like that, just a "required payment" when they drop parcels with reception.

Does anyone else have experience with this? I'm assuming its not a legitimate charge and is nothing short of theft on the postmans part?

Thanks

Easiest way is to marry her, pay 1M sin sod and build a nice 3M baht house in her home village.

But seriously, she needs to come up with the money somehow, as others say the main problem is how she can continue to provide for the family.

So you initial piss takin answer was correct?

The first person u need to ask is yourself... There 2 completely different systems..

Go upto the Top floor at PanTit where PC World is and turn left when u get off the elavator before u enter PC World.. Follow the corridor round about 50m and u should find it.

The Honda dealer gave me a new SD card with up to date '09 maps in English on it 2 weeks after I got my new car

They said 1,000 baht for card and 500 baht for deposit

There'll be monthly payments etc? With a postal invoice or its PAYG? If the later, where to topup?

A Prachinburi astronomer said yesterday that Thais would be able to observe a solar eclipse for about six minutes tomorrow from approximately 7-9.30am.

-- The Nation 2009/06/21

Very good... someone needs to tell the idiot how to tell the time... 7-9.30 is not 6 minutes...

If there's no fine for not carrying your passport, why were all the foreigners who were arrested for not carrying their passports during the raid on Q Bar fined 500 Baht each?

Whtat does the receipt says?

Here's the link to the story.

Q Bar raid link

Well.. Being Qbar, the patrons will either have been ponces or whores... Either of the afformetioned is worth a 500 baht fine in my book...

Oldsparrow... Not carrying your passport at all times in a imprisonable offence..

Ok, I will check them out. thx

Let me get my head around this. You need a call to a mobile device picked up on a landline connected phone ?

Pretty much yeah, minus the phone bit. I just want the call routing onto a pair of telephone wires that will respond to tip/ring.

Requirement: Incoming GSM calls are answered and routed seemlessly onto a RJ11 plug with a PSTN modulated signal. No real requirement for outgoing calls.

Also another criteria for a different unrelated device and not so important at the moment, if anyone knows of a product that can hold multiple SIM's with rule based PSTN -> GSM routing, it would be nice to hear about that.

I've had a look, and theres a product from a company called Artech that meets the first criteria... Can't say I've ever heard of them before though. Is there a brand name product that will do this?

Cheers for any tips!

280 is quite common in bigger intersections. Last time was more than 15 mins (no clock though) in Rama I just before Siam.

One of the shortest is in Petchaburi when turning right to Asoke. Last time it was set to 20 sec green...

Soi On Nut turning right onto On Nut 71/1.. Less than 5 seconds.. 3 car's thru then red

Might have been an idea to put the "I am French" bit in small print at the end.

I'm sure the BTS website will have a map.

You'd have thought so wouldn't ya!

suprised the moderators let this topic go as far ..from the start the op is talking about hos..which is a black term for prostitute....as im sure you all know lol sbk must be gone on holidays

Jog on son...

That sounds suspiciously like the opinion of someone who went, once, to somewhere on Ekkamai, which happened to be one of the 10 or so hi so joints down there, and didnt like it. Ekkamai has a great deal more than that going on.

You really are Mr Thailand, i was the Gik of a girl who owned a business there and spent quite a bit of time here.

Do you think if i didnt Wai the glass collectors people may have been nicer to me?

You used to Wai the glass collectors? What were u, the ashtray cleaner?

Wow you dine at the landmark? a pint of Guinness is 350 bht on the terrace. A coffee = $5 usa dollars , don't know anyone rich or not who dines there unless company sponsored or on holidays.

And its 2 for one on most draft beer/lager, the food is good.. And the indoors is open 24hrs..

agree. If they could buldoze much of what lies between soi 1 and Asoke, Bangkok would be a much better place.

I don't mind it for an occasional few beers when friends are over on hol's and want a look, etc.. It's usually quite entertaining watching goings on.. The vermin nibbling at holiday makers ankles trying to extract cash under other pretenses, the feeding frenzys when some dumb tourist starts throwing cash around trying to impress the hoez.. The pilloks sat in gogo's waiting for their "gf" to finish work... All quite entertaining

But best of all, totally avoidable..

If the truth be told Lower Sukhumvit is a bigger shit hole than the majority of Pattaya... But its only a 3-400 meter stretch of a single road in a city thats population is nearing 10 million offical residents... Pattaya as a whole is the biggest cesspit on the planet, end of story...

I couldn't stand living in Pattaya personally, your treated as a tourist where ever you go and most of the time u can't even buy so much as a sandwich without a rip-off attempt, almost everything is double priced.. The vast majority of Thai's living there are there for a reason, the tourist trade. Never mind what they are selling there all trying to extract as much money as possible from foreigners..

Not my idea of paradise

I noticed there was something in Thai about tollway tags on one of the electronic tollway overhead info boards the other day. It was written in Thai but mentioned TAG in block capitals, then there was a Bangkok land line number.

I wasn't quick enough to get the number, but assume this was something to do with the subscriptions for the re-introduction of the rfid TAG payment system.

Anyone has further details about how and where to sign up?

Cheers

lol... @ the OP.. I've read some shit in my time

The reason you came to bangkok and hung around lower sukhumvit is probably the same reason u moved to Pattaya..

I hope he's not in love with a lady of the night, he's much too young for that. Plenty of girls of other professions to date at that age.

lol.. So when your old u can only date hookers?

You'll look a right tw@t walking round BKK with one of them on.

Keep your palms away from the touch pad

Mine always used to go off for a few minutes whenever it rained at a place I lived many years ago.. At the current place even if it rains so hard the whole buildings power goes off the DSL connection stays active as its connected to a UPS.

I'd blame it on bad telephone wiring between u and the exchange