Thread: Funny but True.

Our local Telstra shop is a franchise & are useless I used to go in to pay our account there but about 2 years ago they started saying I needed to make a booking to pay & I should just walk around the shops untill they gave me a call would be about 3 hr's or go to Post Office which is also a franchise but they only take cash for Telstra accounts no cards of any kind. I now do it on line but since connecting to the NBN which drops out every day some times for hours I am having to start trying to pay about a week a head of time so I don't get late fees. . I tried letting them take the money directly out of out bank but they didn't know when to stop & were taking a full month out every two weeks until I realized & stopped them .

Was talking to my postie the other day and he said they were moving to electric trikes (for postie safety?) and also plan to pick up mail direct from houses/business. He wasn't too pleased about the trikes, saying it would make access to boxes etc harder. I wonder what else is in the thought box?

We also have our council full electric green waste truck on trial at the moment. Apart from tyres and muted transmission noises, all you can hear is the compactus grinding away.

Brave New World huh? I think I preferred the cowardly old one.

I am currently on hold to an ISP. What a misnomer that is. The only real service they provide is regular bills. Once they used to provide a call back service, but that seems to have gone the way of their other 'services'.

I've been submitting my 2 business activity statements online since it became possible but the ATO has gone so high tech that their new system requires the use of a current model phone for security checking. My phone is a couple of years old and wont run their app so from now on I have to revert to paper forms because I wont buy a new phone just to submit my BAS. Progress?

Originally Posted by jonesfam

I once, when I was about 19, forgot to take my hemet off walking into a bank.
That got really exciting for a little while!
Jonesfam
The "Bike Bandits" were around then.

I wandered into a bank in the Brisbane CBD, with my father, when i was a teenager, with a double barrelled 12 gauge shotgun he had just bought at the local gun shop.The gun shop was in the same block as the bank.
He had the stock,i was carrying the barrels,all wrapped up in brown paper.
He went to the counter and got some cash out,as you did in those days,as i waited near him.

It was a Russian Vostok brand,got handed in during the by back,with some other very nice firearms.

How times have changed in the last 45 yrs.

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Was talking to my postie the other day and he said they were moving to electric trikes (for postie safety?) and also plan to pick up mail direct from houses/business. He wasn't too pleased about the trikes, saying it would make access to boxes etc harder. I wonder what else is in the thought box?

We also have our council full electric green waste truck on trial at the moment. Apart from tyres and muted transmission noises, all you can hear is the compactus grinding away.

The posties around here have these funny looking scooters that have a roof , they look like they may be electric , they are quite slow I think mainly because the wheels just fit on the cement paths here in Brisbane . I just said to my wife today I guess they have them to carry all the extra packages they now have to deliver.
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I remember Ausfree telling about travelling on public transport, with a 303, on Cadets day, when he was in school.

Did the same as a kid, hand the bolt to the bus driver and the rifle goes in with the luggage and you kept hold of the ammo!

No one even blinked.