Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[SS-18 ICBM]

Getting really tired of my phone just deciding to start consuming too much battery even with nothing running. And I don't even know who to blame for this, whether it's Samsung or Google or whoever else is involved in this.

 

[Takhisis]

Samsung… batteries… I somehow detect trouble.

Some folks came and threatened me because I didn't want to obey the Commodore. I pointed out that I was infantry, not Navy. What gives?

 

[Commodore]

Getting really tired of my phone just deciding to start consuming too much battery even with nothing running. And I don't even know who to blame for this, whether it's Samsung or Google or whoever else is involved in this.

I get the same problem occasionally with my tablet. Is your device by any chance an Android device? Because when I have that problem and I check my battery usage, it says my "Android OS" is responsible for 80% of my battery consumption whereas it is normally around 10%.

Some folks came and threatened me because I didn't want to obey the Commodore. I pointed out that I was infantry, not Navy. What gives?

I'll look into that for you. I don't want anyone to be able to say they didn't get anything but the highest quality intimidation from my people.

 

[Snerk]

Getting really tired of my phone just deciding to start consuming too much battery even with nothing running. And I don't even know who to blame for this, whether it's Samsung or Google or whoever else is involved in this.

Have you tried a re-boot? In my experience that can sometimes help even if you've already killed running background apps.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I get the same problem occasionally with my tablet. Is your device by any chance an Android device? Because when I have that problem and I check my battery usage, it says my "Android OS" is responsible for 80% of my battery consumption whereas it is normally around 10%.

That's why Google's getting some blame. Though in this case the power hog seems to be Cell Standby.

Have you tried a re-boot? In my experience that can sometimes help even if you've already killed running background apps.

Re-boots do work fine, if I can catch my phone being warm soon enough. I really just want a way to prevent 30% of my battery charge disappearing in less than an hour.

 

[Takhisis]

I'll look into that for you. I don't want anyone to be able to say they didn't get anything but the highest quality intimidation from my people.

Look, if you send them with boiled cabbage and Brussels sprouts I'll break out the Stormtrooper helmet and use the garden hose. Also, I have a terrible flu so I might just sneeze on them, which the Geneva Conventions have filed under their prohibition of bacteriological warfare.

 

[cardgame]

That's why Google's getting some blame. Though in this case the power hog seems to be Cell Standby.

Then it's searching for a signal and not finding one so it gives more power to its radio search and such. Save 99% of the battery consumption by switching to airplane mode if the signal is broken like this.

 

[Synobun]

Then it's searching for a signal and not finding one so it gives more power to its radio search and such. Save 99% of the battery consumption by switching to airplane mode if the signal is broken like this.

My phone's permanently on Airplane mode and I still have the battery drain issue.

Also a Google Android phone.

 

[cardgame]

Well then I am out of ideas.

 

[Hygro]

turn your phone off, wipe your phone with a dry towel, put it in a plastic ziplock back, and then put it in your freezer for a while.

 

[warpus]

Could just be a battery going bad. My old phone would drain the battery so quickly I always needed to have portable juice around, just in case. It would also randomly turn off at 80% juice and claim "no power". I got a new phone and it lasts 200x as long.

 

[Takhisis]

turn your phone off

That will solve all of your cellphone problems.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I thought my Canada Post issues were over, once we got that parcel bin thing in the lobby - where the delivery driver could just put the parcel into one of the locked bins and leave the key in the addressee's mailbox, so there would be no more need for those obnoxious, lying notices where they claim they tried to deliver but really didn't - just wrote out the card and left it, without even trying to contact the addressee.

Well, it worked great a couple of times during the last week or so. But now we've got a special snowflake on this route who apparently doesn't even want to bother with the locked parcel bins. I was home all day yesterday, no contact from Canada Post, and I found the card in my mailbox just a little while ago.

So once more I will have to contact the supervisor at the sorting plant (we don't have a main post office here - in a city of over 100,000 people), tell him that I insist on re-delivery, and try not to yell at them when the inevitable obnoxious questions come as to why I won't just go pick the thing up myself at the postal outlet.

I'm really in a bad mood right now.

 

[warpus]

If you have issues getting stuff delivered by a specific driver, contact your postmaster.. assuming there's postmasters out there. They should be able to do a lot more than just a supervisor.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

If you have issues getting stuff delivered by a specific driver, contact your postmaster.. assuming there's postmasters out there. They should be able to do a lot more than just a supervisor.

The supervisor is as high as it goes here, to my knowledge. I've always gotten a redelivery from them - it just takes time for them to phone back to arrange it.

The person at the postal outlet said that the reason for this could be that the parcel locker was already full, but that doesn't excuse the driver from contacting me to let me know she had my Amazon parcel in the first place.

The driver we have on this route is the same one from a couple of months ago when the parcel locker was first put in... she went ballistic at the manager we had then, insisting that he should store everyone's parcels in the office so the tenants could pick them up there.

Some of these drivers are just allergic to actually doing their jobs.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I thought my Canada Post issues were over, once we got that parcel bin thing in the lobby - where the delivery driver could just put the parcel into one of the locked bins and leave the key in the addressee's mailbox, so there would be no more need for those obnoxious, lying notices where they claim they tried to deliver but really didn't - just wrote out the card and left it, without even trying to contact the addressee.

Well, it worked great a couple of times during the last week or so. But now we've got a special snowflake on this route who apparently doesn't even want to bother with the locked parcel bins. I was home all day yesterday, no contact from Canada Post, and I found the card in my mailbox just a little while ago.

So once more I will have to contact the supervisor at the sorting plant (we don't have a main post office here - in a city of over 100,000 people), tell him that I insist on re-delivery, and try not to yell at them when the inevitable obnoxious questions come as to why I won't just go pick the thing up myself at the postal outlet.

I'm really in a bad mood right now.

I feel the hell out of your pain. We have groceries delivered and the for 3 weeks the drivers claimed they couldn't find our address and canceled the order after it was due. The worst part was they didn't actually contact us, I had to call Amazon to find out why our food hadn't arrived. We cook almost all of our meals, including lunches we take to work, so it's a massive inconvenience to find out at 9pm your food for the evening and the next day would not be arriving after all.

Wait what you don't have a post office???? I've lived in rural areas in multiple states and there's always a post office within 10 miles of most hamlets in the US.


Edit: Yeah Amazon contracts with crappy drivers sometimes. I don't think (here at least) that it's only UPS/Fedex/USPS delivering for them. I've seen people without uniforms delivering from personal vehicles before and I think those tend to be more problematic than the deliverers from the established, larger companies.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I feel the hell out of your pain. We have groceries delivered and the for 3 weeks the drivers claimed they couldn't find our address and canceled the order after it was due. The worst part was they didn't actually contact us, I had to call Amazon to find out why our food hadn't arrived. We cook almost all of our meals, including lunches we take to work, so it's a massive inconvenience to find out at 9pm your food for the evening and the next day would not be arriving after all.

You get your groceries from Amazon?

I bought Pizza Pringles from them once, as an add-on, but I get my groceries delivered from a local co-operative that my family has belonged to since before I was born. The manager himself does the deliveries, which is really handy because he allows me to order case lots of some items and I get a 5-10% discount for that.

Wait what you don't have a post office???? I've lived in rural areas in multiple states and there's always a post office within 10 miles of most hamlets in the US.

We used to have a main post office right in the middle of downtown, where people could go to buy stamps and money orders, mail parcels, pick up parcels, pay customs fees, or access their P.O. boxes. But 20+ years ago our then-MP chimed in when there was an economy kick and said (basically), "Nah, Red Deer doesn't really need a main post office. Just let the drug stores sell stamps and they can go to Calgary for everything else."

So what happened is that the main post office building was repurposed for a different federal department and all the things they used to do were spread out all over town, in various pharmacies, convenience stores, or small grocery stores that had the room and could spare enough staff to mind the postal counter as well as the regular till.

Now, when people get those delivery notices, they have to go to the designated postal outlet which may or may not be someplace in or near their neighborhood to pick the thing up. My current postal outlet isn't too far away to drive... but I don't drive. It's not even that bad a walk, for an able-bodied person in good weather. However, I'm not able-bodied, and this weather we're having is even too cold for me to be outside in. And I flat-out refuse to call the handi-bus, and spend $6 bus fare to go a few blocks to pick up something that should at least have been delivered to the parcel locker in the lobby, if not my own suite door (as I used to insist on before we got the parcel thing).

The driver did not follow the rules, so when the supervisor returned my call this afternoon, I told her (yay; the female supervisor is more reasonable) that I'd been home all day, the driver hadn't made any effort to contact me, and hadn't used the parcel locker. She told me the driver was new to the route and "probably didn't know there was a locker there."

Hello... it's that thing in the corner that's got Canada Post logos on it and is bigger than the average pop/chocolate bar/chips machine! And what did the driver think he was supposed to do with the locker keys he would have been given?

Anyway, she said she would make sure I get a re-delivery.

 

[Synobun]

You get your groceries from Amazon?

Those dastardly Americans have Amazon with fresh groceries.

They're even getting a grocery store in Seattle now where you don't have to wait in lines or anything. I want one of those...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My issue is solved. I checked my regular mailbox tonight, found the key for the parcel locker, and retrieved my Amazon order.

Now I can watch the first season of Bonanza without having to spend hours on YouTube. One season down, 13 to go.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Awesome Valka.

Amazon delivers fresh groceries in larger cities. It costs 25% more (give or take) than rock-bottom prices at Wal Mart however the convenience is killer for busy people.