I don't know anyone else who gives as much info, or as accurate, as DPD, to be honest.

I'm in the same situation as you with a delivery for today. Mine's quite funny, because it shows that yesterday it left Bristol, and in the early hours of the morning, arrived in Bristol, so I assume it's actually two separate facilities - just that the regional hub happens (also) to be in Bristol, and from there they've moved it to the local distribution centre.

I don't think it means it got lost and did a round trip!

Who is it that displays a map and a location where the delivery van was the last time it pinged, it also shows the drivers name and when the parcel will be delivered.

It was one of the carriers that Amazon uses.

I have only seen it used once when buying from Amazon.

Paul

Thanks re Ghostery, but I somehow took a dislike to it when I had a look a while ago. Also as I said, I really can't take to Chrome, quite apart from not wanting google to know absolutely everything I do. They get enough from my Android mobile .

Microsoft is inevitable, so I just turn off all feedback that I can find. I still use IE11 and have no real complaints about it, and adverts themselves aren't really a problem. I just normally ignore them, It's the torrent of adverts I get for an item I have just bought that drives me scatty. It's so stupid, especially when it comes from the specific seller or Amazon when both know what I have bought.

Given that I don't mind most "in-page" ads and don't want add-ons clogging up my system with whatever tracking or problems they can involve, I'm fine really. Some newspaper websites however are very intrusive with them.

I only used Chrome and added the adblocker for watching the "pirate" F1 sites as it took ten minutes or so to get through the ads and the multiple auto-new window popups they each created before I could get to watch the action. Rather than having an adblocker on IE11, as I said earlier.

I'm trying to adjust to Edge, but it seems actually cumbersome. Things like a new tab being a pain as you can't type straight into its URL bar. Unless the Creators update that completed an hour ago lets me adjust that. I'm using it for my Stock Exchange Index and currency monitoring, and at the moment it is also in th earl stages of the "Find out more" stuff that I might read later or discard.

That's another thing I remember! Setting up a multiple-tabbed Home Page. You cannot just say "Set to current tabs" . You have to add each one individually and you can't even get a text box to just enter them all in one go in the way IE since it got tabbed browsing has been able to do. Stupid!

You can't import Favorites either without them going into a folder within the accessing drop-down, labelled "Imported from ...", and moving them into the main body is also a pain. Though I expect I could have done it easily in Windows Explorer. Just didn't think till after I had moved the essentials. I may try that for the less urgent ones. And the Favorites list is double-line spaced !!! Lunacy. Doubles the amount of scrolling needed.

Come back CP/M. all is forgiven . Not really, but I did start the thread with a declared "rant".

DPD. And as it gets nearer it narrows down from an hour slot to minutes. Plus it gives your delivery number and which number the driver is on and where it and the intervening ones are.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 22-May-17 12:35:26)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

DPD. And as it gets nearer it narrows down from an hour slot to minutes. Plus it gives your delivery number and which number the driver is on and where it and the intervening ones are.

Yeah, I forgot to mention the delivery slot number.

Paul

Noscripts on Firefox works as a good ad blocker and added security by disabling automatically any scripts on a website.

Allows you to add whitelists to allow websites you trust, but also knowing if a rogue script did appear on that site, it wont be allowed to run