Shopping done, parcels collected, all brought in from the car (three trips!), orange juice poured, coffee brewed
Once I've had a chance to recover from that lot, I'll try to work out what to do with all my free time
I'm definitely not using that Amazon Locker again unless I have some other compelling reason to go into the city. They've got rid of most of the on-street parking near there, due to Richard III and the need to pedestrianise the area between the visitor centre and the cathedral, meaning you have to park several minutes walk away and then carry the parcels all the way back, or pay through the nose for two hours in the shopping centre car park when all you'll do is step out of the lift, get the parcels, and step back into the lift - the locker's about five paces away. Also, due to the pedestrianisation closing my traditional route out of the city centre, I then have to set off in the wrong direction and double back around various narrow side streets, including long waits to get back on the main road and at assorted traffic lights along the way.
Overall, it takes no longer, nor costs any more, to drive the five miles or so to the locker in the nearby town/suburb, park free outside the shop, and drive back. (Or just make a detour via it on the way home from ClientCorp.) I shall regard my choice of the new one this time as a failed experiment
Once I've had a chance to recover from that lot, I'll try to work out what to do with all my free time
I'm definitely not using that Amazon Locker again unless I have some other compelling reason to go into the city. They've got rid of most of the on-street parking near there, due to Richard III and the need to pedestrianise the area between the visitor centre and the cathedral, meaning you have to park several minutes walk away and then carry the parcels all the way back, or pay through the nose for two hours in the shopping centre car park when all you'll do is step out of the lift, get the parcels, and step back into the lift - the locker's about five paces away. Also, due to the pedestrianisation closing my traditional route out of the city centre, I then have to set off in the wrong direction and double back around various narrow side streets, including long waits to get back on the main road and at assorted traffic lights along the way.
Overall, it takes no longer, nor costs any more, to drive the five miles or so to the locker in the nearby town/suburb, park free outside the shop, and drive back. (Or just make a detour via it on the way home from ClientCorp.) I shall regard my choice of the new one this time as a failed experiment
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