Your Royal Mail parcel from EWFulfilment is on its way

[GimmeAy]

We have your item at Atherstone PSC and it's on its way.

AIBU to be utterly curious as to what this mysterious item is?

The only thing that I can think of that I'm waiting on is a driving licence from Swansea I think. I've googled EWFulfilment and it seems to be a warehouse or distribution centre or something and Atherstone is near Birmingham, but if it was my driving licence, they'd call it a letter rather than a parcel?

Can anyone guess what is winging its way to me please? *Lighthearted.

I briefly looked at their website MyOwnSummer but not in any detail - just enough to ascertain that it wasn't a company you'd buy from as such.

MrMagooInTheLoo I discovered just how appalling my knowledge of geography was through online dating when I could have been chatting to someone in Outer Mongolia presuming it was a place in London lol. Quite a few hotties in Manchester I discovered, but the train fare there cooled my ardour haha!

I would in fact be hard pressed to pick out Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool on an unlabelled map.

I was also amazed how many relatively large cities there are in England. I was in a city I'd never heard of a few months ago - Preston - it seemed huge, well judging by the amount of large roundabouts I had to go through to get into the city and I'd never heard of such a place!
In Ireland we've only Cork, Galway, Limerick and Dublin and Kilkenny is considered a city but it's not very big. But bloody hell, there's a large world outside London!

*GimmeAy

We have your item at Atherstone PSC and it's on its way.*

I got this similar email from the RM yesterday. No idea what it is. Due for delivery today apparently, so will find out soon...

We've received your parcel from The Fulfillment Company. Delivery is due:

When you think of it I suppose, there's 56 million in England and only 9 million of that are in London, so there must be some very large cities besides London too. TBH I haven't travelled much outside London since I've been here apart from to Colchester, Ipswich and this place Chorley and then Preston. That's the extent of my travels.

I've been to Manchester when I was young.
And moving over to London we (i.e. ex and myself) drove from Holyhead to London except I fell asleep, so when I woke up we were in Scotland. Yes, Holyhead to London via Scotland. Not the reason why he's my ex exactly, but certainly wasn't his finest moment. Car didn't have satnav, but in fairness, you'd have thought he'd have figured to travel south rather than fucking north lol!

LordGribeau Hmmmm - you haven't ordered a driving licence have you?

LordGribeau - would you mind letting me know what it is when it arrives?

The population of England is far higher (about 10x?) than Ireland, all those people have to live somewhere .

Yes, there is a large world outside London (big bugbear to those of us who live in other large cities in England/the UK is the common assumption that London has the monopoly on anything interesting or worthwhile).

But it's not unusual to not know about places you haven't had that much experience of. I'm very familiar with the geography of northern England, midlands, north Wales, most of Scotland because (in normal times) my job involves driving all over the place every week. But I've not spent much time in southern England, so am unfamiliar with most of it.

BarbaraofSeville - I know the 32 counties of Ireland (though struggle sometimes to figure out which of the 32 are in the North - Tyrone is the one I keep forgetting. But I wouldn't have a clue how many counties are in England, let alone begin to name them.

Yes - news does tend to be very London-centric. I've often wondered whether you have more localised news channels in other cities that you can watch?

The thing with the North is that there are 9 counties in the province of Ulster, but only 6 of those counties are in NI.

Oh - I think I may have solved the riddle. I'm changing b/b provider and have just now received a text from Plusnet saying that my router is on the way. Bet that's what it is. Oh well, I shall wait another while for the driving licence I guess.

The main news is the same everywhere. We have a joke that an inch of standing water in central London is the same as a foot-deep flood in Dorking, and the same as bridges being swept away in Carlisle

There is local news after the main news, but that is clearly delineated with different presenters.

What on earth were you doing in CHORLEY? 😃

I was visiting a friend! I ended up in hospital there too and they were so friendly - I was in and out and had had a 4 hour drip put through all in the time I'd have been waiting to be seen in my local hospital in London! I was very impressed with them altogether!

I've often wondered whether you have more localised news channels in other cities that you can watch

Yes, both the BBC and ITV have regional news. It's what we see for 5 mins at the end of the main news and for half an hour at 6.30 pm on weekday evenings. Whenever you get the London version of the news. Sometimes the wrong button is pressed somewhere and we get the London news or one of the other Yorkshire ones (there's three, Leeds, Sheffield and Hull).

I didn't know that about Ulster/NI, I think I thought they both meant the same thing . Sadly in England/UK we don't know as much as we should about Ireland and unfortunately many useful threads on here often descend into argument and are deleted. I had one with useful looking links on watched threads, but it got deleted before I could follow it up.

@GimmeAy

I was visiting a friend! I ended up in hospital there too and they were so friendly - I was in and out and had had a 4 hour drip put through all in the time I'd have been waiting to be seen in my local hospital in London! I was very impressed with them altogether!

You were lucky. The A&E has been on limited opening hours since 2016.

It is a lovely place. It’s just odd that it’s one of the few places you know outside of London 😃 I went to Chorley hospital with a broken wrist a few months back. I was in, x-rayed, put in a cast and back out the door in 28 minutes!!

@GimmeAy it just arrived. It's a couple of bras I ordered a week ago to replace the ones that are falling apart Not that exciting in the end.

I was joking with them that the next time I needed to go to hospital I'd get the train up from London, be seen and get the train back to London all in the time it would take them to even take my blood in London!

LordGribeau - oh well, I'm assuming now that mine is the router. Also not that exciting.

My hospital pre covid had 6 hours+ waiting time in A&E before even your bloods were taken. Then you could be another 3 hours waiting to see a doctor. It has improved a bit since COVID but I wonder where all the usual patients are now.

I went to Chorley hospital with a broken wrist a few months back. I was in, x-rayed, put in a cast and back out the door in 28 minutes!! That's
bloody impressive. I had barely plonked my rear end on a chair when I was called! Couldn't believe it!

The Royal London isn't too bad in London terms. Also I think it's Chelsea and Westminster? I was there once years ago. Mine though is a pure disaster.

I have received my new drivers license on the normal mail too.

About mysterious packages....

My husband received a notification saying there was a package that required payment before it was delivered.

He had no idea what it could be, and decided to pay if only out of curiosity.

Turns out he had donated to an America charity and at the end they asked him if he wanted a free sports cap.

So they sent it and obviously, you have to pay import duties, so don’t accept freebies from abroad..!