To think I should be able to track a parcel without finding chickens on beaches

[karmalama]

Royal Mail now seem to have a fiendishly hard security thing. I just tried to track a parcel and there's one of those security picture things, except it's harder than anyone I've ever seen. I've been clicking on chickens in trees, chickens on beaches, strawberry cakes, rough seas. Have done about 20 of the fecking things and still can't get past it 🤣🤣
If you click the help thing it just lets you give feedback that it was too hard but then takes you back to reattempt it 😬
It's clearly new as tried to track the same parcel yesterday and it was all perfectly fine and normal .
So god knows where the parcel is as I clearly will never be able to find out now !

I hear you! I thought wtf when I tried to do it a few days ago. It is ridiculously hard!

I had the chickens on the beach and the cupcakes, couldn’t do either. No idea where my parcel is.

yes, the strawberry cupcake was nigh on impossible- does a Victoria sponge adorned with strawberries count? I’m reassured to hear that it isn’t working and not just me.

😂 it's broken at the moment I had 10 to check and rang them and they checked th over the phone
But omg the strawberry cake one was infuriating

OP is actually a robot who is trying to get humans to help her get past the “I am not a robot” barrier. Don’t fall for her tricks.

And chickens on trees (?!) are still better than a paper form where you have to tick a box (with your pen) saying “I am not a robot”…

Love this. So British somehow.

No, I think the middle one has chickens behind the tree, not on it. And bottom right the chickens are in front of the tree. I think. Whoever thought this up is definitely taking the piss.

Ah you got me😎

Might call then

Yes the strawberry cake one , do pancakes with strawberries count
What about if you can just see strawberries but there might be a cake underneath
Endless possibilities
Maybe they have stumbled upon the next wiordle

I think bottom right is in front of a tree. Not on a tree

At least 'chickens on beaches' is mildly entertaining. For a while I couldn't get anywhere near the Morrisons website because they wouldn't let me past the home page without picking out crosswalks. I mean, I can figure out what a crosswalk probably is, but the subtleties are beyond me, and I'm never sure if that's one in the distance.
Whatever they choose to exclude robots and the visually impaired, why do they have to be so bloody ambiguous? Why can't there just be, say, zebras and hippos, and you have to pick out the hippos?

OP this is your wake up call. You are a robot. Your whole life has been a lie. You must now fulfil the purpose of your creation and destroy the Royal Mail. Peel back the skin on your forearm and you will discover you are made of metal. You will find instructions there that will lead you to your colleague Peggy from the Post Office. Together you will form a team so powerful that every postman will tremble and fall.

Death to Royal Mail!
Long live DHL!

It's really not hard to sort out the chickens from the penguins!

Is this something to pass the time doing while we wait for the latest strike to end?

I'm with you 1000% on this OP. I find these incredibly difficult to do. To the point where I was thinking it must be 'just me' (it never is, of course).

Yeah if you've got a few to check ring them, the guy on the phone said they'd been having problems all week with the website

Reminded me of this short sketch!

I got stuck in a repeatedly cycle of clicking images with strawberry cakes, and chocolate cakes the other day.

Didn't track my parcel but ended up starvin Marvin.

Not sure my link worked: google "verifying robot stevie martin" for a good smile.

Yanbu it's shit. I had to do it just now. 'Select all the images with a fire hydrant in' fuck you!

Not the point of the thread, but my dd’s pet hen called Ginger, likes to sit in our magnolia tree

🤣🤣🤣

It's the new equivalent of the agony of talking to an automated telephone service. 'Please say your postcode' 'I heard you say [incorrect postcode] was that correct?' 😭😡

I hate when they are US images despite the website being British. Do they have to identify London black cabs over there?

Ffs I had this yesterday. I must have had to go through it 12 fecking times. Sort your game out Royal mail. How many bots could you possibly get accessing tracking?! 🤬