When I lived in Kreuzberg @DHLPaket was the best 📦🚚
Now I'm in Neukölln - & am ordering lots of odds & ends due to the flat move - it's a complete mess with them
The 🏠 has a massive 53 on it, it's simple to find, but DHL drivers see a building site in front & don't even look
You then 📞 @dhlpaket (because their online chat is useless) and their staff simply cannot set a "please try again tomorrow, the address does exist" status for the shipment
You instead have to make a complaint, but I don't really want to complain - I just want them to 👀
Also as every delivery driver has a computer device, could they not simply make a note about an address - numbers 51, 53 and 55 in this case - and flash an alert to the delivery driver "these buildings are new but now lived in!"
Also if you put the address in *any* mapping service, it shows precisely correctly - because even though the house is new, the address is not
I find these types of processes infuriating from a consumer perspective - I want to help @dhlpaket solve their problem, but I have no way to do so
So I waste their time calling them, and they waste mine because my 📦 doesn't arrive...
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To cut a long story short: every part of Germany has a Postleitzahl (like a ZIP code), but these cover pretty large areas
Deutsche Post and DHL then have two other numbers at the start of "Leitcode" to route a package - the "Straßenkennzahl" that is the number of the street...
and then the number of the house.
So - for example - 85570.125.008 takes you to:
Schweigerweg 8
85570 Markt Schwaben
Or
32312.302.012 is:
Wittekindstr. 12
32312 Lübbecke
You can basically turn any German address into an 11 figure number.
When the Commission threatened legal action on 10 Sept, we thought the Lords would be done with the Internal Market Bill by end of Sept
Number 10 then decided to *not* push for a tight timetable
So the EU then had to use the Article 5 / good faith argument, because the Bill is still to be approved - so breach of the protocol cannot *yet* be used as an argument
1️⃣ Force majeure ⚡️🦠 provisions are so wide they’ll mean passengers get stuck and get compensated less - makes 🚊 LESS attractive
2️⃣ Through ticketing 🎫 provisions are ridiculously bad. Only apply to firms and their 100% subsidiaries. This brings no practical benefit *anywhere* and could lead to further erosion of availability of through tickets
3️⃣ That every train must carry 🚲 is a little bit of progress - but just 4 bikes per train is ridiculously low
4️⃣ Reduction of notification period to 24h for persons with reduced mobility 🦽 is a bit of progress - but there should be no notification AT ALL
Note also: negotiations are *not* going to stop as a result of today's announcement, but do up the pressure on the House of Lords. Those changes are reflected in the diagram.
Also an acknowledgement of an error on my part in previous diagrams: I had *wrongly* assumed that as the tone from Brussels has been much more conciliatory for the past few weeks, the EU would *not* take legal action - and hence did not put a number on it...