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20 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This was a very fun bit of exploration with @timohetzel @smrqdt & @datawrangler2

Now I know more about how DHL routes packages than any normal person would ever need to know

And if my 📦 doesn't arrive tomorrow... the person at the 📞 centre isn't going to know what hit them!
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.
The problem is finding out what the "Straßenkennzahl" is - as this is not public, but the logic is known - these were allocated alphabetically back some time between 1989 and 1994. And then newly built streets, or streets newly allocated to a Postleitzahl come at the end.
So if your Deutsche Post or DHL packages are *not* arriving, check your Leitcode is correct...

Now fingers crossed some parts of a ceiling lamp arrive tomorrow - so I can get the hall lighting fixed in my new flat!

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20 Oct
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!"
Read 5 tweets
16 Oct
Britain just go.
Go.
Go now.
Read 23 tweets
7 Oct
This by @CSBarnard24 is excellent - about why the Commission is bringing a ECJ case against the UK

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-eus-legal-…
There's just 1 issue that I wonder about...

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
Read 4 tweets
1 Oct
It’s hard to think how @BLiberadzki @AdinaValean and the Council could have done any WORSE on #railpassengerrights - trialogue agreement today

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
Read 7 tweets
1 Oct
OK, so we now know the European Commission has sent a Letter of Notice to the UK, giving UK 1 month to respond...

...which is handily *after* the House of Lords has voted on the Internal Market Bill

Summed up in the new #BrexitDiagram V5.0.0
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...
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30 Sep
We're all tired of #Webinars

We've all had too many of them because of COVID and working from home
But we're all going to have to endure more of them in the next few months

So please, please folks - can we get better at them?

And I mean better in often pretty simple ways
First, if you are running a webinar, get your setup right

This is my desk - at home
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