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      thats down to mcol making that option available for you to select, you cant force it. typically if there are known processing delays at northants bulk it will be atleast 14 days later if not more.
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      Thanks   Noting the day to apply for default judgement if necessary
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      nope, as the display model was not the colour the customer wanted. but your question is totally immaterial anyway as custom built doesn't come into it. dx
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      as long as aos is done by day 19 from the date on the claimform they get a total of 33 days to file a defence. (whereby the date top right on the claimform is ONE in the 33 day count) dx  

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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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If a marketing ploy I can see it working - if the truth, it is downright scary !!

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It is a bit of both. Money week is an excellent money magazine which has always gone against the tide. They have been right on many accounts and I absolutely agree that either this year or beginning of the next one Britain will find itself with a massive financial problem.

 

They were among the very few that advised against investing in the property bubble back in 2006. I wish I had known them back them and invested in gold when I still made money. Pity!

 

But there's no point spending money and subscribing to added value newsletter when you can read most of their articles online for free like I do.

 

Ther owner is American super rich Bill Bonner and he has his blog called "The Daily Reckoning" which is also free.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Poundland"

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It is a bit of both. Money week is an excellent money magazine which has always gone against the tide. They have been right on many accounts and I absolutely agree that either this year or beginning of the next one Britain will find itself with a massive financial problem.

 

They were among the very few that advised against investing in the property bubble back in 2006. I wish I had known them back them and invested in gold when I still made money. Pity!

 

But there's no point spending money and subscribing to added value newsletter when you can read most of their articles online for free like I do.

 

Ther owner is American super rich Bill Bonner and he has his blog called "The Daily Reckoning" which is also free.

 

 

With more and more people out of work especially over the past 2 months sort of goes along with what they are saying as the government has to pay benefits to these people. If income is less than outgoings UK plc will go down the same route as Comet, HMV and many others. The government needs to stimulate the economy and the only way it can do it, is to reduce taxation. For example if tax was dropped on fuel by a considerable amount, people would have the extra in their pocket to spend. This may in turn lead to more consumer buying and generating the tax lost on fuel plus a there may be increased fuel sales anyway. With consumer buying again, it will create more jobs.

The other option is to do away with the minimum wage in order for us to compete with overseas competitors, but that may have other knock on effects however government is not paying benefits. A delicate balancing act where no government will be successful!

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Surfer01, it's more complicated than that. The Bank of England has been printing money like mad for the last 5 years, and this paper money is backed by nothing. We have almost no gold (Gordon Brown sold most of it in 1999) and this is not a country of natural resources (yes a bit of oil north of Scotland, but it's almost over).

 

The UK has the second worst private debt to GDP ratio in Europe (the worst is Ireland). All of this has been possible due to zero interest rates and AAA credit rating. Give it 3-6 months and we'll lose the triple AAA. Anything can happen afterwards. Moneyweek (and not only them) has been saying this since before the credit crisis.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Poundland"

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Its party true but largely scaremongering.

 

The UK wont fix its crisis by blaming the victims of the crisis, nor can it fix the economy by narrowing it while hpping it will expand.

 

I am out the UK/EU now. Money made in the UK is paid to a management company elsewhere in the EU - so the profit is now there. The tax is slightly higher, but I am more comfortable my tax now funds a true socialist system rather than a shower of clueless *******.

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