Help the Aged (bag collection)

[LuvPeckham]

this week I got a bag from said organisation requesting clothes, unwanted gifts and other things to be put into the bag, and placed out for collection Yesterday (Thursday)

I followed instructions (after all it is a good charity and we all hope to be aged one day)

This morning woke up (bleary eyed due to lack of sleep and too much Mario Kart) to see the sack still where I left it at 8am yesterday morning

Has anyone else put a sack out for Help the Aged and not had it collected ?

[catgirl]

oh yes - me too! Have left mine out again today in case they are a day late but was going to try and contact them when I get a spare minute. Annoying!

[catgirl]

Just gave them a ring and they are going to 'contact the stock collector' and report that this area seems to have been missed out yesterday. Guess that means hopefully they will turn up later

[LuvPeckham]

Thank you cat girl for you assistance

Lets see if it is gone by time I get back from work

[wee quinnie]

My bag is still sat on the doorstep - suppose we'll be looking at Tuesday now for collection. (6)

[BARA]

I usually find these bag collectors unreliable. I put Heart Foundation bags out on specified day, did not collect so rang number on bag. Person at other end states that no collectors available until following week. Leave bags out, no collection rang again, got answerphone, left message with my address, no collection. A week later got fed up,loaded up the car and drove down to Beckenham where I knew there was a shop and dumped them outside

[LuvPeckham]

surprised

Shocked

Amazed

Bag still outside (not collected)

What is wrong with these people, they invade my home with their invites to clear out my unwanted stuff then haven't got the civillity to come and collect when they say they will

Sighs

I guess there is the big green collection container I can use later in the week if no one bothers to collect by then....

[Bony Fido]

Perhaps the charities are resigned to finding that stuff left out for them has been nicked by crooks, and have given up trying to get there first?

[LuvPeckham]

Maybe, however that isn't borne out by the simple fact that they still deliver the bags with a date for collection on them... if they have given up then I would also expect them to have given up on delivering the bags to start with...

Pity as I really want to help the aged as we all expect to be requireing this charity's help in the future... :))

[LuvPeckham]

SIGH - One week later and still no collection

Anyone else had a zero collection or has there been someone round and missed me out (6)

[Sue]

You could always try taking them to your nearest charity shop or putting an ad on Freecycle - only takes a minute :)

Or rather than binning them, if it's clothes, there's a rag recycling box outside the Mind shop in ED I think.

Could be all sorts of reasons why someone didn't turn up to collect the bag, I guess charities rely on volunteers to do this sort of thing, if someone is ill or just doesn't feel like going out one day, not much they can do really ....

[HonaloochieB]

I contacted HTA and put the concerns above to them. Its issued the following statement.

Now you listen to me young fella me lad,

Think it's easy getting around picking up bags of people's leavings at my time of life, do you?

WELL,do you?

All very well putting a few blouses, trousers and worn out shoes (because between me, you and the gate post

that's mostly what we end up with) in a bag and expecting us to come round and pick them up the next day, but you don't have my legs to contend with, do you? Cruel they are, I wouldn't wish them on a communist, straight I wouldn't.

Our collection service relies on a combination of my Freedom pass being valid, my back/legs/bladder/eyes functioning to a half decent level and my grandson being prepared to 'hop the wag' from school to give me a hand.

So I ask you in the most humble possible way to hold on to your donations and be patient.

'Course in my day we had patience slapped into us, but that's all gone by-the-by.

Hope it helps.

[LuvPeckham]

Oh it helped alright, some doddering old geezer on his zimmer frame (complete with go faster stripes down his recycled track suit) popped by today and the bag is now gone... I have to admit I did see him coming down the street for the past week and he has only just managed to get as far as my house .... passed by 100 snails and the post man on the way

at this present moment (3 hours after collection) he is fast approaching my neighbours gate (who is aged, needs help and hasn't put anything out) and ETA at that gate is about tea time tonight.....

I do fear though that by time he has finished collecting in East Dulwwich, the next set of bags will have been delivered and he will have to start all over again ::o