Willy get a replacement?

Ahh, schooldays.

is it a hard drive or a floppy?

People are always complaining! He got a complimentary doodle for *free* and the guy moans about it. What is the World coming to?

Paris cos, well, there's a c**k involved.

No, he didn't get the doodle for free. He got it - and some extra USB cables - in place of a power brick. Not sure if it's a fair exchange; I'm sure I'd rather have power for my shiny new tech toy. The doodle *and* the PSU, now, that might have been worthwhile.

A good thing that it was sent to a British customer... if it had arrived on an American's doorstep, there'd be lawsuits flying left right and centre.

Crudely drawn cock. Always funny.

turns my floppy into a hard drive

Surely that should have been Jobs if there's a cock involved?

How about them apples?!

Did the guy check what was on the HD ? Maybe this could be _really_ NSFW.

PS: yes, El Reg is becoming worryingly abusive on the NSFW label.

Paris icon, since this is about sex.

LOL, thankyou for brightening my day a number of years ago, I can't remember if it was a N&P though.

Ah, the world's storage problems solved.

A new storage device with a 1.44Mb capacity that can be expanded to 1Tb just by thinking dirty.

Actually I reckon this is already in use in Government IT. This would neatly explain why whenever Jaqui Smith is around they lose all their data.

For some time now I've been using pre-paid/freepost envelopes to send nice messages, gifts, or random junk to companies and organisations around the UK. So if you work at O2 in Normanton and got a "How things work" book for Christmas, I hope you enjoyed it! Similarly, I hope the Halifax liked the collection of plastic envelope windows I sent them.

In response to the people who have mentioned receiving or sending random or annoying things in the post, I have a good one for you.

I used to run the post room for a large regional brewery a few years back. This brewery used to employ a mailing house to regularly send out huge advertising mailshots for its hotel wing. Many of these frequently come back, having been sent to the wrong address, or to people who had moved away, or even died. When they came back, we had to send them upstairs to the relevant department to have the details removed from the database, but since this was considered a low-priority job, it would often be forgotten by the people who were in charge of it. As a result, we would often get mail returned with messages scrawled on the envelopes by people at the effected address to the effect that this was the fifth, tenth or even twentieth piece of mail they had returned, and could we please take them off of the database.

One person had a great wrinkle on this, however. After returning ten pieces of mail for someone who had moved away years ago, they took the letter and put it in an envelope with the brewery's return address on it, but no postage, so we had to pay for it. And then, just to make sure we got the message, they put a roof slate in, along with a note stating that the next time they got a letter for this person, they would return it with two roof slates.

Their address got removed from the database pretty quickly after we delivered the slate and letter upstairs on a silver tray...

I agree it is fun in premise, but isn't sending unstamped mail in this fashion mail fraud and a federal offense?

I make it a policy that anything I receive that contains a freepost return address, or a return card or similar I always post it back to them... they then have to pay the postage for it.

I'm often tempted to put in an invoice for my time in opening, assessing and returning said mail, but I figure that would be too traceable.

I wonder if WD will apologise for the cockup...

Mines the one with the power brick in the pocket.

*deep breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*another breath*

Well I guess someone got alittle snippy with the phone techs. Would love to see the ticket notes for that and the call recording.

Tech: Sir, please relax and I will make sure you get a replacement ASAP.

Customer: #*((&@^@_ WD &$#(*&^ bloody wankers fix my *^*&%^$%* drive right the *(&^%** instant and make sure its a *(^$%*() rock solid drive this &*%$#$#) time and also make sure I get my &*%$$# (*^&^$$&* *(&%^$$#O() *&%$$#( USB cable this time you (*^$()$%#!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

Tech: Certainly cur. *click click click* *giggle*

I think it's safe to say that some employee from the company he ordered from stole the hardware that shoulda been sent to him, but for the insulting note that was sent, I hope the perp gets caught and fired.

I like to send back my junk mail in the prepaid envelopes. I try to make sure to fold it so that it's thicker than the post offices cheap letter rate. If you take all the stuff they send you and the original envelope, you can normally fold it into quarters and make quite a bulge.

I don't know if the PO bother totting up these extras or not. Roof slates certainly sound like a good idea, but I doubt they'd fit in the prepaid envelope.

I do normally have the kindness to write "NO THANKS" across the application form in black marker pen. Just so they realise that I don't actually want a new credit card/whatever when they've opened it.