Another special thanks to HBC
 

At Christmas HBC decided to collect the bins early but neglected to inform the residents so not only do we have bins piled up with the 2 weeks rubbish prior to Christmas but we also have all the rubbish from Christmas in bags and more piling up as collection isnt due until next week.

Hope the fines for extra bags arnt implimented as the whole close will be in trouble.

Anyone else in the ossy area get caught out through not been notified of the change in collection date ?

Must be another cost cutting exercise not sending notification out of the changes

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Its the same all over the country Accyman,here in Hull and the East Riding,there is no collection till next week

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Just spoken to my mother in law at West End and hers got collected as normal, but she does get confused so no guarantee.

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Was it a different Christmas collection to previous years? If not, sounds as if the Close had a case of collective amnesia.

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collections are usually after xmas day so people arnt lubered with the extra crap for 2 weeks, infact this is the first time there hasnt been a collection soon after xmas day.Besides they cant have a set day as each year xmas eve changes what day it is on.As far as anyone knew teh bins still went out on monday which woud have been boxing day so were thinking the day after at least.

Seems to be guess work when collections will occur

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seems others further afield than my close were also not informed collections were two days early so looks like most of ossy had collective abnesia

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Well mine were collected last Tuesday and the recycling today as usual Mitzy

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Everything was normal around my place accyman

Mine too, they called before Christmas, I forgot to put my bin out.
They called again just before new year, I forgot to put my blue box out.

Everything just as normal.

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they came here as normal oer christmas/new year, though they came earlier than norm fer blue bags etc, so put mine out usual time n they had been, so that was me snookered.:rolleyes:

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Think mostly it was mon collections that were affected as it fell on boxing day and the tuesday was a bank hol too. I knew to put mine (recycling) out on the Saturday (xmas eve) only due to still using the HBC calendar but could see no one else on the street had and couldn't tell anyone as it was about 1.30 in the morning when I did it. However the New year bank hol (yesterday) they collected (refuse) as normal!!

So their argument will be that they had notified everyone by way of the 2 year calendar even though that calendar was sent out over a year ago and sure majority of people don't still have it.

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:pSNAFU then Less? :p

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We still have the calendar pinned inside a kitchen cupboard in case we need reminding which bin week it is. Makes me smile that HBC plan these collections 2 years in advance and inform people and then people moan because they dont check the collection day over holiday periods.

Hmm, going to have to dig the calender out of my white sack.
I put it there yesterday, being efficient I'd taken it down as I'd thought it was now out of date, would you believe it though, it was still showing September the month I'd finally got the thing onto the wall.

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Ours was on November still when I looked at it today to see if 2012 was on it. I only look at it to remind me which bin to put out and its not often I can't tell by how full the grey bin is. It lives on the back of a cupboard door, its not pretty enough to be on the wall.

The bin thing only made me laugh because the recycling calendar has been mentioned many times on here before.

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Um talking about calendars:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Does hanging your bin on a cupboard door not make it hard work to take down & put out?

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I'm a Monday collection, and missed mine, because it was on the Saturday of Christmas Eve.

Luckily there's only me, and I can manage, as I eat most of my rubbish.

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I think that HBC have had great bin collections over the festive periods for years. (weather permitting). Always had a collection between Christmas and New year unlike many other parts of the country.
And we are informed of a change in collection days.

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when ?

where ?

because whatever method they used a hell of a lot of people didnt get their bins emptied .

edit:

by calendar apparently.Dont think mine lasted a week lol

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Well, Accyman, it's your own fault for throwing out your calendar. :p

It is very informative with pretty pictures and all collection dates. It even has a form you can fill in with your 'helpful' comments on their services. Printed on recyclable paper too. :D

Would have thought, with you being computer au fait, you would know that you can access this calendar on line.

Go on, try it :

Hyndburn Borough Council - Refuse Collection Search - Search

BTW.... if you had a Christmas tree, this will be collected in Oswaldtwistle and Knuzden on 17th January this year.

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if it was that calendar with old people grinning on it taken in a park then yes i got one but didnt take to it infact i think i got it around march .

As for visiting HBC website i just assumed it was as good as its forum and dont bother with it :D

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Well surely it will be fine now, seeing all the moaning that was done by Jonesy;)

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:rolleyes: No, that's not the one. Sounds like one of Cllr. Britcliffe's attempts, but could be the Friends of Rhyddings Park calendar.
This is yours for this year ... please note your Christmas collections ...as normal (Monday collection 'Christmas Eve') .. don't forget is Leap Year. ;)

http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/cu...uth%202012.pdf

Shall I wipe your nose for you too... LOL. xx

And your point is ? No, don't answer that, Jaysay. ;)

I think the HBC website is good (approved by the Tories I think .. only as good as their employees/consultants) .. look around other councils' websites .. they are a labyrinth of total confusion.