{"id":2633,"date":"2021-08-27T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/from-a-villa-of-bees-to-a-7-onion-online-deliveries-take-a-strange-turn\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:15:19","slug":"from-a-villa-of-bees-to-a-7-onion-online-deliveries-take-a-strange-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/from-a-villa-of-bees-to-a-7-onion-online-deliveries-take-a-strange-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"From a villa of bees to a \u00a37 onion: online deliveries take a strange turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

No apps can summon couriers in minutes, readers and riders tell of more unusual pandemic orders<\/p>\n

Most online deliveries do not come with a health warning from the delivery driver but David Smith received one from a relieved courier who, on handing over Smith\u2019s buzzing box, suggested the bees inside were \u201ca bit angry\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rather than new clothes or groceries the 60-year-old Smith had turned to the web to buy a bumblebee colony and \u201cvilla\u201d to house them. \u201cI decided that my garden needed bees and the bees needed a home,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have given me a summer of pleasure and I\u2019ll do it again next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nNo apps can summon couriers in minutes, readers and riders tell of more unusual pandemic orders
\nMost online deliveries do not come with a health warning from the delivery driver but David Smith received one from a relieved courier who, on handing over Smith\u2019s buzzing box, suggested the bees inside were \u201ca bit angry\u201d.
\nRather than new clothes or groceries the 60-year-old Smith had turned to the web to buy a bumblebee colony and \u201cvilla\u201d to house them. \u201cI decided that my garden needed bees and the bees needed a home,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have given me a summer of pleasure and I\u2019ll do it again next year.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No apps can summon couriers in minutes, readers and riders tell of more unusual pandemic orders Most online deliveries do not come with a health warning from the delivery driver but David Smith received one from a relieved courier who, on handing over Smith\u2019s buzzing box, suggested the bees inside were \u201ca bit angry\u201d. Rather …<\/p>\n

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