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Parcel problems
Feb. 16th, 2008 05:01 pmI saw a stuffed toy display in the supermarket today, complete with a sign announcing that one could purchase a "fantasy horse" stuffed toy for $4.99. And what was this "fantasy horse"? Personally, I'd call it a unicorn, but that's just me.
I was complaining about my new parcel delivery man a few entries ago. Well, the plot has thickened. I've been at home all this week (taking a week of my holidays, since my Christmas/New Year break was interrupted by a bad cold) and I have received three parcels (two boring textbooks and one Very Exciting Thing). Tuesday's parcel came mid-afternoon, not in the morning as they usually do, and it was delivered by a teenage boy in school uniform while the parcel man himself stayed in his Australia Post van.
Wednesday morning, I came back from getting the papers and checked the letterbox for junk mail; it was empty. A few hours later, I found a parcel pick-up card in it. I'd been home all that time, so if he had bothered to knock I would have heard him. I drove down to the Post Office at the appointed time and handed over the card without mentioning that I had been in all morning; on her way out to get it, the Post Office lady showed the card to the other Post Office lady and they had this conversation:
PO Lady #1: Look at that.
PO Lady #2: God, he's hopeless.
Ooh, I was burning to know what that was about. Sadly, the post office was very busy, so I just took my parcel and left.
Yesterday (Friday), the same thing happened again: a parcel pick-up card in the box when I had been home all morning. Except this time, it said I couldn't pick the parcel up until after 10 am on 16/02... and the post office isn't open on Saturdays. As it happened, I was down the street yesterday afternoon so I took the card to the post office as near to closing time as I could and asked if there was any chance the parcel was back in. A different Post Office lady took the card. "Oh, that's been here since lunch time," she said. She looked at the pick-up date on the card. "I'm going to photocopy this if you don't mind."
I rather suspect I'm not the only one having problems with the new parcel man.
I was complaining about my new parcel delivery man a few entries ago. Well, the plot has thickened. I've been at home all this week (taking a week of my holidays, since my Christmas/New Year break was interrupted by a bad cold) and I have received three parcels (two boring textbooks and one Very Exciting Thing). Tuesday's parcel came mid-afternoon, not in the morning as they usually do, and it was delivered by a teenage boy in school uniform while the parcel man himself stayed in his Australia Post van.
Wednesday morning, I came back from getting the papers and checked the letterbox for junk mail; it was empty. A few hours later, I found a parcel pick-up card in it. I'd been home all that time, so if he had bothered to knock I would have heard him. I drove down to the Post Office at the appointed time and handed over the card without mentioning that I had been in all morning; on her way out to get it, the Post Office lady showed the card to the other Post Office lady and they had this conversation:
PO Lady #1: Look at that.
PO Lady #2: God, he's hopeless.
Ooh, I was burning to know what that was about. Sadly, the post office was very busy, so I just took my parcel and left.
Yesterday (Friday), the same thing happened again: a parcel pick-up card in the box when I had been home all morning. Except this time, it said I couldn't pick the parcel up until after 10 am on 16/02... and the post office isn't open on Saturdays. As it happened, I was down the street yesterday afternoon so I took the card to the post office as near to closing time as I could and asked if there was any chance the parcel was back in. A different Post Office lady took the card. "Oh, that's been here since lunch time," she said. She looked at the pick-up date on the card. "I'm going to photocopy this if you don't mind."
I rather suspect I'm not the only one having problems with the new parcel man.