Impatient and angree part 2

[piembi]

Hope you will get your Aurora!

 

Mail delivery is a daily adventure everywhere.

 

I try to convince everybody to send my pens as a letter because the people delivering the letters ring the bell to have acess to the mail boxes. They ring everywhere, someone opens and everybody get's the mail.

 

Parcel services mostly don't ring the bell but decide to leave a message. They leave the card stuck to the yard gate and you have to be lucky to find it before it is blown away! :bonk: Next day you wait at the post office... and wait..... and wait....... and wait......... and finally, if you are lucky, you will get your parcel. But only if you had remembered to bring your identity card!

[Deirdre]

When we first moved here, I noticed that I wasn't getting mail. Turns out they were forwarding our mail to the people who used to live here.

[Rufus]

While we're on the topic of Canada Post and other equally lousy postal systems, here's my recent experience: I ordered a pen from the US and it was shipped to me via USPS with a tracking number. Being anxious to receive my new lovely I went on the USPS site and entered my tracking number. It showed that it took USPS three days to get my pen from JM in California to Canda Customs in where ever. Canada Customs took six days to process my package and to get it to the main postoffice in the town in which I live. As it so happened I hadn't received either the package or a delivery notice from Canada Post the day after the USPS tracking site said it had been delivered to the town post office, so I dropped into the local postal substation, where I usually pick up my packages, only to be told that they didn't have my package. I told the clerk that there must be some error in his records as the tracking site said my package had been delivered to the postoffice the day before. On hearing this the clerk said it can take three or four days for a package to get from the main postoffice to the sub-station. Sure enough, four days later my package was at the sub-station. The town in which I live has a population of about 150,000 and the main postoffice is less than two miles from the sub-station, but when I complained to Canada Post about its taking four days to get from the main postoffice to the sub-station, nobody thought this was excessive or unwarranted.

 

Chin up Amir. I hope you have the pen by the meeting on 21 June so you can show it off. If not you can play with my new Optima and Classic Pens Legend all you want.

[lapis]

Hey, maybe ALL of us can together sue the frigging postal system there !!!

I'll be volunteer number one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Mike (this is meant seriously)

[Robert Hughes]

I live in an apartment building and sometimes find the little pink tag that says "You are Hereby Summoned to the neighborhood Post Office, tomorrow at 7AM". So I go to the PO and, waddya know, they've got a package for me!

 

The Post Office is great!

[JFT]

Goodguy that's really bad

 

I hope they sort it out quickly!

 

Keep Faith that pen wants to reach you I'm sure

[dcwaites]

Fellow penmen,

 

I have to tell you of the mail delivery problem I heard about when I visited Ireland a few years ago to go fishing.

There is one chap in a small village with his name. He runs a fishing boat. He fished for giant bluefin tuna. Everyone (except the mailman) knows this in the whole locality. He is famous for it.

He had ordered a fighting chair from Italy for his boat. This is not a small parcel but is about the size of a small wardrobe or mini car.

After a long wait for delivery, he comes home to find a note saying "Package returned to sender [in Italy!!] as addressee unknown/no one at home" - not even a "call this number to arrange delivery"!!!

 

So, count your blessings. This chair cost more than most pens and took some tracking down before eventually being delivered to the only chap within a hundred miles in any direction wanting such a product.

 

Chris

The PNG Institute of Medical Research ordered a new electron microscope. These are not small things, and come in a box that needs a truck to deliver it. It duly arrived in Lae and started up the Highlands Highway to its destination in Goroka.

 

It never arrived.

 

Some time later the Principal of Goroka High School decided to inspect the large wooden crate that had been deposited on the grounds, out in the weather, a couple of months before. Fortunately, the packing was waterproof, and the documentation was attached. A phone call was made to the Research Institute along the lines of "Are you missing an electron microscope?"...

 

 

 

 

[Robert Hughes]

I worked at Control Data Corporation some years ago. I heard about a computer they lost - not some laptop, mind you, a Star Supercomputer (designed by Seymour Cray of Cray Research fame). One day it was boxed up, ready to ship - the next day it was ... gone!

 

Fast forward 20 years. A construction crew, working on a building remodeling, knocked down a cinderblock wall, and found several pallets of NOS computer subassemblies. Apparently, it was mistakenly walled in by another crew years before; they didn't realize they closed up the only exit to that room.

 

Oops.

[Maja]

A happy update to this thread here...