A few months back I was at home during the day (teacher on school hols) waiting for a few car bits to be delivered.
I'm working out in the garage, postie (a woman, not our normal postie) comes up to the front door, starts having a chat apparently she lived in my house a few years back and was surprised by all the changes I'd made.
Anyhow, she hands me the post directly and in there is a 'Sorry you were out' card for one of my parcels, already filled out.
So I point out that clearly I'm not out, and I'd like my parcel instead of just a note. At this point she admits she left all the parcels at the depot because they made her bag too heavy! But she points out that since it never left the depot I could go collect it right away.
So I hop in my car off to the Depot, hand over the note and they say 'Not today, you have to leave it 24hrs'. I ask why, and am told it won't be at the depot because its out with the postie. Except of course it isn't. But they don't know where she left it. So I still have to wait till the next day.
At this point I insist they redeliver tomorrow rather than me have to drive off to the depot. 'Ok sir, there will be a small fee though.......' I remind them that its not a really redelivery as they never tried to deliver it in the first place, and they finally agree to deliver.
All this means my parcel finally arrives 2 days after the card. And what was this incredibly heavy, impossible to carry around parcel? A Lipo pack for a Micro T, no bigger than a fag packet and probably light!
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