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As the tracking page for my delivery (via Interlink
Express) continued to display the unable
to deliver etc. … call #..... to rearrange delivery message, throughout the
day and into the evening, I began to think that my telephonic communication had
been totally ignored.
When my beloved returned home from work, in the evening,
she found an unable to deliver (as no one
had been in) note attached to the outside of the external porch chez-nous. Why it was attached there
only the driver knows as there is a letterbox on the external porch and on the
main door into the house. Adjacent to the door is one of these new-fangled
contraptions, namely a door-bell, the access to which is not restricted, as the
door of the external porch is always open!
By this time I was feeling despairingly pissed off,
emotionally and physically drained. We have numerous packages delivered each year and,
with this one exception, the delivery person has been capable of entering the
porch and either ringing the doorbell or knocking on the house door!
The message on the tracking page, by this morning,
informed me that the package had been
delivered to the local depot. As soon as the office opened at 8.00am my
beloved phoned them to ask when we could expect delivery and was informed that
it was in the process of being loaded and scanned then, after a further hour
during which the status remained unchanged ma belle called them again only to
be informed that it could be anytime up until 10.00am before the van was fully
loaded! [Thoughts of the Tardis
ran through my mind – an ever expanding chamber materializing within the
confines of a transit van].
By some miracle, no doubt unaffected by our pestering calls, a couple of minutes
later the delivery time (10.18 – 11.18) had been posted on the tracking board!
This time the delivery went smoothly! By about 10.35 the parcel was received
and duly signed for.
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Shortly afterwards a Royal Mail delivery brought us
the item which had been omitted from yesterday’s parcel. … and they all lived
happily ever after ….
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