*attempts derail* Can we generally depreciate services that happen when it's convenient for the company providing them rather than actually when you want them. 'We will be delivering a parcel some time between 9 and 5 today but we can't tell you when. If you are in the shower / on the toilet / listening to headphones / popped out for a pint of milk, you will have to collect it from a depot in the next town.Rambler said:So I come out of the kitchen and there's a note on the doorstep from Parceline - 'Sorry we missed you'. I was effing in, and it's not like we have a big flat where you can't hear the front door! Lazy gits.
From 1 January 2006, ROYAL MAIL no longer has the monopoly on collecting
and delivering mail. In order for us to deal with any complaint correctly,
we need to know if the item was sent with Royal Mail.
If you are the RECIPIENT of the item in question, we would suggest
contacting the sender for them to pursue the matter. They will be able to
provide the relevant posting details and documentation to support any
claim. For example, if they used a ROYAL MAIL service, we will need the
exact posting location and to see proof of posting.
If you are the SENDER we will need full details of the posting and you will
need to provide proof of posting.
We would ask you to review your enquiry and respond again in the light of
the above.
IdleRich said:I read the Joe Orton diaries and the thing that shocked me most (far more than all the paedophilia) is when he mentioned as an aside that he posted a letter one morning and the recipient told him him that he got it the same afternoon. Is it actually possible for that to happen these days?
Well my tickets for a club night next week finally turned up today - 22 days after I ordered them on the 12th of October. They were from Bleep/Warpmart, which apparently has its HQ in Tufnell Park, some five miles from my house in Bow. That's an average speed of about 0.01mph.
The top speed of a common garden snail is around 0.03mph. I move that the phrase "snail mail" be disused as it is clearly based on an outmoded stereotype and may cause offence in the gastropod community.