mail-related venting

[kennahijja]

Dear Royal Mail,

When I come home and find a 'Sorry, you were out' parcel notification from you, my bad.

When I ring you up and ask can I please have it redelivered on Saturday 'cause I'll be home then and you tell me 'yes, no problem', I'll be mildly sceptical, but happy.

If you don't show up on Saturday, I growl a little, but am not surprised.

If I come home Monday evening, however, and find parcel in front of my door in the stairwell, I'll be pissed, 'cause, meh, not mine, bloody expensive, and (no insult to my neighbours who are weird but mostly nice), anybody could just have walked away with it, and then hummelchen would have sacrificed me to some chthonic deity and carved my bones into Scrabble chips or something...

Seriously, if you say you'll do it, do it right or not at all, kthnx!

No love whatsoever,

Me.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Sorry, but you had it good. Come back when the mailmen have stolen £200 from you and you have no recourse.

Mind you, they have their excuse. The filthy privatizing scum that pass for a government in this benighted island have been working the post service up for privatization - which will mean less pay, more work, and infinitely more inefficiency. You may remember that, in my vocabulary, "privatizer" lies three steps below "incestuous child rapist".

Welcome to the United Kingdom. You had better get used to the idea that things around here are done badly more often than not.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Granted, it went mercifully well, all things considered, but still... Not that the German system (still somewhat state-owned, though they chipped away a lot of services and privatised them and as you say... recipe for overpriced services, underpaid workers, organisational chaos and just general nightmarishness.