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

[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.