Mail bashing

The BBQ Pit
1

How long does it take to deliver a package, for crying out loud?

I sent it May 29. Three freaking weeks ago I sent that package. I know there’s an ocean between here and there, but y’all have airplanes, don’t you? For comparison, the envelope going the other way took seven days.

I don’t get it. Oh, well. I guess I’m getting angry on somebody else’s behalf, which isn’t really healthy, but I’m just really annoyed that I paid for something that was billed as 7-10 days and we’re now up to business day 15. Feh.

2

Well, just to close the book on this little rant, I am told the package arrived today. Four and a half weeks later.

Sub-par avion, if you ask me.

3

Wow, I sent a largish box to England, via USPS and it arrived in four days. I sent a card and it arrived in three days. Three days. I can’t get anything here (Northwest) to the east coast in less than a week.

4

Uhem. Don’t you have to pay extra for a package to go via air across the ocean. I believe 3~5 weeks is about par for stuff sent on ships.

5

Just have to add a polite round of subdued applause for “sub-par avion.” Jolly good show.

6

I did, Monty. Or, again, I should say the recipient did, since I was reimbursed.

Thanks, Podkayne. I know I don’t write the most terror-inducing rants around, but I do try to at least give them something to make them worth reading. :slight_smile:

7

Tell me something, was this a birthday, anniversary or other present? Vital medication? If not, then I would chill out. There are bigger, much, much more important things to get even slightly miffed/upset about.

8

Why can’t anyone post in the pit these days without someone coming along to tell them not to?

9

Now LunaSea, did you really need to post that?

10

If you post in the pit about the post, expect post-fact posturing. Post haste.

11

Dude, I’m sure you meant that well. But the magnitude of this package’s importance has completely eluded you. This was a package that took me the better part of six months to prepare. This package contained life, death, betrayal, and M&Ms.

The package contained The Tapes.

:slight_smile:

The news gets better, though. I hear from Montfort today that everything is fine within the package.