My birthday is on Saturday. I got a package from my parents today. Inside there are 3 beautifully wrapped presents. Outside the box on the DHL shipping label it says, “Digital camera. Shoes. DVD.” under the barcode. :smack:
Thanks for screwing up what should have been a suprise, DHL! I don’t mind too much since I don’t know what kind of digital camera it is or what DVD is wrapped up in there so there will still be an element of suprise to my gifts.
If you are sending gifts to people in the future through DHL keep this in mind when you are filling out the package description. You should put zany things in that line to totally throw the recipient off the track!
well, I had my birthday a few days ago, and my daughter, who lives a long way away in Australia, sent me a present from Amazon.com. Being efficient, she ordered it so that it arrived aboiut two weeks before the day, and I opened it, not really sure what it was, so I knew I was getting The Flight of the Conchords well in advance.
I think it is a security feature, or it might be because my parents have a business account with them. My dad ships through DHL for his business so they may have to label everything for that. Or maybe my mom wanted to make sure that when it arrived I would know that everything they shipped was still inside. Or maybe DHL is just being a jerk.
My Great Aunt Maude used to send us a big parcel from the US every Christmas. She would diligently fill out the customs declaration and every year one of the listed items was ‘Crocheted Article’. Every year each one of us fervently prayed we were not to be the victim of acrylic-woollen hell.
My sister once sent me a boombox for my birthday. Scrawled on the outside of the box were the words “That’s not what’s in here!” Indeed it wasn’t. She sent me a variety of small items, including The Fart Book. That worked out well, as I already had a boombox, and was sans The Fart Book.
Hee. In a roundabout way, this reminds me of a favorite story about a friend and her aunt. My friend made her Christmas list which included the names of a few CDs as well as the desire for a striped rugby shirt. Her aunt went to the record store and worked with the salesperson to pick out all the CDs and vehemently insisted that she couldn’t leave without a copy of Striped Rugby Shirt.
Well, if this is a birthday present in June shipping thread… My birthday is tomorrow. My boyfriend who doesn’t drive asked for some links to some bathing suits that I would like to have. I sent him some from several different sites. Yesterday when I was at his house, I saw a package shipped to my name sitting on the table. I know it’s a bathing suit, but I didn’t want to ruin the surprise and look at the name of the company that it was shipped from.
Last year my dad sent a DS game to one of my kids for her birthday. He wrote what was really in the package for customs and insurance purposes and the package arrived with a great big hole in it and no game. If he hadn’t written what was in the package he wouldn’t have been reimbursed by postal insurance…but it probably wouldn’t have been stolen in the first place. :-/
Yeah that’s the first thing I thought of when i read the OP. What happens when DHL leaves a box in front of your door saying “THIS BOX CONTAINS VALUABLE STUFF”? Sounds like a practice that would have been discontinued shortly after it began…
I don’t mind too much since I don’t know what kind of digital camera it is or what DVD is wrapped up in there so there will still be an element of suprise to my gifts.
