Life in the Bus Lane

06:37 Friday, January 11, 2008 Goods loaded onto a van

Will they leave it with a neighbour, or will I have to get up tomorrow morning to drive to Bristol? Can you cope with the excitement?

Well, there’s nothing else to write about so you’ll have to make do with this.

17:14 Thursday, January 10, 2008 On route to delivery branch

I just ordered some audio tweaking bits from a company up north partly because they were cheap, but mainly because they said they used DHL for deliveries, and the DHL depot is just round the corner.

Within 45 minutes of placing the order it’d already been dispatched which is great, execept they’ve sent it out with City Link which almost certainly means a trip into Bristol to collect it. Fuckwits.

It must be Christmas.

Why can’t they leave my parcel with a neighbour like everyone else?

19:31 Thursday, July 12, 2007 On route to delivery branch
05:41 Friday, July 13, 2007 Arrived at Delivery Branch
07:00 Friday, July 13, 2007 Goods loaded onto a van
09:01 Friday, July 13, 2007 Delivery point closed (Carded)

From xkcd

According to the parcel tracking, they were "Unable to deliver, calling card left ", except they didn’t leave a calling card here.

Having tracked down the depot using the power of Google, they’ll hold it for me to collect after work tomorrow.

Since first thing this morning my parcel has been "On vehicle for delivery, using Saturn" but nothing has arrived. I presume there is a typo and they’ve actually sent it to Saturn.

CityLink First Clas? I assume that means "we’ve sent it via normal post, but our online tracking system is crap".

On Tuesday I got home to find two non-delivery notes from TNT, one telling me a parcel had been taken back to the depot, and another saying there was a parcel with a neighbour. As I was only expecting one parcel I naturally assumed that the second note superceded the first, and therefore dutifully ignored it.

Today I got home and found an answerphone message from TNT saying they still had a parcel for me, I assumed they’d cocked up the paperwork because of the two non-delivery notes, and rang them to say so. After speaking to several different people, they couldn’t actually work out why anyone had rung me, however they insisted they still had a parcel for me. At this point I realised that the Dell speakers I didn’t really want anyway hadn’t actually been delivered. After protracted negotiations, TNT said they’d redeliver the remaining package tomorrow, all well and good.

However I then headed out to Sainsburys, and on my way saw my neighbour who promptly handed me the parcel containing the missing speakers.

I’ve no idea what TNT think they are delivering tomorrow, and I’ve got even less idea why they sent the PC and speakers out on seperate deliveries on Tuesday.